President-elect Trump is seizing the reins of power early and, according to lawmakers in both parties, already acting as president, while Joe Biden, in many ways, has kept a lower profile during the final days of his presidency.

President Biden increased the emissions reduction goal for the United States under the Paris climate agreement, which Trump has signaled he intends to withdraw from.

President-elect Donald Trump hit out at Joe Biden Tuesday in a Christmas Eve meltdown over his commutation of the sentences of almost every American federal prisoner on death row. Biden announced Monday he would remove the death sentences from 37 of 40 prisoners,