#Roommates, as the country continues to bask in the joy of Joe Biden being officially named president-elect, Biden is already in planning mode about what he’s going to do when he takes office. According to reports, Joe Biden is gearing up to reverse several of Trump’s current policies as soon as he is sworn in on January 20th of next year.
@WashingtonPost reports, Biden’s top advisers have spent months quietly working on how best to implement his agenda, with hundreds of transition officials preparing to get to work inside various federal agencies. Even without the heavily Republican congressional cooperation, Biden has stated he plans to immediately reverse Trump’s rollback of 100 public health and environmental rules that the Obama administration had in place. He also plans to institute new ethics guidelines at the White House and has pledged to sign an executive order the first day in office saying that no member of his administration could influence any Justice Department investigations.
While the divided Congress could make Biden’s efforts to do sweeping legislative actions on immigration changes a little challenging, Biden said he would send a bill to Congress repealing liability protections for gun manufacturers, and close background-check loopholes. He also pledged to repeal the Republican-passed tax cuts from 2017, an effort that could be halted if Republicans hold the Senate majority.
Earlier this week Joe Biden announced plans to set up a coronavirus task force, recognizing that the global pandemic is still a primary issue. The task force, is said to be meeting within the next few days and will be co-chaired by former surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy and David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
According to inside sources, Biden also realizes he may have to rely on executive actions more than he previously hoped. Although the Democrats will hold a narrowed majority in the House, the final makeup of the Senate is not yet clear. That will be decided on January 5th, with two runoff elections in Georgia. Democrats would need to win both races to effectively have control of the Senate — with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote.
“The policy team, the transition policy teams, are focusing now very much on executive power,” said a Biden ally who also added, “I expect that to be freely used in a Biden administration at this point, if the Senate becomes a roadblock.”
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