Why did President Biden add three new issues into his priorities?
On Day one, the Biden administration added three issues into its priorities. What the new White House priorities tell us, and why these changes?
4 min readJan 22, 2021
Right after Election Day in 2020, President-elect Joe Biden began rolling out his transition plan, including a website “Build Back Better” listing four priorities for the start of his administration: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change. As President Biden sworn into office on January 20, 2020, the transition pages turned into the official White House website with three additional issues, health care, immigration, and restoring America’s global standing, being added to the priorities page.
The new priorities seek to reinforce and repair the wounds from his predecessors, show Biden’s personal issue positions, and reflect the restrained conditions facing the new Administration.
