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Position Paper 2

Joe Biden

President Joe Biden entered his presidency with a variety of promises he planned on fulfilling. In the past nine months, there have been disputes whether or not Biden has lived up to his promises. People are claiming that his campaign was based on lies as they believe he has broken some of his promises. When it comes to deciding if Biden has been a liar or not, many people are using a mixture of opinion and fact. When it comes to fact-based decisions on Biden and his promises, final decisions should probably be made closer to the end of his presidency. That being said, so far it does not hurt to dive into how Biden has not fulfilled the promises on which he has based his campaign, especially as he “advocated truth-telling in his inaugural address, in a tactic rebuke of Donald Trump’s loose relationship with facts”

Biden has a history of saying untrue things in interviews because he seems to throw random stuff out there. In an interview about Afghanistan, Biden told six verifiable lies.

President Biden has a section of his website where it lays out his plans. He has a variety of plans that cover many different social or political issues. The first plan that stuck out to me was his plan to “end our gun violence epidemic.” Biden never promised to defund the police, but he proposed police reform. “Despite Biden’s promises, $34 million worth of equipment has been transferred from the Department of Defense to local law enforcement.” The transfer of military grade weapons from the Pentagon to state and local police forces is due to the 1033 program. Biden could abolish the program through an executive order. His campaigning process involved supporting a proposal “to stop transferring weapons of war to police forces.” It is believed that Biden is not living up to his promise because police unions in support of the 1033 program have been putting pressure on the President. When it comes to his new plan, “state and local governments will be allowed to use their designated $350 billion of coronavirus relief funds for programs such as hiring police officers to prepandemic levels and paying overtime for community policing work.” Rather than addressing gun safety as its own, he is compromising the funds of another issue. That does not seem to align with Joe Biden’s plan to beat COVID-19. With another surge in cases, and the prevalence of virus variants, this is not the time to be removing money from the relief fund. By pulling funds from COVID-19 relief, it could potentially be detrimental for the plan to beat the coronavirus.

The Skimm is keeping a Campaign Promise Tracker as Biden works to fulfill his promises. Many of his movements are either in progress, awaiting action, or are unclear. They listed one specifically as incomplete. Biden has not lived up to implementing a police oversight commission. It states that Biden called for the country to take “real action” to stop police brutality against Black Americans and pledged to create a national police oversight commission within his first 100 days in office. His domestic policy council director said the commission “would not be the most effective way to deliver” on this issue at the moment. This is the promise that he has one hundred percent, undoubtedly not lived up to. According to The Washington Post, Biden has failed to take action on sending legislation on gun control to Congress and well as restating that he has failed in creating a national commission on police restructuring. Politifact has a page in which they run false fact-checks on Joe Biden.

People on social media have no problem speaking up on their thoughts about Biden and his promises. Many people have taken to Twitter specifically to voice their beliefs.

 

Harry Enten, a journalist known for his role as a writer and analyst for CNN Politics discussed how a large majority of voters thought Biden had only accomplished “some or very little” since taking office. “They don’t think that Joe Biden has gone to office and done very much. If you’re not doing anything, the real way to solve that is to do something,” Enten stated. It seems that Biden’s campaign was built on promises that he is “solving” through pandering rather than getting concrete results. One hot take on this situation is that all politicians base their campaigns on stretched truths. They do what they can to win the popular vote, and if that means making false promises, what’s the big deal. They will not get removed from office for not doing exactly what they said they would do during their campaign? Is it right to start judging his lack of fulfillment only within the first year of him being in office?

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