• Blackbeard@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    He can raise the minimum wage of federal workers, contractors, and sub contractors.

    Done. Oh wait.

    He could have ended the Remain in Mexico program.

    Done, and confirmed by SCOTUS.

    He could direct HUD to begin buying housing for direct rental programs…

    Done.

    So let’s rewrite your comment, given the things that you apparently didn’t know actually happened:

    The Railroad Union was all him. He raised the minimum wage of federal workers, contractors, and sub contractors. He ended the Remain in Mexico program. He could have set the DOJ to monopoly breaking. He could have stopped supplying Israel. He directed HUD to begin buying housing for direct rental programs… The list goes on…

    Yeah, it has a slightly different flavor when you actually…you know…pay attention to things.

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      11 months ago

      Oh, yeah paying attention. Like when he banned Asylum seekers at the border. Effectively forcing them to remain in Mexico or in another dangerous country. They can use the CBP One app to apply from their home country, however this requires them to stay in the dangerous country to do so. He effectively continued the program while officially ending it. Don’t believe me? check out this Dissent from the court currently hearing it.

      The Biden administration’s “Pathways Rule” before us in this appeal is not meaningfully different from the prior administration’s rules that were backhanded by my two colleagues. This new rule looks like the Trump administration’s Port of Entry Rule and Transit Rule got together, had a baby, and then dolled it up in a stylish modern outfit, complete with a phone app.

      -Van Dyke, Ninth Circuit Appeals; East Bay Sancuatry Covenent V. Biden

      And that HUD link is about them giving developers money. I want HUD to buy the office building, convert it, and rent it out at cost. That’s how we’re going to put a hole in the rental market bubble. Not by asking to them to please charge less.

      As far as the minimum wage thing, I missed that. but it is a torrent of information, that you’re not getting all of either.