It appears that in about ninety hours, President Biden will be unleashing a ten-day hailstorm of Executive Orders calculated to wipe out as much of Mr. Trump’s damage as humanly possible.
As reported by the New York Times:
On his first day in office alone, Mr. Biden intends a flurry of executive orders that will be partly substantive and partly symbolic. They include rescinding the travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries, rejoining the Paris climate change accord, extending pandemic-related limits on evictions and student loan payments, issuing a mask mandate for federal property and interstate travel and ordering agencies to figure out how to reunite children separated from families after crossing the border, according to a memo circulated on Saturday by Ron Klain, his incoming White House chief of staff, and obtained by The New York Times.
I’d say that’s a pretty good plan for Day One. Oh, but there’s this as well:
He also plans to send sweeping immigration legislation on his first day in office providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people in the country illegally. Along with his promise to vaccinate 100 million Americans for the coronavirus in his first 100 days, it is an expansive set of priorities for a new president that could be a defining test of his deal-making abilities and command of the federal government.
It looks to me like Joe Biden has very much internalized what he needs to do to wipe the Trump stench away from this country as soon as possible, and it’s quite gratifying to see. He’s not going to focus on Trump himself, because, frankly, others will be doing that for him.
By all signals thus far, Biden is not going to be some cautious “centrist” president, for those who might be concerned. He probably feels like he’s only in it for one term, and he’s going to make the best of it, now that he has both chambers. It’s pretty clear he remembers what happened to Barack Obama after two years.
