Biden's top priorities for his presidency

[BrotherFease]

I suspect these are going to be the top agenda for the Biden Administration:

1. Reverse most of Trump's executive orders, especially when it comes to health-care, immigration and LGBTQ protections.

2. Pass another stimulus package.

3. 15 dollar per hour minimum wage. It passed the House, but was blocked in the Senate.

4. Pass the Equality Act in the Senate. The bill passed in the House, but Mitch McConnell and the GOP blocked a vote in the Senate. The legislation would add a 7th and 8th federal protective class. The six classes are race, color, region, sex, national origin, and disability. The 7th and 8th would add gender identity and sexual orientation to the group. Biden will sign the Act, if it comes across his desk.

5. Pass DC statehood in the Senate. Residents of DC are the only citizens of the United States which can vote in a presidential election, but have no congressional representation.

6. Add a public option to the ACA.

How many of these do you think will get passed?

 

[Roadvirus]

3. 15 dollar per hour minimum wage. It passed the House, but was blocked in the Senate.

This needs to be taken off the table for at least 2 years. Small businesses are beaten down enough as it is. $15/an hour will just finish them off.

In fact, Federal MW should be scrapped completely and MW levels left to states. One Size Fits All is terrible where the Federal MW is concerned.

 

[Captain Adverse]

I suspect these are going to be the top agenda for the Biden Administration:

1. Reverse most of Trump's executive orders, especially when it comes to health-care, immigration and LGBTQ protections.

2. Pass another stimulus package.

3. 15 dollar per hour minimum wage. It passed the House, but was blocked in the Senate.

4. Pass the Equality Act in the Senate. The bill passed in the House, but Mitch McConnell and the GOP blocked a vote in the Senate. The legislation would add a 7th and 8th federal protective class. The six classes are race, color, region, sex, national origin, and disability. The 7th and 8th would add gender identity and sexual orientation to the group. Biden will sign the Act, if it comes across his desk.

5. Pass DC statehood in the Senate. Residents of DC are the only citizens of the United States which can vote in a presidential election, but have no congressional representation.

6. Add a public option to the ACA.

How many of these do you think will get passed?

1. Biden can reverse most executive orders simply by making a new executive order superseding the prior one.

2. Depends on whether the Senate eliminates the filibuster. This is cautioned, because the last time a Democrat controlled Senate "got rid of" a rule, it allowed the Republican's the same free reign to appoint SCOTUS justices without hindrance.

3, 4, 5. See # 2.

Now I am betting that the Democrats in their hubris will seek to get rid of the filibuster, despite the problems mentioned in #2 above. They think they will always be in control of at least the Senate if they can get DC Statehood. Even better if they can add Puerto Rico for another 2 votes. Absent the filibuster all it would take is a simple majority of 51 votes.

Bernie (Independent) will probably go along with this. That makes the other "Independent" Senator Angus King of Maine as the key vote for both eliminating the Filibuster, and then voting solidly with the Democrats for DC Statehood.

 

[joluoto]

1. Biden can reverse most executive orders simply by making a new executive order superseding the prior one.

2. Depends on whether the Senate eliminates the filibuster. This is cautioned, because the last time a Democrat controlled Senate "got rid of" a rule, it allowed the Republican's the same free reign to appoint SCOTUS justices without hindrance.

3, 4, 5. See # 2.

Now I am betting that the Democrats in their hubris will seek to get rid of the filibuster, despite the problems mentioned in #2 above. They think they will always be in control of at least the Senate if they can get DC Statehood. Even better if they can add Puerto Rico for another 2 votes. Absent the filibuster all it would take is a simple majority of 51 votes.

Bernie (Independent) will probably go along with this. That makes the other "Independent" Senator Angus King of Maine as the key vote for both eliminating the Filibuster, and then voting solidly with the Democrats for DC Statehood.

DC is much safer D than PR, people seem to forget that PR has it's own political parties, and their pro Statehood party is their right wing party.

 

[Slartibartfast]

This needs to be taken off the table for at least 2 years. Small businesses are beaten down enough as it is. $15/an hour will just finish them off.

In fact, Federal MW should be scrapped completely and MW levels left to states. One Size Fits All is terrible where the Federal MW is concerned.

I doubt this is feasible under the current climate, but it does represent a good bargaining chip for the senate.

 

[Slartibartfast]

DC is much safer D than PR, people seem to forget that PR has it's own political parties, and their pro Statehood party is their right wing party.

For me the point is that with their recent vote showing their desire to join as a state, we should either welcome them in or cut them loose. The chips will fall as they will, but this is a matter of principal.

 

[Irwin Corey]

I think his TOP priority will be dealing with COVID, a year late but we will now be getting a plan to deal with it. At the top of that list will be getting people vacinated.

 

[Wayne Jr]

5. Pass DC statehood in the Senate. Residents of DC are the only citizens of the United States who can vote in a presidential election but have no congressional representation.

The Constitution requires that the Federal government have sole control over the nation's capital. A state which is also the federal capital would make the Federal government subordinate to that single state's Senator and Governor, usurping the very government, it's a capital of.

A compromise would be to mark out 10 square miles for the federal capital and give the rest of DC back to Maryland.