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Biden maintains the U.S. Space Force, which was established under Trump, as well as the Artemis spaceflight program.
It does not resume the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, which Trump signed into law earlier last year and replaced a trade pact that Biden backed as a U.S. senator.
Officials in the Biden administration have also offered praise to the Abraham Accords, an agreement brokered by the previous administration that normalized relations between Israel and other Middle Eastern countries.
Biden has wanted to quickly undo Trump’s executive record in everything from immigration to climate, signing executive actions to rejoin the Paris climate deal, stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, terminate the so-called Mexico City policy, reverse plans to abandon global health. Organize and promote the admission of refugees.
Biden has also pledged to partially recover the tax cuts approved under Trump, although he has not yet taken concrete steps to do so.
Most of Trump’s moves were politically polarized and the former president saw minimal legislative victories during his tenure in office. Still, some of Trump’s successes garnered bipartisan support, including the passage of the First Step Act, which reduced convictions for drug offenses and allowed for earlier release for some time of compliance.
Biden expressed regret for supporting the 1994 crime bill on the campaign trail, calling it a “big mistake” and pledging to reform its own criminal justice system.
Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Justice Center, defined it as a ripe zone for Biden’s expansion.
“We saw a first-step act, but there was never a second one,” he said.
But Grawert said there may be few other similarities between the two administrations in criminal justice, noting that the Biden administration almost immediately tried to reverse the former attorney general’s policies. Jeff Sessions
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Trump also granted pardons and clemency more freely than some of his predecessors, frequently evading the Department of Justice referral process and relying on the lobby of celebrities and other outside officials.
Grawert said Biden should explore ways to improve the process to offer relief to deserving people.
“We need to figure out how to make the federal leniency process work better so that there is no need to trust Kim Kardashian
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The White House explicitly pledged to maintain the Space Force last week, following the press secretary Jen Psaki
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Biden is also expected to take advantage of the new labor enforcement tools under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which solidified early last year after months of negotiations and represents a another bipartisan legislative success of the previous president.
“I think there will be a lot of continuity,” said Edward Alden, an expert on economic competitiveness and trade at the Foreign Relations Council. “The USMCA was a great bipartisan success.”
Still, Biden’s general focus on economic and foreign policy issues already contrasts with Trump. Biden has stressed the importance of alliances and partnerships in addressing issues, from confrontation with China to the fight against climate change and the defeat of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are moving from First America trade policy to a trade policy that will be built much more in consultation with allies,” Alden said. “There will be a lot more effort to work more closely with allies in economic and trade policy. You couldn’t have a more intense way out of Trump’s approach.”
Biden has adopted, like Trump, the idea of a tough stance on China, but the new administration has come up with an approach that will focus on competition and move away from Trump’s more confrontational tactics. The new administration is conducting a thorough review of foreign and economic policy decisions from the Trump era, including the revision of the “first phase” trade agreement negotiated between the U.S. and China and the rest of current tariffs on Chinese products.
Some believe Biden will keep the tariffs in place for the time being and use them as a bargaining chip to extract a concession from China, but will eventually raise them. Alden said Biden would be more likely to move quickly to undo Trump’s tariffs on European goods.
“I think the most amazing thing is the will and patience they have on China’s trade front,” Alden said. “They are moving very slowly and deliberately to review options on China’s trade, without moving quickly to undo Trump’s record.”
Yet in some cases, Biden’s White House may try to build on some of Trump’s actions when it comes to foreign policy.
The Abraham Accords re-established diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, and the Biden administration has suggested it wants to build on them.
“Then candidate Biden did nothing to go out and say,‘ I think that’s good. I think that’s a positive. “And he’s said consistently over the past few months that he’d like to take this initiative forward,” Biden’s national security adviser said. Jake Sullivan
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Dennis Ross
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“My hope is that it will be an active effort to build them,” said Ross, who argued that future agreements would be more successful with a steady commitment from the United States.
But Biden’s general message about interacting with other countries has been a reversal of the Trump era. Biden has tried to assure the global community of his commitment to alliances and to point out that decisions will be made in consultation with partners and not impulsively.
“What you see is kind of an effort to demonstrate overall consistency,” Ross said.