![]() Anthony Fauci address a meeting of the WHO Executive Board as head of the US delegation. Rejoin the World Health Organizationīiden will reverse ex-President Trump’s notice of withdrawal from the WHO, which was to become effective on July 6. ![]() Biden will ask the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and prevention to work with state, local, Native American and territorial governments to adopt similar measures. Here are the directives Biden will issue: “100 Days Masking Challenge”īiden will sign an executive order requiring masks and physical distancing in all federal buildings, on all federal lands and by federal employees and contractors during the first 100 days of the Biden administration. In the first hours of his presidency in January 2017, Trump signed a single executive order focused on “minimizing the economic burden” of the Affordable Care Act as his administration began work to repeal it.Īdditionally, then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a memo on the president’s first night in office directing an immediate “regulatory freeze,” preventing federal agencies from implementing or issuing any new regulations. Jill Biden and President-elect Joe Biden attend a memorial service to honor the 400,000 American victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. (From left) Douglas Emhoff, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Dr. The incoming commander-in-chief is slated to sign orders that will halt construction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, count non-citizens in the US census, strengthen workplace discrimination protections based on sex and gender, and call on Congress to grant permanent status to Dreamers as part of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which Trump challenged in court. Other actions include rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, which Trump withdrew the US from in 2017, as well as the World Health Organization, which Trump withdrew from due to the agency’s botched handling of the coronavirus pandemic.īiden will also sign orders extending moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures, and deferrals on student loan payments. Of the border wall, a campaign promise from Trump in 2016, Sullivan said Biden’s executive order would “direct an immediate pause in wall construction projects to allow a close review of the legal basis for the funding, as well as the contract methods being used, and it will determine the best ways to redirect funds that were diverted by the Trump administration to fund wall construction.” “It was rooted in xenophobia and religious animus and President-elect Biden has been clear that we will not turn our back on our values with discriminatory bans on entry to the United States.” President Donald Trump shows an executive order on immigration in the Oval Office of the White House. ![]() “This ban, which restricted issuance of visas to individuals from many Muslim and African countries, was nothing less than a stain on our nation,” Sullivan said. Getty Imagesīiden’s national security adviser nominee, Jake Sullivan, addressed the changes to the federal government’s stance on the border wall and travel ban to reporters on a call Tuesday. ![]() Incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday evening that the actions would be signed by this afternoon, saying, “He wants to roll up his sleeves and get to work as quickly as possible.” President-elect Joe Biden delivers brief remarks during a memorial service to honor the 400,000 American victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. Executive actions, by contrast, are more often symbolic efforts to enact change. Of the 17 executive actions, 15 will be executive orders, meaning they will be published in the Federal Register and are legally binding. President-elect Joe Biden will sign over a dozen executive actions in his first hours as commander-in-chief, immediately halting the travel ban on countries with heightened terror concerns, as well as construction of the border wall.Īfter being sworn in at noon ET at the US Capitol, the 46th president will make his way to the White House, where he will get right to work in the Oval Office undoing parts of President Donald Trump’s legacy. Sorry, Dems: ‘Cruelty’ isn’t making people repay their student loans - it’s making everyone else do itīiden reveals he’s got no defense for his censorship campaignīiden skips NATO leader dinner as staff cites recent workload - days after president lounged on beach Biden’s health-care deform, Garland, Weiss should come clean and other commentary
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