- The Predsident-elect faces major problems
By NAEEM KANDWAL
The Biden Presidency will face historic challenges. Poverty, unemployment, racism and internal security are major challenges facing US. The economy is the biggest challenge. Virtually all major policy issues derive from this central challenge. There are also many external problems. Bad relations especially with China and Iran are a big problem. it is important to mention some issues in detail here.
The coronavirus pandemic is far from over. Cases are surging across the nation as many states are in their eighth month of enforcing some sort of social distancing guidelines. A record 121,888 new COVID-19 infections were tallied across the country on Thursday. More than 231,000 people in the USA have died from the virus, and more than 9 million Americans have contracted it.
Throughout the campaign, Biden laid out some things he would do to combat covid-19. He has said he would contact governors to help implement a mask mandate. If they refuse, the former vice president has said he would turn to local officials. Biden also said he would launch a national plan to expand testing for the virus, implement national guidelines for states to reopen at the guidance of scientists and said the coronavirus vaccine would be free once it was available. While experts say at least one vaccine candidate could win FDA approval by year’s end, it could be months to get a vaccine to the more than 300 million people who live in the USA, let alone the seven billion people across the globe. Now, as President, Biden will have to actually implement his plan rather than discuss what he would do if he were the commander-in-chief.
Biden’s policy looks revolutionary. Biden can help the USA move forward by finding solutions to problems.
While Biden will need to address the pandemic, he also will need to address the nation’s economic recovery after it was plunged into a recession as result of the pandemic. During a speech about his covid-19 response last month, Biden said that if he were elected, he would give Congress one month to get a bill on his desk that included funding to address the public health and economic aspects of combating the virus. “I’ll reach out to every governor in every state, red and blue, as well as mayors and local officials, during the transition, to find out what support they need and how much of it they need,” Biden said in his speech in October. He added: “I’ll ask the new Congress to put a bill on my desk by the end of January with all the resources necessary so that both our public health response and our economic response can be seen through to the end.” Biden has not been specific about what his stimulus plan would look like, but he has said: “We should be providing the money the House has passed in order to be able to go out and get people the help they need to keep their businesses open.”
Congress earlier this year passed a coronavirus stimulus package that included $1,200 stimulus checks for many Americans. But Congress over the past several months has not been able to pass a new round of legislation. However, Biden has laid out a plan for unemployment benefits, saying he would create a health crisis unemployment initiative to help all workers facing a loss of work because of the pandemic, create plans to ensure unemployment benefits are available to those who lose jobs but would be denied Benefits for a variety of reasons, extend COVID-19 crisis unemployment insurance, and provide guaranteed emergency paid sick leave and caregiving leave.
Biden’s road to the White House was paved by Black voters, in the primary and in the last several days of the election, when many of Biden’s winning votes came from voters in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta. But Black Americans, along with white allies and other people of colour, continue to protest in the streets nationwide against police-involved shootings and racial injustice. Biden, who has publicly used the phrase “Black lives matter,” released a plan that includes an array of policies to address systemic racism, which includes investing in Black-owned small businesses, creating a new tax credit to help Black Americans buy homes, and investing in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
The president-elect will need to address racial tensions across the country in the immediate future, and not just point to his plan. Stefanie Brown James, who led Obama for America’s effort to engage African American leaders and voters in 2012 and is a co-founder of Collective PAC, told USA TODAY that activists within the movement aren’t going to remain silent under a Biden Presidency. She said she expects a number of community tasks forces will be developed by the administration, and they must include “community leaders from Black Lives Matter and just Black organizations, period.”
“There will continue to be a push of Biden and Harris to make good on their promises,” she said. “There’s also going to be a larger push for Congress to do the same.”
The world according to Joe Biden is a much more traditional take on America’s role and interests, grounded in international institutions established after World War Two, and based on shared western democratic values. It is one of global alliances in which America leads free nations in combating transnational threats. Joe Biden says he’s prepared to rejoin another international accord abandoned by President Trump: the deal that gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for scaling down its nuclear programme. The Trump Administration withdrew in 2018, saying the arms control agreement was too narrow to cope with the threats posed by Iran, and too weak in its limits on nuclear activity, which expire over time. It re-imposed sanctions and continues to pile on economic pressure, recently blacklisting almost all of Iran’s financial sector. In response Iran has stopped observing some of the restrictions on its nuclear activity. Mr Biden says this “maximum pressure” policy has failed.
Relations between China and the USA are at their worst in decades over disputes ranging from technology and trade to Hong Kong and the coronavirus, and the Trump Administration has unleashed a barrage of sanctions against Beijing.
“Biden’s election means an opportunity to re-establish relations with the US as he is more likely to uphold multilateralism. That means China and the US can start discussing issues including climate change, pandemic control and trade,” Wang said.
Biden’s policy looks revolutionary. Biden can help the USA move forward by finding solutions to problems.
