Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in a memo released over the weekend to staff outlined President Joe Biden’s first 10 days and also noted four “overlapping and compounding crises” the nation faces, including the “COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis.”
“All of these crises demand urgent action. In his first ten days in office, President-elect Biden will take decisive action to address these four crises, prevent other urgent and irreversible harms, and restore America’s place in the world,” Klain wrote.
Biden on Wednesday plans to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, reverse the ban on immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries, extend the “pause” on student loan payments and interest, extend restrictions on evictions and foreclosures, send comprehensive immigration legislation to Congress, and issue a 100 day “masking challenge” requiring masks on federal property and interstate travel.
“During the campaign, President-elect Biden pledged to take immediate action to start addressing these crises and build back better,” Klain wrote. “As president, he will keep those promises and sign dozens of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and directives to Cabinet agencies in fulfillment of the promises he made. These executive actions will deliver relief to the millions of Americans that are struggling in the face of these crises. President-elect Biden will take action — not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration — but also to start moving our country forward.”
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