Because they stopped Covid Stimulus and had a massive cell phone airwave auction. January outlays fell 37% to $346 billion, partly as they did not include $142 billion in individual stimulus payments sent in January 2021. The surplus for the month also was helped by the recognition of $70 billion in proceeds from a wireless spectrum auction, a U.S. Treasury official said. - Yahoo
To Stop 'Endless Cycle of Death,' Biden Urged to Push Emergency Patent Waiver "President Biden must exercise his current power and bulk up Covid vaccine, test, and treatment production abroad," more than 80 civil society groups write in a new letter. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...eath-biden-urged-push-emergency-patent-waiver Biden isn't leading America, nor the world, on Covid. Shameful.
Biden won't waive the patents, even though the recipes were all discovered using federal money. It is pretty clear to me that Biden is protecting big pharma profits, over human lives. And, now the democrats are pushing to put an end to the pandemic, by telling us all to simply live with it. Biden and democrats are clearly following money, not science. Same as the republicans are doing. So, I don't see the leadership others somehow see. I simply see another traitor in the white house, chasing donor cash...
My wife and I have both been poked 3 times. I've been tested four times and my wife once. We've got masks galore.
Would be curious to know how Matt measures "success". Inflation at at a rate higher than in 40 years, and many things are up much more than the inflation rate. Our southern border is a joke. We were almost to energy independence, but now we are sending billions once again tot he Middle East, etc. China is no completely unchecked and we can see what Russia thinks of Biden. Maybe Matt is Russian?
All of that is beyond Biden's control, to the best of my knowledge. This has been the strongest recovery in US history. I'm not a fan of Biden's, but he's so much better than his predecessor that just not failing to win is a saving grace to this country and the world. Limiting the damage done by Trump is going to be incredibly expensive and painful. But it's far better than the alternative.
