yup exactly

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President Biden has now signed 28 executive orders and submitted some major and possibly controversial proposals to Congress

The President signed 10 orders, mostly related to the coronavirus, on Thursday. A quick list:

• Mandating a mask in airports and on certain modes of transportation, including many trains, airplanes, maritime vessels and intercity buses. Also requiring proof of a negative COVID-19 test when traveling to the US
• Creating a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force to help ensure an equitable pandemic response and recovery
• Establishing the Pandemic Testing Board to expand US coronavirus testing capacity
• Directing the Department of Education and HHS to provide guidance for safely reopening and operating schools, childcare providers and institutions of higher education
• Directing FEMA to create federally-supported community vaccination centers
• Directing FEMA to expand reimbursement to states to fully cover the cost for National Guard personnel and emergency supplies

The nearly 2 trillion dollar stimulus package, that they’re calling the American Rescue Plan, was sent in to congress Friday. The administration says that the bill, if passed altogether, could create over 7 million jobs this year, remove 12 million Americans from poverty, cut black poverty by 30% and child poverty by 50%

A short list of contents:

• Third wave of stimulus checks
• Increasing weekly unemployment benefits from $300 a week to $400
• $130 billion for K-12 schools to help them reopen safely. The money is meant to help reach Biden's goal of having a majority of the nation's K-8 schools open within his first 100 days in the White House
• $20 billion in funding to establish vaccination centers across the country, including in remote areas
• $50 billion to expand testing and help schools and governments implement routine testing
• $35 billion to cover pandemic-related expenses and to steer funding to students as emergency grants. An additional $5 billion would go to governors to support programs helping students who were hit hardest by the pandemic
• $350 billion in emergency funding for state, local and territorial governments to help front-line workers
• $20 billion in aid to public transit agencies
• $15 billion in grants to more than 1 million small businesses that have been hit hard by the pandemic
• Using the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law to "maximize the manufacture of vaccine and vaccine supplies for the country."
• An emergency measure requiring employers to provide paid sick leave. The administration is urging Congress to keep the requirement through Sept. 30 and expand it to federal employees
• The foundation for raising the minimum wage to $15 nationwide

👆 Will need support from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress

While lawmakers ponder whether the next stimulus is too big or too risky, the president signed 2 more executive orders on Friday focused on giving out direct relief to the poorest Americans and addressing hunger and food insecurity

• Raising the minimum wage to $15 for employees of the federal government
• Increasing EBT and SNAP benefits by 15% to 20% for families in need of additional support
• Directing the Treasury and the IRS to put together the necessary information and assistance so that all eligible people can get stimulus checks that were unclaimed, starting today. As of now 8 million people still haven’t received their checks due to either not filing, not knowing they’re eligible, or not having the correct information on how to get their check
• Similarly directing the same to the SBA: “Too many of the smallest mom-and-pop shops, typically run by people don't have existing connections to a banking institution, missed out on getting a loan from the federal Paycheck Protection Program last year, Biden said.”
• Directing the Department of Labor to guarantee that workers can refuse work that would compromise their health, and still receive unemployment benefits

The ambitious immigration reform bill was sent in to Congress on Thursday, and getting passed could be a serious challenge that one Democrat has called "Herculean". To be continued…

Other stuff

• Ordered the director of national intelligence to work with the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the threat from domestic violent extremism (aka domestic terrorists)
• They came out against China sanctioning Trump officials, saying that China is trying to play America’s political division
• Lloyd Austin confirmed secretary of defense

Good work @op
Interested in keeping tabs on all of this.

I like what I am seeing so far

@monster very informative. ur a good user

thanks guys

mods should sticky this

Great thread

biden making moves

let’s go. f*** these grocery stores allowing customers to come in unmasked.

it makes me sick bc i need to know how this guy is moving but all the headlines is reading like pure propaganda

Can anyone let me borrow your kids, nieces/nephews for a min?

I'm trying to come up

600 was in 2020

This is 2021

new me, new stimi

news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-life-sciences/bidens-hhs-freezes-trump-insulin-epinephrine-rule-until-march

edit: after doing some research on twitter this measure, even though it capped prices, had stipulations where it increased the prices of insulin for people who were able to get it cheaper before. so not a bad thing that it was frozen

google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-mcconnell-senate-majority-filibuster-organizing-resolution.amp

Wtf is the point of this if they have a congressional majority?

And why weren’t the stimulus checks apart of the day one (first couple of days) executive orders?

There's a lot of back and forth over what route democrats could take to pass this bill. For it to go through the normal way they will need 60 votes so at least 10 republicans would have to come to an agreement. But there's another process that they could pass it with a 50-50 vote and then the Vice President would break the tie. From everything I've read, it looks like the democrats want to negotiate with the republicans but they say they will do what they have to do to get it out. Full write up coming soon!

President doesn’t have the power to give away government money (for the most part). They can sometimes move funds to different agencies of the executive branch if it is authorized, but only Congress can create a budget, appropriate funds, and most importantly borrow money that you will need to finance a multi trillion dollar spending project.

Mods sticky

as usual they lied just like how keystone got rid of 100k Jobs!!!

They’re only allowed to do the way that lets them pass it with a simple majority (Called budget reconciliation) once a year so they’d rather not use that time up now if they don’t have to, that’s why they’re trying to negotiate first

McConnell being stubborn smh

He still got the power

not really, if he keeps acting like this they’re just gonna nuke the filibuster and he has nothing

But nuking the filibuster is a bad route to take because in 2 years the other side can just do the same thing if they take over (which is a decent chance)

I doubt they gonna go that route

yes exactly