All you win is the status quo, and maybe at that, it can always get worse. Without taking a chance on “not what we’ve done for decades,” “what we’ve done for decades” will continue regardless.
• Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: The largest federal investment in clean energy and climate change mitigation in U.S. history, alongside provisions allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, capping insulin at $35 a month for seniors, and capping out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $2,000 per year.
• American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: A $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package that expanded the Child Tax Credit (temporarily cutting child poverty), provided direct economic impact payments, funded vaccine distribution, and expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies.
• Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) of 2021: A major public works investment focusing on roads, bridges, public transit, clean water (replacing lead pipes), and high-speed broadband expansion.
• CHIPS and Science Act of 2022: Substantial funding to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing, research, and high-tech supply chains.
• Respect for Marriage Act of 2022: Repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and codified federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages.
• Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022: The first major federal gun safety legislation in decades, enhancing background checks for buyers under 21 and funding red flag laws and mental health services.
• Honoring our PACT Act of 2022: Significantly expanded healthcare and disability benefits for military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.
• Stop Campus Hazing Act & Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act (2024): Laws enacted in late 2024 to increase transparency around campus hazing and monitor the care of minors in residential treatment facilities.
Hope doesn’t win. Strategy wins. Get me a strategy that is reasonable and I’ll back you.
All you win is the status quo, and maybe at that, it can always get worse. Without taking a chance on “not what we’ve done for decades,” “what we’ve done for decades” will continue regardless.
What is winning to you? To me, it’s getting abortion back and reducing ICE enforcement. And those are achievable.
Maybe, more likely: “Republicans blocked it again, you have to vote harder and we pwomise this time we’ll actually do it.”
Yeah that’s true. Biden did nothing.
Oh wait, what’s this…
Landmark Legislative Acts
• Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: The largest federal investment in clean energy and climate change mitigation in U.S. history, alongside provisions allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, capping insulin at $35 a month for seniors, and capping out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $2,000 per year. • American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: A $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package that expanded the Child Tax Credit (temporarily cutting child poverty), provided direct economic impact payments, funded vaccine distribution, and expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. • Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) of 2021: A major public works investment focusing on roads, bridges, public transit, clean water (replacing lead pipes), and high-speed broadband expansion. • CHIPS and Science Act of 2022: Substantial funding to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing, research, and high-tech supply chains. • Respect for Marriage Act of 2022: Repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and codified federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages. • Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022: The first major federal gun safety legislation in decades, enhancing background checks for buyers under 21 and funding red flag laws and mental health services. • Honoring our PACT Act of 2022: Significantly expanded healthcare and disability benefits for military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. • Stop Campus Hazing Act & Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act (2024): Laws enacted in late 2024 to increase transparency around campus hazing and monitor the care of minors in residential treatment facilities.