The Biden administration must act quickly to repair the damage.
By Neil Eggleston and Alexa Kissinger
The authors are lawyers who served in the administration of President Barack Obama. Mr. Eggleston was the White House counsel from 2014 to 2017. Ms. Kissinger was a special assistant to Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, from 2013 to 2015.
Jan. 25, 2021
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Of all the urgent tasks facing the Biden administration, among the most pressing is to unwind former President Donald Trumpâs four-year effort to âdeconstruct the administrative state.â
From headline-grabbing policies like caging children at the southern border to stealth rollbacks of climate and environmental regulations, politicizing the role of science and leaving hundreds of key political appointments vacant during a pandemic, the consequences of the Trump administrationâs governing philosophy will take swift, sustained and systemic efforts to
STATEMENT: Biden-Harris Administration to Begin at Moment of Great Peril and Promise
Statement - January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON (January 19, 2021) President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will take office tomorrow. They will take on their roles, as the country continues to reel from the global health pandemic, with over 400,000 lives lost in the United States alone. They will also face the ongoing challenges of overcoming racial injustice and the global climate crisis.
Following is a statement by Andrew Steer, President & CEO, World Resources Institute:
“The Biden-Harris administration comes to power at a moment of great peril and great promise. President Biden has made it clear that he fully recognizes the urgency of climate action, and he’s set to back up these words with decisive action. In doing so, the Biden-Harris administration will simultaneously make Americans safer, address equity issues, and recharge the economy.