Biden still supports a $15 minimum wage. He just acknowledges that it would be very hard to win the 60 votes required to get it through the Senate, where the Democrats and independents hold 50 seats. Alternatively, tacking it onto another bill requiring a simple majority isn't a slam dunk either, as it requires approval that may not be forthcoming, and a couple of moderate Democrats (read, Senators with slim majorities from Republican-leaning states) are against that idea. So Biden is breaking no promises on the minimum wage, and despite being a demented career politician, seems to understand political processes a lot better than you do.

I'm curious; why do right-wing people feel the need to call their political opponents facile, puerile names? Trump and his entire family does it, as do you and many of your right-wing brethren here on EF.

As for the $2,000 Covid relief cheques, obviously you didn't pay attention the first time this was explained to you in crystal clear terms. Please search back through this thread. I believe it was 3Wishes who set out the details, although all you have to do is listen to the news to understand that the promise was to top up the woefully inadequate first relief cheque sent out by the Trump administration, to $2,000.


This is ancient history, nothing to do with trade deals, and at least to my mind, not really comparable to screwing a porn star while your third wife is pregnant (to name but one dalliance). And, no doubt, would have been just fine if Kamala Harris had been a man and had had an affair with a woman at City Hall -- but she's a woman, so that's completely unacceptable.

Also, see my comment on name-calling.

But it's interesting to see that you're confident that Harris will win the presidency. Pretty much a shoo-in if she's running against Trump.


Biden never said that. Please feel free to prove me wrong.

He did say that the Trump administration left no distribution plan for the vaccines, because it was spectacularly unhelpful and uncooperative with the handover, and whatever had been done was very poorly executed. So, call that a plan if you like, but Biden has certainly kicked distribution up several notches and is well on track to exceed his promised 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days, with almost 75 million doses injected already after just 40 days in office.

It must be so disappointing that Biden isn't living up to your expectations.

Harris' relationship with Willie Brown was certainly real and well documented, but suggesting that it got her to the VP position is a bit of a stretch! Also, who is California Dreamer to suggest that the relationship was not genuine... you know, like Trump's, with his much younger wife Melania—clearly a relationship based purely on love?

More than 206,000 people signed up for Affordable Care Act policies on the federal exchange in the first two weeks of the special enrollment period ordered by President Joe Biden,
Last year, only 76,000 people picked Obamacare plans during the second half of February

Uninsured Americans who want to buy 2021 coverage could start doing so on February 15, thanks to an executive order Biden signed in January.

Typically, signing up for coverage outside of the traditional enrollment period is restricted to those who lose their job-based policies or have a change in status, such as divorce.

Former House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell has sued former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Republican Rep. Mo Brooks in a second major lawsuit seeking to hold Trump and his allies accountable for inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.

The new lawsuit filed on Friday by Swalwell, a California Democrat who helped to lead impeachment arguments against Trump for inciting insurrection, follows a similar suit filed last month by Rep. Bennie Thompson against Trump, Giuliani and the extremist groups the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
Swalwell's case makes some of the same claims as Thompson's -- citing a civil rights law meant to counter the Ku Klux Klan's intimidation of elected officials.

Republicans are bashing the new $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package for further ballooning the federal debt, but it’s the Trump administration that greased the path for a smooth federal spending spree.

Surprisingly the Treasury has a cash pile of well over $1 trillion. That robust rainy-day fund was built last year by then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who preemptively cranked up the pace of government borrowing, unsure of how and when Congress might mandate further relief measures.

So, despite concerns that markets will be flooded with new U.S. government debt to pay for the rescue package, the Treasury Department might not have to change its borrowing plans much at all.

When Biden took office, Treasury’s deposits at the Fed stood at about $1.6 trillion, compared to $400 billion in 2019, and Treasury is expected to burn through about $1 trillion of that already-borrowed cash to help fund the relief package.