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Gestures at the Biden administration also refusing to revoke the medals, though for more mundane reasons.
As far as I'm aware, the Biden administration expressed opposition to the medals and was in the process of reviewing the awards.
Like so much of the Biden administration, it was too little, too late, done by process-oriented civility politics milquetoast neoliberal ghouls who valued precedent more highly than justice, or even self-preservation, but I don't think 'want to honor' the massacre is really the description of reviewing the validity of the medals.
Much more damning is that Biden waited until 2024 to order the review when there was no pressing political reason keeping him from doing so earlier, at least not after the hard-fought Inflation Reduction Act was passed in late 2022. I suppose Biden thought it a better tool to assist the 2024 election - typical of both his incompetence and opportunism that such a measure should be self-defeating on multiple levels, and that the rest of us should have to all fucking pay for it.