WASHINGTON, Jan 1 — Like prior lame-duck US presidents, Joe Biden has been racing to complete unfinished business in an attempt to bolster his legacy — and protect his...
Counting down final days in White House, lame-duck Biden tries to Trump-proof agenda and bolster legacy
“There are many examples of intense lame-duck periods,” particularly when power changes from party to party, said Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University. The outgoing president had previously granted 39 presidential pardons and commuted sentences for nearly 1,500 people, with the White House hailing it as “the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.”
The move provoked strong criticism from Trump and Republicans, but also from close Democratic allies. That brought “the total number of individuals who have been approved for student debt relief under my Administration to nearly 5 million people through various actions,” Biden said.
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