CLIMATE CHANGE
First 100 days has never made sense; climate activists proved that this week
One thousand days into the Biden administration and policy change keeps happening, this time with the launch of a new Climate Corps
When then-candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders formed their Unity Task Force in the summer of 2020, many dismissed it as little more than a show. Sanders was on his way out of the race, and the task force — a team made up of an equal number of Biden and Sanders/Warren policy advisors, charged with writing a consensus policy report for the rest of the campaign — was just a way to secure an endorsement and paper over on differences within the party.
This week, 974 days into his term, Joe Biden proved that wasn’t the case. In doing so, he reinforced why the arbitrary first 100 days in office mark makes so little sense to judge presidents or the success of a activists during a campaign (research, including by Casey Dominguez, does suggest presidents are more…
