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Jan. 19, 2021: President-elect Joe Biden speaks at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Delaware.
When he becomes president Wednesday, Joseph Biden is expected to make immediate changes in policy areas upended by President Trump first through executive orders, then through an aggressive push with a Congress controlled by Democrats.
Up first, as Biden has promised, is an overhaul in the nation’s response to COVID-19 and its rollout of the needed vaccines. Then a return to work combating climate change. Beyond that, a new Biden administration is expected to have broad impact on life in New Jersey. From finances to climate to COVID-19, NJ Spotlight News looks at key areas where Biden is said to be making changes.
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President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a COVID-19 memorial, with lights placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Tuesday in Washington. (AP photo)
WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden made a sober entrance to the nation’s capital Tuesday, ready to assume power as America reels from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring unemployment and grave concerns about more violence as he prepares to take the oath of office.
Biden, an avid fan of Amtrak, had planned to take a train into Washington ahead of Wednesday’s Inauguration Day, but scratched that plan in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
As Joe Biden delivered his inaugural address in D.C. on Wednesday, a man in a blue uniform was pictured kneeling at the grave of his son Beau at St. Joseph on the Brandywine church in Delaware
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Major Joseph R. Beau Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Delaware, the day before heading to Washington to begin his time as US President, Joe Biden used a quote from Irish Poet
James Joyce as a means to illustrate his love for his home.
He said: My colleagues used to always kid me for quoting Irish poets. They thought I did it because I m Irish. I didn t do it for that reason. I did it because they are the best poets in the world.
He continued: James Joyce was said to have told a friend that when it comes to his time to pass, when he dies he said Dublin will be written on my heart .