Biden administration

also referred to as: the biden administration

56 statements across 45 episodes · 5 bullish · 47 bearish · 22 people on the record · first statement Nov 25, 2020 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →

Everything said about Biden administration, oldest first

Nov 25, 2020 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Biden administration will continue deregulation in SEC, FCC, and Medicare
“I think what's going to happen is you're, I think you're going to continue to see deregulation in areas that are benign and non-controversial. So I think the SEC the FCC, I think all of these places you'll see movement. I think you'll probably actually see a l…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 25, 2020 ▶ 42:14 E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
Jul 23, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks claims Biden administration coordinates social media bans with Big Tech
“She just sort of casually mentioned that, oh yeah, by the way, the administration is flagging posts for a social media company, for big tech companies to take down, to remove. And posts, yeah, and she just kind of meant, Just casually mentions, oh yeah, the bi…”
David Sacks Jul 23, 2021 ▶ 51:49 E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
May 16, 2022 negative
Opinion
Musk: Biden administration lacks drive to execute compared to Trump team
“The Trump administration, leaving Trump aside, there were a lot of people in the administration who were effective at getting things done. So But this administration seems just to not have like the drive to just get it done. That, that that, that's why it's, t…”
Elon Musk May 16, 2022 ▶ 1:15:01 Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
May 31, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Litinsky: Trump and Biden administrations both issued rare earth executive orders
“There were executive orders on the rare earth magnetics industry specifically, both in the Trump administration and in the Biden administration.”
James Litinsky May 31, 2022 ▶ 26:51 #AIS: MP Materials CEO James Litinsky on rare earths, supply chain, and energy independence
Jun 24, 2022 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: Biden administration gave the Federal Reserve climate and equity mandates
“And actually the administration has been trying to add mandates. They basically gave the Fed a mandate around climate change. They gave them a mandate around equity.”
David Sacks Jun 24, 2022 ▶ 30:24 E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
Jul 29, 2022 negative
Opinion
Sacks blames Powell and Biden for inflation-driven 2022 recession
“The cause of this recession is inflation. If you look at the economy's growth on in nominal terms, it grew at seven, Point something percent, but because inflation was at nine percent, you have to subtract them in real terms, the economy is shrinking. And who …”
David Sacks Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 8:02 E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
Nov 19, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Senate GOP leadership aligns with Biden on Ukraine foreign policy
“McConnell and the Senate Republican leadership are very much on board with the Biden administration's policy on this. They are very, very hawkish. It's really the uniparty on this issue. There's really just one consolidated blob.”
David Sacks Nov 19, 2022 ▶ 4:51 E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
Nov 19, 2022 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Biden administration is keeping Trump in news to provoke 2024 run
“I actually suspect now that what the Biden administration's trying to do is keep Trump in the news. I think they actually want to provoke him. They want him to run.”
David Sacks Nov 19, 2022 ▶ 8:25 E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
Jul 9, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Over seven million undocumented immigrants crossed U.S. border under Biden
“You've had seven million plus illegals come across it during the Biden administration, and the administration obviously doesn't have the will to do anything about it.”
David Sacks Jul 9, 2023 ▶ 1:03:59 E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Biden administration crypto policy pushed tech jobs overseas
“The Biden administration with Warren and Gensler has not been Good for Americans on this dimension, and it's pushed a lot of tech jobs overseas.”
Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 25:07 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
Oct 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks claims Biden administration sold unused border wall material for scrap
“The Biden administration was actually selling those pieces of wall for scrap metal for two cents on the dollar.”
David Sacks Oct 7, 2023 ▶ 36:43 E148: McCarthy ousted, border chaos, Cruise's robotaxi "accident" & more
Dec 1, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sachs: Russia-Ukraine war has always been about NATO expansion
“There was a deal on the table to shut the war down. We just would have had to agree to make Ukraine neutral. And of course the Biden administration told them not to this war is and has always been about NATO expansion.”
David Sacks Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:10:04 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
Jan 26, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Abbott will likely lose in court but win public opinion
“Well, I think Governor Abbott here is probably gonna lose in a court of law, but he's gonna win in the court of public opinion.”
David Sacks Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 40:50 E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
Mar 29, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Biden 2025 budget proposal totals over $7.2 trillion
“The current budget proposal from the Biden administration calls for over 7.2 trillion dollars to be spent next year.”
David Friedberg Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 45:13 E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
Apr 12, 2024 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Biden election stimulus actions will further fuel inflation
“The actions that the administration is likely to take to support themselves in the election cycle are likely going to further fuel inflation.”
David Friedberg Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 33:07 E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
Jun 20, 2024 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Trump: Biden sold unused border wall materials for pennies on the dollar
“They sold it for five cents on the dollar, much of it, five cents on the dollar.”
Donald J. Trump Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 41:56 In conversation with President Trump
Jul 4, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Biden administration pressured social media companies to remove user speech
“And basically what that case was about was the Biden administration was engaged in attempts To influence or pressure social media companies to take down speech. It's a practice known as jawboning.”
David Sacks Jul 4, 2024 ▶ 38:56 Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
Jul 19, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks claims Biden administration provoked Ukraine war via NATO expansion talks
“I said the Biden administration provoked the war with talk of NATO expansion.”
David Sacks Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 39:37 Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
Oct 3, 2024 negative
What-if
Sacks: Biden administration shot down early Russia-Ukraine peace deal
“We could have agreed to a deal in the first month. The Biden administration shot that down. That is why we have the war going in Ukraine.”
David Sacks Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:27:16 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
Oct 3, 2024 bearish
Prediction Partly held up
Friedberg: US debt could reach $40 trillion by end of 2025
“Plus, the Biden administration has proposed a 7.2 trillion dollar budget for next year, which will inevitably lead to another two trillion dollars of deficit spending, which means that by the end of 2025, we could be staring at 40 trillion dollars of federal d…”
David Friedberg Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:09:36 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
Jan 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Cruz: Biden administration issued over 90 regulations designed to raise energy costs
“Where the Biden administration's put in over 90 different regulations and executive orders all designed to drive up the cost of energy.”
Senator Ted Cruz Jan 19, 2025 ▶ 26:48 Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
Mar 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Bessent: Biden-era peacetime spending during economic growth was unprecedented in US history
“Endless spending, but endless spending when we were in, like, solid economic territory, or not in a war, first time ever”
Scott Bessent Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 12:14 The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
Mar 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Bessent: Federal spending expanded to 25% of GDP under Biden
“I keep saying the U.S., we don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. Because we are averaging right about 18% revenue. And I'm talking about federal government. Federal government only. We're at about 18%, and Biden administration blew it out, …”
Scott Bessent Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 23:21 The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
Mar 19, 2025 negative
Opinion
Bessent accuses Biden administration of targeting hybrid vehicles
“But this administration had a jihad on hybrids, because they're, it, they didn't pass the purity test.”
Scott Bessent Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 1:10:13 The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
Mar 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Bessent: Biden-era CPI rose ~22% while Everyman Index rose over 30-35%
“CPI went up about 22 during the period, but the Everyman Index was up over 30, 35%, because the bottom 25%, the bottom 50% of wage earners have a different basket than we do, and it inflated much faster.”
Scott Bessent Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 14:26 The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Summers: Canceling Keystone Pipeline and pausing LNG exports were clear mistakes
“Canceling the Keystone Pipeline was a clear mistake. I thought the stopping a variety of things involving liquid natural gas were a clear mistake. So I think the Biden administration's approach to regulation that empowered every NGO with respect to stopping tr…”
Larry Summers Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 41:33 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Chamath: Biden administration refused calls on rare earths, batteries, and AI chips
“As a businessman, when I was building, Ezra, just to be clear, critical rare earth supplies for America, Under the Biden administration. Battery can materials to compete with China under the Biden administration. AI chips to be the best inference solution unde…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 1:10:46 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
Apr 11, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Biden IRA tax credits removed investment uncertainty in energy markets
“Inside the IRA, I think that there were two things, and I've said this pretty repeatedly, but I just want to put it on the record again. The ITC credits and the ITC transfer markets for those credits, the tax equity markets, are critical industries in America …”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 47:05 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
May 6, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
North Dakota engaged in 30 lawsuits against the Biden administration
“When I left office last December, just December as governor, I was involved in 30 lawsuits against the Biden administration.”
Doug Burgum May 6, 2025 ▶ 8:22 Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior | All-In DC
May 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Gracias: Biden administration raised citizenship database API fees, deterring states
“In the Biden administration, they raised the price, when I think about a dollar, an API call, to three dollars and change the API call, and all the states stop using it.”
Antonio Gracias May 21, 2025 ▶ 21:25 Antonio Gracias: DOGE updates, Voter fraud, Finding 'Big Balls' | All-In Live from Miami
May 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Biden administration required individual Commerce licenses for Middle East GPU exports
“In October, 20, 23, the Biden administration basically put a blanket on the whole region, acquiring semiconductors, GPUs. And it required that every export of a GPU or a server that contains a GPU had to get a specific license from the commerce department.”
David Sacks May 24, 2025 ▶ 59:46 Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
May 31, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Biden administration AI policies undermined US competitiveness against China
“And the policies under the Biden administration were doing the opposite of all those things.”
David Sacks May 31, 2025 ▶ 24:41 AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Loeffler: Biden administration banned SBA loans for purchasing AI technology
“In fact, with regard to AI, the Biden administration banned the use of SBA based loans for use of purchasing technology and AI.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:18:04 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
Jul 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Calacanis: Sacks in White House gives tech access denied under Biden
“That was something we didn't have in the Biden administration not to make it political, but we didn't have a seat at the table, and now we have David Sachs in the White House, so this is a real turnaround”
Jason Calacanis Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 25:15 Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Bessent: Biden-era deficit hit 6.7% of GDP, a peacetime record
“The budget deficit, which was running about 6.7% of GDP under the Biden administration, highest, highest that we'd ever had when we weren't at war or in a recession”
Scott Bessent Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 0:35 Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Opinion
Shapiro: Trump administration picks market winners better than Biden administration
“You know, if you basically are now relegated to a choice between the winners that are picked by the Trump administration and the winners picked by the Biden administration, you know, from a political point of view, I'm going to pick the winners picked by the T…”
Ben Shapiro Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 44:42 OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Insight
Calacanis: Biden administration used FTC and censorship requests to pressure Big Tech
“They also put Lena Kahn in. Now Zuckerberg is a cutthroat business executive. He likes to buy companies. That's his thing. And Twitter was known for buying a lot of companies. So now you got Lena Kahn saying, We're gonna come down hard on you, not let you buy …”
Jason Calacanis Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 9:30 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Opinion
Schmitt: Federal censorship was the greatest First Amendment affront in US history
“Fast censorship enterprise that existed that, in my view, was the greatest affront to the First Amendment we've ever seen in the history of our country.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 3:17 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Aug 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Missouri v. Biden discovery shows federal censorship on social media
“He brought the lawsuit, Biden v. Missouri, which exposed the Biden administration's censorship apparatus that they ran through social media companies. This was the government side of the Twitter files, and the discovery he brought when married with the Twitter…”
David Sacks Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 5:27 AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
Sep 8, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Wright: U.S. retail electricity prices rose 25% under Biden administration
“We saw retail electricity prices rose 25% during the Biden administration. Wholesale electricity prices rose far more than that, over 50%.”
Chris Wright Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 25:03 The Hidden Truth About the US Energy Grid: Subsidies, Demand & Rising Prices - Chris Wright
Sep 27, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: The Biden administration deliberately opened the U.S. southern border
“It was done deliberately. They opened the border and you know that. Because remember when Texas tried to put up barbed wire to enforce their own border. The Biden Controlled Border Patrol got rid of it. They removed it. So this was done deliberately.”
David Sacks Sep 27, 2025 ▶ 25:02 H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Opinion
Khanna says Biden administration allowed too many people without proper border security
“We need a secure border. The border let, we let in too many people under the Biden administration without having the proper security. I think the Democrats need to acknowledge that, own up to that, and say that we need to make sure that there are there is a se…”
Ro Khanna Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 6:28 Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Opinion
Sacks claims Biden's AI mandates were designed for long-term ideological indoctrination
“By the way, in my opinion, That was the end game for the Biden approach of requiring DEI values in these models.”
David Sacks Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 1:22:10 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Opinion
Pete Buttigieg concedes Biden administration failed to act early on border security
“I would agree that the last administration didn't do enough and didn't do enough early enough on the border.”
Pete Buttigieg Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 40:25 Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
Oct 30, 2025 negative
What-if
Chamath: Biden AI rules would have caused US to lose to China
“These diffusion rules, the gatekeeping, all of those things, Pete, would have seen us lose to China.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 59:55 Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
Nov 22, 2025 neutral
What-if
Chamath: Biden administration would have leaked Epstein files if Trump was implicated
“If you had something that was incredibly salacious and accusatory of, Trump, it would have been released during the Biden administration because it would have made a lot of sense politically to try to damage his candidacy. So the fact that we haven't seen much…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 22, 2025 ▶ 2:49 Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Bessent claims 40% of 2024 federal spending happened in Q4
“So last year, 20, 24, 40% of the government spending occurred in the fourth quarter as they had the unsuccessful Or their unsuccessful attempt to convince voters that they weren't in a world of hurt.”
Scott Bessent Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 2:02 Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Bessent states cumulative inflation reached 21% to 22% under the Biden administration
“I think cumulative CPI during the Biden administration was 21, 22%.”
Scott Bessent Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 17:30 Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
Jan 15, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Makary: FDA sent zero drug ad enforcement letters in previous year
“The Biden folks in the year before I came to the FDA sent out zero enforcement letters. A department of about 35 people in charge of sending out enforcement letters sent out zero enforcement letters.”
Dr. Marty Makary Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 1:10:27 Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
Jan 15, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Makary: FDA halted Biden-era policy allowing CAR-T cell editing in China
“We did find that there was in the Biden administration approval to have the cells of Americans for CAR T therapy shipped to China where the Chinese did the gene editing and then shipped back to the United States. To infuse in Americans. When I found out about …”
Dr. Marty Makary Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 30:25 Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Biden administration pressured social networks to censor content
“And I would say President Trump, because I do think that that, President Trump's election definitely changed the direction of free speech in the United States, never mind the rest of the world, because I think under the Biden administration, we now know from c…”
David Sacks Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 31:15 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
Jan 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: Biden's AI executive order contained 20 pages of DEI language
“One of the things that we were so concerned about with that by an executive order on AI that we were sending in the first week is that it had 20 pages of language on DEI, and it was promoting this idea that AI models need to build in a DEI layer.”
David Sacks Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 43:49 Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
Jan 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Armstrong: Biden administration unlawfully tried to kill US crypto industry
“The Biden administration really tried to unlawfully kill this industry in America”
Brian Armstrong Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 2:54 Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
Feb 10, 2026 negative
Opinion
CZ: The Biden administration was hostile and declared war on crypto
“Overall though, I would just say the Biden administration overall is quite hostile to crypto. I mean, they openly announced war on crypto.”
Changpeng Zhao (CZ) Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 1:01:44 Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next
Jun 10, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
McCormick: Pennsylvania overdose deaths fell 60% to 1,600 this year
“We had 4000 people who died in Pennsylvania in the last year of the Biden administration at 1600. This year it's down 60%, those same statistics nationally.”
Senator Dave McCormick Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 13:04 Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner
Jun 19, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Biden administration AI policy leaders immediately joined Anthropic
“The leaders of the Biden administration's AI policy, not just one of them, but all of them, went to go work at Anthropic, like, the minute the Biden administration was over.”
David Sacks Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 1:05:22 World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
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