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Joan E Greve in Washington

Progressives decry Biden’s pivot to center in run-up to 2024: ‘Feet to the fire’

Biden broke his 2020 campaign pledge of ‘no more drilling on federal lands’ when he approved the $8bn Willow project in Alaska this month.
Joe Biden broke his 2020 campaign pledge of ‘no more drilling on federal lands’ when he approved the $8bn Willow project in Alaska this month. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

When he was running for president in 2020, Joe Biden promised “no more drilling on federal lands, period”. This month, he approved an $8bn oil project in Alaska, violating that campaign pledge.

Biden had said he wholeheartedly supports granting statehood to the District of Columbia. Last week, he signed a Republican bill overturning changes to the DC criminal code, which critics attacked as a violation of home rule.

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