1990 points 11 hours ago 👋 🦕3 🍆 🇺🇸 🗽

There’s no reason why Trump should lead in any poll or be a threat in the general election. Biden has accomplished more than any president since FDR. In 2022 alone, Biden and Dems did the following:

• passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment in fighting climate change in history
• passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the largest investment in infrastructure since Eisenhower
• passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, breaking a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence legislation
• signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law
• took out the leader of al Qaeda
• ended America's longest war
• reauthorized and strengthened the Violence Against Women Act
• signed the PACT Act, a bill to address veteran burn pit exposure
• signed the NATO accession protocols for Sweden and Finland
• issued executive order to protect reproductive rights
• in the process of canceling $10,000 of student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 and canceled $20,000 in debt for Pell Grant recipients
• canceled billions in student loan debt for borrowers who were defrauded
• nominated now-Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Breyer
• brought COVID under control in the U.S. (e.g., COVID deaths down 90% and over 220 million vaccinated)
• formed Monkeypox response team to reach communities at highest risk of contracting the virus
• unemployment at a 50-year low
• largest one-year deficit reduction in U.S. history
• limited the release of mercury from coal-burning power plants
• $5 billion for electric vehicle chargers- $119 billion budget surplus in January 2022, first in over two years
• united world against Russia’s war in Ukraine
• ended forced arbitration in workplace sexual assault cases
• reinstated California authority to set pollution standards for cars
• ended asylum restrictions for children traveling alone
• signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, the first federal ban on lynching after 200 failed attempts
• Initiated “use it or lose it" policy for drilling on public lands to force oil companies to increase production
• released 1 million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from strategic reserves to ease gas prices
• rescinded Trump-era policy allowing rapid expulsion of migrants
• expunged student loan defaults
• overhauled USPS finances to allow the agency to modernize its service
• required federal dollars spent on infrastructure to use materials made in America
• restored environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects
• Launched $6 billion effort to save distressed nuclear plants
• provided $385 million to help families and individuals with home energy costs through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. (This is in addition to $4.5 billion provided in the American Rescue Plan.)
• national registry of police officers who are fired for misconduct
• tightened restrictions on chokeholds, no-knock warrants, and transfer of military equipment to police departments
• required all federal law enforcement officers to wear body cameras
• $265 million for South Florida reservoir, key component of Everglades restoration
• major wind farm project off West coast to provide electricity for 1.5 million homes
• continued Obama administration's practice of posting log records of visitors to White House
• devoted $2.1 billion to strengthen US food supply chain
• invoked Defense Production Act to rapidly expand domestic production of critical clean energy technologies
• enacted two-year pause of anti-circumvention tariffs on solar
• allocated funds to federal agencies to counter 300-plus anti-LGBTQ laws by state lawmakers in 2022
• relaunched cancer 'moonshot' initiative to help cut death rate
• expanded access to emergency contraception and long-acting reversible contraception
• prevented states from banning Mifepristone, a medication used to end early pregnancy that has FDA approval
• 21 executive actions to reduce gun violence
• Climate Smart Buildings Initiative: Creates public-private partnerships to modernize Federal buildings to meet agencies’ missions, create good-paying jobs, and cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
• Paying for today’s needed renovations with tomorrow’s energy savings without requiring upfront taxpayer funding
• ended Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy
• Operation Fly-Formula, bringing needed baby formula (19 missions to date)
• executive order protecting travel for abortion
• invested more in crime control and prevention than any president in history
• provided death, disability, and education benefits to public safety officers and survivors who are killed or injured in the line of duty
• Reunited 500 migrant families separated under Trump
• $1.66 billion in grants to transit agencies, territories, and states to invest in 150 bus fleets and facilities
• brokered joint US/Mexico infrastructure project; Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security
• blocked 4 hospital mergers that would've driven up prices and is poised to thwart more anti-competition consolidation attempts
• 11 million jobs—more than ever created before at this point of a presidency
• record small business creation
• banned paywalls on taxpayer-funded research
• best economic growth record since Clinton
• eliminated civil statute of limitations for child abuse victims
• announced $156 million for America's first-of-its-kind critical minerals refinery, demonstrating the commercial viability of turning mine waste into clean energy technology.

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