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- rescinded Trump-era policy allowing rapid expulsion of migrants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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/14je97i/democrats_warn_party_the_threat_of_trump_winning/jpkqa15/
I like how he tightened restrictions on warrants but still increased funding for police.
"Look you have to say some different magic words for it to be ok. Now here's a million dollars."