Democrats have passed a long list of acts and policies that have helped the 99% while modern republicans have opposed them.
Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916
President Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Women’s Right to Vote – 1919
President Thomas Woodrow Wilson
National Labor Relations Act
(Wagner Act) – 1935
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Social Security Act of 1935
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Expanded under Presidents
Harry S. Truman – 1950
Lyndon B. Johnson – 1965
Rural Electrification Act – 1936
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Minimum Wage | 8-Hour Work Day |
40-Hour Work Week |
Overtime Pay | Child Labor Laws |
Safe Food and Drug Act – 1938
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Federal Food Assistance – 1939
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Expanded under
President Lyndon B. Johnson – 1964
GI Bill of Rights – 1944
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Right to Free Public Schools – 1944
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Employment Act of 1946
President Harry S. Truman
The Clean Water Act – 1948
President Harry S. Truman
Expanded under
President Jimmy Carter – 1977
Clean Air Act of 1963
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Equal Pay Act of 1963
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Equal Employment Opportunity – 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Head Start Program – 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Medicare and Medicaid – 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Pell Grants – 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson
President Barack Obama increased
number of awards – 2010
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Fair Housing Act of 1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson
National Energy Act of 1978
President Jimmy Carter
Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment
and Balanced Growth Act of 1978
President Jimmy Carter
Energy Security Act – 1980
President Jimmy Carter
Americans with Disabilities Act – 1990
Introduced by Senator Tom Harkin
Passed by Senate and House –
both majority Democrats
Family and Medical Leave Act – 1993
President Bill Clinton
Violence Against Women Act – 1994
President Bill Clinton
American Reinvestment & Recovery Act – 2009
President Barack Obama
Children’s Health Insurance
Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2009
President Barack Obama
Credit Card Holders’ Bill of Rights – 2009
President Barack Obama
Hate Crimes Prevention Act – 2009
President Barack Obama
Stem Cell Research – 2009
President Barack Obama
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – 2009
President Barack Obama
Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act – 2010
President Barack Obama
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010
President Barack Obama
Economic Recovery Plan – 2010
President Barack Obama
Middle Class Tax Cuts |
Strengthened Unemployment Benefits,
COBRA Health Insurance & Infrastructure Projects |
Education, Jobs & Medicaid Assistance Act – 2010
President Barack Obama
Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act – 2010
President Barack Obama
Rosa’s Law – 2010
President Barack Obama
Student Loan Reform – 2010
President Barack Obama
American Jobs Act – 2011
President Barack Obama
Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge
Act of 2012
President Barack Obama
American Taxpayer Relief Act – 2013
President Barack Obama
Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act – 2013
President Barack Obama
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act – 2013
President Barack Obama
Agricultural Act – 2014
President Barack Obama
Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention
for American Veterans Act – 2015
President Barack Obama
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
President Joe Biden
PPE & COVID-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension
Acts of 2021
President Joe Biden
Drinking Water & Wastewater Infrastructure
Act of 2021
President Joe Biden
COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
President Joe Biden
In addition to passing many progressive acts that help the 99%, Democrats have consistently been fighting to make the country more left and progressive.
Democrats all voted against the OBBB that funded the secret police and cut healthcare and help for the 99% in order to cut taxes to the rich.
Obama started DACA which protected young immigrants from deportation. He was also fighting to start DAPA which would have protected parents of citizens and residents but the act was blocked by a split supreme court. 4 liberal democrat appointed judges to 4 conservative republican appointed judges.
Republican judges voted against DAPA, and DACA was later blocked under Trump. Preventing new applicants.
Trumps run in with the supreme court was because he illegally deported people to CECOT. One of the worst prisons in the world.
Obama also started the “Cuban Thaw” which tried to better the relationship between Cuba and the US.
In 2016 Obama was the first president in almost 100 years to visit Cuba (since Coolidge in 1928).
He met with President Raul Castro and even opened up the US embassy in Cuba again.
He eased travel restrictions, and gave unlimited remittances which allowed cuban people to send and receive money externally.
Trump reversed the changes, but Biden eased restrictions again.
Currently Cuba is being starved under Trump appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Democrats have been more sympathetic to the far left, especially compared to Republicans who are currently starving Cuba.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=yurj
Democrats have successfully started universal childcare in New Mexico.
Healthcare in blue states is way better compared to the rest of the country.
Many blue states are also working on providing state universal healthcare. With Oregon, Washington, and California cliquing up to try and provide universal healthcare to their states.
https://www.nmececd.org/universal/
https://www.thirdway.org/memo/blue-states-fight-for-affordable-health-care