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The idea of "the first 100 days" of Government
was invented by one of the "patron saints" of the Democratic Party: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in June 1933, and refers to a grace period in which a political leader has more freedom of action before the task of government begins to wear you down.
Joe Biden is not going to have that luxury
.
The Republican opposition, led by outgoing President Donald Trump, has already denied him any legitimacy with accusations of fraud about which he has not produced a single piece of evidence, and accounts that the White House tenant's campaign has taken days. saying that he will demand ... but that he still does not request.
In addition, the Senate is likely to be in the hands of the opposition, although that will not be known until January, when Georgia holds the second round of elections for its two legislators in that chamber.
If anything, Biden, unlike his predecessors Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush,
has enormous experience in the Senate.
, where he spent 35 years, and with whom he acted as a liaison during the Barack Obama administration, often trying to fix the lousy personal relationships between the president and the members of that chamber.
For now, everything seems to indicate that Biden's strategy is going to focus on three areas: executive orders, regulations, and his cabinet nomination.
Given the foreseeable blockade of the Legislative, it is likely
that the orders will be his tool of Government, just as they were of Donald Trump
.
Executive orders are decrees issued by the president that can be overturned by the courts, but not by Congress.
They are automatic, but their problem is that the next president can repeal them with a stroke of the pen.
The orders that Biden will issue upon arrival at the White House include, according to the
Washington Post
, the return of the United States to the World Health Organization, from where the United States is currently withdrawing by order of Trump, and the Agreement of Paris on Climate Change, from where he formalized his departure this week.
The reincorporation of the US to the Treaty of Paris is important, because, if the country remains in it for four years, the step towards the 'decarbonisation' of the economy - what the Government of Spain calls an "ecological transition" - will be irreversible, although In fact,
the process has already begun during the Trump presidency
, in which coal production, for example, has entered a terminal collapse for the simple reason that it is not competitive as an energy source with renewables.
In any case, the US will play an active role in the next Climate Change Conference (COP25) that is being held in the Scottish city of Glasgow just one year from now.
With Biden, the Administration
will also backtrack on the removal of environmental
, energy efficiency, and workplace safety regulations launched by Trump.
The future president will also lift most - but not all - of
the bans on the entry of citizens of countries with predominantly Muslim and non-white populations
- such as Nigeria - established by Donald Trump.
And it will reactivate the so-called "Deferred Action for the Arrival of Children", or, according to its acronym in English, DACA.
This is an Obama policy that allows undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors
not to be expelled from the country for periods of two years renewable indefinitely
.
Trump tried to repeal the measure,
which affects about a million
dreamers
(
dreamers
of the American Dream), but the issue has been in legal limbo since June.
In legal matters, with Biden, the US State will withdraw the appeal filed by the Trump Administration before the Supreme Court against Barack Obama's health reform.
The second leg of the Biden Government is going to be his team.
There is ground for speculation, although one thing seems certain: there are going to be many women,
and not for reasons of quota but for merits
.
But the considerations of Biden and his team are not gender, but politics.
The new president is a centrist, and his number two, Kamala Harris, has no ideology other than power.
But a part of the coalition that has brought him to the White House is ideologically left-wing, and
is headed by politicians who like to talk as much or more than Donald Trump
, like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, so yes Biden appoints a team to suit him, he will have to face the opposition of his alleged allies.
Added to that is Biden's intention to
give the opposition some relevant position
, something that Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have already done.
Meg Whitman, former CEO of the Hewltett giants-Packard and eBay, and candidate for governor of California and the presidency could fill the position of Secretary of Commerce and give that quota to the Republican Party.
In the transcendental Department of Defense,
the clear favorite is Michele Flournoy, who was already one of the top officials in that area under Obama
, and is now in the think tank of the big technology New America Foundation.
In the State Department, Susan Rice, ambassador to the UN and National Security Advisor to Obama, has the most ballots, with the permission of other former senior officials of the former Democratic president, such as Tony Blinken.
The position of Secretary of the Treasury
seems to have been given to Lael Brainard, who has been working in that position for five years.
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