Starting with Biden’s ‘Crown TF’ … Trump’s Policies Will Be Repealed

United States President-elect Joe Biden declares victory on the outdoor stage in Wilmington, Delaware, on the afternoon of the 7th. [EPA=연합뉴스]

Despite dissent from US President Donald Trump, Joe Biden plans to continue his presidency. On day 9, the start of the team of the working group (TF) of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). On the 7th (local time), Axios, an online media specializing in politics in the United States, summoned Biden’s policy team.

Biden reportedly announces the list of 12 people who will participate in the Corona 19 TF before announcing the list of cabinet members or senior White House staff. Former Public Health Commissioner Vivek Mercy, former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director David Kessler and Dr. Masella Nunez Smith Yale University are named as three co-chairs. They are scientists who have already joined Biden Camp. According to Politico, Mercy and Kessler have reported to Biden four times a week since the early days of the pandemic.

United States Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris and President-Elect Joe Biden.[EPA=연합뉴스]

Biden, who entered the government plan, gathered staff and suspension to put countermeasures against Corona 19, the most pressing issue, as a policy priority. On the 6th, before the announcement of the victory in the presidential election, Biden said: “The voters have entrusted us with measures to deal with the crown 19, the economy, climate change and structural racism. This is a comment that shows the political priorities of Biden’s procurement committee.

In fact, according to the Washington Post (WP), Biden plans to issue a series of executive orders immediately following his January 20 oath of office and to revoke the policies of his predecessor, President Donald Trump.

US President Donald Trump announces his position before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House.[로이터=연합뉴스]

One of the first executive orders to be signed after taking office is the return to the Paris Convention on Climate Change, which the Trump administration withdrew. Biden declared on Twitter on the 4th, the day after the election, “in exactly 77 days, the Biden administration will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.” The ’77 days later, ‘he said, is January 20.

President Trump declared withdrawal from the agreement in June 2017 and entered the withdrawal process on November 4 of last year. Biden tweeted on the 4th when the United States officially withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States is the only signatory state to the Convention to withdraw. The Paris Convention on Climate Change was adopted by 195 States Parties at the plenary session of the 21st General Assembly of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change held in Paris on December 12, 2015 and entered into force Next year. Its objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so that the global average temperature does not rise more than 2 ℃ than before the industrial revolution.

He also plans to reverse the withdrawal of the World Health Organization (WHO). In July, the Trump administration presented a withdrawal letter from the WHO to UN Secretary-General Antonius Guterchs. As with the Paris Climate Convention, the actual withdrawal is confirmed one year after the start of the procedure. President Trump has accused the WHO of procrastinating in the response process to Corona 19 and showing a bias towards China.

However, Biden said earlier in the election process: “In the event of a presidential victory, on the first day of assuming the presidency, I will join the WHO and re-establish our leadership on the world stage.” It was a declaration of return to ‘multilateralism’ from Trump-style US unilateralism.

In addition, Biden plans to abolish the travel ban to Muslim countries and reinstate a program for illegal immigrants to the United States, the WP said. In the case of the Iranian nuclear pact, which President Trump withdrew, Biden has professed that it will “come back”, but American political experts predicted that it “will not be a priority.”

Reporter Jeong Eun-hye [email protected]