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Biden is maintaining the U.S. Space Force, which was established under Trump, as well as the Artemis space flight program.
He is not reversing the new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, which was signed by Trump early last year and replaced a trade pact that Biden supported as a U.S. senator.
Biden government officials also offered praise for Abraham’s agreements, an agreement brokered by the previous government that normalized relations between Israel and other countries in the Middle East.
Biden sought to quickly undo Trump’s executive record on everything from immigration to climate, signing executive actions to join the Paris climate deal, halting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, rescinding Mexico City’s so-called political, reversing plans to leave the World Health Organization and increased refugee admissions.
Biden has also pledged to partially reverse Trump’s tax cuts, although he has yet to take concrete steps to do so.
Most of Trump’s actions were politically polarized and the former president saw minimal legislative victories during his tenure. Still, some of Trump’s achievements have gained bipartisan support, including the passage of the First Step Act, which reduced sentences for drug offenses and allowed an early release for some time in execution.
Biden expressed regret for supporting the campaign’s 1994 crime bill, calling it a “big mistake” and promising to do his own criminal justice reform.
Ames Grawert, senior council at the Brennan Justice Center, called it an area ready for expansion by Biden.
“We saw a first step, but there was never a second,” he said.
But Grawert said there may be few other similarities between the two administrations on the criminal justice front, noting that the Biden administration almost immediately sought to reverse the policies of the former attorney general Jeff Sessions
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Trump has also granted forgiveness and clemency more liberally than some of his predecessors, often bypassing the recommendation process at the Justice Department and lobbying celebrities and other outside officials.
Grawert said Biden should explore ways to improve the process to offer relief to deserving individuals.
“We have to figure out how to make the federal clemency process work better, so that you don’t have to rely on Kim Kardashian
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The White House explicitly pledged to maintain the Space Force last week after the press secretary Jen Psaki
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Biden should also take advantage of the new labor inspection tools of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which was solidified at the beginning of last year after months of negotiations and represents another rare bipartisan legislative achievement by the previous president.
“I think there will be a lot of continuity there,” said Edward Alden, an expert on economic competitiveness and trade at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The USMCA was a huge bipartisan success.”
Still, Biden’s general approach to economic and foreign policy issues is already in sharp contrast to Trump. Biden emphasized the importance of alliances and partnerships to deal with issues ranging from the confrontation of China to climate change to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are moving from America First’s trade policy to a trade policy that will be built much more in consultation with the allies,” said Alden. “There will be much more effort to work with the allies more closely in economic and trade policy. You couldn’t have a more sharp departure from the Trump approach. ”
Biden, like Trump, embraced the idea of a tough stance on China, but the new government has come up with an approach that will focus on competition and move away from Trump’s most confrontational tactics. The new government is conducting a comprehensive review of Trump-era foreign and economic policy decisions, including the review of the “phase one” trade agreement negotiated between the U.S. and China and the remaining tariffs that are in effect on Chinese products.
Some believe Biden will keep the tariffs in place for now and use them as a bargaining chip to extract a concession from China, but in the end he will suspend them. Alden said Biden would likely act quickly to undo Trump’s tariffs on European products.
“I think the most striking thing is how deliberate and patient they are on China’s commercial front,” said Alden. “They are moving very slowly and deliberately to review trade options with China, not moving quickly to undo Trump’s track record.”
Still, in some cases, the Biden White House may seek to develop some of Trump’s actions when it comes to foreign policy.
The Abraham Accords have reestablished diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, and the Biden government has suggested that it is looking to expand them.
“The then candidate Biden did not hesitate to speak up and say, ‘I think that’s a good thing. I think this is a positive thing. ‘And he has consistently said over the past few months that he would like to take this initiative forward, ”National Security Advisor Biden 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 deals would be more likely to succeed with consistent American involvement.
But Biden’s general message about involvement with other countries was a reversal of the Trump era. Biden has sought to assure the global community of its commitment to alliances and to signal that decisions will be made in consultation with partners and not impulsively.
“What you are seeing is a kind of effort to show stability in all aspects,” said Ross.