On January sixth, the outgoing president Joe Biden condemned the Capitol assault which occurred the identical day in 2021.
“We needs to be proud that our democracy withstood this assault…And we needs to be glad we won’t see such a shameful assault once more this 12 months,” Biden wrote, in an opinion submit in The Washington Submit.
Biden famous that the certification would proceed peacefully with out the violence seen in 2021, and highlighted the distinction between that chaotic day and the orderly transition deliberate for this 12 months.
Nevertheless, President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t imagine so.
US President-elect Donald Trump has publicly accused President Joe Biden of deliberately making the presidential transition troublesome, citing current govt orders on local weather change and different official acts taken throughout Biden’s remaining weeks in workplace.
Trump, who is ready to be sworn in because the forty seventh President of america on January 20, claimed that Biden is doing every part doable to hinder the transition course of.
“Biden is doing every part doable to make the TRANSITION as troublesome as doable”, he particularly talked about “Lawfare” and “expensive and ridiculous Government Orders” on local weather change, which he dubbed the “Inexperienced New Rip-off”.
In a submit on Fact Social, Trump reassured his supporters that these govt orders can be terminated shortly, and that his administration would prioritise “Frequent Sense and Power”. He additionally vowed to undo Biden’s current govt orders, together with the ban on drilling for oil and pure fuel off most of America’s shoreline.
Biden’s resolution to dam new drilling off your entire East Coast, in addition to California, Oregon, and Washington state, was made simply two weeks earlier than Trump’s inauguration. Trump has promised to advertise home vitality manufacturing, and it stays unclear whether or not he’ll be capable to reverse Biden’s resolution on oil drilling.
Regardless of Trump’s claims that Biden’s White Home has not been cooperative through the transition, his incoming chief of workers Susie Wiles has said that the White Home has been useful. Wiles praised White Home chief of workers Jeff Zients for his professionalism and help in navigating the transition course of.
The Trump transition staff has reached agreements on issues reminiscent of background checks for incoming officers, regardless of some Republicans expressing issues concerning the quartet of legal instances lodged towards Trump.