A group of progressive organizations, including Justice Democrats and the Sunrise Movement, highlighted the pressure points in a memo published this week that graded Biden's first 100 days and spelled out the left's agenda going forward.
The authors described the American Rescue Plan as "an important step toward stabilizing the country" and cheered the administration for acting decisively when it became clear Republicans weren't coming onboard. They also highlighted Biden's rapid Covid response, his early rhetoric on climate change and the creation of a White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, choosing progressive Deb Haaland to run the Interior Department and his recent commitment to fully withdraw US troops from Afghanistan.
But its kicker, after listing the issues where Biden had yet to move, was stark.
"The honeymoon," they wrote, "is over."
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