Biden plans a flurry of executive orders, new legislation for first days as president - The Washington Post

The day he takes office, Biden is planning to return the United States to the Paris climate accords and repeal the ban on U.S.

In his first days in office, Biden also intends to send to Congress several pieces of legislation including a sweeping immigration bill.

But Biden will face severe challenges to his attempts to turn the page: An inauguration conducted before military guards under threat from violent extremists.

Clyburn (D-S.C.), a close Biden ally.

While Biden has promoted his presidency as a return to bipartisan dealmaking, Clyburn and others have urged him not to hesitate to make liberal use of his executive powers and to consider seeking the elimination of the Senate filibuster.

“He wants to govern in a bipartisan way,” Clyburn said.

Clyburn said that in conversations with Biden, he has stressed that Harry S.

“You’ve got to lay out your vision and invite people to join you in the effort,” Clyburn said.

Clyburn and others also emphasized the challenges Biden will face within his party, which holds only the thinnest of majorities in the House and Senate.

Reid (D-Nev.) warned that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been adept at stalling Democratic priorities in the past, and Reid urged Biden to take a muscular approach to working around Republicans.

It’s only turned into a manufacturing site for judges,” Reid said.

But he said that Biden may need to consider changing the Senate rules so that a minority cannot stop legislation from moving.

“Joe Biden has said he will see if he can work something out with McConnell to get legislation done.

But if that continues after whatever Biden thinks is a reasonable time, he may need to get rid of the filibuster.”.

But though early nominations are typically swiftly confirmed, Biden may not have any Cabinet officials confirmed on his first day, the first time this would have happened since 1989.

Two of Trump’s Cabinet picks were confirmed on Inauguration Day in 2017, and President Obama had six confirmed at the start of his first term.

Coons (D-Del.), a close Biden ally.

“Right now, the president gives advantage to companies that go overseas and invest overseas by reducing the taxes they have to pay on foreign profits,” Biden said during a July interview with WNEP in Scranton, Pa

But there is a long history of presidents failing, when they have their actual first day in office as president, to follow through on theoretical Day One promises they made while campaigning

Trump said that on his first day as president, he would repeal and replace Obama’s signature health-care law (he didn’t) and begin construction of a wall on the border with Mexico (that didn’t occur)