"America is complicit in this," said one critic of "this horrific war that Biden and his senior officials once promised to end."

"Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction," said one advocate, "but Biden is racing in the opposite direction."

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who introduced the Masks for All Act in July 2020, called the move "a good first step."

"Biden may have dodged a question today, but he won't be able to ignore 45 million student loan borrowers if he attempts to turn payments back on in May," said one advocate.

"Despite being under an FBI investigation," said progressive primary challenger Jessica Cisneros, the congressman from Texas "has once again proven that nothing can stop him from opposing our reproductive rights and freedoms."

"I will not stand by and I will not stay quiet while the fate of our democracy continues to hang loosely by a thread that the Senate is hellbent on tearing apart."