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Washington (AP) - Joe Biden takes over the office of US President in a time of crisis.
The corona pandemic is raging wilder than ever in the USA.
The US economy is badly hit.
In the background, the climate crisis is worsening.
After four years of Donald Trump, Biden also wants to quickly reverse several decisions made by his predecessor.
An overview of Biden's most important plans for the first 100 days:
CORONA
In the fight against the corona pandemic, Biden has proclaimed three central goals for this route: Most schools should be able to reopen by the deadline.
He calls on all Americans to wear masks during this time and wants to order this wherever the federal government has the say - for example in government buildings, trains or airplanes.
Above all, he wants to ensure that at least 100 million vaccine doses are administered by the end of the 100 days.
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So far, vaccination of the population has been slow.
Biden wants to increase the pace quickly.
The US civil protection agency should help to set up vaccination centers.
Mobile vaccination stations are intended to serve remote areas.
The pharmacies in the country are to be harnessed to administer vaccinations.
According to Biden's will, the states should now allow other high-risk occupational groups and citizens aged 65 and over to vaccinate and no longer vaccinate strictly according to priority lists.
With an awareness campaign, Biden wants to build trust in the vaccines among the population.
Biden has also promised that the US would quickly rejoin the World Health Organization formally.
Trump had terminated the cooperation in the middle of the pandemic.
ECONOMY
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The corona crisis is very hard on the US economy.
In order to take countermeasures, Biden wants to push the next one after the previous huge stimulus packages.
The planned size: $ 1.9 trillion.
This includes direct payments to citizens of $ 1,400 per capita, further aid for small businesses and more support for the unemployed.
Biden's plans to fight the pandemic - money for his vaccination program, more corona tests or precautions at schools - are also priced in here.
The spending is essential to avert long-term damage to the economy, said Biden when presenting the plans.
In a second step, Biden wants to pump money into the US economy over the longer term through an investment program, primarily through investments in the country's infrastructure.
He wants to present the exact plans for this within the first 100 days, in February.
The implementation is more likely to take the entire term of office.
FOREIGN POLICY
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Since his election victory, Biden has repeated one message time and again: "America is back."
Trump has offended traditional US allies like Germany several times during his term of office by going it alone - that should now be over.
Biden wants to revive the US alliances and strengthen the role of diplomacy.
Immediately after taking office, he wants to call the NATO allies and tell them that they can count on the USA again - at least that is what Biden promised last summer.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has already promised Biden to strengthen relations with Germany and to work closely with her.
Establishing contact with the allies should be easy for Biden compared to other foreign policy challenges.
Will there be quick negotiations to extend the last major nuclear disarmament treaty between Washington and Moscow?
There is not much time left, the New Start contract expires at the beginning of February.
Biden has spoken out in favor of an extension and sees the treaty as the basis for new arms control agreements.
In addition, after taking office, Biden could announce his future course with a view to the US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Like Trump - who has just reduced the number of troops to a few thousand - he wants to end the "endless wars" in the country and the Middle East.
The more long-term goals of Biden include the denuclearization of North Korea and the creation of a basis for a return to the international nuclear agreement with Iran.
CLIMATE
Biden is also setting the pace with climate change, which he sees not only as a threat to national security but as an "existential threat".
Immediately after his inauguration, he wants to bring the United States back to the Paris Agreement.
The exit from the contract initiated by Trump did not take effect until early November.
In the first 100 days of his tenure, Biden also wants to convene a world climate summit and campaign for more ambitious climate goals.
In the fight against climate change, Biden has brought ex-Foreign Secretary John Kerry to the side.
Kerry will serve on the National Security Council at the White House as Special Envoy for Climate.
Biden also wants to initiate the withdrawal of decisions by Trump, with which he had weakened or overruled environmental protection regulations.
In the long term, the future president wants to make a virtue out of the need of climate change: by creating a "modern climate-resistant infrastructure", the energetic renovation of millions of buildings and the expansion of electric mobility, new jobs are to be created on a massive scale.
MIGRATION
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Trump took a particularly tough course in migration policy.
Biden wants to turn things around in a hurry.
He announced, for example, that he would reverse the entry bans issued by Trump from several predominantly Muslim countries as soon as possible.
He also wants to order the establishment of a task force to reunite illegally immigrated families who were separated on the border with Mexico under Trump and have not yet been reunited.
Biden has also promised to send a bill to Congress to permanently secure a program to protect around 700,000 young migrants from deportation (Daca).
The program started during Biden's time as US Vice President under Barack Obama.
Trump's administration had tried to end it - which failed due to opposition from the US Supreme Court.
Biden announced a major bill aimed at paving the way for eleven million people without a permit to become a US citizen.
Many changes in asylum law and migration policy on the border with Mexico are also expected.
It is unclear when.
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Biden tweet about the planned return to the WHO
Biden tweet about the planned departure from the entry ban from several predominantly Muslim countries
Biden interview at MSNBC including comments on planned changes in migration policy
Report from "The Hill" on Biden's commitment to permanently secure the DAACA program
Biden election campaign clip on separated families on the border with Mexico
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Biden's promise on foreign and climate policy
Biden to the climate