Cutting the funding for the border wall? Passing comprehensive policing and criminal justice reform? Investing in domestic manufacturing and job creation? Implementing a $2 trillion climate plan? Repairing broken alliances and promoting democracy and human rights abroad? All can allegedly be expected to happen in the first 100 days of Biden’s presidency. The next 100 days include a much broader and larger to-do list. Among those promises are striking down the transgender military ban, rejoining the World Health Organization, re-entering and abiding by the Paris Climate Accords, rescinding Trump’s executive order calling for travel bans on a number of Muslim-majority countries and more. The Biden team carries an ambitious day one agenda that includes assembling their own coronavirus task force, pushing for a new COVID-19 aid package, releasing a vaccine distribution plan, strengthening the Voting Rights Act to reflect proper racial equity and implementing comprehensive immigration reform that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million undocumented refugees and immigrants.īiden’s incoming administration also promises to make up for a number of harmful policies implemented by Trump’s administration. Let’s look at what we can hope to see once Biden’s term commences. While a Biden presidency certainly warrants a much-needed feeling of cautious optimism, skepticism over whether Biden will fulfill - and can actually manage to fulfill - his many promises are also not undue. William Alan Reinsch, a contributor and chairperson for America’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, recently wrote that “predicting a politician’s moves after a campaign is harder than predicting them during a campaign.” Time spent during a campaign is the time for “promises, and good poll data… will tell you what to say.” Once elected, it’s all about deciding “which promises to keep and which to throw back in the closet.” Rossen delves into what we should be prepared for as Biden assumes his new position. As President Trump leaves office and President-Elect Biden steps in, the question of how well the 46 president will live up to his campaign promises.
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