Obama Team Weighs What to Take On in First Months

Barack Obama at a news conference in September. After nearly two years of campaign promises, Mr. Obama and his advisers face the complex task of setting priorities for his presidency. Doug Mills/The New York Times

From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — With the economy in disarray and the nation’s treasury draining, President-elect Barack Obama and his advisers are trying to figure out which of his expansive campaign promises to push in the opening months of his tenure and which to put on a slower track.

Mr. Obama repeated on Saturday that his first priority would be an economic recovery program to get the nation’s business system back on track and people back to work. But advisers said the question was whether they could tackle health care, climate change and energy independence at once or needed to stagger these initiatives over time.

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