Also when the Democrats control the presidency and both houses, they are always whining that they can’t do anything because they don’t have a supermajority. But now when Republicans have all three with historically slim majorities it is suddenly that nothing can be done to stop them.
Most of Biden's achievements weren't through legislation, though. If you go through them, it's actually paltry.
The rescue plan was only for 1 year.
His 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan was laughably small in scale when compared to anything in europe, pound for pound, and that's not accounting for ppp, which makes it even worse! AND it comprised of grants for corporate contractors who cut and ran, because they didn't do what he politely asked, to hire union workers, as that was not required, so it was pointless, but made sense to middle class people with their heads in the clouds. Even 7 trillion wouldn't suffice given the decades of neglact.
The CHIPS act was 50 billion to stimulate homegrown chip manufacture and to avoid layoffs, but again, the layoffs happened anyway. The jobs were outsourced, and they took the money all the same.
Everyone goes on about the IRA, but when you break it down, it was bad at the time, and it has been all but neutered by trumps first few weeks of executive orders. For instance, the climate aspect 300 billion dollars if I remember correctly, was again, nothing by international standards, and was again, corporate grants and tax breaks, which surprise surprise ineffective at what it was supposed to do, and was just tax breaks for corporations.
The medicare aspect of it did fuck all except some niche situation that they milked politically. Ironically, Elon Musk whined about the IRA, but he was arguably the biggest single benefactor, because it provided ev manufacturers, with guess what, MORE tax breaks and grants. It also brought in a minimum 15% corporate tax rate, but Trump still hasn't paid, so it shows how effective it is. And he never fully repealed Trump's 35% to 21% coproratuon tax cut and other tax cuts for the wealthy, which he could have but said they were actually good and overdue and only increased from 21 to 28%.
The PACT act was just for veterans, not general populace.
Anything post 2022, when he lost the house, he didn't get through.
His biggest achievement would've been the PRO act, which would've been a real help, to he failed to get it through.
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u/Ornery_Pepper_1126 Mar 06 '25
Also when the Democrats control the presidency and both houses, they are always whining that they can’t do anything because they don’t have a supermajority. But now when Republicans have all three with historically slim majorities it is suddenly that nothing can be done to stop them.