Uh Oh! Mad unicorns

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/24/democrats-must-be-trying-lose-progressives-fume-after-report-says-biden-budget

As a candidate, Biden said he would: enact a public option to create a government-run alternative to private insurance plans; reduce the sky-high and life-threatening prices of prescription drugs; cancel up to $10,000 of student loan debt per federal borrower; and raise the estate tax, which affects only the wealthiest 0.2% of U.S. households.

When Biden unveils his official budget proposal on Friday, however, none of those initiatives—which were already considered inadequate by progressives demanding Medicare for All, at least $50,000 of student debt relief, and substantially higher taxes on the super-rich—will be included, according to the Washington Post, which spoke with four unnamed individuals briefed on the matter.

Observers slammed the Biden administration for its about-face, warning that the White House's refusal to follow through on its promises will be the reason why "Democrats get routed in the midterms in 2022."

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/national-guard-leaving-washington-dc-capitol-riots/

Initially, the National Guardsmen were supposed to leave the nation’s capital in March, but Austin extended their mission for another two months at the request of U.S. Capitol Police.

That extension added roughly $111 million to the cost of the mission for a total of $521 million, according to the National Guard Bureau.

Overall, the National Guard’s mission to Washington, D.C., was a success, said retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led a security review following the Capitol riots.

Honoré said he believes the National Guard’s mission to the nation’s capital could have ended sooner.

“I think we kept too many of them there too long,” Honoré said. “Everybody was concerned between 1/6 and the inauguration that some s**t was going to go down, ok. They successfully secured the inauguration. That was what they were there for: to lock that place down working with all federal agencies in the district to ensure that we didn’t have a repeat of 1/6, and they did that magnificently.”

“I think if they do an after-action report that many will agree that they could have demobilized quicker,” he continued. “The more you use them, the less you got in the tank, and they were used a lot, and it was cold as hell.”