Republicans are standing by their man. Former President
Donald Trump has only been out of the White House for eight days, but that is enough time for many Republicans to realize that they still want him on the political battlefield.
“The share of Republican voters who say the 45th president should play a ‘major role’ in the future of the GOP increased 9 percentage points to 50%, compared to a survey conducted in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot. The shift was driven by a 15-percentage point increase among women in the party 41% to 56%,” reports a Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday.
President Biden has identified COVID-19 response as the highest priority for his Administration’s first weeks and months. His initial policy foray is outlined in his Administration’s National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness and 11 executive orders issued on January 20 and 21.
Itâs a strange moment in our nationâs historyâa contest between error and effort. After a year of mismanagement, America is racing to vaccinate the vulnerable; a new Administration is taking over just as a vastly more contagious form of the virus threatens to accelerate the surge. The pandemic is a juggernaut, bearing down upon us. Can Joe Biden and his team stop it?
The new Administration has proposed a wide-ranging, two-trillion-dollar plan to turn things around. The plan includes stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, a minimum-wage increase, and funding to help schools open safely. But its most important component is vaccination. Biden has pledged to deliver a hundred and fifty million shots in his first hundred days in office; he has also announced that his Administration is nearing deals with Pfizer and Moderna to secure an additional two hundred million doses by the end of the summer. Together with the four hundred million doses the companies already
Biden’s Virus Response Resembles Trump’s, Adds Bureaucracy
Aside from a handful of exceptions, Biden’s actions restate predecessor’s agenda while infusing pandemic response with equity agenda
News analysis
President Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to turn the tide of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, telling Americans that he had a superior plan to the one that was being executed by the administration of President Donald Trump.
Biden unveiled his strategy in the first days of his administration amid a flurry of executive orders.
While some of Biden’s ideas are truly novel, including his vision for a centralized national contact-tracing workforce through the establishment of the U.S. Public Health Job Corps, the plan largely mirrors what had been set in motion by Trump, plus the addition of several layers of bureaucracy and the infusion of the quasi-Marxist “equity” agenda into every aspect of the pandemic response.