Monday, August 15, 2022

What We Asked For, We've Gotten.

President Biden is doing what we American people elected him to do. What a blessing it would be to give him a little more support in Congress, but no president has negotiated more successfully with such a tiny majority in the House and a tie in the Senate. I cannot imagine that there is another eligible person in the country who could have accomplished what he has. Thank you Mr. President.


(The following is mostly taken (with some editing) from markcz.com with links to documentation)

2020Elected President, saving America from the most criminal president in US History (He won the Electoral College 306 to 232, with a popular vote margin of more than 7 million votes.)

2021: Rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement.

2021: Stopped the Keystone XL pipeline.

2021: Repealed Trump’s travel bans.

2021: Repealed Trump’s transgender military ban.

2021: Ordered an additional 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

2021: Pledged $4 billion to COVAX global vaccine alliance.

2021: Signed $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. It includes:

  • Small business support.
  • $1,400 per person checks.
  • Increases to the Child Tax Credit, Earned-Income Tax Credit, and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credits.
  • $300 extended unemployment insurance.
  • Lower health insurance premiums for lower- and middle-income families enrolled in health insurance marketplaces.

2021: Canceled $1.5 billion in student debt for victims of for-profit school fraud.

2021: Ended the War in Afghanistan after 20 years.

2021: Negotiated and signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. It includes:

  • $110 billion for roads, bridges, major projects
  • $73 billion for power infrastructure
  • $66 billion for passenger and freight rail
  • $65 billion for broadband
  • $55 billion for clean drinking water
  • $50 billion for water resilience and Western water storage
  • $39 billion for public transit
  • $25 billion for airports
  • $21 billion for removal of pollution from water and soil
  • $17 billion for port infrastructure
  • $7.5 billion for electric vehicles
  • $7.5 billion for zero/low emission busses and ferries
  • $1 billion for the revitalization of communities

2021: U.S. gross domestic product grew at 5.7 percent for the year, the strongest economic growth in 37 years.

2021: Favorability of the United States improved sharply around the world.

2022: Approved a U.S. special forces mission that killed ISIS leader Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.

2022: Nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman in history to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.

2022: Signed the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

2022: Led a massive international response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

2022: Signed the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in nearly 30 years.

2022: Ordered the drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and the world’s most wanted terrorist.

2022: Unemployment falls to 3.5 percent, matching lowest rate in 50 years.

2022: Signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law, providing $52.7 billion for chip manufacturing and research and $170 billion for scientific research, innovation, and space exploration.

2022: Signed ratification documents approving NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, strengthening the NATO alliance and reinforcing democracy in the face of Russian brutality against Ukraine.

2022: Signed PACT Act strengthening health care and benefits for America’s veterans and their survivors.


AND tomorrow: the Inflation Reduction bill will be signed. It is the biggest effort to address climate change in history.

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