Source: Reference News Network
Reference News Network reported on January 18 that US President-elect Biden formulated a lightning-fast administrative measure plan at the beginning of his term of office to reverse Trump's most controversial policies and respond to the new crown epidemic.
According to bloomberg news websites reported on January 17, Biden's appointed White House chief of staff, Ron Klein, introduced Biden's 10-day agenda plan in a memo to the incoming white house advisers: it will begin to deal with "four overlapping and mutually reinforcing crises", namely the new crown epidemic, the economic recession caused by the epidemic, climate change, and the national reflection on racial equality issues after the "black lives matter" movement.
"In the first 10 days in office, President-elect Biden will take decisive steps to resolve the four major crises, prevent other pressing and irreversible harms, and restore America's place in the world," Klein wrote. ”
Klein said Biden will first issue about 12 executive orders on inauguration day. Inauguration Day is a federal holiday, with ceremonies and celebrations, and presidents often don't actually do their work.
Klein said the first-day directive will focus on measures to mitigate covid-19 and its economic impact, including extending student loan repayment deadlines beyond Jan. 31 and suspending evictions and extending mortgage redemption periods. Biden will also launch the 100-Day Mask Challenge, which introduces new enforcement measures that require masks to be worn on federal agency premises and interstate travel.
For the new government, the "first day" of office is usually a rhetorical device. Measures announced on the same day often take days, weeks, or even longer to actually roll out. But during the campaign and since his election, Biden has repeatedly promised to act immediately on the "first day" of his inauguration to set an overriding list of priorities.
Klein said Biden will issue a number of orders in his first 10 days in office "to highlight the actions being taken by the president-elect."
Andrew Rudalevich, an expert on executive orders at Bowden College who studies executive orders, said Biden may be eager to prove that the White House has restored order in the wake of Trump's chaotic governing style and assured Key Democratic constituency groups that priorities they care about are coming soon.
According to the Associated Press Washington reported on January 16, Klein, the white house chief of staff, said on the 16th that biden intends to issue executive orders immediately after taking office, gradually cancel some of the most controversial decisions of the former president, and begin to deal with the extremely serious new crown epidemic.
Biden will launch a 10-day lightning campaign that does not pass an immediate executive order from Congress to redirect the United States after Trump leaves office.
According to reports, after the inauguration ceremony on the 20th, Biden will end Trump's restrictions on citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries to immigrate to the United States, rejoin the Paris climate agreement, and enforce orders that must wear masks on federal agency premises and interstate travel. Klein said they were among more than a dozen executive orders biden would issue on his first day in the White House.
"President-elect Biden will act not only to reverse the devastation caused by the Trump administration, but to move our country forward," Klein said in the memo. ”
Klein said that "fully achieving" Biden's goals requires Congress to pass bills, including the $1.9 trillion epidemic relief bill proposed by Biden on the 14th. Biden will also introduce a sweeping immigration policy reform bill to Congress on his first day in office. Klein also said that on the second day of his inauguration, Biden will sign an outbreak-related order aimed at safely resuming school and expanding the scale of virus testing. On the third day, Biden will take action to provide financial assistance to those who have suffered financial losses during the pandemic.
Mr. Klein said biden's second week in office would also take steps related to criminal justice reform, climate change and immigration, including speeding up the reunification of family members separated at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of Trump's policies.
In addition, according to the New York Times website reported on January 16, Biden has inherited a series of crises that are different from previous presidents, and he plans to launch a 10-day lightning campaign to show that a country affected by disease, economic chaos, racial conflict and congressional attacks has reached a turning point.
The Biden team created a series of executive orders that he could issue on his own after taking office on the 20th, thus beginning to reverse some of Trump's most controversial policies.
He plans to submit a bill to comprehensively reform immigration policy on his first day in office, providing a pathway to citizenship for the country's 11 million illegal immigrants. He also pledged to vaccinate 100 million Americans against COVID-19 within 100 days of taking office. This series of important tasks could be a decisive test of his ability to reach agreements and the control of the federal government.
For Biden, an energetic debut is crucial to freeing the United States from the endless farce surrounding Trump.
But the trouble waiting for Biden is so vast that even as the partisan hatred of the Trump era subsides to some extent, deep divisions remain over the substance of Biden's policies — taxes, government spending, immigration, health care, etc. — that will challenge much of his agenda on Capitol Hill.
Biden on Jan. 16 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. (AFP)