Ready to write next chapter in US history, says Kamala

Washington, November 10

Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris has stated she and President-elect Joe Biden are prepared to jot down the “next chapter” in American historical past and from the primary day they might begin constructing an financial system that advantages the working households.

Tackling Covid-19 pandemic, financial restoration, racial equality and local weather change are the 4 prime priorities the Biden staff listed on its web site on Sunday, a day after the Democrat leaders received the bitter and carefully fought November Three presidential election, billed as some of the divisive within the current American historical past.

“Biden and I are prepared to jot down the subsequent chapter in our nation’s historical past,” Harris stated in a tweet on Monday.

“On Day 1, we’ll get to work constructing an financial system that works for working households,” she stated, itemizing out the priorities of the Biden-Harris administration.

As Biden’s Vice-President, Harris, 56, will make historical past in myriad methods, turning into the primary lady, and the primary lady of color to occupy the workplace. According to the Economic Recovery of the Transition, President-elect Biden believes to his core that there isn’t any higher financial engine on this planet than the laborious work and ingenuity of the American folks.

“Nobody has more respect for the working women and men who get up every day to build and sustain this country, or more confidence that they can meet the challenges we face. The Biden-Harris administration will rebuild the middle class — and this time make sure everyone comes along,” it stated.

In this time of disaster, Biden has a plan to create thousands and thousands of good-paying jobs, make it simpler for staff to organise unions and collectively cut price, and to present America’s working households the instruments, decisions, and freedom they should construct again higher, it stated.

“Implementing Biden’s comprehensive strategy to get the pandemic under control and effectively reopen the economy is one of the President-elect’s top priorities,” the transition stated. — PTI

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