Plus, a popular rescue bill will be hard for moderates to puncture.
Executive Power
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: Small Business Relief Not Getting Out Quickly
Biden and others are too obsessed with fraud prevention to deliver for business owners eligible for PPP loans and “Save Our Stages” grants.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Introducing the Executive Action Tracker
The Prospect is monitoring 77 significant executive actions that Biden can implement without further legislation from Congress.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Biden Can Give DACA Recipients Health Care
Without congressional action, Biden can reverse the Obama-era exclusion of DACA recipients from the ACA. The pandemic makes this urgent.
Posted inFirst 100
Biden’s Executive Actions Just Scratch the Surface
Implementing Congressional laws is massively important to make progress, and Biden has the ability to go further.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Biden’s Actual Day One Agenda
The executive actions the incoming president plans to take over the next several days are a bit underweight.
Posted inDay One Agenda
How Biden Can End Trump’s Macabre Execution Spree
The president-elect opposes capital punishment. If he can’t persuade Congress to abolish it, he can still commute the sentences of the federal prisoners on death row.
Posted inDay One Agenda
It’s Time to End the Korean War
Seventy years into the conflict, Biden can resolve the original forever war.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Nuclear Weapons Are Out of Control. But Biden Can Make the World Safer.
A nuclear policy for the middle class
Posted inDay One Agenda
Joe Biden Is Unhappy About the Day One Agenda
But those are the breaks when you’re president; people will want you to exercise your power for the general good.
