Joe Biden’s 100-day Marathon Is A Sprint

Donald Trump is still President!

Well, not literally, the Electoral College, Congress Ratification and the inauguration will say otherwise.

Joseph Biden Jr, who became the 46th President of the United States sits ensconced in an office that he was geographically close to for eight years, but politically still further away from. Biden realises that his successor still hasn’t left the Oval Office.

Again, not literally, but the essence of Trump’s cataclysmic transactional interpretation of policy still lingers all over the Oval Office like dampness on the walls.

The first 100 days is seen both as a harbinger of the next four years as well as an ambition scorecard. Most presidential candidates on the campaign trail laud the sweeping enactments that they intend to pass in their first 100 days.

His former boss had a legacy healthcare plan that he intended to unveil and seek congressional approval of in his first 100 days. As President, Barack Obama did just that. But now Biden finds that his 100-day marathon is more of a sprint, less about innovative policy that he can implement, and more about undoing his predecessor’s last four years.

Not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), who took the reins to the Oval Office in the midst of the Great Depression, has a US President had to enter the hallowed walls under such trying circumstances of an economic quandary, healthcare morass, with as many COVID-19 cases as the…