I am a Professor of Government.
A Democratic Administration will protect our democracy and freedoms.
This is what the Biden/Harris administration accomplished:
Biden is the only thing standing between us and the complete collapse of American democracy.
He has brought the country back from the brink of the most dangerous presidency in US history.
He has had to deal with a political party that has completely failed as any moral force.
He has defended European democracy against a genocidal dictator.
The opposing party is led by a man elected with the help of that dictator.
This has never happened before in US history.
We have one pro-democracy party in America now.
Preserving democracy after insurrectionists attack the capital, and tried to overturn a free and fair election
The United States is not at war anywhere in the world.
Making every effort to restore Roe versus Wade after Trump appointed Supreme Court justices that overturned it. Promising to not allow the nationwide ban on abortion that the Republicans want.
Keeping the greatest American comeback story going:
15+ million jobs created
Inflation down by 2/3
Wages are up
Policies to keep lowering costs for the American people.
Making sure that Corporations and the wealthiest pay their fair share.
Trump's tax cuts for the rich cost more than the Infrastructure bill, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPs (semiconductors produced in the United States), American Rescue Plan, PACT Act (one of the largest benefit expansions in the history of the Department of Veterans Affairs), and student debt forgiveness COMBINED.
JOBS
Joe Biden’s created more jobs than any other president, 15 million jobs in his first three years. 10 times more jobs, than the previous three Republican presidents combined.
800,000 of those are in manufacturing. (His predecessor had a net manufacturing job loss.)
Over 300,000 clean energy jobs created since the Clean Energy Plan in 2022.
Unemployment rate is it a 50 year low. 3.4%, i.e. employment is at a 50 year high.
Kept unemployment at 3.9% for TWO YEARS .. a record...
The lowest unemployment for blacks and Hispanics and women in our lifetime.
Bringing domestic manufacturing jobs back home to the United States
1,300,000 new jobs were created in the first 100 days under Biden. More jobs than any other president on record. And there had not been any slowdown in the pandemic at that time.
We are now exporting products not jobs. Wages are higher than they were before the pandemic.
16 million new small businesses.
Take home pay has gone up.
Build Back Better comprises 56,000 projects and is a direct contributor to our spectacular economy, including jobs.
$7.7 billion of investments in U.S. offshore wind industry
$500 billion in private-sector manufacturing
More than 142,000 new clean energy job for electricians, mechanics, construction workers, technicians, and support staff.
Eighteen offshore wind shipbuilding projects and nearly $3.5 billion investments across 12 manufacturing facilities and 13 ports.
Created the first ever MADE IN AMERICA agency, to promote manufacturing.
WOMEN
As a young prosecutor I watched helplessly while women who had been severely beaten by men could not get justice. The men had only to leave the State to avoid prosecution. As a Senator in the 1990s Biden almost single-handedly got the Violence Against Women Act VAWA passed. It stopped this legal loophole for these criminals and we were able to prosecute. Since its enactment in 1994, VAWA has reduced domestic violence by more than 50 percent and provided more than $7 billion in federal funding towards violence reduction and prevention.
Biden is against a nationwide ban on abortions.
On 4/28/21 in Biden’s first address to congress, history was made when two women were behind the president the vice president and the speaker of the house, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi. He said “Madame vice president and Madam Secretary“ no president has ever been able to say those words.
He asked Congress to pass the violence against women act that he wrote 27 years ago. Close the boyfriend loophole to keep guns out of the hands of abusers.
50 women per month are killed by a partner in America.
Got the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved.
Got the first black woman onto the Supreme Court.
Created the first ever Women’s Health Care research initiative (led by Dr. Jill Biden).
The most judges confirmed since Kennedy and the most Black Women to Appeals COURT judgeships in history.
CRIME
Crime has gone down 10%.
Violent crime is near a record 50-year low under Biden.
Established a Federal Office of Gun Violence, a first.
BIDEN banned law enforcement from using choke holds and no knock entries.
LAWS PASSED
210 bipartisan laws passed in his first 21 months. He has signed over 400.
Best first term performance since John F Kennedy midterms 2022.
Chips act - Passing the chips bill to have semi conductors built in the United States. WE HAVE TWO NEW CHIP MANUFACTURING PLACES buildings here that will employ 5000 people. Shifted the microchip supply chain back to the United States
Clean water in every community
He signed a $1 trillion Infrastructure Act bill into law. This will fix our roads and bridges and create jobs. This is the biggest investment in American infrastructure since Eisenhower created the interstate highway system in 1956. This is something that Trump tried for four years and could not get done. American Products built by American workers.
46k new projects (Republicans voted against but go to their districts and take credit)
90% of the infrastructure jobs created in the American job plan do not require a college degree.
75% don’t require an associate’s degree.
Broadband for the first time in huge swaths of the Country.
Fixed pension funds making them more profitable in the future.
In 2021 President Biden issued an executive order to phase out all federal contracts with private prisons, to reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate.
Science act
Pact act – helping veterans exposed to toxins
Save act
In the first year:
Historic investments in clean energy and healthcare. The 52 billion chips act.
He got a $1.9 trillion COVID relief fund to Americans.
800,000 new manufacturing jobs. The fastest growth in 40 years.
10 million Americans have applied to start a new business in the past two years.
10 billion in funds for Tribal and Native Communities.
Expanded paid overtime to working families
Made birth control pills available over the counter
Made renewable energy the #2 source of electricity in America
Moved to reschedule marijuana
Pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession and urged governors to do the same. The administration is also initiating the process to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.
Signed the electoral count act, which takes long overdue steps to protect the integrity of our elections.
Rejoined the Paris agreement on day one to reassert the United States global leadership to combat the climate crisis
Cut red tape so home builders can get federal financing, which has supported a record number of new homes under construction across the country.
Fire Grants and Safety Act, a bill that'll allow our communities to hire more firefighters and provide first responders with the safety they deserve.
The ADVANCE Act, a bipartisan win for American energy security, innovation, and achieving economy-wide, net-zero emissions by 2050. Clean nuclear power and good union jobs.
The Administration announced the recovery of $1 billion in unpaid taxes from millionaires thanks to the President’s Inflation Reduction Act—which is helping crack down on wealthy tax cheats.
Saving Money for Americans
Lowered the deficit with the single largest annual reduction in American history
Reducing the deficit by 360 billion the first year
Requiring cable, airline, hotel, utility, ticket companies to tell consumers the full price up front.
Signed OTC HEARING AID ACT to lower hearing aids by 90%.
Reduced insulin prices with Eli Lily capped at $35 a month.
Limited credit card fees.. to $8.
BIDEN got $888 million in food supplements for New moms and babies.
BIDEN supported Black Farmers with 4 billion debt relief. ( Black Farmers were treated unfairly by Trump admin)
BIDEN got 100 million for rent assistance for Elderly and low income.
BIDEN proposes a tax on those over a Million $ undoing the Trump tax cuts that made the rich filthy rich.
BIDEN got the largest economic recovery plan since Roosevelt.
BIDEN got the largest infrastructure plan since Eisenhauer because it is the only one in 50 years.
BIDEN got the 2nd largest Healthcare BILL since Johnson.
Reduced healthcare premiums and copays.
Implemented a BAN on surprise health care bills.
Medical debt can no longer be included in your credit score.
Cutting down on surprise rental junk fees.
Cutting overdraft fees from $35 to $3.
LOWERING THE PRICE OF DRUGS
Biden’s legislation empowering Medicare to negotiate LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES.
Price negotiation alone is projected to save the federal government more than $160 billion over a decade
projected to save 18.7 million seniors about $400 each per year. Capping the price of insulin at $35 per month for millions of Americans. Not one Republican voted for this.
Protecting Social Security and Medicare.
Requiring drug companies to pay rebates when they increase prices faster than inflation.
IMMIGRATION
Day one - the first bill that the Biden administration brought was a solution to the immigration problem. Republicans have repeatedly refused to pass any immigration bills, and fund any immigration reforms.
He presented the toughest Immigration bill ever; it was bipartisan but Republicans refused to pass it because T told them not to. It would have hired 1000 more officers, 100 more judges, 4k more asylum officers. Could have resolved cases in 6 weeks instead of 6 years.100 more high-tech drug machines. Would have given the President the power to close the border. People would not be paying smugglers 8k because they would know it is only 6 weeks.
The first bill n immigration would have secured the border. Republicans in Congress would not move on it. He sent two funding packages to capitol Hill in 2023 to fund 1500 border patrol agency. And more.
A Republican wrote a bill. The Democrats agreed to it. Republicans in the house would not allow for a vote on that package because T wanted to run on the immigration issue.
Caught 40% more drugs at the border than the previous administration. which indicates that it is NOT OPEN BORDER.
THE ECONOMY
$1.7 trillion reduction in the deficit, no administration has done that much.
1/23/24. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 38,000 for the first time ever.
Trump ballooned the deficit over 8 trillion with tax cuts to the rich.
The gap between CEOs and their employees is the largest in history because of Trump. They make 320 times more than their employees.
650 billionaires increased their wealth by $1 trillion during the pandemic under Trump.
Shattered all previous Stock Market and Dow .
Environment
Passed the biggest climate package in the history of the world.
Largest investment in tackling the climate crisis in history.
$368 billion in good paying Green jobs, clean air and clean water for children, national security issue to stop migrations,
Created the “Climate Core” putting young people to work – environmental justice.
The Biden administration helps broker a deal to save the Colorado River
funding for power grid, electric car infrastructure, and climate resilience.
LARGEST EVER investment in Clean Water.
BIDEN got first ever approval for large investment in wind power.
BIDEN put on the strongest vehicle emissions regulations ever.. ( can debate if C02 si the problem or is WAR)
GUN Violence
Biden has asked Congress for a ban assault weapons. Passed the most sweeping gun safety law in three decades. The biggest ever investment in anti gun VIOLENCE programs funded.
Red flag laws to keep guns out of the hands of abusers.
There is no justification for having 100 rounds in a weapon or for an 18 year old to buy such a weapon and ammunition with a credit card (Uvalde – murdered 19 children and 2 teachers).
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – the most significant gun safety law in 30 years – provides $750 million to states to implement crisis interventions like red flag laws that temporarily remove firearms from those who are in danger to themselves or others.
FBI has stopped hundreds of prohibited firearm sales for buyers under 21. And an estimated 20,000 unlicensed sellers are now required to get licensed and run background checks.
PANDEMIC
Directing us through the pandemic. 220 million had their Covid shots and boosters. Only 5 million when he took office.
4/27/21
In 100 days, 67%, that is 2/3, of senior citizens are vaccinated. When Biden took office there were thousands dying each day.
215 million shots in the first 100 days. Since inauguration day.
90% of Americans live within 5 miles of a vaccination site.
Now 70% of all Americans over age 70 are fully vaccinated. It was 1% when Biden took office.
WAR
Biden got G7 leaders to agree to lend Ukraine $50 billion using frozen Russian assets. 2024
Ended a 20-year war in Afghanistan and bringing home our troops.
No one person can stop the wars that have been going on for thousands of years in the Middle East.
10/18/23 Extremely rare (if it ever has happened) an American president gone into an active Warzone. Only American President to go to Israel in a time of war. Going to Israel to try to keep the conflict from getting any greater.
Confronting Russian aggression in the Ukraine.
Cleaned up the MESS his predecessor left in Afghanistan, when his predecessor handed the country over to the Taliban which his predecessor let out of prison.
UNIONS
Protected the right to organize act. Unions build the middle class in the United States.
Biden delivered for blue collar workers. 200 million for apprenticeship training programs that offer quality skills education and has zero student debt.
He is asking Congress to raise the minimum wage to $15. And to get the Paycheck Fairness Act to his desk for equal pay for women.
Union-busting gets riskier under Biden.
He marched with the UAW to bring that strike to a close earlier than it would have.
Children:
Biden cut child poverty in half.
childcare for working parents reduced by $10,000.
BIDEN got universal preschool passed.
More:
DELIVERED the natural disaster funding that his predecessor withheld from Puerto Rico.
gained back 89% of the lost covid jobs in the first year, and adds adds 620,000 jobs each month.
Ended the unexpected “junk fees” tacked on to airline or concert tickets, or to car or apartment rentals.
BIDEN proposed a rule that would allow banks to charge no more than what it cost them to break even on providing overdraft services or, Public hearing will establish amounts. This will save families about 3.5 billion.
BIDEN Admin investigated predatory student loans, and are coming up with recommendation for banks who altered the government rules on the loans.
BIDEN admin has canceled to 3.7 million Americans, with an erasure of $136.6 billion in student debt. Nearly 44,000 had earned debt forgiveness after 10 years of public service as teachers, nurses, and firefighters. Much of this debt was payment on interest after students had paid off the entire loan i.e. predatory lending.
Since BIDEN took office, there have been 16 million applications to start new businesses, the highest number on record.
BIDEN announce another $82 million in support for broadband access,
BIDEN found the real culprit at Boeing, was the weakened regulations on Boeing and Spirit thanks to more than $65 million in lobbying efforts and Trump deregulations and on the Train crash at East Palestine too.
BIDENand Harris got HIGH SPEED INTERNET TO RURAL Area as part of the INFLATION REDUCTION ACT.
BIDEN’s unemployment claims are the lowest in decades.
BIDEN has the first ever Native American cabinet member.
increased the real GPD FROM 18.8T to 19. 5 T
a million new affordable housing units funded.
8/23 there were four Americans released from Iranian jails
Inflation Reduction Act that is providing renewable energy, good-paying union jobs, and
lower drug prices
Inflation has slowed, 9% when he took office now at 3%. A looming recession still hasn't materialized. The economy is growing.
President Joe Biden — with his “Bidenomics” his first 100 days, the stock market performed the best it has since the 1950s
Tax rate for millionaires and billionaires Trump 39.6%, Regan 50% Ford 70% Nixon 70% Eisenhower 91%
Biden oversaw the passing the Asian hate crime 94 to 1 in Congress (holdout was a Republican).
America’s jobs plan will remove 100% of lead pipes so everyone can drink clean water.
The jobs plan will create a resilient grid. (800 died in winter storm Feb 2021 in Texas because of Abbott’s failed grid – campaign donations from grid owners to Abbott).
35% of rural America still does not have Internet. This will fix that.
Electrical workers installing chargers along our highways so we can own the electric car market (as opposed to China).
Airlines operating in the US will have to automatically refund in cash when your flight is cancelled or delayed (3 hours domestic, 6 hours international) or bag is lost. Refunds within 7 days. The new rule starts October 2024.
In 2020 (before Biden) 55 of the biggest companies in America paid zero in taxes. They now pay 15%. Biden wants to raise it to 21%.
There are 1000 billionaires in American. 8.2% is the average tax they pay “No billionaire should pay less than a teacher, sanitation worker or a nurse” President Biden.
Biden’s American families plan.
1. Access to good education.
2. Guarantees four additional years of public education.
3.Will provide access to quality affordable childcare.
Expunged thousands of records for marijuana possession..
Low middle income families will pay no more than 7% of their income for high-quality care for children up to the age of five. The most hard-pressed working families won’t have to spend anything. It will allow 12 weeks of paid leave, medical leave.
Expanded a tax credit up to $3000 per child (under six). $3600 for children over six years of age.
Requests Congress to make permanent the law that keeps Health insurance premiums from going up.
The tax cut of 2017 (under Trump) was a windfall for corporate America. Increased the deficit $2 trillion.
Asking Congress to get the equality act to his desk to protect LGBTQ Americans.
Got rid of junk fees. Credit card company’s late fees are reduced from $32 to $8.
Online ticket sellers must now tell you the entire amount up front.
DARCA - defense research agency has enhanced our security
Investments in family farms so children don’t have to leave home to make a living.
Automobile manufacturers reopening
Cracking down on cyberattacks
• Countering China with a new alliance between Japan and South Korea
• Reinvigorating cancer research to lower death rates
• Making medication more accessible through telemedicine
forms a strike force to go after price gougers
Biden empowers federal agencies to monitor AI
• Fixing bridges, building tunnels and expanding broadband
• A new agency to investigate cyberattacks
• Making airlines pay up when flights are delayed or canceled
It was (and is) an administration that looks like America. An Administration for all Americans.
Biden’s executive order on border policy is the best immigration policy passed in over 20 years
Wealth in black communities is up 60% compared to pre-pandemic levels.
“He set the table for the renaissance of the American Economy” Sean McGarvey, President of the North American Building Trades Union
Republicans want to cut social security, and Medicare.
Biden taught Constitutional law for nine years. He worked as a Corporate lawyer out of law school (Corporations hire the brightest) but he gave up a high paying job to become a low paid public defender (to help the least of us).
Biden accomplished all this with justness, fairness, and diversity.
THIS IS A BINARY CHOICE BETWEEN:
GOOD AND EVIL
MORAL AND IMMORAL
EFFECTIVE AND INEFFECTIVE
A COMPASSIONATE KIND MAN AND AN EGOTISTICAL NARCISSIST
Democracy or autocracy
Freedom or tyranny
Truth or propaganda
“a normal, stable president v. an erratic thug under indictment in multiple states” The Lincoln Project
A sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man, with the poor memory (on very rare occasions), versus a contemptible, malicious elderly sexual assaulter with a poor memory.
Joe Biden is the best President America has ever had.