Biden’s First 100 Days: What To Anticipate.
In a break from the Trump era, President-elect Biden plans to roll out a blitz of executive orders in his First 100 Days on top of a massive stimulus bill and an expansive immigration package.
Joe Biden will take office in less than 5 days becoming the 46th President of the United States. Biden will be facing a myriad of challenges from the prolonging COVID-19 pandemic, an economic downturn, and a nation ripping at the seams.
President-elect Joe Biden is to be bequeathed with a collection of challenges not seen since the 1930s. Biden plans to begin his administration with an eddy of executive actions meant to mark a turning point for a nation battling a disease, economic calamity, racial discord, and a new corollary of the assault on the seat of democracy — the Capitol.
The President-elect’s team has begun to develop a pontoon of executive actions he can issue on his own command beginning on Wednesday after the inauguration to begin the process of backpedaling some of President Trump’s most contentious policies. Biden’s advisers hope that the President-elect’s flurry of executive actions, without waiting for Congressional approval will form a sense of velocity for the new administration even while the Senate puts the previous administration on trial.
Within his first day as President alone, President-elect Biden intends to sign a profusion of executive orders that will be both substantive and symbolic. The executive actions President-elect Biden is expected to sign include rescinding the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, rejoining the Paris climate accords, extending pandemic related limits on evictions and student loan payments, issuing mask mandates on federal grounds and interstate travel, and ordering government agencies to decipher how to reunite children separated from their families after crossing the border by the Trump administration, as stated by incoming White House chief of staff Ron Klain, according to an internal memo procured by the New York Times.
On his second day in office, Biden will sign directives focused on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, including ways to aid schools and businesses reopen safely, expanding COVID-19 testing, protecting workers, and establishing clear public health standards. On his third day in office, President-elect Biden will direct his Cabinet to work on economic relief to families most affected by the pandemic and the economic crisis caused by COVID-19.
In the ensuing days, Biden will expand “Buy America” provisions and take action to advance equity and support communities of color, begin to reform the criminal justice system and expand healthcare.
President-elect Joe Biden will enjoy a slim Democratic majority in both houses of Congress with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote in a 50–50 Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate. But, the Biden-Harris agenda will be halted for a time by the Senate impeachment trial of Former President Donald Trump.
Nevertheless, President-elect Biden also plans to send a sweeping immigration package to Congress within his first 100 days in office providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people living in the U.S. undocumented. Along with his promise to immunize 100 million Americans for the coronavirus by the conclusion of his first 100 days in office. The ambitious set of priorities for the new President will test his deal-making aptness and his command of the federal government in a hyperpartisan Washington.
