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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/01/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-build-black-wealth-and-narrow-the-racial-wealth-gap/

 

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One hundred years ago, the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street,” was ruthlessly attacked by a violent white supremacist mob. An estimated 300 Black Americans were killed and another 10,000 were left destitute and homeless.

The destruction wrought on the Greenwood neighborhood and its families was followed by laws and policies that made recovery nearly impossible. The streets were redlined, locking Black Tulsans out of homeownership and access to credit. Federal highways built through the heart of Greenwood cut off families and businesses from economic opportunity. And chronic disinvestment by the federal government in Black entrepreneurs and small businesses denied Black Wall Street a fair shot at rebuilding. These are the stories of Greenwood, but they have echoes in countless Black communities across the country.

Because disparities in wealth compound like an interest rate, the disinvestment in Black families in Tulsa and across the country throughout our history is still felt sharply today. The median Black American family has thirteen cents for every one dollar in wealth held by White families.

Today, on the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new steps to help narrow the racial wealth gap and reinvest in communities that have been left behind by failed policies. Specifically, the Administration is expanding access to two key wealth-creators – homeownership and small business ownership – in communities of color and disadvantaged communities.

The Administration will:

Take action to address racial discrimination in the housing market, including by launching a first-of-its-kind interagency effort to address inequity in home appraisals, and conducting rulemaking to aggressively combat housing discrimination.
 
Use the federal government’s purchasing power to grow federal contracting with small disadvantaged businesses by 50 percent, translating to an additional $100 billion over five years, and helping more Americans realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
 
The Administration is also releasing new information regarding President Biden’s American Jobs Plan proposals to create jobs and build wealth in communities of color:

A new $10 billion Community Revitalization Fund to support community-led civic infrastructure projects that create innovative shared amenities, spark new local economic activity, provide services, build community wealth, and strengthen social cohesion.
 
$15 billion for new grants and technical assistance to support the planning, removal, or retrofitting of existing transportation infrastructure that creates a barrier to community connectivity, including barriers to mobility, access, or economic development.
 
A new Neighborhood Homes Tax Credit to attract private investment in the development and rehabilitation of affordable homes for low- and moderate-income homebuyers and homeowners.
 
$5 billion for the Unlocking Possibilities Program, an innovative new grant program that awards flexible and attractive funding to jurisdictions that take steps to reduce needless barriers to producing affordable housing and expand housing choices for people with low or moderate incomes.
 
$31 billion in small business programs that will increase access to capital for small businesses and provide mentoring, networking, and other forms of technical assistance to socially and economically disadvantaged businesses seeking to access federal contracts and participate in federal research and development investments.

 

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Senate Democrats missed their window to undo most of Trump's last-minute rule-making

 

Congressional Democrats made sparing use of a law that allows them to immediately overturn the Trump administration's last-minute flurry of "midnight regulations" — including measures that weakened environmental protections, permitted discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and made it harder for shareholders to hold corporations accountable.

 

While the Democrats were juggling many priorities over the past several months — including impeaching former President Donald Trump and passing a massive pandemic relief package — the inaction on many of the last-minute Trump rules disappointed some progressive advocates, who had urged the party to strike the rules as quickly as possible.

 

"It's disappointing because it's so important," said Sasha Buchert, a senior attorney for Lambda Legal, a civil rights advocacy organization focused on LGBTQ issues. The group had pushed Congress to undo a Trump-era rule allowing social services providers receiving federal funds to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity, but lawmakers did not act in time to reverse it immediately.

 

The Congressional Review Act allows lawmakers to eliminate recently finalized regulations quickly, requiring only simple majorities in both the House and the Senate. (Such resolutions cannot be filibustered in the Senate.) But it allows a limited time to act: After a rule is finalized, lawmakers must introduce a resolution of disapproval within 60 days that Congress is in session. In the early months of the Trump administration, the Republican-controlled Congress used the law to eliminate 14 Obama-era rules.

 

During the Biden administration, Senate Democrats passed resolutions to eliminate only three Trump rules during the same period — and the deadline for Senate action closed the last week of May. 

 

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On 3/26/2021 at 9:22 AM, Riggo-toni said:

Revoking the Keystone pipeline doesn't seem like a good idea to me.  Besides killing jobs,  I think the short to medium term carbon emissions would increase because oil would have to be transported via trucks. I am all for the government adding mega funds to advance green research, but this just seems like a misguided publicity move.

The best way to reduce carbon emissions is a carbon tax.

 

On 3/26/2021 at 9:55 AM, bearrock said:

Honestly, I'm not all that well versed on the Keystone pipeline issue, but wasn't Biden pretty consistent during the campaign that he was going to rescind the permit?  Do I have that wrong?

 

The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Officially Dead

 

In a shocking move, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has announced it will no longer move forward with the project. The controversial pipeline has been at the center of a fight over Indigenous treaties, land rights, and the permitting process. Now, it’s dead.

 

TC Energy, the company behind the pipeline project, announced that on Wednesday that “after a comprehensive review of its options, and in consultation with its partner, the Government of Alberta, it has terminated the Keystone XL Pipeline Project.” The project’s permits were rejected by former President Barack Obama, reinstated by former President Donald Trump, and rescinded again by President Joe Biden on his first day in office. The political seesaw, years of lawsuits, and spirited public opposition to the pipeline appear to have worked. (Disclosure: Prior to becoming a journalist, in 2011, I was arrested at a Keystone XL protest. It was worth it.)

 

“When this fight began, people thought Big Oil couldn’t be beat,’ Bill McKibben, author and the founder of 350 who has fought the pipeline for more than a decade, said in a statement. “But when enough people rise up we’re stronger even than the richest fossil fuel companies.”

 

The project would’ve transported a staggering 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the Alberta tar sands across the border. The pipeline raised risks of an environmental catastrophe, especially Nebraska’s Sand Hills, where delicate geology meant a spill could’ve contaminated drinking water supplies.

 

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1 minute ago, PleaseBlitz said:

Underreported story:  How nice it is for POTUS to go abroad and have a nice, normal meeting with foreign leaders without being massively protested, him being videotaped shoving a leader, or his moron children interrupting important conversations.  

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/11/g7-summit-live-updates/

 

 

It says a lot when Boris Johnson says Biden is a breath of fresh air. 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-johnson-hails-biden-a-big-breath-fresh-air-2021-06-10/

 

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It says a lot when Boris Johnson says Biden is a breath of fresh air. 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-johnson-hails-biden-a-big-breath-fresh-air-2021-06-10/

 

 

I really can't get over how weird a dude Boris Johnson is for being the PM of a pretty normal nation.  His wife is half his age, he looks like a muppet, and his Wikipedia page lists is number of children as "at least 6."

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Biden names 9 ambassador nominees, including for Israel, NATO

 

President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled nine nominees for ambassadorships, including for Israel, NATO and Mexico. Among the names was hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, whose quick thinking and deft skills saved lives when he landed a disabled plane in the Hudson River.

 

The nominees consisted of five political appointees and four career government officials. Some had expected Biden to release the slate last month, but vetting and other issues delayed the announcement, which comes as Biden is in Europe meeting with allies and preparing to hold a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

 

Tom Nides, a banking executive and former deputy secretary of State will be named for the spot in Jerusalem, while Julianne Smith, a longtime foreign policy adviser to Biden, is up for the NATO position in Brussels. Ken Salazar, a former U.S. Interior secretary, is up for the Mexico City job.

 

Sullenberger will be nominated as the U.S. representative to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization. His 2009 actions, called the “Miracle on the Hudson,” have led to movies and other fame.

 

The fifth political appointee is Cynthia Ann Telles, a clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. A fluent Spanish speaker, Telles is up for the ambassadorship to Costa Rica.

 

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Judge halts Biden pause on new public lands oil leasing

 

A federal judge has issued an order temporarily blocking the Biden administration's pause on new oil and gas leasing on public land and waters.

 

The preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty follows lawsuits over the leasing pause from more than a dozen Republican-led states.

 

Doughty, a Trump appointee in Louisiana, did not make an ultimate determination as to the legality of the pause on Tuesday,  but rather blocked the move while the court case against it proceeds.

 

However, he did find that the states had a "substantial" likelihood to succeed on the merits of their claim and that they were able to demonstrate a "substantial" threat of irreparable harm. 

 

The ruling is something of a setback for the Biden administration, which had paused issuing new drilling leases on federally-owned land and water while it reviews and reconsiders its current leasing and permitting practices.

 

An Interior Department spokesperson told The Hill via email that the department will abide by the decision while continuing its review. 

 

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