The immigration legislation Biden said he plans to send to the Congress within his first 100 days would likely be dead on arrival. A Trump nominee slow-walked the formal process for allowing Biden's team to engage with government officials. His transition team has spent months thinking through the unilateral actions Biden could take almost immediately upon entering the White House. That means an early effort, Biden indicated in his NBC News interview, to rebuild the Environmental Protection Agency. The shadow of Trump's tenure looms over much of the early Biden agenda.