A historic busy week in Washington, with the inauguration of a president ... and another impeachment measures
Tough days await, Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
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A group of National Guard men prepare to leave their base in Alaska for Washington to secure their escort on Inauguration Day.
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With the start of a historic week, the camp of President-elect Joe Biden revealed a road map to get the United States out of its economic, social and health crises, without being too restrained by the measures to impeach President Donald Trump.
Joe Biden is set up tomorrow, Wednesday, in an American capital that shows an unfamiliar face with its transformation into an impenetrable fortress, the deployment of soldiers in all streets, and the deployment of barbed wire and a high fence after the attack on the Capitol building on the sixth of January.
The Democratic President-elect set up his inauguration under the title "Unity of Americans", and will surround himself with former US presidents: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George Bush, in order to reach out to a divided and wounded country.
A big mess
Since the first day of his term, Joe Biden intends to return his country to the Paris Agreement on the Climate, and to lift the ban on entry to American lands imposed on citizens of several Muslim countries, the majority of them.
The 46th President of the United States also hopes to give a fresh impetus to the largest vaccination campaign in US history.
This last issue is of urgent importance, as the "Covid-19" disease has killed an average of more than 3,000 people in the United States every day since January 1, while more than 236,000 daily infections are recorded.
Biden, who was Vice President under Obama, wants 100 million doses of the vaccine to be injected in the first 100 days of his term, thanks to huge vaccination centers.
"This matter is applicable," said the respected expert Anthony Fauci, who will become the chief advisor to Joe Biden on the level of "Covid-19", after he held the same position with Trump.
About 100,000 male and female nurses will participate in this campaign.
The "most dangerous" crime
Joe Biden will be forced, in the first stage, to exercise the ruling by decree, to avoid passing through "Congress", especially the Senate, which will be preoccupied with procedures to impeach Donald Trump.
However, large parts of his program, especially the massive $ 1900 billion economic recovery plan aimed at helping millions of Americans who depend on unemployment benefits, must obtain the approval of "Congress".
Trump's trial could begin a few hours after Biden takes office.
Democrats accuse Trump of "inciting a rebellion" by his supporters, and they stormed the Capitol on January 6, which led to five deaths.
As for the Trump camp, it sees this trial as a "disgraceful attack on the constitution and democracy."
His team said in a statement that it had not yet chosen a lawyer to represent him.
The influential Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is close to Trump, urged Democratic leaders in the Senate to reject the measures as soon as the Senate responded.
He said that if this does not happen, "we will delay indefinitely, and perhaps forever, the healing of this great nation."
"It will be an unprecedented inauguration ceremony due to (Covid-19) in particular, but we will take the oath, and we will complete the work on which we were elected," the elected Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview with "CBS" the day before yesterday.
- The Democratic President-elect set up his inauguration under the title "Unity of Americans", and will surround himself with former US presidents: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George Bush, in order to reach out to a divided and wounded country.
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