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The Biden-Harris Administration Thread

Joe Manchin is opposed, naturally. The Biden administration has met with people in the industry and worked out an achievable limit to meet emission goals.

E.P.A. Proposes First Limits on Climate Pollution From Existing Power Plants [NYTimes;5.11.23]

The proposals are designed to effectively eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s electricity sector by 2040.
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“We are in the decisive decade for climate action, and the president’s been clear about his goals in this space, and we will meet them,” Mr. Biden’s senior climate adviser, Ali Zaidi, said in a telephone call with reporters on Wednesday.
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Biden's been a disaster regarding the migrant crisis. It's going to get worse once Title 42 ends.

New Yorkers are pissed off about what's going on and rightly so. I live in the Bronx and folks here are mad about a plan to build a migrant shelter at Orchard Beach.

 
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Biden's been a disaster regarding the migrant crisis. It's going to get worse once Title 42 ends.

New Yorkers are pissed off about what's going on and rightly so. I live in the Bronx and folks here are mad about a plan to build a migrant shelter at Orchard Beach.

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I live in California. And historically, beside maybe Texas and Arizona, California has been ground zero for the migrant/immigration crisis. Lately my opinions on the border chaos, have somewhat shifted. Later I'll try to coherently voice my viewpoints on the situation. What i will say is i sympathize with most of the migrants, and the people of NYC. NYC has always been a place of immigrants. But the way things are happening now (other states sending migrants to NY), it's messed up.
 
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NYC can't even deal with it's own homeless crisis (which has gotten worse post-Covid). Now they're adding migrants on top of this??? We're in serious trouble.

Same thing's happening in Chicago. Black residents have every right to be furious that their neighborhoods are bearing the brunt of this.

 
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NYC can't even deal with it's own homeless crisis (which has gotten worse post-Covid). Now they're adding migrants on top of this??? We're in serious trouble.

Same thing's happening in Chicago. Black residents have every right to be furious that their neighborhoods are bearing the brunt of this.

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So many of those politicians are completely worthless. And in quite a few ways, the USA is completely lost. And good or bad, me thinks a change is coming.
 
I'm interested in the immigration conversation. I'm also wary of putting this issue in the 'Biden-Harris Administration Thread' because the complexities and disfunction (dysfunction???) of our immigration policies have a long history. For this thread, my preference is we comment on Biden's policies. I'll put a couple of articles here, to that end.

We haven't had new immigration policy since ... some time in the 1990s. That's across 3 republican administrations, 3 democratic administrations. I don't favor going back to the t----ian era, where cruelty was the point and real damage was done to children, torn from their parents. Since we're heading back into a presidential election season in only a few months' time, I favor taking care in remembering what we're implicitly comparing in our denigration of Biden's policy.

Over Decades, Congress Failed Repeatedly to Address Immigration Dysfunction [NYTimes; 5.14.23]

So, rather than discussing the topic of immigration here, I'm heading over to the 'hodgepodge' thread or have we created an immigration thread? The NYTimes has a feature on immigration right now. Unfortunately, I'm running out of '10 gift articles per month'.

Here's a press briefing from the Biden Administration, 5.11.2023, on the topic of immigration and the end of Title 42 (the device the T---- admin used to turn people away at the border during the covid crisis):

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre And Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas [The White House;5.11.23]

Here's a bit of perspective on measures Biden has chosen when confronted with difficult realities.

Biden Said He'd Veer From Trump on Immigration. The Reality Is More Complicated. [NYTimes;5.8.23]

I'd also say, I have reservations about NY Times coverage, especially when it comes to politics. They have some great reporting and they're also prone to the many failures of political coverage in this fraught time we're living in.
 
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Everybody say ‘gun control’.

Here’s a short ~ 12-minute YT video about a new gun regulation. From the video description:
“In a HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT, the Biden Administration and its DOJ has imposed new gun control regulations that for THE FIRST TIME WILL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR GUN SALES ON THE INTERNET AND GUN SHOWS, where 22 percent of people get their guns from. Michael Popok examines the new law and what it means to help stop the 600 ANNUAL MASS SHOOTINGS the US suffers each year.”

New gun regulation extends background checks to cover gun show and internet sales [MTN;4.14.24]
 
Gee. It’s 12.19.24. We haven’t posted in this forum since April? I guess the election overtook everything else.

MeidasTouch obtained an interview with President Joe Biden!!! Wow. Respect.

With about 31 days left in his term, Biden answers questions on many topics.


President Biden EXCLUSIVE Interview with MeidasTouch [Meidas Touch;12.19.24]

Here’s to a good man, honorable, ethical, distinguished.

Yes, there are legitimate criticisms/concerns . . , the Israeli sustained attack on Gaza. No love lost for Hamas but Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians can’t be excused. Of course, Netanyahu is responsible for all that. But could/ should Biden have cut off all funding to Israel? This will forever be a stain on his legacy.

There are moments where he rambled and showed his age, exacerbated by the stutter he’s had all his life.

Overall, it was a good interview and Biden showed his excellence and strong convictions and good character.
 
An article in the NYTimes that analyzes the Democratic Party over a few decades. It interested me because of the results of the recent election where inflation was described as a principle factor in Kamala Harris' loss to t0000.

How the Democratic Party Lost the Working Class [NYTimes;1.4.25]]

Sub-title: "The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind."

It's not strictly about the Biden administration, which is the topic of this thread, but the article ends there. :

"In November, 56 percent of voters without college degrees voted for Mr. Trump. In 1992, just 36 percent of voters with only a high school diploma voted Republican — about the same percentage that Barry Goldwater got in his overwhelming defeat against Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Republican and Democratic economists point to a single reason: inflation. Mr. Reich’s “anxious class” was as anxious as ever, unwilling to see policy shifts that might take years to bear fruit as a salve for the immediate pain of rising prices.

Democrats said the president was the political victim of a global trend emerging from the pandemic. Republicans pointed to his policies, and one piece of legislation in particular, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, saying it poured gasoline on the smoldering embers of post-pandemic inflation.

“The American Rescue Plan killed the Biden administration in its infancy,” Mr. Holtz-Eakin said, almost ruefully. “It was the worst thing they could have done, and they did it. They were warned, and they did it anyway.”"

Here's an analysis of the American Rescue Plan from FactCheck.org which is considered a reliable news source according to mediabiasfactcheck.com!

Stimulus Spending a Factor, But Far From Whole Story on Inflation [factcheck.org;6.30.2022]]

You might want to skip all the below! (If you made it this far!)

I had to go look up the American Rescue Plan. Basically, it was an effort to provide relief from the economic hardships caused by the pandemic. I guess the implication is that all the free money circulating around caused inflation.

First, I checked it out on whitehouse.gov, which, of course, as of a few short weeks from now will no longer have any references to the Biden administration.

The American Rescue Plan [whitehouse.gov]

FACT SHEET: The American Rescue Plan Will Deliver Immediate Economic Relief to Families [U.S. Department of the Treasury; 3.18.2021]]

From the Treasury Department article: "The American Rescue Plan will change the course of the pandemic and deliver immediate and direct relief to families and workers impacted by the COVID-19 crisis through no fault of their own. This law is one of the most progressive pieces of legislation in history, and will build a bridge to an equitable economic recovery."

I also found a website that looks interesting: 'The American Presidency Project.'

I looked up the American Rescue Plan [ARP] there. The nice thing about this site is that, after the Biden administration is over, documents that were on whitehouse.gov should be accessible. Their 'about' page states, in part: "Our goal today is to be recognized as the authoritative, non-partisan on-line source for presidential public documents. By providing easy access to useful information, we seek to promote a more informed citizenry of the United States, high quality scholarly and media analysis, and a better understanding of American democracy throughout the world."

FACT SHEET: The American Rescue Plan (ARP): Top Highlights from 3 Years of Recovery [3.11.24]
 
The Tragedy of Joe Biden [NYTimes, Opinion; 1.10.25]

From the article: ". . . He thought of himself as a champion of the working class, as a son of Scranton whose dad and family taught him to respect hard work and working people. Their cares become his concern.

"And yet: Biden will now be remembered as the champion of the working class who lost the support of the working class for his party. And he did so even though some of his achievements helped or will help working-class Americans. In politics, that is tragic; in Biden’s heart, I can imagine how it feels."

". . .The United States had the strongest economic growth in the Group of 7 wealthy, industrialized nations in 2023 and was projected to be No. 1 again in 2024, the International Monetary Fund projected in October.

"Among the stubborn facts that Biden cited in his speech was that he presided over the lowest average unemployment rate of any presidential administration in the past half-century.

"Biden acknowledged at Brookings that inflation surged early in his term. But he said, accurately, that his administration was “battling through worldwide effects of the pandemic, Putin’s war in Ukraine, and the supply chain disruptions.” And he pointed out that inflation had come back down close to 2 percent, which is the Federal Reserve’s target.

"It has to be endlessly galling to Biden that many voters don’t see things that way. Last February, only 18 percent of voters in a New York Times/Siena College poll said Biden’s policies had helped them personally, vs. 40 percent who said Trump’s policies had helped them personally.

"Lori Mosura, a 55-year-old woman in New Castle, Pa., told The Washington Post recently that she voted for Donald Trump instead of Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris, because he “is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich.”

"Stubborn facts, it seems, are no match for stubborn perceptions."
 
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