President Biden
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Biden holds the U.S. space force, which was established under Trump, as well as the Artemis space program.
He is not implementing the new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, which was signed by Trump early last year, and replaces a trade treaty that supported Biden as a US senator.
Biden administration officials also praised the Abraham Accords, a deal mediated by the previous government that normalized relations between Israel and other countries in the Middle East.
Biden sought to quickly undo Trump’s executive record on everything from immigration to climate change, signing executive actions to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, halting construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, the so-called Mexico City repeal policy, plans to abandon World Health, to reverse. Organization and promotion of admissions for refugees.
Biden has also undertaken to partially withdraw the tax cuts under Trump, although he has not yet taken concrete steps to do so.
Most of Trump’s movements were politically polarizing, and the former president achieved minimal legislative victories during his tenure. Nevertheless, some of Trump’s achievements deserve dual support, including the adoption of the First Step Act, which reduced the sentences for drug offenses and allowed for an earlier release for some time.
Biden lamented that he had supported the 1994 crime bill on the campaign, calling it a “big mistake” and undertaking to carry out his own criminal law reform.
Ames Grawert, senior councilor for the Brennan Center for Justice, calls it an area ripe for expansion by Biden.
“We saw a First Step Act, but there was never a second,” he said.
But Grawert said there may be few other agreements between the two administrations on the criminal justice front, noting that the Biden government is trying almost immediately to reverse the policy of the former attorney general. Jeff Sessions
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Trump also volunteered more forgiveness than some of his predecessors, and regularly circumvented the recommendation at the Department of Justice, relying on rumors of celebrities and other outside officials.
Grawert said Biden needs to explore ways to improve the process of relieving deserving individuals.
‘We need to find out how to make the federal grace process work better so you do not have to trust Kim Kardashian
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The White House last week, after press secretary, explicitly committed to retaining the Space Force Jen Psaki
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Biden is also expected to use new labor enforcement tools under the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement, which was frozen early last year after months of negotiations and another rare two-time legislative performance by the represented by previous president.
“I think there will be a lot of continuity,” said Edward Alden, an expert on economic competitiveness and trade at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The USMCA was a great two-way success.”
Yet Biden’s overall approach to economic and foreign policy issues already shows a stark contrast to Trump. Biden stressed the importance of alliances and partnerships in dealing with issues, from confronting China to addressing climate change to defeating the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are moving from America First trade policy to a trade policy that will be built much more in consultation with allies,” Alden said. ‘Much more effort will be made to work more closely with allies on economic and trade policy. You can not deviate sharply from the Trump approach. ”
Biden, like Trump, adopted the idea of a tough stance on China, but the new government has outlined an approach that will focus on competition and move away from Trump’s more confrontational tactics. The new government undertakes a comprehensive review of economic and foreign policy decisions in the Trump era, including a review of the “phase one” trade agreement negotiated between the US and China and the remaining tariffs that apply to Chinese goods.
Some believe Biden will keep the tariffs in place for the time being and use them as a bargain to get a concession out of China, but eventually lift it. Alden said Biden is more likely to move quickly to undo Trump’s tariffs on European goods.
“I think the most striking thing is how deliberate and patient they are on the Chinese trade front,” Alden said. “They are moving very slowly and deliberately to review options for China trade, and are not moving fast to undo the Trump record.”
In some cases, however, the Biden White House may build on some of Trump’s foreign policy actions.
The Abraham Accords have re-established diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, and the Biden government has proposed building on them.
Candidate Biden, who was a candidate at the time, failed to come out and say, ‘I think that’s a good thing. I think this is a positive thing. “And he has consistently said over the past few months that he wants to continue this initiative,” said Biden’s national security adviser. Jake Sullivan
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Dennis Ross
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“My hope is that it will be a real effort to build on that,” Ross said. It argued that future agreements would be more likely to succeed with a constant U.S. involvement.
But Biden’s general message about cooperating with other countries was a reversal of the Trump era. Biden sought to reassure the world community of its commitment to alliances and to signal that decisions will be made in consultation with partners and not impulsively.
“What you see is a kind of attempt to show consistency across the board,” Ross said.