Joe Biden will effectively be president next Wednesday.

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Opting for a unifying tone and without mentioning the "impeachment" of Donald Trump, Joe Biden tried Thursday to bring attention to his plans to fight the economic and health crises upon his arrival at the White House, in six days.

Speaking to some journalists in his stronghold of Wilmington, without accepting any questions, the President-elect of the United States promised a "new chapter" and said he was "optimistic" by unveiling a titanic stimulus package of 1.9 trillion dollars. dollars to help households and businesses hit by the pandemic.

“We'll get through this together,” the Democrat promised.

"But we cannot do it in a separate, divided country," he added, a week after the deadly assault on Capitol Hill by pro-Trump protesters.

"The only way to do it is to come together as Americans," argued the former vice-president of Barack Obama.

Signaling that he did not want to ignore the malaise in the labor pools, where Donald Trump remains very popular, Joe Biden, 78, pledged "millions of jobs" for the manufacturing industry, in addition to his plans for an economy innovative and combating climate change.

Washington as an entrenched camp

The Democrat will be invested on January 20, in a city of Washington transformed into an entrenched camp after the violence of the Capitol which left five dead, and shook the first world power.

And it is now urgent for Joe Biden to return to the program of the first hundred days of his mandate.

By calling on Congress to adopt it quickly, he detailed his vast stimulus plan.

On the menu: new direct checks of 1,400 dollars per person to families, a minimum wage doubled to 15 dollars an hour, the extension of unemployment aid or aid for states and local communities.

On Friday, he will detail the component to accelerate the mass vaccination of Americans against Covid-19, in a country which continues to break records of daily deaths from the pandemic and could cross the mark of 400,000 deaths by taking office.

Democratic leaders in Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, welcomed his stimulus package, promising to "get to work immediately" to pass it through parliamentarians.

The Senate, which will pass January 20 under Democratic control, will not meet until the day before.

And the climate of partisan confrontation that could accompany the debates on the impeachment of Donald Trump also threatens the promise of "reconciliation" of candidate Biden.

Even if the accused will henceforth be a former president, and that the stake of removing him from power will therefore have disappeared, such a trial risks capturing all the media light.

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