President-elect Biden Says His First 100 Days in Office will be Spent Enforcing Mask-Wearing

by Yehudit Garmaise

  Ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted 76 laws in his 100 days in office in 1933, journalists and historians remember what presidents choose to do in their three months in office, long after those presidents leave the White House.

   The first 100 days of a presidential term are considered litmus tests that measure the success or failure of each president’s debut policies, efforts, and ideas.

   For instance, in President Trump’s first 100 days in office after he was in augurated in 2027, he signed executive orders that banned the travel and immigration of people from many countries that have Muslim majorities and he moved ahead with his plan to build a wall along the border of Mexico and the United States to discourage Mexican immigration.

   Among the steps former President Barak Obama made in his first 100 days in office, which began in 2009, were efforts to get Congress on board for major healthcare reform, which resulted in Obamacare and a lift of a seven and a half ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

   What will be remembered from the first 100 days of the presidential term of Joe Biden?

   In what he said is part of his three-part plan to eradiate COVID-10 in the U.S., first, Biden called on all Americans to wear masks everywhere they can, especially during the first 100 days of his presidency.

   Biden has said he might sign an executive order that will enforce mask-wearing everywhere he can, in public places, such as federal buildings and interstate highways.

   The second initiative of Biden’s healthcare team is to have "at least 100 million COVID vaccine shots into the arms of the American people in the first 100 days," said Biden, before introducing his public health team at an event in Wilmington, Delaware, today.

   Lastly, Biden said that Congress could help to get children back to school by providing funding. Biden said that keeping children in school will be a "national priority" for his team during first 100 days.

  Biden also hopes for a federal stimulus package that Mayor Bill de Blasio has many times has said is long overdue.

    "I'm encouraged by the bipartisan efforts in Congress around a $900 billion economic relief package which I've said is critical, but this package is only a start for more action early next year," Biden added.

   "My first 100 days won’t end the COVID-19 virus,” President-elect Biden said. “I can't promise that.

   "We didn’t get into this mess quickly. We're not going to get out of it quickly. It's going to take some time. But I'm absolutely convinced that in 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in America for the better."Schultz / Biden for President