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Obama didn't pass DACA, it was an Executive Order. His major legislative achievements were ARRA (stimulus bill) and the ACA, the latter of which is something Democrats had been trying to pass since Truman, so I don't want to minimize that.
Biden has already passed three major stimulus bills including the infrastructure bill that had become a running joke during Trump's Administration and was something both parties had talked about since the turn of the century but neither had fully enacted. The pandemic stimulus bill has led us to a point where child poverty has hit a 50 year low in the United States and is no small part of why 9.7 million jobs have been created since Biden took office, which is more than 5 times the 1.9 million net jobs that were created during the combined presidencies of Bush I, Bush II, and Trump.
The latter stimulus bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, not only extended the ACA but it also expanded it by finally requiring federal collective perscription drug price bargaining for Medicare which is wildly popular (I believe even DubDub endorsed this in the past as well as the infrastructure bill) and will save Medicare 98.5B over 10 years.
In addition, the IRA also included something on the order of 98% of the climate change reduction funding that was originally in the Build Back Better proposal, which is GD amazing considering Manchin was the deciding vote. These provisions will allow the US to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 and fund the conversion of the US economy from an antiquated fossil fuel based economy to a modern, sustainable energy economy.
He also got the CHIPs and Science Act done to repatriate the manufacturing of semiconductors, which will enhance national security, and he got the burn pit bill done for the veterans.
Plus the handling of Ukraine and NATO, for which he got Congress to procure billions of aid that's obviously been critical to Ukraine's success in repulsing Russian aggression.
If you believe climate change is an existential risk to the world, the IRA was a BFD. If you believe Putin is an existential threat to world peace, procuring funding to help the Ukrainians beat him back was a BFD.
And in the wildest bit of irony of all, even though it wasn't a legislative achievement, he got Mexico to agree to pony up $1.5B in funding to increase border security.
Now... my party sucks at beating their chest when they accomplish things, so I'm sure some of this may have come as a surprise to you because the media no longer covers anything but scandals, gossip, and horse race bullshit. But I'm pretty pleased by his body of work in less than two years.
Biden has already passed three major stimulus bills including the infrastructure bill that had become a running joke during Trump's Administration and was something both parties had talked about since the turn of the century but neither had fully enacted. The pandemic stimulus bill has led us to a point where child poverty has hit a 50 year low in the United States and is no small part of why 9.7 million jobs have been created since Biden took office, which is more than 5 times the 1.9 million net jobs that were created during the combined presidencies of Bush I, Bush II, and Trump.
The latter stimulus bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, not only extended the ACA but it also expanded it by finally requiring federal collective perscription drug price bargaining for Medicare which is wildly popular (I believe even DubDub endorsed this in the past as well as the infrastructure bill) and will save Medicare 98.5B over 10 years.
In addition, the IRA also included something on the order of 98% of the climate change reduction funding that was originally in the Build Back Better proposal, which is GD amazing considering Manchin was the deciding vote. These provisions will allow the US to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 and fund the conversion of the US economy from an antiquated fossil fuel based economy to a modern, sustainable energy economy.
He also got the CHIPs and Science Act done to repatriate the manufacturing of semiconductors, which will enhance national security, and he got the burn pit bill done for the veterans.
Plus the handling of Ukraine and NATO, for which he got Congress to procure billions of aid that's obviously been critical to Ukraine's success in repulsing Russian aggression.
If you believe climate change is an existential risk to the world, the IRA was a BFD. If you believe Putin is an existential threat to world peace, procuring funding to help the Ukrainians beat him back was a BFD.
And in the wildest bit of irony of all, even though it wasn't a legislative achievement, he got Mexico to agree to pony up $1.5B in funding to increase border security.
Now... my party sucks at beating their chest when they accomplish things, so I'm sure some of this may have come as a surprise to you because the media no longer covers anything but scandals, gossip, and horse race bullshit. But I'm pretty pleased by his body of work in less than two years.
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