Democratic candidate: President Joe Biden
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Top Five Accomplishments of the Biden Administrations First Three Years
More Americans are working than at any point in U.S. History with two strongest years of job growth in history. Unemployment rates in the Black and Hispanic communities is at near record lows with unemployment rates among people with disabilities is at a record low Jumpstarted the 1st National Electric Vehicle Charging Network and the Nation’s first Federal-State Offshore Wind Partnership. Awarded nearly 2 billion dollars to clean up a backlog of 49 previously unfunded Superfund Sites, as well as Contaminated Brownfield sites and Abandoned Mine Lands.
Lower Seniors’ health care expenses, including capping out-of-pocket expenses at $2,000 per year and ensuring that people enrolled in Medicare will not pay more than $35 for a month’s supply of insulin & that recipients receive vaccines without cost. Also lowered the cost of hearing aids by making them available over the counter.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill long recognized as an important priority for long deferred needs, but difficult to bring about, this act has already underway, replacing a 110 year old railroad tunnel, outdated bridges and roads. 670,000 construction workers jobs have already been created and the work will go on until at least 2035.
Inflation Reduction Act Many of the jobs created, climate issues and health care improvements are the result of the Inflation Reduction Act. This act was wide ranging, including multiple reductions to costs to families, authorizing Medicare to negotiate the price of some high cost drugs, combating pollution, climate crisis, and reducing the deficit.
The CHIPS (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semi-conductors) and Science Act addresses bipartisan concerns that the U.S. had become too reliant on China and/or Taiwan’s production of the most advanced microchips, particularly with supply chain issues and security/defense. This Bipartisan Act subsidizes construction of new manufacturing and tech research hubs are planned or already being built, including the INTEL campus near Columbus.
Additional Accomplishments:
Over the counter availability of birth control pill
Environmental Issues: Renewable power (wind, solar and hydropower) is now the 2nd largest generators of electricity in the U.S. and growing. It now provides more electricity than coal or nuclear power. The Inflation Reduction Act provided support and tax incentives to boost these technologies. Then same act provided funds to farmers to enable and encourage them to transition Ag to less carbon-intensive farming practices., such as planting cover crops and reducing tilling.
Tech Accomplishments are significant: Executive Orders regarding AI (artificial intelligence) identifying potential risks, including to national security, and establishing guidelines and standards for content & safety.
Expanded Overtime for Salaried Employees Guarantees. For employees, otherwise exempt from overtime making less than $55,000 per year, approximately 3.6 million employees.
Signed Legislation to put more police on the job & invest in community policing.
Historic Expansion of Benefits and services for toxic exposed veterans.
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Republican candidate: Donald Trump
(Reuters) - Saying he knew best what ailed America and often governing by executive order, President Donald Trump dismantled or disrupted multilateral pacts, overhauled tax and immigration systems and, with the help of Senate Republicans, reshaped the judiciary. Trump's actions may be undone in many areas over time, but win or lose, his legacy will endure in the federal courts where his conservative lifetime appointees will influence every aspect of American life for decades.
The appointments, all for life, have led to the ideological “flip” of three of the country’s 13 federal appeals courts, one level below the Supreme Court. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Manhattan-based 2nd Circuit and the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit all had Democratic-appointed majorities when Trump became president in 2017.
Trump entered the White House promising to reverse Obama-era efforts to fight climate change as part of a broader strategy to slash environmental red tape that he viewed as an obstacle to business and to the U.S. fossil fuel industry in particular. He initiated the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the international accord to fight global warming, ceding Washington's historic role as a leader in coordinated efforts to counter climate change. The retreat meant the United States abandoned its pledge to slash emissions by 26-28% from 2005 levels by 2025.
His “America First” trade policies sparked a tit-for-tat tariff war with China that left American companies and consumers paying sharply higher duties on about $370 billion in annual Chinese imports, while U.S. farmers and other exporters watched sales to China crumble.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed by Trump in December 2017, was the most significant restructuring of the U.S. tax system since the 1980s. It slashed the rate companies pay in the United States from 35% to 21%, cut minimum, estate and gift taxes for the very wealthy and eliminated some deductions for homeowners, especially in high-tax Democratic states. It also lowered federal income tax rates for individuals and raised the standard deduction, provisions that expire after 2025. The $1.5 trillion tax cut prompted U.S. corporations to bring home billions of dollars in cash from abroad. Many boosted stock buybacks instead of increasing capital investment or hiring.
Even before the federal government spent trillions on fiscal stimulus to counter the impact of the coronavirus under the Trump administration, the U.S. deficit was expected to swell to over $1 trillion in 2020, in part because of lower tax revenues after the reform, despite Republican promises that the cuts would “pay for themselves” through higher economic growth.
Trump has upended some basic tenets of America’s post-World War Two foreign policy by questioning the NATO alliance, alienating European allies and indulging autocrats.
His disdain for multilateralism prompted a series of withdrawals from accords and bodies where the United States had played a leading role, including the Iran nuclear deal, the World Health Organization and the U.N. Human Rights Council, as well as the Paris climate accord.
The relationship with China deteriorated to levels not seen in decades, raising fears of a new Cold War, especially after Washington accused Beijing of hiding the coronavirus threat from the world.
Trump delivered on his 2016 campaign promise to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to a divided Jerusalem. Late in his term, his administration also helped broker historic deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan to normalize relations, which even Trump’s critics applauded.
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