Biden Was Not "Progressive" In Year 1
A comprehensive list of everything that Joe Biden and his administration have done that was against a “progressive” agenda throughout his first year.
President Biden did not run as a progressive, but he has struggled to complete even semi progressive campaign promises.
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Send this to anyone interested in Biden’s first year. Everything on this list has a source.
This is divided into the following categories: Foreign Policy, Immigration, COVID, Domestic Policy, and Other.
Foreign Policy
-Because of crippling US sanctions: 23 million of 39 million Afghans not having enough food to eat
-Killing 10 people in a drone strike in Afghanistan
-Approving a $650 million potential air-to-air missile deal for Saudi Arabia
-Biden signing a $768,000,000,000 defense budget, $37,000,000,000 more than last years budget.
-Choosing Rahm Emanuel as the US ambassador to Japan.
-Approving the sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel
-The Biden administration opposing the resolution blocking weapons sale to Saudi Arabia.
-Spending more on Israel than climate change.
-Continuing to support the Saudi Blockade in Yemen
-Continuing the Trump Pentagon’s policy of embracing landmines.
-Continuing a Trump policy that boosted armed drone exports
-Continuing to support a coup in Venezuela
-Conditions in Guantanamo Bay being worse now than they were under Trump.
Immigration
-Mass deportations of Haitians
-Using Title 42 to expel 690,000+ people
-US deportations of children increasing by 30% in the first year of the Biden administration (Source in Spanish)
-Reopening previously closed “facilities” at the southern border
-Extending the Trump-era Title 42 program that expels people seeking asylum without due process.
-The DOJ pulling out of negotiations to financially compensate families separated by Trump admin.
-Considering "filling gaps" in the US-Mexico border wall.
-Filling immigration courts with Trump hires
-Continuing to seize land for the border wall
-Joe Biden’s new budget boosting ICE funding by $18 million.
-Blocking media access to their border operations.
-Continuing to house immigrant children in inhumane conditions.
-Backing an effort to overturn a California law banning for-profit immigration detention centers,
Domestic Policy
-Cutting federal unemployment benefits to make unemployment numbers look better.
-Naming Neera Tanden the White House staff secretary
-"Vigorously" defending an exemption to anti-LGBT discrimination laws for religious schools.
-Sending more military equipment to American neighborhoods than Trump did.
-Continuing the Trump era practice of labeling Black Lives Matter protesters as terrorists.
-Fully supporting states that cut supplemental UI benefits
-Allowing oil to continue to flow through the Dakota Access Pipeline
-Not ordering the Pentagon to recall the billions in military gear it loaned to police.
-Offering to keep 2017 Trump tax cuts intact in infrastructure counteroffer to the GOP
-Defending excluding Puerto Ricans from disability payments
-Settling on a 25% corporate tax rate
-Auctioning off more than 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling companies
-Issuing 31 new drilling permits on federal land
-Their "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism"
-Canceling less than 1 percent of U.S. student debt.
-Looking to extend a Trump era policy that bolsters mandatory minimum drug sentences.
-Continuing to fill top Pentagon positions with defense contractors
-Keeping Trump hires in the Department of Justice
-Urging the Supreme Court to let cops enter homes and seize guns without a warrant
-Not passing a promised $15 minimum wage
-Not passing a promised $2,000 stimulus to all individuals
-Not officially banning the death penalty
COVID
-CDC guidance shortening the quarantine time during positive COVID tests.
-The Biden administration rejecting the 10 page "Testing Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge" plan.
-Banning travel to several South African countries for a month due to the Omicron COVID variant.
-Free COVID tests taking 7-12 days to ship.
Other
-Granting Navient a two-year, $391M extension on its contract to collect federal student loans.