President-elect Joe Biden will soon pass a series of executive orders after to reverse Trump Policies, after being sworn into office on Jan. 20.
He will rejoin the Paris climate accords, according to those close to his campaign and commitments he has made in recent months, and he will reverse President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization.
He will repeal the ban on immigration from many Muslim-majority countries, and he will reinstate the program allowing dreamers, who were brought to the United States illegally as children, to remain in the country, according to people familiar with his plans.
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. They have assembled a book filled with his campaign commitments to help guide their early decisions.
Biden is planning to set up a coronavirus task force on Monday, in recognition that the global pandemic will be the primary issue that he must confront. The task force, which could begin meeting within days, will be co-chaired by former surgeon general Vivek Murthy and David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
Biden said: “The policy team, the transition policy teams, are focusing now very much on executive power .I expect that to be freely used in a Biden administration at this point, if the Senate becomes a roadblock.”
Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., a longtime Biden ally offered a broad overview of Biden’s initial agenda:
He said: “Get us out of this pandemic that’s been made far worse by Trump’s bungled mishandling of it, rebuild our economy in a way that’s more sustainable and more inclusive, and deal with division and inequality.”
He noted that Biden’s style will be quite different, saying that Trump and Pelosi haven’t spoken in more than a year.
