Washington.— There is a clear slogan that prompts the White House Joe Biden: “There is no time to waste”. That was the first sentence to appear in the president’s renewed official report from U.S on Twitter, and there isn’t a day when someone from the new government says it so literally or with a similar formula with the same meaning.
The Biden administration has been in charge of the US for a week and is in great hurry. Much haste and a hectic need to change the course of a country that is simultaneously immersed in several crises and to which it must respond as quickly as possible. Not only is the pandemic coronavirus: it is also the resulting economic problem and the demonstration of the existence of a very poor person plumbing system; the credibility crisis in the institutions; the social tension due to racial differences and ideological polarization; the constant threat of climate change; the unsolved problem of a immigration system expired and inefficient.
“There is no time to waste when it comes to addressing the crises we are facing,” was the first full tweet from. Biden of the bill @POTUS, already as President of the United States, just 10 minutes after finishing his speech as President of the country. “That’s why I am going to the Oval Office today to go to work to take bold action and provide immediate assistance to American families,” he added.
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The message was the antithesis of what the US had been through in recent weeks. Since his electoral defeat, Donald Trump he had disappeared from the map, scrapping the commitments he had for two and a half months as president. The crises Biden faced already existed then, but Trump decided to hide in the bunker he converted into the White House.
His only concern was finding a nonexistent loophole to reverse the outcome the elections, something he failed to achieve and in fact attacked the Congress of Royal day, a political earthquake from which the US is beginning to recover.
Since the beginning of November, Trump’s public agenda has been completely empty and his actions as the country’s leader have gathered momentum. Only a few times did he go out to explain his government’s strategy against the coronavirus, a plan that has now been shown to be non-existent or many untruths, putting the incoming government in a situation that “ is much worse than you expect.
Everything else was closed doors, small acts, a door opened only for the Thanksgiving turkey’s ceremonial and festive grace. The agenda remained blank and with a succinct “the president has nothing planned” until Christmas, when the phrase broadcast by the White House turned into a specific nothingness: “President Trump will work tirelessly for the American people. calls and meetings ”.
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The phrase became famous and was maintained until the end of the term, with the temporary note that the president’s day began “very early in the morning” and ended “very late at night.” The schedule varied only for a self-indulgent visit to the Wall in the border with Mexico and with the infamous meeting outside the White House in which he launched the attack on the Capitol.
The inaction of the Trump administration for the past two and a half months has taken its toll on the US, and with it the hustle and bustle of the new administration. Not only an attempt to implement the reforms it envisions, but also to demarcate distances with a previous government that wants to leave in the past and be buried as soon as possible. The new president wants to lose sight of the course of the past four years and bring the country back to 2016.
Biden was determined to change the perception of the government within minutes of entering the White House. Hours after he was sworn in, he was sitting at the Oval Office desk, ready to go to work. “With the state of the nation today, there is no time to waste, we get to work immediately,” he said. His insistence on that concept was continued during his statement, “There is no better time to start than today,” he added, flanked by 17 folders of executive orders to be signed. “I’m going to start delivering on the promises I’ve made to the American people,” he concluded.
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And with a ballpoint pen – not a huge marker like its predecessor – he embarked on the grand task of starting his run. In the first three days of the reign, Biden signed 30 decrees. A third to reverse some of the more decisions controversial of Trump, such as the wall on the border with Mexico, the migratory veto to Muslim-majority countries, or policies against the diversity and against him environment. More of the 17 he signed on the same day as the inauguration were meant to tear up Trumpism’s policies.
To further break away from the chaotic Trump White House, totally disengaged by the former president’s improvisation, the new administration team has arrived with homework done, task done, and an organization conscientiously prepared.
The first week is planned per block, organized by theme, so that the government can clearly explain all its proposals. He started with his main plan, everything to do with the coronavirus. “To a nation waiting for action, I’ll be clear at this point: aid is coming,” said Biden in one of his first acts as president; a sentence referring to the pandemic but that subtly referred to a very disruptive mandate and without a clear focus on moments of challenge. “Over the past year, we have not been able to rely on the federal government to act urgently and focused on the task.”
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The president, with his elaborate plan against it COVID-19 (200 pages of documents and a dozen decrees, proclamations and executive measures), wants to go on the attack, be proactive and safety. A certainty that must not focus solely on that: the new government must also restore confidence in the government, restore the decency of the institutions and restore the value of the truth. It is not trivial that the new spokesman promised in her first public speech that she would focus on telling the truth and betting on the transparency. The second day was devoted to responding to the economic challenges and helping ease the crisis for millions of Americans, with progressively worse numbers poverty Y famine, galloping unemployment and debt through the clouds.
This week he presented proposals to boost national industry on Monday; Tuesday are ideas for a more just, egalitarian society and with racial equality. The policy of yesterday also ended Zero tolerance; Today the plan is to dedicate it to climate change. Tomorrow, Thursday, it will be the turn of health problems, such as the abolition of an anti-abortion policy; And Friday will be another great day, with a program that includes the signing of decrees to restore the asylum and refugee reception programs, as well as the pursuit of family reunion on the border.
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There doesn’t seem to be a detail without thinking, everything calculated to the millimeter to convey the feeling that in the federal government there is someone in charge with a competent team and with a specific work plan that goes beyond impulsive decisions guided by their own benefit. Biden, who has set himself the task of saving the country, has a daunting task ahead of him. Maybe that’s why he ordered a portrait just in front of the desk in the Oval Office Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who pulled the US out Great Depression with an amazing start to the mandate. It’s like I want it as a reminder that it’s the best thing to pursue FDR: To get out of the multiple crises you need big, constant action and full of decisions. That is why his government reiterates time and again that “there is no time to lose”.