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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 26 minutes ago

Election promises mean nothing when they all (ALL OF THEM) are in the pockets of the evil rich

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 25 seconds ago)

LOL. The absurdity at this rate...

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 46 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Biden: Hey here’s half a trillion dollars back on student loans, a trillion dollars on climate change, unions and manufacturing jobs, and a bunch of other stuff, all paid for by big increases in corporate tax

USA: Yeah but corporations are still doing bad stuff though

USA: We pick Trump

Biden: Alright fuck you then

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 hours ago

this is stuff that never would have made it all the way to implementation anyway; with voters shooting off their own feet last month, and some hand-picked maga judges ruling against the policy.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 32 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

He's done what he could with the Republicans fighting him every step of the way. Better to spend this last month doing what he can to Trump-proof stuff.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago

Right right. That's why he needed to start doing things 3.9 years ago instead of screwing around for so long. What a failure. Or a success, depending on your perspective.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Okay, so what is he doing to Trump proof stuff?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 44 minutes ago

Trying to finally send all the money approved by Congress to Ukraine

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago
[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

I'm so sick of our financial wellbeing being a pawn for these political asshats to play with...

My loan repayment period was supposed to end in June of this year as part of the service workers repayment plan. I wasn't even on the SAVE plan and my account has been put into some sort of weird limbo because of all this stupid garbage. My servicer won't even touch my account. They just keep extending the forbearance on it every time a new judge steps in.

Now Trump's gonna step in yet again and fuck us all even more...

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean... The country spoke... So why bother.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee -5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The tiny majority of voters. Not the country. Close? Not really.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 4 points 43 minutes ago

That's a great argument until you realize the rest of the country (the part that didn't speak) literally couldn't decide which is worse or just didn't care. So they did speak, and what they said was "hwbennfswbebnsjdjbdbshdukabw".

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 hours ago

Rules were unfinished - they were trying to rewrite a second version after Republicans kept blocking it in court. The unfinished rules already had republicans threatening to sue about it. Presumably ran out of time to complete it

He's still looking at other more narrow areas that are less able for Republicans to make BS challenges on

Biden is still pursuing other avenues for debt relief before his term is up. On Friday, his administration announced an additional $4.28 billion in debt relief for 54,900 borrowers in Public Service Loan Forgiveness — a result of ongoing improvements to the program. Despite not being able to pass broad relief, Biden, over the course of his term, has provided relief to nearly 5 million borrowers through changes to various programs.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Trump said he was going to reinstate all the debt anyway.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that? I'm not sure how one would even go about bringing debt back that has been effectively erased.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

You can't, but that never stopped Trump from saying shit like this. "Mexico will pay for the wall"

I don't have a source but that is about as Trump as Trump can get.