Let’s hold President Biden to promises he made to the American people to get himself elected:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/
Campaign slogan: “Build Back Better”
Climate & Energy
- Give disadvantaged communities 40% of spending benefits related to clean energy
- Put the US on a course to net-zero emissions by 2050.
- Block new fracking on federal lands, but not ban all fracking
- Establish new fuel economy standards
Coalitions
- Immediately rescind the “Muslim bans” 1/20/2021 signs proclamation revoking Trump’s travel ban
- Double number of immigration judges and staff
- Create a pathway to citizenship for nearly 11 million people
- Increase refugee admissions
- Reverse family separation policies
COVID-19
- Get COVID-19 under control
- Implement mask mandates nationwide – 1/20/2021 Federal facilities and land mask mandate.
- Use evidence to determine COVID-19 openings and closings
- Rejoin the World Health Organization (WHO) –1/20/2021 Biden sends letter to reverse Trump’s WHO withdrawal
- Restore the White House directorate for global health security – 1/20/2021 Biden restores White House office for global health security
- Increase COVID-19 testing
- 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots for 50 million people in 100 days
- Use the Defense Production Act to produce personal protective
equipment
Domestic Policy
- Use a national commission to address policing issues
- Eliminate cash bail
- Invest $300 million in Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program
- Expand Justice Department power to address police misconduct
- Enact domestic terrorism law
- Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
- Require background checks for all gun sales
- End the online sale of firearms and ammunition
- End for-profit detention centers
- Expand services for people during and after incarceration
- Update the Voting Rights Act
- Incentivize states to restore voting rights to convicted felons
- End federal government’s use of private prisons and detention
centers - Eliminate the federal death penalty
- Decriminalize marijuana
- Eliminate mandatory minimums for criminals
- Create a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Supreme Court
- Support the study of reparations for slavery
- Require all federal candidates to release tax returns
- Provide Section 8 vouchers to low-income families to cap housing costs at 30% of income
- Introduce a constitutional amendment to eliminate private dollars from federal elections
- Increase transparency of election spending
- Restrict SuperPACs
- Help state and local governments prevent budget shortfalls
- Prevent the White House from interfering in federal investigations and prosecutions
Education
- Offer universal preschool to 3- and 4-year-olds
- Make 2 years of community college or a high-quality training program tuition-free
- Make HBCUs, TCUs, and under-resourced MSIs more affordable for their students
- Stop for-profit education programs from profiteering off of students
- Double value of Pell Grants
- Make public colleges and universities tuition-free for families who make less than $125,000
- Forgive student loan debt from public colleges and universities
Foreign Policy
- Rejoin the Paris climate agreement – 1/20/2021 brings the U.S back into the Paris Climate Agreement Protect military personnel and veterans from deportation
- Provide assistance to Northern Triangle countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras)
- Restore Cuba engagement
- Resume ties with the Palestinian Authority
- Join allies to negotiate with North Korea on denuclearization
- Rejoin Iran nuclear deal
- End wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East
Health Care
- Improve Obamacare
- Reduce high maternal mortality rate
- Lower cost of prescription drugs
- Allow import of prescription drugs from other countries
- Create a Public Health Jobs Corps
- Restore ACA’s contraception mandate
- Restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood
- Repeal law barring Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices
- Offer a public option health insurance plan like Medicare
- Add 150,000 community health workers
- Rebuild health stockpiles to be ready for crises
- Change tax code so pharmaceutical production stays in the US
- Reduce health uninsured rate for African Americans
Jobs & Economy
- Create 1 million auto industry jobs
- Enact the Equality Act
- Guarantee 7 days of paid sick leave
- Guarantee 12 weeks paid family and medical leave
- Get bipartisan cooperation on the economy
- Increase access to affordable housing
- Create a public credit reporting agency
- Give small businesses a ‘restart package’ for pandemic-related
openings - Make union organizing easier for workers
- End pay discrimination
- Tighten ‘Made In America’ rules
- Award federal contracts to companies that make all products in the US
- Increase the federal minimum wage to $15/hour
- Work with allies to develop secure private-sector-led 5G networks
- Expand broadband, or wireless broadband via 5G, to every American
Older Americans
- Put Social Security on a path to long-run solvency
- Expand and increase Social Security benefits
Taxes
- Establish an offshoring tax penalty
- Raise corporate tax rate to 28%
- No tax increase for anyone making less than $400,000
Veterans & Military Families
- Reverse the transgender military ban
- Increase access to VA care beyond 5-year eligibility for combat veterans
- Create a national center to reduce veteran suicide
Women
- Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act
- Nominate the first Black woman to U.S. Supreme Court
- Repeal Hyde Amendment
- Work to codify Roe v. Wade
- Direct federal resources to help prevent violence against transgender women
Young Americans
- Offer up to $8,000 tax credit for child care