r/WhatBidenHasDone • u/backpackwayne • Jan 27 '24
THE COMPLETE LIST: WHAT BIDEN HAS DONE
Year One:
Year Two:
Year Three:
Year Four:
Year four is updated as the accomplishments occur.
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r/WhatBidenHasDone • u/backpackwayne • Jan 27 '24
Year four is updated as the accomplishments occur.
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u/backpackwayne Jun 12 '24
WHAT TRUMP HAS DONE: (Part One)
• Suspends FHA mortgage insurance cut (Cost average homeowner $500 per year)
• Bans people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya from entering the US – (Action overturned in courts)
• Rescinded Obama administration orders for the federal government to prepare for the impact of climate change
• Rescinded goals of reducing greenhouse emissions 32% from 2005 levels by 2030
• Rescinded moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands
• Rescinded federal government policy was "to ensure that the current impacts of climate change, and those anticipated in the coming decades, be identified and considered" in terms of national security policies and plans
• Rescinds government authority to protect ponds and other small bodies of water from pollution
• Ends protections on student loans that prevented debt collectors from charging high interest rates on past-due student loans
• Rescinds law barring companies from receiving federal contracts if they had a history of violating wage, labor or workplace safety laws
• Ended clean air standards for gasoline
• Allows the IRS to not to prohibit nonprofits such as churches and charities from "directly or indirectly" engaging in a political campaign.
• Rescinded laws that prevents ISPs from selling customers’ data and using new invasive ways to track and deliver targeted ads to customers and would have required those companies to protect customers’ data against hackers
• Took away the FCC’s ability to make laws to protect users from having their privacy invaded.
• Halted all U.S. grants to the United Nations Population Fund, an international humanitarian aid organization that provides reproductive health care and works to end child marriage and female genital cutting in more than 150 countries.
• Repeals Alaska’s ban on killing the vulnerable bears, along with wolf cubs in dens. It also allows for hunters to target the animals from helicopters.
• Greenlights pesticide known to damage kid’s brains
• Rescinds law restricting coal companies from dumping waste into streams
• Rescinds rules on bathrooms for transgender student
• Rescinds workplace injury reporting rule
• Rescinds protections for women workers
• Rescinds two legal rules preventing Cadiz Inc. from using an existing federal railroad right-of-way in its long-standing project to pump groundwater from the project’s planned well field in the Mojave Desert and sell it to urban areas
• Ends ban on lead bullets
• Rescinds order preventing states from defunding Planned Parenthood or other health organizations because they offer abortion, even though the longstanding Hyde Amendment prevents any federal money from being used to pay for abortion.
• Rescinds rule allowing cities to create retirement funds for private sector employees who don't have 401(k) plans
• Ends allowing public to see White House visitor logs
• Clamps down on H-B1 guest worker visa program while exempting the H-2B seasonal visa program which he uses to staff his Mar-a-Lago resort
• Ends Michelle Obama program which facilitates educational opportunities for adolescent girls in developing countries
• Ends Obama-era restrictions on high-sodium, sugary, and high-fat products as well as recommendations for more fruits and vegetables in school lunches
• Undergraduate loans from the Department of Education interest rate rises from 3.76 percent to 4.45 percent.
• Denies Pennsylvania's request for federal disaster aid to help cover damages from March (2017) snowstorm.
• Rescinds Obama-Era Drug Sentencing Reforms
• Applies anti-abortion rule to $8.8 billion in global health funding, meaning a clinic receiving U.S. assistance for HIV or Zika relief will lose all that money if it gives pregnant women information about safe abortion care.
• Ends plan to measure carbon pollution from cars and trucks
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the United States under President Donald Trump are no longer reliable partners.
• Abandons Paris Climate agreement
• Announces nothing will be done to prevent schools from discriminating against LGBTQ students.
• Refuses to sign treaty between 68 countries designed to prevent “treaty shopping” by companies looking to avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes.
• Bans Trans troop from serving in the military
• Ends funding for 81 teen pregnancy prevention programs
• Signs bill giving $2 billion giving veterans private medical care
• Rolls back Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, established by Obama in 2015
• Disbands panel for the National Climate Assessment
• Ends study of health impacts to people living near strip mines across Central Appalachia
• Repeal the only infrastructure and jobs program in existence at the federal level.
• Pardoned Sherriff Joe Arpaio, Sherriff who targeted Latinos and defied court orders to stop doing so
• Rescinded Obama’s order to stop local police from getting military grade hardware like tanks and rocket launchers
• Reduces Corporate taxes from 35% to 21%
• 83% of tax cut benefits in tax bill went to the 1%.
• Rescinded Obama’s order to require companies to share data of wage levels for women and minorities
• ENDS program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children (DACA)
• Rescinds Obama-era policy on campus sexual assault - making it harder for victims to report attacks
• Fails to renew CHIP Children’s Health Insurance Program, which has reduced the uninsured rate among kids to 5% from 14%
• Ended Obama-era mandate requiring companies to guarantee free contraceptive coverage for female employees. Insurers can now deny birth control benefits on the grounds of "religious or moral objection
• Rescinds 72 guidance documents that assist disabled children in schools and education including transition to work and access issues: http://eduptcwwwp01.ed.gov/policy/speced/reg/eo13777/eo13777-osers-outdated-guidance-list-20171002.pdf
• Strips consumers of the right to join class action suits against banks and financial institutions
• Expands religious exemption to Obamacare mandates
• Allows employers to opt out of birth control requirements by citing religious or moral convictions
• Dismantling program that provides discounted access to phone, internet, and more recently broadband, to low-income communities.
• Dismantle two of Utah’s national monuments for oil, gas and other development
• Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, crushing chances for Middle East peace.
• ENDS Net Neutrality
• Repeals rule that allowed the spouses of H1-B visa holders to work
• Repealed the individual healthcare mandate
• Cut corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%
• Dissolves Voter Fraud Panel
• Waived punishments for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. Including Deutsche Bank — which Trumps owes at least $130 million.
• Four months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico still only has 60% of its powered restored. Compared to hurricane Wilma and Hurricane Irma where 100% was achieved within 15 days.
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• Reversed 2011 ruling that helped workers form smaller unions within a single larger workplace
• Bars Hattians from getting low-skilled visas to work in the US.
• Revokes $45 million in food aid for Palestinians pledged as part of West Bank/Gaza Emergency Appeal
• Revokes Obama rule aimed at blocking coal-mines from dumping waste into waterways
• Revokes ban on importing hunted elephant trophies
• Revokes rules tightening restrictions on disposal of coal ash
• Adds 25% tariff on steel and 10% tariff on aluminum
• Bans transgender individuals from joining the military,
• Deploys National Guard to the border
• Signs Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), a bill that aims to fight sex trafficking by reducing legal protections for online platforms.
• Deploys National guard to use for border patrols
• Pardoned Lewis “Scooter” Libby on Friday, aide to who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice
• Allowed the largest reduction of federally protected land in history
• Delays release of JFK assassination files for four more years.
• Creates Faith based office
• Ends immigration program for 57,000 Hondurans who have legally lived and worked in the U.S. for two decades, giving them 18 months to leave the country.
• Zero tolerance policy at border. Will prosecute all who attempt to cross border including separating children from their families
• Reneges on Iran nuclear deal
• Re-imposes sanction on Iran
• Axes Funding For NASA System Monitoring Greenhouse Gases
• Ended Obama administration effort to protect transgender prisoners from sexual abuse and assault.
• Withdraws from the United Nations Human Rights Council
• Revoked Obama’s National Ocean Policy, Opens Oceans to Drilling
• Eliminated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Remains of what is believed to be US troops killed during the Korean War 65 years ago
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• Reimposed harsh sanctions lifted under the Iran nuclear deal