Under Trump, the Department of Labor has taken a largely employer- and industry-friendly approach that has frustrated worker advocates, labor unions and Democrats, and drawn particularly vocal outcry during the pandemic. All these changes would require Congress to adopt them. Biden also has proposed lowering from 65 years old to 60 the age for people to join Medicare, the vast federal insurance programs for older Americans. He wants ACA health plans to be given to poor residents of a dozen states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs under the law. He says that federal insurance subsidies should expand to help more middle-class families. In contrast, the ACA is the basis of plans President-elect Biden has advocated for helping more Americans get affordable health coverage. It slashed funding to help boost enrollment in the insurance marketplaces created under the law, ended one type of subsidy for insurers, and widened the availability of inexpensive health plans that can bypass the law’s rules for insurance benefits and consumer protections. Though a Republican Congress failed to repeal the ACA, HHS took many steps though executive action. It has restricted federal funding of research that uses human fetal tissue. The department has sought to let states require some people on Medicaid to work or prepare for jobs, a move blocked by the courts. The Department of Health and Human Services, one of the government’s largest, has been the Trump administration’s main vehicle to weaken the Affordable Care Act and shift health policy in a more conservative direction in other ways. Commerce, customarily considered a business community outpost, is unlikely to be among the first department jobs filled and the ultimate pick may depend on the demographic and political makeup of the rest of the Cabinet. But the department may put a greater emphasis on export promotion and, through its management of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, take a more proactive stance on climate change. The Biden administration is unlikely to immediately roll back the Trump tariffs.
The department put prominent Chinese corporations such as Huawei on an export blacklist, all but severing them from critical American-made components, an important step toward decoupling the world’s two largest economies. trading partners, including Canada.Ĭommerce also was a key player in the president’s confrontation with China. The so-called Section 232 tariffs were deeply controversial and alienated major U.S. trade law, enabling Trump to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum in response to alleged national security threats. He championed an expansive interpretation of U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross led the department to take an active role in President Trump’s trade wars.
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