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The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.
Congress did indeed have a couple years of the slimmest margin of Democratic control. But Democrats aren’t all the same. There is a range of ideology and ultimately they’re not in lock step with each other. And in some cases, they behave not strictly as a Democrat normally would behave, or as those here on Lemmy want them to behave. Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, and those in the so-called Blue Dog Coalition. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard was another “Democrat” from this time period who wasn’t as left wing as we wished for…
You can blame the broad range of “Democrats” all you want. You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want. But that doesn’t account for individual differences within a party that with such a slim margin, can derail national progress. Vote. Every election. Especially the small ones. Good candidates start at the local level.
Jesus ModestMeme..... I think your stupidity broke my brain
The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.
You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want.
> BIDEN: No, no, no, no, I'd make the changes on the corporate taxes on day one.
IT"S A MOTHER FUCKING TRANSCRIPT OF HIS EXACT WORDS!!! HE"S THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE REPRESENTING THE DNC AS A WHOLE!!
This is the exact problem people have with the democratic party that you just seem to hand wave away. They're saying whatever shit they want and NOT FOLLOWING THROUGH BECAUSE IT WAS A HOLLOW PROMISE THEY LIED ABOUT AND NEVER SHOULD HAVE SAID!!
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work#%3A%7E%3Atext=Statutes+have+to+be+passed%2Cspending%2C+and+certain+war+powers.
Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.
I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!
Ok the link didn’t load as expected… Fourth paragraph is the relevant part on law. The rest of the article is pretty interesting as well.