It says everything about what kind of president he’s been that the past week wasn’t even the first time reports had circulated that Biden was about to make the decision. This is the president who accepted the nonbinding opinion of the Senate parliamentarian as the last word on any attempt to use the budget reconciliation process to carry out his campaign promise to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He’s the president whose former press secretary claimed four months ago that the only update she could give on his campaign promise to release nonviolent marijuana offenders serving federal time was that, a year and change into his presidency, Joe Biden was still “reviewing” his pardoning powers. Of course we ended up doing a ridiculous “will he or won’t he” dance about whether he would take the executive action on student loans that he could have taken on his first day in office.