What does everyone think Biden's100 day agenda should be?

She really really really wants to be President in 2024...... everything that she does is geared towards running for President......... assuming Biden doesn't run, it will be interesting seeing a couple of complete self serving narcissists like Harris and Haley go at it in 2024. My money would be on Haley because there are still a lot of white people that will view her as "more comfortable".

 

this comment made me wonder if there is a serious (or semi-serious) black Republican presidential contender in 2024, or anywhere on the horizon. anyone come to mind? serious question, I haven't given it much thought

 

Of course there is..... the Republicans have smartly concluded that they have a good chance of winning if they can run a conservative minority candidate.

They have been prepping Tim Scott for the national stage.

Race/gender politics will be relevant for at least a few more Presidential election cycles.

 

Robert Reich
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The first bill from Senate Dems in new Congress "For the People Act" expands voting rights and access, while GOP moving aggressively to restrict both. Cliff notes on how to tell parties apart: Democratic Party in favor of democracy. Republican Party leans toward dictatorship.

 

Unpack everything Trump did.....first so you have 1.5 years to get a big agenda through.....

DD

 

Biden needs to immediately form an elite Jason Bourne type CIA squad to disenfranchise any opposition to our extreme liberal socialist plans moving forward.

 

Bernie Sanders
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When the GOP controlled the Senate, they passed trillions in tax breaks largely to the top 1% and multinational corporations by a simple majority vote through reconciliation. We must use the same process to protect working families, the sick and the poor.

Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Congress that expedites the passage of certain budgetary legislation in the United States Senate. ... Reconciliation bills can be passed on spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per year affecting each subject.

 

Biden's BBB (Big Beautiful Blacks) plan includes investing in IT infrastructure.
https://buildbackbetter.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/COVID_Relief-Package-Fact-Sheet.pdf (ewww wordpress)

Modernize federal information technology to protect against future cyber attacks. In addition to the COVID-19 crisis, we also face a crisis when it comes to the nation’s cybersecurity. The recent cybersecurity breaches of federal government data systems underscore the importance and urgency of strengthening U.S. cybersecurity capabilities. President-elect Biden is calling on Congress to launch the most ambitious effort ever to modernize and secure federal IT and networks. To remediate the SolarWinds breach and boost U.S. defenses, including of the COVID-19 vaccine process, President-elect Biden is calling on Congress to:

• Expand and improve the Technology Modernization Fund. A $9 billion investment will help the U.S. launch major new IT and cybersecurity shared services at the Cyber Security and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the General Services Administration and complete modernization projects at federal 18 agencies. In addition, the president-elect is calling on Congress to change the fund's reimbursement structure in order to fund more innovative and impactful projects.
• Surge cybersecurity technology and engineering expert hiring. Providing the Information Technology Oversight and Reform fund with $200 million will allow for the rapid hiring of hundreds of experts to support the federal Chief Information Security Officer and U.S. Digital Service.
• Build shared, secure services to drive transformational projects. Investing $300 million in no-year funding for Technology Transformation Services in the General Services Administration will drive secure IT projects forward without the need of reimbursement from agencies.
• Improving security monitoring and incident response activities. An additional $690M for CISA will bolster cybersecurity across federal civilian networks, and support the piloting of new shared security and cloud computing services.

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Whomever wanted Obama to open the spending spigot, it's happening folks!

All it took was for Trump to fritter away 4T in non-covid deficit spending!!

 

Erase TRUMP - and get going on Healthcare.

DD

 

We're all Keynesians now..

Seriously though Biden should focus on infrastructure. That might be one area where he can win over several Republicans and get something major done.

 

He's made well publicized promises regarding Covid19. He needs to come through on that. If he can't fulfill that it will be a dark day for the start of his administration.

If he fulfills that promise, he could garner some good will from even some of his opponents.

I agree Infrastructure would be a good secondary focus. Then that might give him some good will going forward.

 

9B? Peanuts.

 

We will fight you to the death with General Andrew Luck leading the charge ...

 

taxing unrealized gains is insane

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-yellen-idUSKBN29O1WX

 

if they pursue this, it is one way to make me reconsider my Biden support. One bridge too far.

 

Realistic, if not disappointing from an instant gratification POV

www.vox.com /22244427/biden-trump-foreign-policy-presidency-inauguration
Biden continuing many of Trump’s foreign policies — at least for now

President Joe Biden promised a clean break from the Trump years on US foreign policy. But according to recent statements from Biden’s incoming secretary of state and other top officials, there will likely be more continuity than change, at least for a while.

It’s only three days into the new administration, but Biden’s team members have already signaled they intend to continue several of the policies President Donald Trump pursued during his presidency, from Venezuela to Ukraine to Israel and even China.

Many of these details about Biden’s foreign policy plans emerged during Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, one day before Biden was sworn in as president.

Blinken said the US would continue to recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president, a decision the Trump administration made in January 2019 as part of its effort to depose the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro. Blinken added that the new team would also continue to sanction Maduro and his government, only “more effectively.”

Blinken also said the Biden administration will continue training and sending lethal weapons to Ukraine’s military as it tries to fend off Russian forces in the country’s east. Trump approved the sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine in 2017, a move the Obama administration had refused to make and that some feared would escalate the seven-year conflict.

The incoming top diplomat said Biden will oppose the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Germany and Russia. The Trump administration sanctioned Russia over the plan in 2019, claiming the $11 billion oil-delivery system would make the heart of Europe more dependent on Moscow. Biden, who officials say isn’t planning any kind of “reset” of relations with Russia anytime soon, seems to agree.

Biden’s pipeline opposition could set up a conflict with Germany, and Chancellor Angela Merkel has already said she wants to discuss the issue with the new American president. “My basic attitude has not changed yet to the point where I say that the project should not exist,” she said during a Thursday press conference, noting how critically many in the US and in Europe view Nord Stream 2.

Blinken told lawmakers that he and the Biden administration consider Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel and committed to keeping the US embassy there. Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved the embassy there from its previous location in Tel Aviv in 2018, a move that upended decades of US diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that some worried would spark widespread violence in the region. That violence didn’t materialize, and now it seems the status quo is just that — the status quo.

Blinken also commended Trump for being “right in taking a tougher approach to China” and said the Trump administration’s decision to label Beijing’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang a “genocide” was correct. The Biden aide was clear that the new team’s tactics toward China would differ from the Trump team’s, but the general thrust of US policy toward the country — confrontation — would stay the same.

Finally, Biden promised on the campaign trail to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal as long as Tehran came back into compliance by reducing its uranium enrichment levels. But Blinken, along with Biden’s Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and White House press secretary Jen Psaki, have made it clear in recent days that any return to the accord could take a while, and may not even happen at all.

“I think, frankly, we’re a long ways from that,” Haines said during her own Tuesday confirmation hearing.

This isn’t the foreign policy sea change many expected, considering how often Biden blasted Trump’s handling of foreign affairs during the campaign. But some critics, including progressives, aren’t surprised.

“Joe Biden never promised to be a revolutionary or to enact radical change, so what we’ve seen so far both in terms of personnel and policy shouldn’t exactly be surprising,” said Stephen Miles, executive director of the advocacy group Win Without War. “Given how broken our current foreign policy is, any transition is thus going to start far from where progressives want to be.”

Is Biden’s foreign policy Trump 2.0? Not exactly.
None of this is to say Biden plans to run America’s foreign policy the same way Trump did.

Biden has been in the White House for less than a week, and it’s common for new presidents to continue many of their predecessors’ foreign policies even if they may not completely agree with them because they can’t find a way to reverse them quickly or easily. Presidents Obama and Trump both wanted out of the Afghanistan War, for example, but neither ended it despite 12 combined years of trying.

Plus, Trump did some good things on the world stage, so Biden wouldn’t want to scrap every one of his moves.

“Biden is right to also maintain continuity on some foreign policy issues,” said American University’s Jordan Tama, an expert on US foreign policy. “Not every foreign policy action by the Trump administration was wrong, and rash moves to reverse every Trump decision would generate a kind of whiplash that makes the US look like an unreliable partner.”

But it’s exceedingly clear that Biden’s time in office won’t mirror Trump’s. There will clearly be major differences, and we’ve already seen some.

Biden rejoined the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization after Trump withdrew the US from them. He repealed the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries and vowed America would participate in Covax, the global initiative to develop and equitably distribute vaccine doses worldwide. More than 170 countries are members of the initiative, though the Trump administration had declined to join — an outlier, along with Russia.

“These early foreign policy steps demonstrate a commitment to international cooperation, equity, and basic rights — as well as a willingness to stand up to adversaries — that was sorely lacking in Trump’s foreign policy,” Tama told me.

And perhaps the biggest change so far is Blinken’s confirmation that Biden will quickly end support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. “This is one of the highest human rights and progressive priorities,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a leading proponent for a more left-wing foreign policy, told me.

Those are significant breaks, and it’s clear US foreign policy will shift quite a bit during Biden’s four years in charge. But those hoping that Biden would completely leave Trump’s legacy behind right away may be disappointed by some of the administration’s early signals.​

 

This is the same b.s. as the "drilling ban" people...you can't make proper policy overnight.

 

Seems like they're setting expectations for the more vocal progressives in his party