Joe Biden is staging a final push to deliver more aid to Ukraine, lock in manufacturing subsidies and confirm federal judges as he tries to secure his legacy before Donald Trump starts his second term in January.
Following vice-president Kamala Harris’s defeat to Trump this month, and the failure of his own re-election bid in July, Biden has been urging his cabinet and senior officials to ramp up, rather than wind down, their activities.
For many administration officials, the push to double down on domestic and foreign policy initiatives is an attempt to preserve some of their biggest accomplishments and head off Trump’s attempts to reverse them.