Covid-19: for Joe Biden, there will be more deaths if Donald Trump does not facilitate the transition
Without consultation between the Trump and Biden teams before the new American administration came to power on January 20, 2021, "it may be that more people die" from Covid-19, assured the President-elect of the United States on Monday. United, Joe Biden.
The President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, warned, Monday, November 16, of the risk of additional deaths from Covid-19 if Donald Trump and his government refuse to coordinate with the Democratic team called on to ensure the transition to the White House.
Without consultation between the two teams succeeding the American executive, "it is possible that more people die," warned Joe Biden, citing in particular the urgency to prepare the distribution of vaccines as soon as they are available.
"If we have to wait until January 20 (day of the inauguration of the next president, Editor's note) to start planning, that makes us take a month, a month and a half behind," assured Joe Biden , who spoke from his stronghold of Wilmington, Delaware. "It is so crucial that this coordination starts now ... Now or as quickly as possible," he insisted.
By refusing to acknowledge his electoral defeat and instead claiming to be the one who will preside over the United States for the next four years, Donald Trump is raising concerns and breaking with the tradition that the elected president is brought to be included, at least as as an observer, in the major decisions of the transition period to the White House.
Joe Biden also insisted that the sine qua non for an economic recovery was to control the virus. As the Thanksgiving holidays approach, he stressed that "there should not be groups of more than 10 people in the houses." He also once again recommended that the mask be worn generally.
Predicting a "dark winter", Joe Biden also urged Congress to vote "quickly" a new aid plan for the economy, still weakened by the pandemic. But the vote of such a plan, which Joe Biden wants of a size comparable to that adopted in urgency in the spring (more than 2,200 billion dollars), could face the veto of the Senate, if this one remained dominated by the Republicans. Control of the upper house will be decided in a by-election in the state of Georgia on January 5, where two seats will be on the line. No law can be passed without the approval of the Senate.
Minimum wage
Looking to the future, Joe Biden stressed that his administration would aim to "create millions of well-paid jobs in manufacturing, in car building (...), in technologies that we will need in the future to be competitive against the rest of the world ". "We will buy American", he also promised, in the continuity of his campaign speeches and joining on this point the current host of the White House.
He also reaffirmed his desire to put in place a "fair tax system" which will consist in making large companies and the wealthiest Americans pay a "fair share", taking the opposite view of the Trump administration, which had lowered taxes. on businesses from 35% to 21%, and that of the wealthiest households.
Joe Biden also intends to set up a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour, a union demand, while many jobs, especially in the restaurant sector, have a miserable fixed salary (a few dollars) and workers So basically rely on tips from customers to get decent pay.
