Today is the first business day after the award of the electoral victory. The settlement date of Joe biden There are still six weeks to go, but the president-elect is already at work, ready to take action to signal the change of course that will lead him to dismantle the hinges of administration. Triumph. The 350 members he selected a week ago for the transition team have laid the foundations to ensure continuity of power, although Trump has yet to admit defeat and continues to proclaim himself the winner.
IS WEB
The buildbackbetter.com site is now live on the web (let’s rebuild it again, better. One of the campaign slogans just ended). This morning we will read the composition of the new working group to combat the coronavirus epidemic, one of the main priorities of the new government team. Biden does not intend to fire Anthony Fauci, the scientist who has headed the National Institute of Infectious Diseases since 1984, but in recent weeks he has received bulletins on the country’s health situation from the former Obama administration health minister. Vivek Murthy and former FDA director David Kessler. The two will most likely be part of the team that will be tasked with preparing the fastest distribution of the vaccine as soon as it becomes available, and monitoring rapid production through a board similar to the one that oversaw wartime industrial production. , during the Roosevelt Presidency.
THE KEYS
As soon as Biden has the keys to government in hand, he will try to centralize the response to the epidemic, which today suffers from too many inequalities of treatment at the local level. General confinement and the obligation to mask are out of reach, given the federalist independence granted to the states. However, the mask could become mandatory in federal offices, in the hope that it will serve as an example abroad as well. The first days of the mandate at the end of January will mark, instead, the full capacity to exercise power. Biden will debut on the first day by sending a letter to the UN, in which he announces the re-entry of the United States to the Paris climate agreement. Consequently, the Democratic president is willing to revoke the more than one hundred decrees by which Trump canceled previous regulations that concerned the protection of the environment and public health. Again with the weapon of the decree, he will restore the protection of public parks and restore the extension of some that his predecessor reduced.
VISAS
Biden will abolish the veto on visas required by travelers from Muslim-majority countries and will reopen the doors to those fleeing the theaters of war. On his agenda is a swift lifting of the ban on public workers from joining unions and a rebuilding of the dilapidated budget to help the homeless. In addition to the question of building the wall with Mexico. The weapon of the decree is swift and indisputable, and each new president chooses it to publicly show the new direction. Instead, the more substantial reforms require legislative approval, and in this regard, Biden will still have to hold his breath as he awaits the vote in Georgia for the two Senate seats still pending. Only in the lucky and unlikely event of a double victory will Democrats be able to reckon with control of the Senate. Otherwise, reformist ambitions will have to compromise strongly with the opposition. At risk would be a new tax reform, and interventions in social policy: from the redefinition of police functions, to corrective measures for racial discrimination.
THE TEAM
For the ruling team, Biden in his speech on Saturday night promised a composition “as heterogeneous and diverse” as was the coalition of voters who voted for him, with access to ethnic minorities, representatives of different sexual identities and that he is disabled . The card that the national media has already put together abounds in women, with the possible promotion of Michelle Flournoy from deputy to defense minister, the possible although hampered return of Susan Rice to the position of secretary of state, and the arrival in the Treasury of Lael Brainard , Former Fed. There is talk of former Alabama Senator Doug Jones on his way to Justice, the return of Obamian Rahm Emmanuel, this time to transport.
