When I talk about a progressive policy the president ignored or abandoned, someone always jumps in to say, “But he didn’t have the votes to pass it! You have to have Congress!”🧵
Aug 5, 2023 · 3:27 PM UTC
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True in some cases (Build Back Better)… but let’s be clear:
Manchin and Sinema did not make Biden approve the Willow project, or grant more oil drilling permits than even Trump did.
The parliamentarian had no actual political power to stop Biden from raising the minimum wage across the board - he chose to let her.
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The president could introduce a Medicare4All bill, use marching rights to lower certain drug prices and unilaterally close some of those 750 military installations around the world * if he wanted to.*
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As long as we’re okay with accepting less, we’re going to keep getting less.
From universal healthcare to tuition-free college & tech school to a guaranteed living wage, those things should be for us - as for the citizens of every other advanced democracy - the absolute minimum we are willing to accept from our government.
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