And democrats will have the next congress starting friday

I want to put together a pretty thorough thread of what Biden and the dems campaigned on, have said they support/don’t support, and what they’re currently working on and what’s most likely to get accomplished over their current term

All of this stuff is publicly available, but I’ve noticed there still seems to be a lot of misinformation going around about what’s happening, so I think its better to have everything here in one place

They won, now it’s time to hold them accountable

At the same time, it’s important to have the facts out there cause there’s a lot of people throwing out misinformation and screaming up and down that nothing will change and both sides are the same

Thread will be updated over time as more info comes out

Updates

3 days in 👉 Page 8
30 days in 👉 Page 20
Important info about migrants 👉 Page 22
✅ $1.9 trillion stimulus bill passed 👉 Page 31
✅ 100 million COVID-19 vaccines administered 👉 Page 39
100 days in 👉 Page 53
✅ $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed 👉 Page 68
1 year later 👉 Page 70
✅ $369 billion climate bill passed 👉 Page 73
✅ $10,000 student loan forgiveness authorized 👉 Page 74
Midterms 👉 Page 78

Part 1: Biden/Harris Agenda

The new president with 15 executive orders ready to sign on the first day in office

What they support

• $15 minimum wage

• $10,000 federal student loan forgiveness

• Expanding tuition-free college

• $30 billion federal investment in minority owned businesses

• Abolishing private prison 👀 at the federal level and incentivizing states to follow

• Eliminating death penalty at the federal level and incentivizing states to follow

• Decriminalizing cannabis, expunging prior convictions for cannabis, leaving legalization up to states

• Eliminating mandatory minimums for incarceration

Heavily criticized for his support of the 1994 Crime Bill that put a lot of black people in prison, Biden has put together a plan for addressing systemic racism including prison reform and support for black business

• $300 billion investment in US-made materials, services, research and technology

• $400 billion pledge to use federal dollars to buy American goods, alongside a wider commitment to enforce "Buy American" laws for new transport projects

Another pain point during the Biden campaign was his support of NAFTA, which took a lot of US jobs overseas. As President, Biden promises to invest billions in US business, research and development. Particularly in green tech, a field Biden believes will be important to the future economy and one that the US could become a leader in

• Expanding Obamacare and promising health insurance coverage for 97% of Americans

• A public option for Obamacare:

  Biden promises to give all Americans the option to enroll in a public health insurance option similar to Medicare, which provides medical benefits to the elderly and to lower the age of eligibility for Medicare itself from 65 to 60 years old. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan group, estimates that the total Biden plan would cost $2.25tn over 10 years.

The absolute most important thing Biden will probably do as president is his climate plan

First day

Like Obama in 2009, Biden is inheriting another crisis and will spend the beginning of his term attempting to stabilize the country and reversing course from the previous admin

COVID-19 response:

• $1.9 trillion stimulus bill including $1,400 checks
• Pause student loan payments
• Restricting evictions + foreclosures
• Mandate wearing a mask on federal property

• Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement
• Rejoin World Health Organization
• Undo Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban from 2017
• Major immigration reform, overhauling Trump’s entire policy

First 100 days

• Administer 100 million COVID-19 vaccines

• Begin reopening schools and businesses

• Introduce economic recovery plan

• Repeal Trumps 2017 tax cut (the one that gave $500 billion to the richest Americans and would raise taxes on the middle class )

• Send Congress a bill to provide a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people.

• Send a bill to Congress to make DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) permanent. The Obama-era policy allowed eligible unauthorized childhood arrivals to receive renewable two-year protection from removal and work authorizations, the bipartisan Congressional Research Service notes.

• Issue an executive order to create a federal task force to reunite children separated from parents at the border.

reserved

Gonna be a long thread

the next 4 years

yup

you can start by doing the 2k checks and how theyve already changed that to 1400 lol

"nothing will fundamentally change"

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Whats 1400 plus the 600 that got passed

aint nobody finna hold them accountable b

Bidens another puppet

"Democracy" is back tho

his foreign policy is going to be horrible

p sure already seen he's recognizing guiado as president of venezuela lol

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When people said ”democracy is back“ it had nothing to do with corporate interests and everything to do with the fact that he isn’t the guy that literally tried to cheat the election process

Monthly reparation checks for black people

It's easier to live in fantasy land

I hope he gets a lot done, dont know how well it will go but theres a strong chance.

basically all i want this thread to do

In for a bunch of promises that won't be kept