US President-elect Joe Biden plans to kick off his new administration on Wednesday with orders to restore the United States to the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, aides said.
be first lady, jill biden. his team is laying out the plan for day one. biden expected to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, undoing some of donald trump s most controversial moves. he will immediately rejoin the paris climate accord, reportedly cancel the keystone pipeline and will reverse the so-called muslim travel ban. and take the first step in his fight against covid mandating masks on federal lands and extending the pause of student loan payments. but biden s big ticket items, like that massive $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, will require congressional approval. there is a lot to do. some would say that ours is an ambitious goal. but we do believe, with hard work and with the cooperation and collaboration of the members of the united states congress, that we can get it done. reporter: kamala harris will make history this week as the first black woman and the first asian-american sworn in as vice president. administering the oath, justice sonia sotomayor, the first woman o
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The UK Conservatives Who Loved Trump: Was It Worth It?
Posted by Hasan Patel | Jan 12, 2021 |
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, New York, September 2019 (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
A Donald Trump supporter said about the man in 2018: “I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump. I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”
The admirer was so besotted that he said of Trump in the same year: “If he can fix North Korea and the Iran nuclear deal, then I don’t see why he’s any less of a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama, who got it before he even did anything.”
Can Joe Biden Take America Back to the Future?
For all Biden’s promises to restore American leadership a decorous word for predominance the era of liberal interventionism is likely over. Trump tried to bury it; Biden may sign the death certificate.
IN 1853, American diplomats appeared in suits rather than court uniforms at a reception in Berlin. Their perplexed Prussian counterparts asked why they were dressed in black like undertakers. “We could not,” one American official quipped, “be more appropriately dressed than we are, at European courts, where what we represent is the burial of monarchy.”
This exchange might seem like an instance of innocent raillery, but it underscores the early American republic’s enthusiasm for egalitarian and anti-monarchical sentiments that regularly vexed European leaders. The belief that America represented a