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- Former President Donald Trump recognized that the price of insulin is lower under President Joe Biden but still tried to take credit for it.
- Trump has lagged Biden on the issue of health care in recent voter surveys.
- Trump spent much of his term trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which covers roughly 45 million Americans, without offering an alternative health-care option.
From what I’ve read, and I’m happy to be corrected, what Trump tried to dictate through executive orders (that would get thrown out in courts), Biden lead Congress to actually write laws about.
From what actually happened…
Biden “struck it down” waited a couple years, and then when he stopped obstructing it, demanded we call him FDR
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-insulin-epipen/
Biden did not “strike it down”, he halted all EOs not in effect so their administration can review them (see: the first paragraph of the linked article). Instead of re-issuing an EO, something that can be withdrawn on a whim (see: your post), Biden did the actual hard work of working with Congress to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act. The $35 cap is now backed by law rather than by diktat. Trump took the lazy path and issued the EO in the last days of his Presidency - a Presidency he spent quite a long time using to try and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Try understanding the issue instead of spamming MAGA talking points.
This is why the horseshoe theory is bullshit.
The far right wings of any party are similar. Like, if a Republican shit talks trump, or says what trump is saying isn’t true, they’re called a commie Biden supporter. If a Dem says something isn’t perfect with Biden, or mentions how what he’s saying isn’t true, “moderates” they’re called a fascist trump supporter.
Meanwhile, the bulk of potential voters are so far left, that neither party comes close to represent you.
Big corporations have you out here defending Biden, when we should be protesting him. Just because the only other option they put up for you, is even worse.
Not only did a disappointing amount of people fall for it, both groups are so smug about it for some reason.
Sit down and think about Biden as a candidate sometime, not just as “not trump” because literally every fucking person besides trump is also “not trump”.
Both parties don’t give a fuck about you, or what you want.
And Dems are fine stopping one of the only good things trump ever did, just so a few years later Biden can take credit for it.
Fucking embarrassing
So when proven wrong, rather than defend your point - you change the argument to both sides are the same? You have to see how disingenuous that makes you look. It’s arguing in bad faith it’s why people laugh at you and don’t take you seriously.
Where was I proven wrong?
trump did this, Biden paused it for years, and now people are giving Biden credit and saying trump never did it…
Moderate Dems have been acting like trumpets since 2016, but I never thought we’d get to this level of reality denial.
Which is why I mentioned WB buying CNN and their openly announced plan for it.
I didn’t think they could, but look at this shit
Per your own comments others comments, and the damn article, Trump didn’t do this. Trump took the easy way out and signed an EO. An EO that could be overturned or paused at any time. Biden did the hard work and got a law passed. Laws can’t just be overturned, in fact Jefferson was in favor of a 19 year sunset term on every law that wasn’t part of The Constitution, because laws are so hard to repeal he called it the tyranny of dead generations.
Maybe try to live up to your username, and pay attention when multiple people spell out for you your erroneous feelings with the actual facts?
Cool, so far you’re good
But why did Biden pause it for years, then codify it (apparently, I keep being told Biden has nothing to do with that so stop asking him to).
We don’t even get into why if he did this, he can’t do anything else.
Why did he pause probably the only good thing trump did to codify it? Why was that one of Biden’s first acts?
Why not let Trump’s EO ride until it was passed by law?
Like, you just said:
But why did Biden have to pause that almost immediately after assuming office?
The Biden administration paused all the EOs that Trump signed, not just this one, though it may have been limited to the last year in office. They did so because Trump signed so many EOs in the last few months, that there is absolutely no way that he read them, and someone needed to do so. This one just happened to get caught up in that, and the Biden administration decided to make it so that this one would be permanent. I’m unsure how much Biden himself would have been involved in such decisions.
Biden is the most progressive president in the last 50 years. I dare you to name a better president in that time frame. Lmao.
What kind of question is that?
Obama and Bill Clinton where both more progressive than Biden…
Tell us you know nothing about politics without telling us you know nothing about politics…
While the Final Rule implementing EO 13937 was intended to increase access to affordable insulin and epinephrine, it did not fully understand FQHC operations and 340B Program mechanics, nor did it consider the possible negative consequences. If the Final Rule is implemented, it will do more harm than good in terms of ensuring access to care and medications for underserved populations
https://howardbrown.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Public-Comment-on-Proposed-Rescission-of-Executive-Order-13937.pdf
Fucking troll gtfo, or you a bot?