Urgent priorities await Biden

US President-elect Joe Biden awaits pressing issues that will form the priorities of his program during the first 100 days of his presidency after assuming office.

These issues top the fight against the Corona virus, and also include reviving the country's economy and returning to the Paris climate agreement, as well as canceling landmark decisions previously taken by President Donald Trump, as Biden (77 years) said, "We will have a huge task to repair the damage it caused ( Trump) ".

Here are some of the decisions he plans to make:

Fight Corona

Once he comes to power, Joe Biden wants to devise a national strategy to "move forward" in favoring the Covid-19 pandemic by enacting a major law in Congress to fund a national testing campaign "whose results will be immediately available", and the manufacture of medical products and equipment in the United States, And making the wearing of masks compulsory in federal buildings and in interstate transportation, and providing a free vaccine for "everyone" in the future, after the pandemic led to the death of about 235 thousand people in the United States.

Biden, who accuses Trump, 74, of undermining the authority of his health experts, has promised to take advice from chief physician Anthony Fauci, who is well-respected in the White House Coronavirus Crisis Cell.

And he wants "to communicate the word of our experts so that the public gets the information they deserve and need," and he intends to cancel the US withdrawal measures from the World Health Organization that Donald Trump ordered last July.

Economy

A vote on a massive aid package to revive the economy is another priority for candidate Joe Biden, who is counting on his ability to persuade elected Republicans to break the current deadlock in Congress.

Biden presented an ambitious plan to revive US production after the Corona virus crisis, worth $ 700 billion.

To fund it, it would raise taxes on the richest Americans and big corporations, notably by doubling taxes on profits earned abroad.

He has also pledged to invest heavily in renewable energy, and he also wants to reinvest tax revenues in social programs, education and infrastructure modernization.

Joe Biden promised to return the United States, which is facing an increasing number of climate disasters, to the Paris climate agreement from which Donald Trump withdrew in 2017. Within 100 days of his official inauguration, he will also bring together the leaders of the most polluted countries at the climate summit, where he intends to persuade them. Countries increase their commitment to improving the climate.

Biden has also embraced an ambitious climate program, in which 100% clean energy will be the cornerstone of carbon neutrality in the United States by 2050, and he has promised to overturn Trump's decisions that have canceled or relaxed a whole series of environmental standards.

Reforming the

Biden promised to appoint a national committee made up of members from both parties, which will have to propose reforms within 180 days in the judicial system that, according to him, has become "out of control, and this is not related to an increase in the number of judges," at a time when he is suspected of wanting Democrats are increasing the number of progressive judges on the Supreme Court, which is currently controlled by the conservative movement.

Biden also wants to vote "immediately" on a judicial reform project that specifically develops alternatives to imprisonment, which will be restricted to the most violent convicts, in order to reduce the risk of recidivism.

Immigration system

Joe Biden pledged to abolish "on the first day" of his term the immigration decree issued by Donald Trump, which prohibits entry to citizens of many countries, most of them Muslims, and which his opponents consider an Islamophobic measure, and announced that he will ask Congress to pass a law against racist crimes.

He also pledged to tackle detention procedures for asylum seekers and the "scandal" of separating families of irregular migrants on the US-Mexico border.

Joe Biden also wants Congress to quickly pass a law that will "lay down a road map to citizenship" for 11 million irregular immigrants living in the United States, and for the nearly 700,000 young people who arrived illegally in the United States when they were children and call them "dreamers."