🗳 DEEP DIVE — First priorities for President Joe Biden’s administration
The big task for the incoming Biden administration is reconfiguring, revising and rethinking what's possible in light of divided government, @HansNichols writes. axios.com/biden-administ…
🏥A Biden presidency and a closely divided Senate means that nothing big is likely to happen in health care for at least the next two years, @caitlinnowens writes. axios.com/joe-biden-admi…
🌎Biden has said he would immediately rejoin the Paris climate agreement, but that's the easy part. Ultimately meeting his ambitions for the U.S. on the world stage would be much trickier. More from @AmyAHarder and @Ben_Geman: axios.com/president-joe-…
💻A Biden presidency will put the tech industry on more stable ground than it's had with Trump. Although Biden is unlikely to rein in those Democrats who are itching to regulate the big platforms, he'll almost certainly have other, bigger priorities. axios.com/biden-administ…
💵 Economically, the outcome of the election could not be worse, @felixsalmon writes. Gridlock is being cheered by financial markets wary of political overreach, but stocks are not the economy. axios.com/biden-and-econ…
🇺🇸Biden's message to the world is that "America is back" — or will be, once he enters the White House, @DavidLawler10 writes. Biden's primary foreign policy focus is on reviving America's alliances and recommitting to multilateral deals and institutions. axios.com/biden-and-amer…
Former White House Communications Director @Scaramucci on his view of Trumpism: "[It's] a hijacked, deformed brand of Republicanism...massive deficit spending and sometimes very reckless behavior when it relates to public health and safety."
@Scaramucci .@Scaramucci on the impact of a Biden win: "I predict that this will be very good for the economy."
🗳️ The chances of sporadic violence, significant unrest or voting issues heading into Election Day are quite high.
But all of us — Democrats, Republicans, independents alike — can do our part to minimize the drama and darker scenarios. axios.com/election-night…
1. Vote and then chill until late Tuesday night. There will be dumb rumors, wild speculation and armchair projections, all of it meaningless. axios.com/election-night…
2. Don't expect a quick, clear winner: We can't stress enough the chance of it taking days to fully count mail-in and absentee votes, to determine the real outcome in places like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. axios.com/election-night…
Outside of trade, immigration, a personal war against the "Deep State" and the hot foreign policy issue of the moment, Trump has left many of his Cabinet secretaries to work without interruption, let alone direction. axios.com/trump-legacy-f…
As a result of Trump's lack of interest in much of domestic policy, whole swaths of his administration — Education, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation, to name a few — have escaped even the barest presidential attention. axios.com/trump-legacy-f…
💵 The economy
Trump made good on his pledges to cut taxes and regulation, which helped create jobs but didn't achieve the levels of economic growth that he had promised, @danprimack writes. axios.com/trump-legacy-f…
🚀 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched the surface of an asteroid Tuesday in a bid to collect a sample from the space rock that will one day be returned to Earth. axios.com/nasa-osiris-re…
🔎The big picture: Scientists hope the sample from the asteroid Bennu will allow them to learn more about the early days of the solar system and how it has evolved over billions of years, @mirikramer writes. axios.com/nasa-asteroid-…
🤖 OSIRIS-REx — which arrived at Bennu in 2018 — was able to use its sampling arm to touch the surface of the asteroid.
The spacecraft needed to avoid large boulders and rocks on the way down to tag Bennu, further complicating the delicate work.