JUST THE NEWS/ Joseph Curl-
Joe Biden, who spent months hunkered down in his basement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is rested and raring to go.
The president-elect takes office at noon on Wednesday, and he’s already got a slew of actions he plans to take on the first days, and in the days that follow.
Ron Klain, who will serve as Biden’s White House chief of staff, wrote in a memo released Saturday that Biden will focus on “the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis.”
But he’ll get to work immediately by taking some executive actions. On day one, Biden will rejoin the Paris climate agreement, extend a freeze on federal student loan payments, overturn Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. from several majority-Muslim countries and issue a “100-Day Masking Challenge” that will impose new mandates requiring masks on federal property and for interstate transportation.
“During the campaign, President-elect Biden pledged to take immediate action to start addressing these crises and build back better,” Klain wrote in the memo. “As president, he will keep those promises and sign dozens of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and directives to Cabinet agencies in fulfillment of the promises he made.” Continue reading…
