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What Biden Has Done: Year Three
- Got republicans to publicly take Social Security and Medicare cuts off the table
- Reduced unemployment from 18 million when he took office, down to less than 2 million now
- Banned Tik Tok on government sites
- Vaccines for tetanus, whooping cough, and shingles (costing up to $200) are now free for seniors on Medicare
- Requires utilities to remove perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) from drinking water
- Makes $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects at current or former coal mines
- 732-mile high-voltage transmission line across the Western U.S. that will help transport renewable energy
- Directs federal agencies to find ways to make child care cheaper and more accessible
- IRS answered 2.4 million more taxpayer calls for assistance due to new funding
- $197 million for 100 communities across our nation to invest in wildfire resilience
- Safeguard mature and old-growth forests on federal lands, in a science-based approach to reduce wildfire risk
- Strengthen reforestation partnerships to support local economies and retain forest ecosystems and sustainable supplies of forest products for years to come
- Combat global deforestation to deliver on key COP26 commitments
- Comprehensive efforts to deploy nature-based solutions that reduce emissions and build resilience
- Added threat of detention and kidnapping to risk factors of travel warnings
- Increased consequences to terrorists who engage in the practice of kidnapping
- Rail companies grant paid sick days after administration pressure in win for unions
- $4 billion effort to electrify U.S. ports and cut emissions
- Average job creation almost double any recent president
- To date has forgiven $42 billion of student loan debt to borrowers of public service
- Record 10.5 million new business applications were filed in first two years of Biden administration
- Invests $11 billion for renewable energy in rural areas
- US is now building factories at a wildly fast rate
- Construction spending by US manufacturers more than doubled from last year
- Offered billions of dollars in subsidies in the electric vehicles, semiconductor, and solar panels industries
- Added 800,000 jobs in manufacturing in last two years to compete with countries such as China
- Got Ticketmaster and Seat Geek to dump junk fees
- The Inflation Reduction Act will provide one million solar and wind jobs by 2035
- Doubled previous all-time high of new manufacturing construction
- Continues negotiations and gets paid sick days for rail workers
- Executive order to guarantee women access to contraception - (more will need to be done to make it permanent)
- Eliminates US stockpile of chemical weapons
- Largest offshore wind project in the US
- Round 10 of student loan cancellation: $39 billion for over 800,00 borrowers
- Gets big tech commitments to voluntary follow AI guidelines (Including Google, Meta, Microsoft and A- Stock Market gains in 2023 are the best in decades
- Creates Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument - One million acres
- Construction of manufacturing facilities in real terms (adjusted for inflation) has more than doubled since 2021
- Launches "Saving on a Valuable Education" (SAVE): An income-driven repayment plan cutting borrowers’ payments in half, and some with no monthly bill
- Creates bilateral collaboration helping Vietnam develop high tech in semiconductor production and artificial intelligence, countering Chinese efforts to do the same in the region
- $800 Million to Strengthen Rural Infrastructure and Create Jobs
- Round 11 of student debt forgiveness: 12,000 Wisconsinite Student Loans Forgiven
- Siemens Kenosha factory to produce solar using tax incentives and will create a half million clean energy jobs
- Suspends Trump-era authorization to ship natural gas by rail
- Cancels oil and gas leases in Alaskan wildlife refuge that were allowed by Trump administration
- Restores power of states and tribes to review projects to protect waterways
- Creates 9-state offshore wind supply chain pact while funding $72m towards manufacturing
- American Climate Corps launched
- DOD to review DADT discharges
- At-home COVID tests return
- EPA announces $4.6B climate grants
- TPS redesignated for Venezuela, protecting additional 450k migrants
- $37M University of Phoenix debt forgiven
- EO for East Palestine recovery
- Prohibits Americans from investing in some Chinese companies
- Directs Agencies to Account for Climate Change in Budgets
- Creates new office of gun violence prevention
- Commits $200 million to reintroduce salmon in Columbia River
- $230 million for suicide prevention and behavioral are programs for at risk communities
- Cuts funding to college programs leaving grads with unaffordable loans and/or low pay
- All schools must provide prospective students with a framework outlining actual costs to get a degree and financial outcomes students can expect
- Today’s announcement brings the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden-Harris Administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans.
- Round 12 of student loan forgiveness of $5.2 billion bring total to $127 billion
- Updated federal prevailing wage for first time in decades, raising wages by thousands of dollars
- During very tense times, visits Israel and gets them allow humanitarian aid to Gaza
- Creates the largest ever offshore windfarm of Virginia's coast
- Supports UAW strike resulting in a 30% increase of wages
- October economics report shows stunning improvement
- 34th consecutive month of job growth (150,000 jobs in October)
- Longest stretch of unemployment below 4% since the 1960s
- GDP surged this past quarter 5% (seasonally adjusted)
- Federal Reserve announces interest rates are holding steady
- Auto Strike over! Workers get substantial pay raises (30%)
- Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
- Allocated $16.4B in new funding for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor
- Allocated $440M to install solar panels in Puerto Rico
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EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights announces the largest single investment in environmental justice in history, funded by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
WASHINGTON — Today, the Biden-Harris administration announced approximately $2 billion in funding available to support community-driven projects that deploy clean energy, strengthen climate resilience, and build capacity for communities to tackle environmental and climate justice challenges. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Community Change Grants are the single largest investment in environmental justice going directly to communities in history, and will advance collaborative efforts to achieve a healthier, safer, and more prosperous future for all. These funds, part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, are made possible by the President’s Inflation Reduction Act—the biggest-ever investment in clean energy and climate action.
“Throughout my Journey to Justice tour, I’ve heard from residents and advocates calling for resources to support local solutions in communities that have long been overlooked and forgotten,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “Today, thanks to President Biden’s commitment to investing in communities that have long struggled to access federal funding, we are delivering on these calls to action. This historic, unprecedented funding has the promise to turn disadvantaged and overburdened areas into healthy, resilient, and thriving communities for current and future generations.”
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The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will pay $440 million to install solar panels in Puerto Rico.
The Department of Energy (DOE) made the announcement Thursday, saying that the funding will lower energy costs for 30,000 to 40,000 single-family households in Puerto Rico and help improve the resilience of energy sources.
“This funding will also support thousands of local clean energy jobs, help achieve President Biden’s goal of lowering energy costs for all Americans, as well as help Puerto Rico achieve its goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. DOE anticipates the first installations will begin in Spring 2024,” the announcement states.
Homes eligible for solar panel installations include those located in very low-income neighborhoods that experience frequent and long-term power outages or those that include a resident with an energy-dependent disability, like an electric wheelchair user or someone who needs an at-home dialysis machine.
“With this announcement, we take a critical step forward in our efforts to ensure that all Puerto Rico residents have reliable electricity, especially the most vulnerable families and communities for whom a lack of power can be life or death,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said. “Plain and simple, this investment will save lives, all while providing local, good-paying jobs and advancing Puerto Rico’s clean energy transition.”
The Department of Energy selected three companies and five nonprofits and cooperations to install the solar panels. The department noted that there is an existing workforce in Puerto Rico for all of the corporations to install the panels.
Puerto Rico has a long-standing history of power problems. Hurricane Fiona last year left millions of Puerto Ricans without power for several days. The problems are largely due to an electric grid that has not been fully rebuilt after the destruction of Hurricane Maria, leaving residents susceptible to power outages.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril. Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges while making our world more prosperous, productive, innovative, and secure. At the same time, irresponsible use could exacerbate societal harms such as fraud, discrimination, bias, and disinformation; displace and disempower workers; stifle competition; and pose risks to national security. Harnessing AI for good and realizing its myriad benefits requires mitigating its substantial risks. This endeavor demands a society-wide effort that includes government, the private sector, academia, and civil society.
My Administration places the highest urgency on governing the development and use of AI safely and responsibly, and is therefore advancing a coordinated, Federal Government-wide approach to doing so. The rapid speed at which AI capabilities are advancing compels the United States to lead in this moment for the sake of our security, economy, and society.
In the end, AI reflects the principles of the people who build it, the people who use it, and the data upon which it is built. I firmly believe that the power of our ideals; the foundations of our society; and the creativity, diversity, and decency of our people are the reasons that America thrived in past eras of rapid change. They are the reasons we will succeed again in this moment. We are more than capable of harnessing AI for justice, security, and opportunity for all.
Sec. 2. Policy and Principles. It is the policy of my Administration to advance and govern the development and use of AI in accordance with eight guiding principles and priorities. When undertaking the actions set forth in this order, executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, adhere to these principles, while, as feasible, taking into account the views of other agencies, industry, members of academia, civil society, labor unions, international allies and partners, and other relevant organizations:
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What President Biden has done - Year Two
- Makes sexual harassment in the military a crime
- Economy grows faster than China's for 1st time in 20 years - Strongest economic growth since 1984
- Limits the release of mercury from coal-burning power plants
- Kills ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi
- $5 billion for electric vehicle chargers
- Gives $7 billion in frozen Afghanistan funds to compensate 9/11 victims and provide humanitarian aid
- Posts $119 billion budget surplus in January; first in over 2 years
- Unites world against Russia aggression
- Imposes stiff sanctions to stifle Russian economy
- Led the Western world in defending Ukraine against Russia's invasion
- Ends forced arbitration in sexual assault cases in the workplace
- Reinstates California authority to set pollution standards for cars
- Ends asylum restrictions for children traveling alone
- Clarifies the role of podiatric medicine for Veterans
- Reauthorizes and strengthens the Violence Against Women Act
- Creates Amache National Historic Site as America’s newest national park
- Makes lynching a federal crime
- Initiates "use it, or lose it" policy on drilling on public lands to force oil companies to increase production
- Releases one million barrels of oil a day for 6 months from strategic reserves to ease gas prices
- Rescinds Trump-era policy allowing rapid expulsion of migrants at border and blocks them from seeking asylum
- Expunges student loan defaults
- Overhauled the US Postal Service's finances to allow the agency to modernize its service
- Requires federal dollars spent on infrastructure to use materials made in America
- Restores environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects
- Launches $6 billion effort to save distressed nuclear plants
- Provides $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.
- Establishes national registry of police officers who are fired for misconduct
- Lifts sanctions on the Rojava and other opposition-held territory in Syria
- Tightens restrictions on chokeholds, no-knock warrants, and transfer of military equipment to police departments
- Requires 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
- Continues Obama administration's practice of posting log records of visitors to White House
- Devotes $2.1 billion to strengthen US food supply chain
- Round 6 student loan debt cancelation: $5.8 billion - This is in addition to $20.7 billion previously cancelled
- Invokes Defense Production Act to rapidly expand domestic production of critical clean energy technologies
- Enacts two-year pause of anti-circumvention tariffs on solar
- Allocates funds to federal agencies to counter 300-plus anti-LGBTQ laws by state lawmakers this year alone
- Round 7 of student loan cancellation: $6 billion to 200,000 defrauded borrowers - Bringing total to $31 billion
- Relaunches cancer 'moonshot' initiative to help cut death rate
- Expands access to emergency contraception and long-acting reversible contraception
- Prevents states from banning Mifepristone -- a medication used to end early pregnancy that has FDA approval
- Steps to ensure the safety of those seeking and providing abortion care, including by protecting mobile clinics
- Protecting privacy, safety and security of patients, providers and clinics
- 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
- Safeguards access to health care, including the right to choose and contraception
- Oversees effort to admit Finland and Sweden to NATO
- Ends Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy
- Operation Fly-Formula bringing needed baby formula – (19 missions to date)
- Executive order protecting travel for abortion
- Kills Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 architect Al-Zawahiri with no civilian casualties
- Invested more in crime control and prevention than any president in history
- As of August 2022, unemployment at 3.5% (50 year low)
- Gas Prices drop below $4 a gallon
- Provides death, disability, and education benefits to public safety officers and survivors who are killed or injured in the line of duty
- Round 8 of student loan cancellation: $3.4 Billion dollars of defrauded IT student loans have been cancelled
- Reunites 400 migrant families separated under Trump
- $1.66 billion in grants to transit agencies, territories, and states to invest in 150 bus fleets and facilities
- Brokers joint US/Mexico infrastructure project - Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security and processing source says
- Blocked 4 hospital mergers that would've driven up prices and is poised to thwart more anti-competition consolidation attempts
- Gets $1.5 billion in new border control security at the border and got Mexico to pay for it
- Historic Police Reform (Reddit link)
FIRST MAJOR GUN LEGISLATION IN 30 YEARS
- $750 million to implement and run crisis intervention programs
- Ended boyfriend loophole – Previously only married people convicted of domestic abuse were banned from owning firearms. The new law extends it to people who are dating
- Requires gun sellers to register as Federally Licensed Firearm Dealers
- More thorough reviews of people ages 18-21 who want to buy guns
- New statutes against gun trafficking and straw trafficking
- Increases funding for mental health programs and school security
THE PACT ACT
- Ensures high-quality health care screenings and services to veterans exposed to potential toxic exposure
- Extends period of time veterans have to enroll in VA health care from 5 to 10 years post discharge
- Codifies VA’s new process for evaluating and determining exposure and service connection for various chronic conditions
- Removes need for certain veterans and their survivors to prove service connection if diagnosed with one of 23 specific conditions
- Requires VA to conduct new studies of veterans health trends
- Provides critical resources to VA to ensure delivery of
- Invests in VA health care facilities by authorizing 31 major medical health clinics and research facilities in 19 states
THE CHIPS ACT
- Provides $52.7 billion to secure domestic supply of American made semi-conductor chips, create tens of thousands of good-paying, union construction jobs and thousands more high-skilled manufacturing jobs, and catalyze hundreds of billions more in private
- $39 billion in manufacturing incentives
- $2 billion for the legacy chips used in automobiles and defense systems
- $13.2 billion in R&D and workforce development
- $500 million to provide international information communications technology security and semiconductor supply chain activities
- Provides a 25 percent investment tax credit for capital expenses for manufacturing of semiconductors and related equipment
THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT OF 2022
Climate:
- Largest climate investment in history - Will reduce 40% amount of carbon released into atmosphere by 2030
- Defines greenhouse gases as a pollutant making them subjected to pollution laws
- $370 billion for U.S. energy security and fighting climate change
- Tax incentives for switching to electricity to power homes and vehicles
- $60 billion invested creating millions of new domestic clean manufacturing jobs and 550,000 new clean energy jobs
- Will quadruple the number of solar panels over the next 8 years
- Cuts energy bills by $500 to $1,000 per year
- Doubles battery storage on the grid
- Invests in disadvantaged communities
Health:
- $62 billion to extend subsidies for health insurance under the ACA
- Provides free vaccines (2023), $35/month insulin for Medicare patients, (2023) and caps out-of-pocket drug costs to an estimated $4,000 or less in 2024 and settling at $2,000 in 2025
- Lowers health care costs of the average enrollee $800/year in the ACA marketplace
- Allows Medicare to negotiate 100 drugs over the next decade, and requires drug companies to rebate price increases higher than inflation
Inflation Reduction:
- Significantly Lowers energy and health care costs for families
- Reduces Deficit by $313,000,000,000
- Closes tax loopholes used by wealthy: a 15% corporate minimum tax, a 1% fee on stock buybacks and enhanced IRS enforcement
- Protects families and small business making under $400,000 a year
The Cost
- $485 billion of new costs would be offset with $790 billion of additional revenue and savings over a decade.
Total Revenue Raised: $737 billion
- 15% Minimum tax on corporations with profits exceeding $1 billion
- Prescription Drug Pricing Reform: $265 billion
- IRS Tax Enforcement: $124 billion
- 1% Stock Buybacks Fee: $74 billion
- Loss Limitation extension: $ 52 billion
Deficit Reduction:
- $313 billion dollars
STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS (Round 8 and by far the largest)
- $20,000 for everyone with Pell Grants
- $10,000 for everyone else making less than $125,000 for individuals & $250,000 married couples
- Payments again paused until the end of 2022
- Payments for undergrad loans capped at 5% of your income (previously was 10%)
- This is addition to the 8 previous rounds of debt cancellation totally $35 billion
- 20-40 million people will benefit
- Codifies DACA into law - Allows dreamers (children of immigrants born in US) ability to work and stay in US
Declares Moonshot Style Effort to Cure Cancer
- Hires Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural Director of ARPA-H, a new agency to drive biomedical innovation
- Launches National Biotechnology and Manufacturing Initiative
- Cancer Cabinet’s progress towards delivering cancer detection tech and support for researchers across US
- Infrastructure Projects in Individual States Created by Infrastructure Bill
- All-Time Low Uninsured rate
- 10 million jobs—more than ever created before at this point of a presidency
- 3.5% unemployment rate—a near record low in the history of this country Thanks
- Best Economic growth in over two decades (yes that has been adjusted for inflation)
- More than 220 million Americans were vaccinated
- Record small business creation
- Round nine of student loan forgiveness - $1.5 Billion for defrauded college borrowers
- Biden created DOJ task force dismantles human smuggling organization near Texas-American border
- Intervened to prevent nation-wide rail strike which would have caused national economic disaster
- Blocks Chinese investments in US tech
- Eliminates statute of limitations for civil suits for people who were sexually abused as minors
- Pardons thousands for simple possession of marijuana
- Reevaluating how cannabis is classified. Currently it is schedule I like heroin - Meth & coke are schedule II
- Reunited over 500 families separated at the border by Trump policies
- Puts new limits on drone strikes including requiring the presidential approval
- Brokered deal between Israel and Lebanon ending maritime boundary dispute and establish a permanent maritime boundary between them
- PAWS Act: Requires zoos, commercial animal dealers, and research facilities to have contingency plans in place to evacuate and care for animals in an emergency or disaster situation
- Increases veterans’' life insurance benefit coverage to $500,000. First increase in 17 years
- Ensures US is not funding or participating in human trafficking of 3rd world-country workers through our contracts overseas
- Enacts aggressive steps to improve quality of nursing homes
- Codifies Gay Marriage into law - Protects Same-Sex and Interracial Marriage
- Prohibits private possession of big cats and prohibits exhibitors from allowing direct contact with cubs
- Electrifies US Postal trucks by 2026
- Stops the forcing out of pregnant workers, or denying reasonable accommodations
- Extended health care funding for the 9/11 first-responders and survivors
- Streamlined Veterans home loans, provided way to transfer GI Bill benefits to new school, and provided support for survivors of military sexual trauma.
Year Two Accomplishments:
- 4.5 million jobs added in year two - Over 11 million jobs added in first two years
- Unemployment rate at 50 year low
- Cuts budget deficit in half - $1.4 trillion deficit reduction is the largest single-year reduction in US history
- Greatest year in history for new small business applications - (over 10 million new businesses created)
- Record number of Americans having health insurance
- This Senate has confirmed 97 federal judges
- Limit China’s technological development breaking decades of federal policy and represents most aggressive American action yet to curtail Beijing’s economic and military rise
- Appointed more black women to the court than any president in history
- Brokers deal with 13 Indo-Pacific countries to coordinate supply chains to reduce dependence on China
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Credit: /u/backpackwayne on Reddit
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What President Biden Has Done - Year One
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Reverse Trump's Muslim ban
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Require masks on federal property
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Extend Student Loan payment freeze
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Extend eviction freeze
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Historic stimulus bill passed: - Click to see who was helped - Created nearly 8 million jobs, 200 million Americans fully vaccinated, and unemployment claims are the lowest on average since 1969. It also re-opened 99% of schools and sparked the fastest economic growth in decades
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Ends funding for Border wall
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Orders agencies to reunite families separated at border by Trump
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Orders strengthening of DACA
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Rejoins The World Health Organization
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Requires non-citizens to be included in the Census
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Creates the position of Covid-19 Response Coordinator
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Rescinds Trump's 1776 Commission and directs agencies to review actions to ensure racial equity
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Prohibits administration members from lobbying or registering as foreign agents for two years after leaving
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Invokes Defense Production Act to produce masks, PPE and vaccines
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Provide funding to local and state officials to create vaccination sites
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Ends transgender military ban
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Ends Federal Contracts With Private Prisons
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Restores Aid To Palestinians
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Suspends new leases for oil & natural gas development on federal land
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Restores access to healthcare.gov
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Extends fair housing protections to include LGBTQ Americans
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Ends support for Saudi Arabia led campaign in Yemen
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Withdraws UN sanctions on Iran
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Daily Covid deaths reduced in half after one month
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Secured enough vaccinations for the entire US population
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Historic stimulus bill passed: - Click to see who was helped (*this link is broken and I don't know how to fix it because it was hosted on a private GDrive)
- Increases poorest 20% of Americans' income by 20% permanently
- 85% of households receiving stimulus payments
- Four provisions which lower Americans’ 2021 tax bills by an average of $3,360
- Reduces backlog of Veterans compensation and pension claims by more than half
- Created 8 million jobs
- 200,000,000 Americans vaccinated
- Unemployment claims at the lowest levels since 1969
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1/3 of Americans vaccinated in his first 60 days
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1/2 million added to Obamacare healthcare rolls in 6 weeks
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Extends universal free school lunch through 2022
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Commits to cutting U.S. emissions in half by 2030 as part of Paris climate pact
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Reverses Trump's Anti-Trans Shelter Rule
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Officially recognizes massacre of Armenians in World War I as genocide
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Raises Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors and Federal Employees to $15
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Cancels all border wall contracts using funds intended for military missions
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Creates new operation to crack down on human smuggling
END OF FIRST 100 DAYS
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Reverses Trump effort to loosen Arctic drilling restrictions
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Restores Transgender Health Protections
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Lifts Secrecy of Visitor Logs Cloaked by Trump
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Suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Restores $1 billion in federal funding for California high speed rail Trump had cut
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In first six months regained job numbers lost under Trump administration. (3 million)
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Prohibits payday lenders from charging interest rates above that of what individual states allow
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Reinstalls rules removed by Trump limiting methane emissions from leaks and flares in oil and gas wells
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Enacts massive EO that provides 76 distinct actions to increase competition, reduce monopolies, and eliminate laws that unfairly treat workers. Including:
- Eliminating non-compete clauses
- Stop businesses from collaborating to reduce wages/benefits
- Stop big tech companies purchasing competitors to unfairly compete with small businesses
- Importation of prescription drugs from Canada and increase support for generics
- Hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter
- Requiring airlines to refund consumer fees when bags are late or Wi-Fi doesn't work
- Crack down on railroads and ocean shipping to reduce costs of transporting goods
- Other anti-monopoly legislation with agriculture, banking and internet
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2nd quarter 2021 economy grows 6.5% - Economy surpasses pre-pandemic levels.
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Achieves historic 45% reduction of poverty levels in first six months
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Achieves historic 61% reduction of child poverty in first six months
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Reaches goal of vaccinating 70% of adult Americans
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Bans the pesticide chlorpyrifos, linked to neurological damage in young children
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PAWS Act, allowing VA to pay for service dogs for veterans
Student Loan Forgiveness:
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Round One: Cancels $1 Billion in Student Loan Debt
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Round Two: Cancels another $1.3 billion in student loan debt
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Round Three: Cancels another $500 Million In Student Loan Debt (6/16/21)
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Round Four: Erases student debt for students with disabilities - ($5.8 Billion)
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Round Five: $1.1 billion in student debt for 115,000 ITT students
(Three more rounds have occurred in 2022)
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Forms new Indo-Pacific alliance with UK, Australia allowing for greater sharing of defense capabilities
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Adds measles to list of quarantinable diseases
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LGBTQ veterans discharged dishonorably for sexual orientation get full benefits
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Lifts abortion referral ban on family planning clinics
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Ended the 20 Year War in Afghanistan - The longest war in American History
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Secures agreement of G20 to block corporations from moving jobs or profits overseas in order to avoid paying taxes by establishing a world minimum tax for corporations of 15%
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Passes largest infrastructure improvement bill in history
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$11 billion in transportation safety programs
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$7.5 billion for electric vehicles and EV charging
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$2.5 billion in zero-emission buses
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$2.5 billion in low-emission buses and $2.5 billion for ferries
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$21 billion in environmental remediation
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$47 billion for flooding & coastal resiliency and "climate resiliency," including protections against fires
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$39 billion to modernize transit, largest federal investment in public transit in history
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$25 billion for airports
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$17 billion in port infrastructure
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$11 billion in transportation safety programs
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$11O billion for roads, bridges, and other much-needed infrastructure
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$40 billion for bridge repair, replacement, and rehabilitation
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$17.5 billion is for other major projects
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$73 billion for electric grid and power structures
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$66 billion for rail services;
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$65 billion for broadband
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$1.47B in loans for forgiveness through PSLF program updates, and $2.82B with employer verification
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Imposes Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in Global Illicit Drug Trade
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Aside from one Afghanistan strike early on, Biden has ended drone strikes
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2.7% average across-the-board pay raise for federal employees
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Ban goods made by Uyghur slave labor
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Accelerated Access to Critical Therapies for ALS
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Distributes $1.5 Billion to Strengthen School Meal Program
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Requiring autos to get 55 MPG by 2026 - Reversing Trump rollbacks - up from 37 MPG we now have
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Job growth in Biden's first year tops 6.4 million - Sharpest one-year drop in US history
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Requires insurance companies to cover cost of at-home covid tests
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$14 billion for over 500 projects for 2022 to strengthen supply chain and waterways
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Order to fight malicious cyber activity, from both nation-state actors and cyber criminals
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Small Business Applications Are 30 Percent Above Pre-Pandemic Levels
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Farmers flourish under Biden, see recovery from Trump-era trade wars
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RECORD FIRSTS IN PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FIRST YEAR
President Biden and Vice President Harris delivered results for the American people in their first year in office. The President and Vice President made history growing our economy, addressing the climate crisis, and building a judiciary and government that represents America. Despite unprecedented challenges, 2021 was a year of record progress for working families.
- Jobs: President Biden’s first year was the greatest year of job creation in American history, with more than 8 million jobs created.
- Unemployment Rate: The unemployment rate dropped from 6.2% when Biden took office to 3.9%, the biggest single-year drop in American history.
- Unemployment Claims: The average number of Americans filing for unemployment has been near its lowest level since 1969. When the President took office, over 18 million were receiving unemployment benefits, today only 2 million are—also the biggest single-year drop in history.
- Economic Legislation Passed: Most significant by economic impact of any first-year president.
- Economy growth is faster than China's for first time in 20 years - Strongest economic growth since 1984
- Child Poverty: Experts estimate the lowest child poverty rate ever in 2021.
- Expanded Access to Health Care: Nearly 5 million Americans have newly gained health insurance coverage.
- Reduced Hunger: The number of households reporting that they sometimes or often did not have enough food to eat dropped by 32%.
- Judges Confirmed: More judges confirmed to lower federal courts than any president since President Kennedy.
- Judges That Reflect Our Nation: More Black women appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals than any president – even over 8 years – in history.
- Cabinet: First majority non-white Cabinet in history, with most women in the Cabinet, including first woman Treasury Secretary, first LGBTQ+ and Native American Cabinet officials, and first woman Director of National Intelligence.
- Climate Investments: Largest investments ever in the power grid, electric vehicle chargers, and climate resilience.
- Clean Water: Largest investment and national, bipartisan plan to get safe and clean drinking water to all Americans.
- Cleaner Cars: Strongest vehicle emissions standards ever to save drivers money at the pump and reduce pollution.
- Wind: First-ever approvals of large-scale offshore wind projects.
- Personnel: Most diverse Administration in history – most women, people of color, disability, LGBTQ+, first-generation American, and first-generation college graduates
- Drone airstrikes fell 54% compared to Trump
- Worker's Rights: 70% of first-year executive orders protect worker's rights
- Bankruptcy Filings: Plunged to Lowest Number Since 1985
- Agricultural Exports Shattered Records in 2021
- Global approval of US up 15 points during Biden's first year
- 5.4 million new small business applications: 20 percent higher than any previous year on record
- Tripled installation of offshore wind turbines
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^1^ Original ABC News link broke; replaced with equivalent article from The Guardian.