Recommitting to Equity
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As part of his dismantling of Trump’s neoconfederate agenda, Biden is allowing transgender people to serve in the military:
Mr. Talbott, 27, has been trying to join the military for much of his adult life. He has a college degree, top physical scores, a spotless record and everything else that would make him an enticing candidate. “The only thing keeping me from serving my country is one word on my medical record,” he said, shaking his head.
That changed on Monday when President Biden signed an executive order reversing the ban on transgender troops that was imposed by the Trump administration. Mr. Biden’s order also called an immediate halt to involuntary discharges of transgender troops who were already serving, and for the Pentagon to review the files of any troops forced out under the ban in recent years. The order requires the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to report on progress withing 60 days.
In addition, the reconciliation COVID relief bill will include measures that would cut child poverty in half:
House Democrats are working on legislation proposed by President Joe Biden to expand the existing child tax credit, directing the IRS to send recurring monthly payments to American families, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.In one draft of the proposal, the IRS would deposit checks worth $300 every month per child younger than 6 and $250 every month per child age 6 to 17. This would give parents $3,000 per year for each child between the ages of 6 to 17, and $3,600 per child under age 6.
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CNN has reported that Biden’s stimulus proposal already faces Republican objections, and Senate Democrats have been laying the groundwork to use a rare procedural tactic known as reconciliation to pass major parts of the package if Republicans stall their efforts.
As a counterpoint, here’s Glenn Greenwald agreeing with fellow libertarian Nick Gillespie that Trump was better than Obama, because Trump’s much more extensive civilian casualties weren’t inflicted in new wars, a very important metric. I used to think that the foreign policy of LBJ and Nixon was extremely bad, but gee I have to reconsider given this highly principled argument that mere escalations of bloody conflicts is no big deal.
Anyway, if you completely ignore domestic policy and arbitrarily downplay the worst aspects of Trump’s foreign policy then Both Sides Do It but the Democrat Party is more neoliberal.