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“Shuttering USAID was first proposed by Clinton's Secretary of State Warren Christopher. In 1998, Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act bringing USAID under the Secretary of State's direct authority, with Senator Biden's support.”
“Democrats called Trump's plan to reorganize USAID 'what the beginning of dictatorship looks like' and 'threatening lives all over the world.'”
Democrats supported restructuring USAID under Clinton with Biden's explicit vote, then called similar efforts under Trump dictatorial, applying different standards based on which party pursued the reorganization
“Democrats spent years denouncing Trump's executive orders as presidential overreach and threats to democracy.”
“Democrats who condemned Trump's executive overreach enthusiastically supported Biden's executive student loan forgiveness plan, which attempted to bypass Congress to cancel roughly $400 billion in debt.”
Democrats who criticized Trump's executive actions as threats to democracy enthusiastically supported Biden's executive overreach on student loans, demonstrating the same partisan double standard they accused Republicans of
“90 Democratic members of Congress voted for the 2006 Secure Fence Act authorizing 700 miles of border fencing, including senators Obama, Clinton, and Schumer.”
“Democrats unanimously opposed Trump's border wall, with many calling any physical border barrier immoral, racist, or unnecessary.”
Many of the same Democrats who voted for 700 miles of border fencing in 2006 described any border barrier as immoral or racist when proposed by a Republican president
“Democrats used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's judicial nominees and warned that eliminating the filibuster for judicial nominations would be a 'raw abuse of power'.”
“Democrats invoked the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster for executive and judicial nominations when Republicans used the same tactic against Obama's nominees.”
Democrats passionately defended the judicial filibuster when they were using it to block Bush nominees, then eliminated it when Republicans used the same tool against Obama nominees
“Democrats attacked Bush's warrantless surveillance programs as unconstitutional violations of civil liberties and the Fourth Amendment.”
“Many Democrats defended Obama's expansion of NSA surveillance and the drone program, with 56% of Democrats approving of drone strikes in Pew polling.”
Democrats attacked Bush's surveillance programs as unconstitutional, then defended similar or expanded programs under Obama, with public opinion among Democrats shifting based on which party occupied the White House