Throughout the presidency of Donald Trump, lies like “promises made, promises kept” were promoted as truth. Of course it was a lie, Trump didn’t get rid of Obamacare “on day one,” he didn’t get any checks from Mexico to pay for any “big, beautiful wall,” and he didn’t lock up anyone named Clinton in any prisons – but it sounded good to Trump and he knew he could convince his hapless followers that it was the truth.
Enter Joe Biden, and some of the more impactful promises made by Trump have actually gotten done.
Biden got it done. pic.twitter.com/rMy5vXhTNt
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 16, 2021
For instance, the twice-impeached ex-president who never won the popular vote promised investment in infrastructure, an investment that would most benefit the lower and middle classes, providing good, union jobs and a more accessible economy in which a vastly larger number of Americans could have a chance at the American dream. Instead, his signature legislative achievement was tax cuts for the wealthy.
President Joe Biden, on the other hand, hasn’t even been in office for a year, but he’s already passed a large infrastructure package. The Lincoln Project pointed out to Republicans that they missed the boat. During the signing of the bill, Biden said:
‘This law delivers on that long-overdue promise, in my view. It creates better jobs for millions of Americans. And no one — no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay a single penny in federal taxes because of it.
‘And it does not include — as we did the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, it does not include a single penny in gas tax, which I rejected because people under $400,000 would be paying it.
‘This law is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America. It leaves no one behind. And it makes — it marks an inflection point that we face as a nation.’
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