Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week.
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau put forward a new regulation to limit bank overdraft fees. The CFPB pointed out that the average overdraft fee is $35 even though majority of overdrafts are under $26 and paid back with-in 3 days. The new regulation will push overdraft fees down to as little as $3 and not more than $14, saving the American public collectively 3.5 billion dollars a year.
- The Environmental Protection Agency put forward a regulation to fine oil and gas companies for emitting methane. Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas, after CO2 and is responsible for 30% of the rise of global temperatures. This represents the first time the federal government has taxed a greenhouse gas. The EPA believes this rule will help reduce methane emissions by 80%
- The Energy Department has awarded $104 million in grants to support clean energy projects at federal buildings, including solar panels at the Pentagon. The federal government is the biggest consumer of energy in the nation. The project is part Biden’s goal of reducing the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions by 65% by 2030. The Energy Department estimates it’ll save taxpayers $29 million in the first year alone and will have the same impact on emissions as taking over 23,000 gas powered cars off the road.
- The Education Department has cancelled 5 billion more dollars of student loan debt. This will effect 74,000 more borrowers, this brings the total number of people who’ve had their student loan debt forgiven under Biden through different programs to 3.7 Million
- U.S. Agency for International Development has launched a program to combat lead exposure in developing countries like South Africa and India. Lead kills 1.6 million people every year, more than malaria and AIDS put together.
- Congressional Democrats have reached a deal with their Republican counter parts to revive the expanded the Child Tax Credit. The bill will benefit 16 million children in its first year and is expected to lift 400,000 children out of poverty in its first year. The proposed deal also has a housing provision that could see 200,000 new affordable rental units
This is an important reminder that voting matters, because not only would these not have happened with more Republicans in control, they would have gotten worse.
That doesn’t mean the Democrats deserve special credit, though. They didn’t come up with any of these things; they’re simply the party that was willing to say yes to them. Some of these things should have been the default all along and it’s nothing but despicable that they were ever even an issue.baby the bar is below hell
Are they gonna stop sending Israel money and bombs any time soon or is it another year I write in a joke candidate
Yeah. It’s low. Republicans still want to make the bar even lower than that. 100% of them supported the genocide funding whereas less than 10% of house Democrats did. This means that if Republicans take control again, they are ITCHING to pour our FULL military power into nothing but a bigger, faster, crueler massacre. They only think Biden was too soft. Biden needs to be removed as the head of the democrat party, but at the same time, republicans have to be stopped from taking even one more inch of influence anywhere in this country, now or ever again by any means possible.
Reminder that there ARE candidates running for both the independent and democratic parties that are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza/end to Isreal’s occupation of Palestinian land AS WELL as completely and total revamps of Governmental policy in America to begin to prioritize People over Profit – don’t just wait for one of them to fall in your lap by waiting for them to recieve mainstream media coverage/widespread support, because 1.) THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS ALREADY ACTIVELY SUPPRESSING THEIR CAMPAIGNS (FOR OBVIOUS REASONS), and 2.) WE have to be the ones to BUILD that support base for them NOW.
Primaries and shit are coming up fast – if you are of age to vote, start actively doing your own research NOW. Just an hour a day, go to your prefered browser, and just start fucking googling shit about current candidates. Look into their histories both inside and outside politics, look at the company they keep, and start forming your own opinions.
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We are living through events right now that our children are going to be reading about in history books – but ONLY if we act to preserve our planet and our communities NOW.
This is all but what we’ve been WAITING FOR.
The tides are turning, but it will only crest if we ALL join the wave of change and play our parts. Voting is the bare fucking minimum – if you cannot do Anything else, at the VERY least do this.
These politicians are human, just like you and me. They shit and piss and bleed just like us, and they ARE scared of revolution. Keep scaring them. Be loud, be true to yourself, and consequences (be they good or bad, for us and them, depending on what you end up deciding) will follow.
Do NOT let doomerism consume you or your loved ones – trying IS better than doing nothing at all, and anyone who attempts to convince you otherwise does not even have their own best interests at heart, much less yours. That is not a controversial thing to say.