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President-elect Joe Biden will arrive in Washington with an ambitious economic agenda topped with plans to prod Congress to pass a multi-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief bill aimed at stabilizing the teetering economy and halting the pandemic’s spread.

Readers expressed their hopes for the next administration and wrote of their personal sorrows in letters to president-elect Biden ahead of his swearing in.

Joe Biden is inheriting a weak recovery. Growth is expected to pick up quickly as the vaccines are widely distributed, but getting 10 million people back to work is likely to take longer.

From pleas to unify the country, to reminders that Americans are suffering, Washington Post readers write to vice president-elect Kamala Harris before she takes office.