Joe Biden tries to steer US out of choppy, Trump-loyalist waters

Washington — Interior department staffers churned out dozens of drilling permits despite an order for upper-level review. The US Postal Service spurned green alternatives and bought tens of thousands of petrol-powered vehicles. And across the government, Donald Trump loyalists remain in influential positions. President Joe Biden is being defied by his own government as his ambitious plans to undo four years of Trump run into a harsh reality: The government lumbers on, slow to turn course even after an election. Cumbersome bureaucracy threatens his agenda on everything from fighting climate change to ending the coronavirus pandemic. “You load these systems up and they are going to keep...