Despite president Donald Trump’s refusal to concede his loss in the just concluded us election, president-elect Joe Biden says he will launch an aggressive plan to control the coronavirus pandemic that has escalated at an alarming rate.
Biden is set to name a 12-person coronavirus task force today, Monday. Two sources within his circle also confirm the president-elect will speak with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases expert, before taking office.
He will also enact a series of executive actions to reverse many of trump’s foreign policies and seek to return the united states to its status at the end of former president Barack Obama’s administration four years earlier.
Biden has also said he will repeal trump’s ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries and reinstate the deferred action for childhood arrivals program.
Meanwhile, leaders of America’s closest allies aren’t waiting for president trump to concede. They’re already offering their congratulations to president-elect joe Biden and history-making vice president-elect kamala Harris.
U.K. Prime minister Boris Johnson, French president Emmanuel macron, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Arabia’s ruling family have congratulated the president-elect.
German chancellor Angela Merkel, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan have also send their congratulatory messages.
Others are South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Irish prime minister Micheál Martin, Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari.
Russia, China and Brazil are yet to congratulate Biden. Russian leader Vladimir Putin says he is standing with trump and would wait for the outcome of the president’s legal challenges to the vote.
