Joe Biden Will Face This Overlooked Crisis on Day 1
True, President Trump and many Republicans are giving the appearance of contesting the election, perhaps to placate Trump's ego.
The Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis together have revealed the limits of our capacity to respond to crises that demand basic coordination and resources, limits made far worse by members of the Trump administration but not solely their fault.
With Democratic control of the Senate, the Biden administration would have been able to use an obscure process, the Congressional Review Act, to reverse regulations finalized late this year, just as Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans used it 16 times to reverse regulations from President Barack Obama's administration.
The Trump administration's shocking sabotage of the census adds another complication that will ripple through the management of the more than 130 federal programs, including Medicaid and food stamps, that use census data to allocate funds
Read more at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/opinion/biden-trump-federal-government.html
