Watch and share: Biden's day-one accomplishments

Wednesday marked the beginning of a new era—and we're already seeing the impact.

Dear MoveOn member,

Wednesday marked the beginning of a new era—and we're already seeing the impact.

The first step to rejoining the Paris Agreement to confront climate change. A proposal for a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented Americans without any increased enforcement. The end of the Muslim and African Ban. And there is so much more President Biden and Vice President Harris can and will have to do to meet the crises of the moment—and their accomplishments require us to fight alongside them and push them and the Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress to govern boldly and swiftly to create real change.

Will you watch and share this video that highlights some of the accomplishments on day one? Check it out, share it, and use it to tell the world about how elections have consequences. Then recommit to working for even more progress toward an America that works for all of us through the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration and beyond.

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President Biden and Vice President Harris now have a historic opportunity to rise to meet a series of crises facing our country. The work of day one was inspirational. There's more to come—and so much more we need from them and the Democratic majorities in Congress:

• A massive COVID relief and stimulus package that puts people—not corporations—first, that includes recurring direct payments to Americans, a longtime plan to prevent a foreclosure and eviction crisis, free health care for all Americans, and coverage for undocumented Americans—building upon President Biden's framework to increase the minimum wage to $15, invest in vaccination distribution and testing, and bring relief to state and local governments.
• Sweeping measures to finally make our democracy work for all of us—to curtail the influence of money in politics, expand voting access, restore ethics and transparency, and more. This includes statehood for Washington, D.C., so that the hundreds of thousands of Americans in this majority-Black city are fully represented in the halls of Congress and have access to the resources they need and deserve.
• A moonshot level of focus and investment in combating climate change through a green recovery and an end to reliance on fossil fuels.
• Freeing millions of Americans from billions in student debt that is a burden on our economy and giving these Americans a chance to live their lives without the hardship of education debt.
• An overhaul of our criminal justice system to dismantle the carceral state and to defund the police who systematically use violence against Black and brown people.
• Restoring the rights of millions of LGBTQ+ people who deserve to be treated equally in health care, adoption, their service to their country, and every aspect of their lives.

And that's on top of working to make sure Republicans don't block essential stimulus measures and steps to confront the coronavirus, making President Biden's plan for immigration a reality, confirming bold appointees to the courts and critical commissions—all while Congress, the Department of Justice, and law enforcement agencies across the country need to tackle the threat of violent white supremacists and hold Trump and his seditious GOP enablers accountable for the violence they incited two weeks ago. Majority Leader Schumer must eliminate the filibuster, or all of this could be impossible to pass in the Senate.

Democrats must use every tool at their disposal to deliver real relief and progress to communities, from reforming the broken rules of our institutions to executive orders.

Trump may be gone, but let's not pretend that makes any of this work easy. Republicans will seek to block the Biden-Harris agenda. Democrats, eyeing a narrow majority, may be cautious. Big Money lobbyists will shout to be heard. Right-wing extremists and white supremacists still stand at the ready.

So we'll need to shout louder. We'll need to use our power.

Today, we can raise our voices with cheers of joy, relief, and hope at the new era and the progress we're already seeing. Share this Inauguration Day video on the big proposals President Biden has already enacted, and add what you want to see him do next.

Tomorrow, we'll double our efforts to raise our voices to demand the White House and Congress take aggressive steps and that we see solutions as big as the challenges we face.

Thanks for all you do.

–Emma, Cheryl, Anne, Elsie, and the rest of the team

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