Stefanie Feldman, a longtime Biden aide, will serve in a leading role.

President Joe Biden will announce the creation of the first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention on Friday, fulfilling a key demand of gun safety activists as legislation remains stalled in Congress, according to two people with direct knowledge of the White House’s plans.

Stefanie Feldman, a longtime Biden aide who previously worked on the Domestic Policy Council, will play a leading role, the people said.

Greg Jackson, executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund, and Rob Wilcox, the senior director for federal government affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety, are expected to hold key roles in the office alongside Feldman, who has worked on gun policy for more than a decade and still oversees the policy portfolio at the White House. The creation of the office was first reported by The Washington Post.

  • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    1 year ago

    Hopefully he can stay awake and read the teleprompter, and do exactly as he’s told.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Honest question: has he ever fallen asleep at the job? Because it seems that Trump came up with the moniker to slander him and everybody started pretending that he had

      • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Everytime I see footage of him lately, he doesn’t know where he is, where he’s suppose to be, and he’s obviously asking what he’s suppose to do.

          • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            Which mountain of videos on Youtube would you like first? The ones from CNN or all the right wing nutjobs channels like “Don’t walk, run”?

            Here’s a good CNN video where Anderson Cooper is salty that Republicans are calling it out, but are we seriously pretending that it’s normal for Presidents to parrot whatever shit gets handed to them?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOusB4FVjU

              • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
                24·
                1 year ago

                If only anything we said or did mattered, and we could’ve had a quality candidate actually win nominations for either party. I know where I was, and that was actively campaigning for Sanders only to watch the superdelegates fuck us all over despite him leading in popular votes.

                We watched it happen on the Republican side too back in 2008 with Ron Paul. So I don’t think it really matters where any “normal people” are when we get fuckheads like Trump and absent minded grandpa’s like Biden. It seems like we already knew, and picked the right candidates, and just get fucked over anyway. 'Merica

          • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            I sure can, the question is can you accept that the last two Presidents are dipshit puppets?

                • Lemminary@lemmy.world
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  Wait, what? What is this about? I’m asking about all this “recent footage” of the guy sleeping on the job and all I get is some biased YouTuber really stretching the truth and blatantly misrepresenting pieces of footage for what could have many interpretations about him. I could gather footage of most world leaders alive who have fumbled, tripped, or randomly paused mid-speech, edit it and make them look really dumb. But all I’m seeing is that what you’re accusing Biden of is simply not true and that it comes from Trump. The topic is the moniker “sleepy Joe” in case we forgot what we’re talking about.

                  Listen, I’m not here to take the man’s side–he’s not even my president. But you guys really seem like you get off on making things up about him for the sake of it. Let’s be grown ups and speak about things that have actually happened instead of falling for the lying orange man’s circlejerk. Why is Biden “sleepy”? My question was dead-simple.

                  • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    15·
                    1 year ago

                    Are any of the points brought up in that video invalid? He’s sleepy, senile, and useless as a leader. Seems like you’re real defensive, but I don’t know why. Whoever secures the nominations on either party doesn’t give a shit about you or what you think, and goes on to do what they’re told. Obama was the rare outlier that actually did good things while being articulate and skilled at addressing a crowd. He may have had his puppet strings too, but he was at least respectible. Biden’s a pathetic joke, and I don’t see any good coming out of the next election cycle.