Monday, January 11, 2021 / 9:54AM /
Ottoabasi Abasiekong for WebTV /Header Image Credit: Twitter; @JoeBiden
President-elect, Senator Joe Biden, says
his core focus immediately after swearing in on January 20th, 2021
will be to carry out sweeping immigration reforms, ensure effective containment
of the COVID-19 pandemic and implement comprehensive economic relief in the
United States of America.
He made this point in a recent interaction
with journalists on the pathway of his administration days after the U.S
Congress certified his victory at the 2020 elections.
According to him top priority was to
mitigate the risks of the coronavirus in the country, and work through his
COVID-19 Taskforce to increase the vaccination process for citizens.
Biden was a former Vice President of the
United States from 2008 to 2016, under former President Barack Obama of the
Democratic Party.
With his party now in control of the
United States Congress ( Senate and House of Representatives), Senator Biden
said he would send a comprehensive economic relief bill which would involve trillions
of dollars, with $2,000 checks to households and businesses affected during the
period.
Speaking further he said the economic
relief would address issues of unemployment insurance and rent forbearance for
citizens.
The President-elect highlighted the
December Jobs report which showed that the country lost over 140,000 jobs
across sectors while the unemployment rate remained at 6.7%.
In the area of immigration reforms, he
stressed that it would be designed in a way that would address the challenges
the country has faced in the past 4 years.
The United States of America is currently
the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases, with over 22.6m
cases and over 300,000 deaths.
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