President Donald Trump may be best remembered for his use of Twitter as a bully pulpit to stoke controversy or browbeat opponents, but the noise his tweets generated often distracted from the big policy changes he made over his four-year term. During his rollercoaster presidency, the focus was often on what Trump was saying and .
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When President-elect Joe Biden takes office, there will be plenty of anticipation over the first days of his administration.
Perhaps few are more anxious than state governments.
Facing burgeoning deficits and growing impatience over the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine, states are urging Biden to help their troubled plight. More funding is needed for restaurants and bars, as well as the service industry more broadly, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Dec. 22. More funding is needed for direct payments to individuals and families. More funding is needed for state and local governments and the critical services they provide.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump may be best remembered for his use of Twitter as a bully pulpit to stoke controversy or browbeat opponents, but the noise his tweets generated often distracted from the big policy changes he made over his four-year term. During his rollercoaster presidency, the focus was often on what Trump was saying and not what on he was doing as he careened from one self-induced crisis to another. But a review of his policies shows that he had a real effect on people s lives in the areas of energy and environment, immigration, the judiciary, business and the economy, trade, and foreign policy, among others. CHINA The Trump administration put China’s rise in the spotlight and helped forge a bipartisan and increasingly adversarial U.S. view of the world’s second-largest economy. From a raft of tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese imports to sanctions against top officials and a muscular use of penalties against top Chinese companies like Huawei,