at this point, he's the presumptive nominee. i want to hear him talking about what he intends to try to write into law or what orders he intends to pass as president to try to fix the situation.
it's a letter from a civilian (albeit a powerful one) to congresspeople. in the grand scheme, it's a relatively empty gesture that's being spun to appear as if Joe Is Doing Something. i get that he doesn't really have the power to do anything now but right now he definitely has an enormous amount of power to drive a lot of valuable discussion about the best solutions for when he does have the ability to actually do anything substantial. take the request to CEOs to "commit" to no stock buybacks for a year, sure it's a gesture, which i agree is valuable sometimes, but what is it actually doing for anybody?
i suppose my point is, so he wrote this letter. what actual good does it serve if there's no threat of a legal and permanent follow through from the biden administration? like, "no more stock buybacks please CEOs" is all well and good, but why isn't he following it up with "i'm going to make them illegal anyways when i'm president so you might as well adjust now"?
