waruv
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I certainly won't defend the immigration stuff (the US is bass-ackwards on immigration and it's terrible) as rule enforcement is certainly something in his purview. I feel like the min wage and Raytheon deals* before other priorities probably have nuance to where Biden can do some things unilaterally and can't do some things unilaterally. Saying that the $15 min wage probably won't happen is less about Joe Biden (unless one thinks an EO on this would stand up) and more about Joe Manchin or other cold-footed Senators (given it'd probably be part of the COVID bill), likewise most of the intiiatives in the Raytheon tweet are also likely tied up in a COVID bill. There's valid reason to not wanting to do all of this via EO strategically and legally. The eviction moratorium has been extended already as a stopgap.
With that said, the sooner we can get COVID relief, any possible min wage increase, etc. out the better - it's just not a snap of the fingers.
*As an aside, I'd be...careful about quoting the Jackson Hinkle stuff in general. I've seen precious little sourcing for his allegations (often linking himself) and some of his most recent items are things like interviewing Tara Reade (?), criticizing Biden over his tweeting response to Texas (?!), a criticism on the "Squad's" lack of feedback on Assange (?!?) and others read a lot like the efforts on the far-left (and I'm ideologically not far from that) to do the "both sides suck" narrative that is often not based in truth or what Russian propagandists will do when posing as a far-left critical of Democrats. I don't think he's a Russian propagandist, just far-left, but I also don't trust his reporting. I know this was just an image/compilation but there's a ton of disinfo on Twitter from the far-left (if not nearly as much or as prominent as the far-right). The main, sourced, news stories I've found re : Biden and Raytheon was Raytheon saying they think he'll nix some large deals they had and a halting of a deal to the Saudis as a response to his change in government policy on Yemen.