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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