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[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Somehow it won't get done in her first term but vote her back in and she promises it will get done in her second term. How do I know? Because every single president does the same exact thing.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Because every single president does the same exact thing.

What are you talking about?

Biden got about as much as he could get through a Republican controlled House and a filibustering Senate: a major COVID relief bill, a major infrastructure bill, and a major environmental reform bill.

Trump did a shitload in his one term:

  • Replaced 3 Supreme Court justices and a lot of lower court judges who went on to overturn Roe v. Wade and Chevron, deliver a shitload of conservative decisions, and block a bunch of Biden executive actions (including student loan forgiveness, all sorts of COVID policies, and a bunch of economic regulations).
  • Major tax cuts in 2017 for corporations and high earners
  • Withdrew from the Paris accords and rolled back a lot of Obama EPA regs
  • Made shifts towards privatization of k-12 education, including towards religious private schools.

Obama signed a bunch of stuff into law his first two years:

  • Obamacare
  • Universal healthcare for children under S-CHIP
  • Student loan reform, creating public service loan forgiveness and much better repayment plans while cutting out private lenders who took all the upside with none of the downside.
  • Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
  • Repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell
  • Passed Dodd Frank, including the creation of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
  • School lunch reform

Bush campaigned on tax cuts and got them, and then got a bunch of other stuff in from his first term related to 9/11 and the aftermath: The Patriot Act, authorization for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, etc.

If anything, presidents are far less effective their second term than their first term.

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