Inflation Reduction Act
- Subsidized ACA
- It was to expire in 202, but now extended into 2025. So it was more of an extension than an accomplishment
- lowered Prescription drug prices
- added investment into clean energy
- Why do these laws come bundled in such dumbass ways? CHIPS and Science Act
- August 9, 2022
- $280 billion for domestic reserach and manufacturing of semiconductors in the US
- $39 billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing
- $13 billion for research and training
- Before act passed
- Samsung and Intel investing in manufacturing factories in the US
- Also GlobalFoundries and Texas Instruments I guess
- TODO: The fuck does TI do?
- Also GlobalFoundries and Texas Instruments I guess
- Samsung and Intel investing in manufacturing factories in the US
- After act passed
- Wolfspeed announced it will build the world’s largest silicon carbide semiconductor plant in North Carolina
- Micron Technology, TSMC, Texas Instruments, Integra, Bosch, Mersen all making plants in the US
- Biden’s gonna make “tech hubs”, whatever that means
- This + Inflation Reduction Act created ~104,000 jobs
- California probably won’t make any new manufacturing
- One factor is unreliable water supplies. I’m guessing because all they have is salt water from the ocean?
- But then Applied Materials said they’re gonna make some research and development center here anyways? $4 billion and 2,000 jobs, not too shabby Fighting climate
- smuggled it into the IRA but fuck it still good Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
- name is a misnomer - Rubio (R) wrote the bill, and it passed the senate unanimously, but it went back and forth, ultimately getting 234-193 vote (all 220 D, only 14/207 R)
- added funding to medicare for mental health services, particularly in schools
- requires all medicare/medicaid services to provide telehealth services
- implemented mental health system checks, school safety programs, gun control laws
- extended background checks for <21 year olds
- partial closure of the boyfriend loophole
- allows physically abusive ex-romantic partners/stalkers with previous convictions/restraining orders to access guns
- previously only applied to spouse or cohabitant, or if they share a child
- BSCA denies them access for 5 years in “dating relationships”
- doesn’t apply to restraining orders
No research!
- Restraint in U-R and in K-I
- Very messy, but at least he finally got out of Afghanistan
- Weak point imo, not convincing
https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1i70sor/biden_is_cool_and_all_but_some_things_i_cant_get/