What should we expect for the first 100 days of a Biden presidency?
ABC News Breakfast spoke to Evan Osnos, the author of Joe Biden's best-selling biography, American Dreamer, for a few clues.
He was asked how much pressure the US was going to put on global partners like Australia to step up on climate change:
"A lot of pressure. I have to tell you, everything I've been gathering from the Biden transition, now administration, going back to the campaign is that they recognise that climate change is a defining issue for how they're going to be evaluated in the short term and the long term.
"They looked ahead and they say, we have a young generation of Americans. Remember, the median age in this country is 38.
"And that means that they are millennials, by and large, and they see climate change as an absolutely front-page issue for the country and one on which older politicians have not done enough.
"And I think Biden sees this as one of the ways that he can begin to connect to younger Americans, by putting it front and centre.
"And that will, I'm afraid, I think it will impose pressure on American allies."
But one thing Osnos said he didn't expect Biden to do during his first week was to raise the issue of immigration. Here's what he had to say about that:
"They've already said now in the first few days, that they're going to introduce a major immigration bill to try to create a pathway to citizenship.
"As you know, over the last four years, there has been a tremendous amount of hostility from the Trump administration towards immigration. And what Biden is doing is twofold.
"One, he's sending a message to the rest of the world to say, 'That's not who we are. We're turning away from that period of hostility towards people coming from abroad'.
"And he also wants to send a clear message that says, even though there are people in Washington who are hostile to immigration, the polls are clear: most Americans, two thirds, in fact, believe that immigration makes this country stronger, not weaker.
"And that number has been going up."
You can read more of what he had to say in our story here:
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