Mapping 46 - what should/will Biden do?

[detrius]

I don't know about their politics either but this article says it isn't clear cut.

Puerto Rico’s politics are complicated, and not dominated by one party | Commentary

Guest author Rodney A. Ríos-Rodríguez writes that Republicans shouldn't fear one-party Democratic domination if Puerto Rico became a state, because party politics aren't predictable on the island.

www.orlandosentinel.com

Maybe Puerto Rico's politics aren't predictable - but Republican politics are predictably racist.

They've been the party of white supremacy for at least half a century now. That's not going to change soon.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The Republican platform still includes a call to make English the official language of the United States. That would complicate adding a majority Spainish speaking state.

 

[Free]

The Republican platform still includes a call to make English the official language of the United States. That would complicate adding a majority Spainish speaking state.`

The current Republican platform merely states it's enthusiastic support for "President" Trump and reiterates its positions from their 2016 platform - including the view that "For the past 8 years America has been led in the wrong direction."

 

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Biden Says He’ll Introduce Immigration Bill ‘Immediately’

President-elect Joe Biden says he’ll introduce immigration legislation “immediately” after taking office later this month, and that his Justice Department will investigate the Trump administration’s separation of migrant children from their parents.

“I will introduce an immigration bill immediately,” he said in a news conference on Friday. He said that the Justice Department will determine responsibility for the family separation program, which led to more than 2,600 children being taken from caregivers after crossing the U.S. southern border, and whether it was criminal.

“There will be a thorough, thorough investigation of who is responsible, and whether or not the responsibility is criminal,” Biden said.

 

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Biden To Unveil $1.5 Trillion Economic Stimulus Plan

The package includes an influx of resources for the coronavirus vaccine rollout and economy recovery

www.huffpost.com

The incoming administration will work with Congress on the quick stimulus package after Biden takes office on Jan. 20, although the impeachment of Trump threatens to consume lawmakers in the initial weeks.

The stimulus package has a price tag above $1.5 trillion and includes a commitment for $1,400 stimulus checks, according to a source familiar with the proposal, and Biden is expected to commit to partner with private companies to increase the number of Americans getting vaccinated.

 

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Biden To Unveil $1.5 Trillion Economic Stimulus Plan

The package includes an influx of resources for the coronavirus vaccine rollout and economy recovery

www.huffpost.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

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We've joked about it.

Ahead of inauguration, government contracts reveal White House deep clean

Ahead of the inauguration, government contracts reveal a White House deep clean amid the coronavirus pandemic.

abcnews.go.com

After three COVID-19 breakouts within the White House in recent months, the federal government is sparing no expense to clean and disinfect the building before President-elect Biden moves in Jan. 20.

According to government contracts reviewed by ABC News, more than $200,000 has been spent for increased White House janitorial and housekeeping work, including $127,249 on "2021 Inaugural Cleaning" and another $44,038 on "Inaugural carpet cleaning." There was $29,523 spent for "Inaugural curtains cleaning."

While the White House is always deep-cleaned during the transition between presidents, that work is usually handled by White House staff, including butlers, ushers and maintenance crews. Contracting out additional cleaning services is unprecedented in modern times, according to Kate Brower Andersen, presidential historian and former White House reporter.

 

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I'm sure the milquetoast punditry will complain about stuff like this.

 

[danielravennest]

I'm sure the milquetoast punditry will complain about stuff like this.

We should send the President a new broom. He's doing such a good job cleaning house the old one will get worn out.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Aeon Jiminy]

Given that our nation has been devastated by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of Biden's priorities must be reinvesting into " Nightmare Deductibles and Widespread Claim Denials".

Now is not the time for promises. Public Option? What's that?

Joe Biden Lifted His Health Care Plan From Insurance Industry Lobbyists

Instead of pushing a promised public health care option or expanding Medicare or any of the other health reforms the United States desperately needs, Joe Biden's health care reform draws from proposals from for-profit health insurance companies.

www.jacobinmag.com

 

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Biden wants to replace government fleet with electric vehicles

Biden wants to replace all 645,000 vehicles in the government’s fleet with EVs.

www.theverge.com

President Joe Biden will start the process of phasing out the federal government’s use of gas-powered vehicles and replacing them with ones that run on electricity. The announcement is the fulfillment of a promise Biden made on the campaign trail to swap government fleet vehicles with American-made EVs.

“The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we’re going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America, by American workers,” Biden said during a briefing Monday announcing his “Buy American” executive order.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

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[Pamela]

Biden not playing.

 

[danielravennest]

Biden not playing.

I wonder if Biden & friends are borrowing a Repub tactic and rolling out new initiatives so fast the R's can't get their talking points in order before the next item comes out and knocks it out of the news cycle?

 

[Pamela]

I wonder if Biden & friends are borrowing a Repub tactic and rolling out new initiatives so fast the R's can't get their talking points in order before the next item comes out and knocks it out of the news cycle?

I think it’s more a reaction to the pile of charred smoking rubble of a country the Rs left them.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]