He's never had the votes to repeal, but he's letting the tax cuts for the rich expire and, unlike Trump would have, he hasn't passed any new ones.
A 2017 tax overhaul passed by former President Donald Trump expires at the end of 2025, setting up a potential tax shock for millions of U.S. households.
www.foxbusiness.com
A 1.2 trillion dollar bill, one of the biggest in history, is now a "nothing burger"?
The sweeping new bill includes $110 billion for roads and bridges, $65 billion to equip all Americans with broadband internet, $1 billion for the Great Lakes and much more.
www.forbes.com
1.2T doesn't address all of the stuff we need to fix in this country. It was originally 6T, no? Do I think we need to be rolling around looking like Dubai in our largest metros, no...but it is starting to age and we need to do something about it. Especially if we see electric cars and category 5 hurricanes in our future.
Trump refused to give more than $600 in his final stimulus and that was clearly going to be the last one, Biden immediately added an additional $1400 right when he got into office.
He gave that on his last stimulus, what did he do on the first stimulus that seemingly has a segment of the black population in love with him for it? He cut more checks for more money, bottom line.
* Passed the bill to Medicare to negotiate drug prices, a HUGE win that will mean lower drug prices for everyone.
* Capped insulin costs at $35/month
* Expanded eligibility for health care coverage, leading to an additional 7 million people getting coverage
* Expanded health care subsidies for the poor
* Didn't spend his entire term trying to weaken and overturn Obamacare like Trump did
His drug work, I'll give you that too. But that's part of his perception problem I'm highlighting, the geriatric crowd which Trump seems to dominate doesn't seem to give a fukk that he capped drug prices for them. If Biden doesn't beat them fukks over the head with what he did for drug prices...just like Trump would do for the smallest fukking detail.
Thanks, and keystone was only a small part.
What else did he do, this is what I and most of his potential voters NEED to hear.
Mixed on immigration, but one clear thing he did do was start accepting refugees again. Before Trump, the USA was accepting 70-80,000 refugees a year. Trump had that down to 20,000 even before Covid hit, and dismantled much of the infrastructure for verifying refugees. Biden has ramped it back up to 60,000 admissions a year, with the #1 country of origin being Congo.
60,000 people a year is nothing in a country of 330 million (0.02% of the population), but that's a big deal for the 60,000 people who get a new shot at life each year
Admittedly, I am pro immigration but the process needs to be overhauled. I think we shouldn't stop, but let more immigrants in through legal means. Immigration is the strength of this country BAR-fukking-None if they are contributing to the development of this country. I come from the corporate world and if nothing else, diversity of thought is our lifeblood despite what many would say against it.
Significant funding for alt energy and scientific research were passed in the infrastructure/inflation reduction act bill, while Trump was trying to eliminate those parts of the government.
Agreed.
Judges is a HUGE deal. Biden has appointed 200+ judges, that's a massive difference.
And Garland isn't perfect, but he's not going straight for New Jim Crow and mass incarceration like Jeff Sessions was, or focusing his activity on hiding the crimes of the president like Bill Barr was.
I agree with you on judges. That OVER everything will be the legacy of Trump. 40 years after Trump is dead, his judicial impact will be felt. The remainder of my natural born life will potentially be dictated by judges that do not have my interests at heart.
I'm with you that establishment Democrats are way too similar to establishment Republicans. I think a real president doing the right thing would be unrecognizable compared to them.
But there's still a lot of daylight between Biden and Trump.
There is daylight between the two. Don't get me wrong, one is clearly not like the other...but the tangible, kitchen table shyt that the country is bytching about is almost identical, and we're simply playing a media shell game about it.
Biden is not gonna get reparations. He's not going to get student loan relief. He's not gonna let Israel hold their own nuts. The tangential shyt that matters, the lay person can see isn't getting communicated, and his detractors that aren't idealogues don't realize he's doing the same big ticket shyt Trump has been known for.
If I was Biden, stutter and all, if i decided that I'm running for a second term...I would be having town halls every other day to say what the fukk I'm doing differently than Trump. He's basically hiding.
But this is the problem with modern politics.
