Biden Will Launch Family Reunification Effort Next Week — After Promising To Start It On Inauguration Day

President Joe Biden plans to launch a task force aimed at reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration next week, despite initially promising to start this effort on his first day in office, a delay the White House blamed on the Senate not yet confirming a Department of Homeland Security leader.

Biden will sign an executive order creating this task force on Tuesday, one day after Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Alejandro Mayorkas is expected to be confirmed by the Senate, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.

Mayorkas will chair the group, Psaki said, but she didn’t list other members or detail how the task force will work to reunite children in the United States with parents who were often deported (the White House did not respond to a request for comment).