Originally posted by Terraceth
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The President has substantial powers to do things with executive orders or through government agencies. So there are plenty of leftist things Biden could do if he wanted to. Here's the first couple of things that happen to spring to my mind: Get marijuana federally decriminalized by appointing people who want to do that to the federal agencies with the power to do that; Do a really substantial cancellation of student loan debts.
The marijuana thing seems like an obvious thing for even a somewhat right-wing politician to do: Lots of states are legalizing marijuana and it's a problem for and within those states that it's still federally illegal, so as a states-rights issue the federal prohibition needs to be removed so the states can do as they please on the subject. Biden's lack of movement on this is just sad... it's an easy vote winner, but I'm not sure that he's personally in favor of it.
As to student loans, leftists have been asking for things like a $50k write-off of all student loans and making them permanently interest-free. Biden's hummed and hawed for ages now, because apparently doing too much to help people might be too popular and they can't have that, but the latest idea that his advisors has said he's thinking about is a $10k write-off that will be means-tested and so involve enough paperwork to make it super difficult to access and will annoy everyone trying to do it and thus remove their thankfulness to Biden.
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