by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist |
| April 28, 2021 08:47 AM
1. Promised unity but has only pushed for a partisan, progressive agenda
2. Signed more executive orders in his first week than any past president, ignoring the role of the legislative branch
3. Failed to reopen schools – 50% of schools are still not meeting fully in-person. Pledged to follow the science and listen to medical experts, but is following the teachers’ unions instead of Drs. Walensky and Fauci on reopening schools who have said there is no medical reason for schools to remain closed
4. Created the Biden Border Crisis
5. Has no plan to address the Biden Border Crisis
6. Providing limited, censored media access to overcrowded facilities housing migrants
7. Assigned Vice President Kamala Harris, who once compared ICE to the KKK, as border czar
8. President Biden and Vice President Harris have failed to visit the southern border
9. Proposes sending $4 billion to corrupt Northern Triangle countries to prevent illegal immigration
10. Ended cooperative asylum agreements
11. Opened the door for individuals who threaten America’s national security by revoking President Trump’s travel restrictions
12. Terminated the “National Emergency” at the southern border
13. Unraveled the Migrant Protection Protocols
14. Not fully utilizing Title 42 at the border
15. Ceased border wall construction despite congressional appropriations
16. Released thousands of recently apprehended illegal border crossers from custody without even issuing them a Notice to Appear in Immigration Court
17. Proposed amnesty
18. Halted deportations
19. Allowing criminal aliens to be released into American communities
20. Allowing federal funding to be sent to sanctuary cities
21. Prohibiting federal immigration law enforcement officers from using correct statutory terms such as “alien”
22. Scrapped fines for illegal immigrants who fail to leave the U.S.
23. Violating CDC guidance at the border
24. Releasing COVID-positive aliens into Texas
25. Nominated Chris Magnus to head U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), even though he opposes deterrence-focused immigration policies
26. Increasing numbers of illegal immigrants evading apprehension by Border Patrol
27. 400% increase in migrants apprehended in March 2021 compared to March 2020
28. 486% increase in unaccompanied alien children (UACs) arriving at the border in March 2021 compared to March 2020
29. 1056% increase in families arriving at the border in March 2021 compared to March 2020
30. Over 5,000 migrants with criminal convictions apprehended by CBP in Fiscal Year 2021, including homicide, assault, and sexual offenses
31. A record number of UACs in government custody
32. Deploying federal workforce who have little to no training to care for UACs
33. Awarded a massive, sole source contract to a nonprofit run by a former Biden-Harris Transition Team official to help manage the surge of UACs
34. Opened 12 new temporary shelters to hold UACs
35. Spending $60 million a week to house UACs
36. Ceased conducting FBI fingerprint checks of other adult household members of sponsors for UACs
37. Providing vaccines to illegal immigrants
38. Ceased the accurate apportionment of the 2020 census to include illegal aliens
39. Reverted back to an outdated civics test for individuals seeking citizenship
40. Rescinded President Trump’s “public charge” rule requiring immigrants to be self-sufficient and not rely on public welfare programs
41. Cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, killing thousands of good paying jobs
42. Reentered the Paris Agreement, disadvantaging the United States and leaving Americans to shoulder the costs of higher energy bills, lower wages, fewer jobs, less energy production
43. Halted oil and gas leasing on federal lands
44. Rising gas prices
45. Added more bureaucracy to the regulatory process by requiring the head of eachfederal agency to review any regulation, policy, and guidance document issued during President Trump’s term that the Biden Administration deems inconsistent with their climate agenda
46. Allowing California to set stricter fuel standards and dictate vehicle emissions regulations across the country
47. Reversed efforts by the Trump Administration to reduce regulatory burdens that required two regulations to be rescinded before creating a new one
48. Rescinded a good government executive order requiring agencies to post guidance online in a searchable database
49. Rolled back the Trump Administration’s “rules on rules” at the Department of Transportation, reducing the information available for rulemaking, enabling the abuse of guidance documents, and eliminating due process in adjudications
50. Cancelled President Trump’s plan to let more physicians prescribe an opioid-treatment drug
51. Rejoined the World Health Organization without it undergoing needed reforms
52. Appointed Xavier Becerra as HHS Secretary, despite having no health care experience, suing Little Sisters of the Poor, and locking down churches in California during the pandemic
53. Appointed the former Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary, Rachel Levine, to a top HHS post, even though she issued an order sending COVID-positive patients to nursing homes
54. Refuses to hold Governor Cuomo accountable for his deadly nursing home order and cover-up
55. Failed to establish a national COVID-19 testing strategy
56. Falsely claimed he had a vaccine distribution plan when he in fact relied on President Trump’s plan
57. Signed an executive order mandating masks on federal property but then hours later was spotted without a mask on federal property
58. Issued executive order allowing critical race theory in the federal workplace
59. Rescinded federal workforce reforms to empower the federal bureaucracy and allow massive bureaucratic power to go unchecked
60. Rescinded federal workforce reforms to reduce the time federal employees spend on union activities instead of their jobs
61. Revoked President Trump’s efforts to expand access to apprenticeships across America
62. Won’t enforce an Office of Labor-Management Standards rule that requires labor unions to disclose certain financial records
63. Supports $15 minimum wage, which is estimated to kill 1.4 million jobs
64. Signed a $2 trillion spending package into law under the guise of “COVID relief”—even though an estimated $1 trillion in previous spending remains unspent
65. Spending only 5% of funding provided in the Democrats’ spending package to reopen schools in 2021
66. Spending $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for a COVID-19 vaccine PR campaign after undermining its safety and efficacy during the 2020 election
67. Bailed out locked-down, poorly managed states with $350 billion dollars with no strings attached
68. Prevents states receiving recovery relief funds from cutting taxes for residents within their borders
69. Provided $570 million for additional paid leave to federal employees so they can watch their kids Zoom into school
70. Enacted the largest expansion to Obamacare since its creation in 2010
71. Removed NLRB General Counsel and Deputy Counsel in an unprecedented move
72. Purged the EPA’s science advisory boards of members who don’t share Democrats’ radical environmental beliefs
73. Removed a respected scientist who was overseeing the U.S. National Climate Assessment
74. Instructed the Attorney General to make it easier for prison inmates to have materials about gaining access to the ballot box
75. Nominated David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, despite having a long record of seeking to limit Americans’ Second Amendment rights
76. Pushed the Department of Justice to pursue substantial gun reforms that attack the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens
77. Advocated for packing the Supreme Court
78. Advocating for changing the Senate filibuster, which he defended for years while in the U.S. Senate
79. Supports H.R. 1 to send money to Democrat politicians
80. Supports an unconstitutional bill to grant D.C. statehood
81. Withdrew commonsense rules requiring U.S. universities and K-12 schools with foreign exchange programs to disclose financial ties or other connection to Chinese state-run Confucius institutes, which seeks to sway students and adults into believing CCP propaganda
82. Proposed a rule to establish priorities for grants in American History and Civics Education programs, specifically to “projects that incorporate racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives” such as Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project
83. Rescinded regulations put into place by former Secretary Betsy DeVos to protect college students in Title IX hearings
84. Issued an executive order denying funding to schools unless they allow biological males in female bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams
85. Rescinded President Trump’s order prohibiting federal funds from being spent overseas to fund abortions
86. Rescinded President Trump’s pro-life policy of preventing federal funds from being provided to organization that make abortion referrals
87. Froze Trump Administration rule aimed at lowering Insulin and EpiPen prices
88. Returned the U.S. to engaging with the unreformed U.N. Human Rights Council
89. Appointed Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.N. Ambassador, despite giving a speech at a Confucius Institute and who has since said “white supremacy is weaved into our founding documents and principles”
90. Reconsidering lifting sanctions on Iran in order to rejoin the flawed Iran Nuclear Deal
91. Released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget nearly 70 days after the statutory deadline
92. Proposes to raise non-defense spending by 16% in Fiscal Year 2022, despite already signing into law a $2 trillion spending bill
93. Proposed a 43.4% capital gains tax
94. Proposed a tax hike, which could hit families, not just individuals, making $400,000 a year, breaking a promise to the American people
95. Proposed a $2 trillion so-called “infrastructure” plan, and only 6% of the spending is for roads and bridges
96. Proposes to spend $600 billion of spending on radical Green New Deal provisions in the “infrastructure” package
97. Peddled false talking points about the Georgia voting law and encouraged the MLB to move the All-Star Game, which is hurting local Atlanta-area small businesses
98. Supported Speaker Pelosi’s efforts to overturn the results of an Iowa congressional race despite the results being certified by bipartisan state election officials
99. Shelved a new commission to study police reform in favor of left-wing, anti-police legislation