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WASHINGTON – Joe Biden’s operational exit is like a whiplash. The sign of an immediate and radical change. Yesterday afternoon the new president signed a dozen executive orders, beginning to erase the traces of the Trumpian season. We point out three. First: the ban on travelers from various Muslim countries was abolished, Trump’s first move in January 2017 that sparked immediate protests. Second: re-entry to the Paris Agreement for the fight against “climate change”. Third: obligation to wear a mask. on all federal properties and while traveling on trains and planes.
The economy plan
Biden’s agenda is dominated by the deadly intertwining of the pandemic and the economic crisis. The emergency plan, the American Rescue plan, is already defined and will be presented to Congress shortly. It is a gigantic intervention worth 1.9 trillion dollars, a figure equivalent to 10% of the gross domestic product.. Half of the package will be used to finance immediate support measures for the weakest sectors of the population. The statistics are traumatic: about 30 million adults plus 12 million children do not have enough food. African Americans and Latinos are the most affected. The latest package approved by Congress provides a $ 600 allocation for families with an income of up to $ 75,000. Biden wants to increase it to $ 2,000. Others $ 400 billion they will go to small companies, to the states most affected by the pandemic and to Native American communities.
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Biden, all the pictures of the swearing in on Capitol Hill
Covid Hunt
The vaccination campaign is clearly delayed. Trump’s team had planned to immunize about 20 million Americans by December 31, 2021. Twenty days later, the counter marks 13.6 million people who received a single dose and two million received a full cycle. The distribution chain has not worked well so far. And at one point the governors found themselves without the promised supplies of vials. Therefore, Biden’s anti-Covid task force, with Anthony Fauci on board, will have to focus first on logistical and organizational issues. The government intends to spend $ 400 billion to fix things. Then it will also take some luck. At the end of the month, the Food and Drug Administration could give the green light to a third vaccine, that of Johnson & Johnson. The federal agency (Barda) funded the investigation with $ 400 million and reserved a first tranche of 100 million doses, paying $ 1 billion. If FDA clearance arrives and considering that this vaccine only requires one injection, Biden will have a concrete chance to achieve the most important goal: 100 million immunized in three months.
Wall and caravans
The first structural reform will be that of immigration. The images of the caravan that left Honduras, and for the moment being held by the Guatemalan military, have rekindled attention at the border. Biden, however, has no intention of opening the doors wide. the Trump’s wall won’t be completed, but it won’t be destroyed either. Instead, technological surveillance will be strengthened at the border. At the same time, “a path to citizenship in eight years” will be charted for some 11 million irregular migrants: five years to get the green card, the permanent residence permit and another three to have US citizenship. Only those who entered the United States before January 1, 2021 will benefit. The “green card” will be granted immediately to those called dreamer, that is, to all the people who arrived as children or in any case minors following their migrant parents.
Beware China
The new president intends to return the United States to the center of international relations. Biden has announced that he intends to strengthen relations with Western allies. The strategic objective of foreign policy is contain the dynamism of China. For now it starts with commerce and the economy, as Janet Yellen, future Secretary of the Treasury, explained. Enough with the dumping, the theft of technologies, the maneuvers on the currency. Washington will ask its Asian and European partners to form a coalition, a kind of security cordon to pressure Beijing. And here could come the first frictions with the EU and with Germany in particular.
The appointment of Avril Haines
The United States Senate also confirmed Avril Haines, 51, as head of National Intelligence. Haines thus becomes the first woman to command US 007. The nomination was approved 84-10. It was Joe Biden’s first nomination to go green.
Jan 20, 2021 (change Jan 21, 2021 | 02:01)
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