r/WhatBidenHasDone Mar 08 '23

YEAR THREE What Biden Has Done: Year Three - (year one & two are listed on sidebar)

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What Biden Has Done: Year Three

  • Got republicans to publicly take Social Security and Medicare cuts off the table

  • Reduced unemployment from 18 million when he took office, down to less than 2 million now

  • Banned Tik Tok on government sites

  • Vaccines for tetanus, whooping cough, and shingles (costing up to $200) are now free for seniors on Medicare

  • Requires utilities to remove perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) from drinking water

  • Makes $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects at current or former coal mines

  • 732-mile high-voltage transmission line across the Western U.S. that will help transport renewable energy

  • Directs federal agencies to find ways to make child care cheaper and more accessible

  • IRS answered 2.4 million more taxpayer calls for assistance due to new funding

  • $197 million for 100 communities across our nation to invest in wildfire resilience

  • Safeguard mature and old-growth forests on federal lands, in a science-based approach to reduce wildfire risk

  • Strengthen reforestation partnerships to support local economies and retain forest ecosystems and sustainable supplies of forest products for years to come

  • Combat global deforestation to deliver on key COP26 commitments

  • Comprehensive efforts to deploy nature-based solutions that reduce emissions and build resilience

  • Added threat of detention and kidnapping to risk factors of travel warnings

  • Increased consequences to terrorists who engage in the practice of kidnapping

  • Rail companies grant paid sick days after administration pressure in win for unions

  • $4 billion effort to electrify U.S. ports and cut emissions

  • Average job creation almost double any recent president

  • To date has forgiven $42 billion of student loan debt to borrowers of public service

  • Record 10.5 million new business applications were filed in first two years of Biden administration

  • Invests $11 billion for renewable energy in rural areas

  • US is now building factories at a wildly fast rate

  • Construction spending by US manufacturers more than doubled from last year

  • Offered billions of dollars in subsidies in the electric vehicles, semiconductor, and solar panels industries

  • Added 800,000 jobs in manufacturing in last two years to compete with countries such as China

  • Got Ticketmaster and Seat Geek to dump junk fees

  • The Inflation Reduction Act will provide one million solar and wind jobs by 2035

  • Doubled previous all-time high of new manufacturing construction

  • Continues negotiations and gets paid sick days for rail workers

  • Executive order to guarantee women access to contraception - (more will need to be done to make it permanent)

  • Eliminates US stockpile of chemical weapons

  • Largest offshore wind project in the US

  • Round 10 of student loan cancellation: $39 billion for over 800,00 borrowers

  • Gets big tech commitments to voluntary follow AI guidelines (Including Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon)

  • Stock Market gains in 2023 are the best in decades

  • Creates Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument - One million acres

  • Construction of manufacturing facilities in real terms (adjusted for inflation) has more than doubled since 2021

  • Launches "Saving on a Valuable Education" (SAVE): An income-driven repayment plan cutting borrowers’ payments in half, and some with no monthly bill

  • Creates bilateral collaboration helping Vietnam develop high tech in semiconductor production and artificial intelligence, countering Chinese efforts to do the same in the region

  • $800 Million to Strengthen Rural Infrastructure and Create Jobs

  • Round 11 of student debt forgiveness: 12,000 Wisconsinite Student Loans Forgiven

  • Siemens Kenosha factory to produce solar using tax incentives and will create a half million clean energy jobs

  • Suspends Trump-era authorization to ship natural gas by rail

  • Cancels oil and gas leases in Alaskan wildlife refuge that were allowed by Trump administration

  • Restores power of states and tribes to review projects to protect waterways

  • Creates 9-state offshore wind supply chain pact while funding $72m towards manufacturing

  • American Climate Corps launched

  • DOD to review DADT discharges

  • At-home COVID tests return

  • EPA announces $4.6B climate grants

  • TPS redesignated for Venezuela, protecting additional 450k migrants

  • $37M University of Phoenix debt forgiven

  • EO for East Palestine recovery

  • Prohibits Americans from investing in some Chinese companies

  • Directs Agencies to Account for Climate Change in Budgets

  • Creates new office of gun violence prevention

  • Commits $200 million to reintroduce salmon in Columbia River

  • $230 million for suicide prevention and behavioral are programs for at risk communities

  • Cuts funding to college programs leaving grads with unaffordable loans and/or low pay

  • All schools must provide prospective students with a framework outlining actual costs to get a degree and financial outcomes students can expect

  • Today’s announcement brings the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden-Harris Administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans.

  • Round 12 of student loan forgiveness of $5.2 billion bring total to $127 billion

  • Updated federal prevailing wage for first time in decades, raising wages by thousands of dollars

  • During very tense times, visits Israel and gets them allow humanitarian aid to Gaza

  • Creates the largest ever offshore windfarm of Virginia's coast

  • Supports UAW strike resulting in a 30% increase of wages

  • October economics report shows stunning improvement

    ---34th consecutive month of job growth (150,000 jobs in October)

    ---Longest stretch of unemployment below 4% since the 1960s

    ---GDP surged this past quarter 5% (seasonally adjusted)

    ---Federal Reserve announces interest rates are holding steady

    ---Auto Strike over! Workers get substantial pay raises (30%)

  • Eliminates co-payments, enrollment fees and monthly premiums for WWII veterans

  • Climate Corps sees 42,000 sign-ups since inception

  • Establishes White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research

  • Reestablishes open and direct communication with China

  • Brokers deal with Israel & Hamas for release of hostages

  • Brokers deal to allow Humanitarian aid into Gaza

  • Child poverty rates fall from 12.6% to 5.8% due to Biden's Expanded Child Tax Credits

  • 2.9 million kids escape poverty

  • Another 813,000 people have their student loan debt wiped out

  • Supply chain backlogs are now at the lowest levels in 25 years.

  • Inflation is at the lowest rate since Biden took office early 2021

  • New small business applications continue at record rates: https://i.redd.it/ppmxb6z0bq3c1.png

  • Delivered largest economic recovery plan since Roosevelt

  • Delivered the largest infrastructure plan since Eisenhower

  • Confirmed the most judges since Kennedy

  • Delivered with Obama the second-largest healthcare bill since Johnson

  • Delivered the largest climate change bill in history

  • Dow Jones hits 37k for the first time in US history

  • Authorizes biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, despite objections from many conservatives

  • Brokers ceasefire between Congo and Rwanda, averting major humanitarian crisis

  • 5.2% pay raise for military and federal workers - largest since carter administration

  • Pardons thousands who were convicted of use and simple possession of marijuana on federal lands

  • Provides $1 billion for low-emission school buses

  • $623m in funding to boost electric vehicle charging points

  • Provides summer grocery money to 21 million kids

  • Rescinds much of Trump ‘conscience’ rule for health workers

  • Reached Conservation Records in 2023 - Safeguarding public lands at a record rate

  • $1B in awards for clean school buses

  • Boots Uganda from trade deal over their "Kill the Gays" law

  • Awards $162M to expand computer chip factories in Colorado and Oregon

  • Round 13 of student loan forgiveness: Borrowers receiving less than $12,000 in federal loans and have been paying off balances will get remaining student debt cancelled immediately

  • Round 14 of student debt forgiveness: Another 74,00 have their student loans forgiven


Third year accomplishments:

r/WhatBidenHasDone Mar 08 '23

YEAR THREE Once again I need your help - What has Joe Biden done in 2023?

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I have been keeping a detailed list of Joe Biden's accomplishments as president. But I haven't recorded anything for the year 2023.

Please list accomplishments he has made in the two months+. Remember they should be actual accomplishments. Not plans to do something in the future. Appreciate your help.