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Pres. Biden day one executive orders: Rejoin Paris agreement, extend student loans pause, stop wall construction, reverse Muslim travel ban + more
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It's a little over two hours before he takes over as president and he STILL hasn't fixed this country. What is he waiting for?
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M4A is not something he can do through EO, what are you people talking about?
I swear it feels like some people are just foaming at the mouth.
It's his first day. Give the president some time. As others have said, cancelling student debt via EO is legally shaky; we now control both legislative chambers, let things be done right.
Y'all are tripping, the student loan pause had to be extended as it expires in 10 days. Before wiping out debt you need to ensure that the pause is extended
He can't do M4A via executive order, but I think he could forgive medical debt. That's something that should absolutely be looked into, especially as COVID has no doubt submerged more families.
Naw man, he is at his most powerful now with a fresh mandate, get shit done, don't wanna hear about reaching over aisles.
We'll see how it goes, going to keep a keen eye on these first 100 days.
Dude hasn't even filled his sock drawer yet
I swear some folks are deliberately being disingenuous
This shit gets so tiring, he isn't even officially sworn in yet and people expect him to undo 4 years of trump plus get every progressive things passed. The hell are people smoking. Have some patience.
These things affect hundred of millions of people in the country, you can't just sign shit and expect things to work out with out the necessary analysis.
These things affect hundred of millions of people in the country, you can't just sign shit and expect things to work out with out the necessary analysis.
Sorry, but undoing a bunch of Trump shit through EO on day one is a great start. Shit, dude ain't even been sworn in yet.
Maybe direct that keen eye of yours towards how the US government is allowed to issue expensive mandates, because saying M4A is possible through executive fiat makes you look plenty silly.
Alot of these Biden critics are often arguing in bad faith or naive in how governing works.
Given your level of observation thus far, I don't think this means much.
He rolled back a bunch of environmental protections and other shit that Joe has to spend time undoing.
Watch a lot of news and do a lot of complaining on Twitter.
I'd wager we see very little from Twitter in the Biden years.
Are you nuts? You can't do M4A via EO. You HAVE to be arguing in bad faith, or entirely clueless.
The one good thing Betsy DeVos did was extend the student loan pause 1 month to the end of January so that Biden's team could take it up themselves rather than make everyone have to deal with January payments before they got paused again tbh.
Hoping Biden extends it at least another year because I'm going for Public Service Loan Forgiveness and every paused month counts as a month for that purpose, so this is saving me hundreds of dollars a month lol.
I think you quoted the wrong person, or misread the statement.
Targeted forgiveness tends to cover delinquencies and defaults if the appropriate amount is covered.
Only certain programs, like the old Public Service forgiveness program, nixes forgiveness if the borrower is not in good standing.
It's not even about just progressive policies. It's actually upholding the rule of law. Prosecute Trump, the GOP and congress members who committed sedition. The democrats letting criminal GOP members off the hook time and time again is the why the party knows they can break the law with impunity. Nixon's pardon is why we got to Trump and McConnell levels of corruption. That is the most basic change the democrats have to make.
I did misquote, my mistake. I meant to quote the poster you were replying to.
Also it seems like people want him to be like trump where he just sign crap. Normally you need your experts in those particular area of laws and so on to do gap analysis and risk assessment before signing anything.
That's great to hear. I'm asking for my mom. Appreciate the response.
Anecdotally, a lot of the most outspoken leftists/Bernie-or-Busters/etc. I've known were the ones who in 2017 immediately thought Trump was fulfilling his campaign pledges by signing useless executive orders that didn't substitute at all for legislation, e.g. when he "repealed Obamacare."
"Well, at least he's keeping his promises!" they'd say as he performs the legal equivalent of writing on a bar napkin in crayon and doing absolutely nothing substantive.
This is the danger of shallow, internet-progressive politics. You need to understand the basics of how things work if you're going to criticize a dude who isn't President for another few hours for not handwaving in utopia on day one.
M4A is a complicated re-write of the entire healthcare system and literally can not be done via executive order. The most popular M4A policy is Bernie Sanders' and his math has never worked. Biden opposes it primarily because he believes it would necessitate a tax raise on the middle class. Instead, he calls for short term expansions to the ACA that would insure tens of millions of uninsured and under-insured Americans. What exactly healthcare will look like will turn on negotiations among congress and the Presidency, and will be contested in a packed court by Republicans.
A vet has to be totally and permanently disabled to get student loan forgiveness, but yea, you're right.
Definitely. Blanket forgiveness would be nice, but I'll even take the Warren plan for 50k.
Looks like I'll have more people to add to the ignore list then, lol
Bernie's "everything through budget reconcilation" plan from Bernie, unsurprising. Biden's plan during the campaign was to reform the filibuster so it can't be used the way it's used. I'm guessing Biden's plan will be the one.
This is not going to happen even in talks. Way to many in the USA fueling way to many things, large and small.