Power Up: Biden s first week embraces executive action on twin crises of coronavirus, economy Jacqueline Alemany
HOW IT STARTED
> HOW IT S GOING: We started the week with a president who, still angry about his election loss and second impeachment, had largely disappeared from public view and all but given up on governing as the country grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. economy. We re ending the week with a president who has raced to show the American public that he s fighting the twin crises with the full power of the presidency and the federal government.
The blitz of activity during President Biden s first days comes after months of planning to launch what he called “a wartime undertaking”: With more than 408,000 Americans dead, Biden authorized the use of the Defense Production Act to increase efforts to fight the pandemic and improve vaccine distribution.