President Biden has signed more than three dozen executive orders, actions and directives since taking office just nine days ago – with Biden officials telling Fox News that this is a preview of the president’s agenda items in Congress will insist while Republicans oppose the taking of orders.
Just hours after taking the oath last Wednesday, Biden immediately took 17 executive actions – from reversing former President Trump’s policies to restoring the Obama-era programs, the coronavirus pandemic and more.
Since then, Biden has undertaken nearly two dozen additional actions – focusing on environmental regulations, the climate crisis, immigration policy, racial justice, health care and more.
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By the end of his ninth day in the White House, Biden had signed 40 executive orders, actions and a presidential memorandum – a record.
Biden praised critics for his early reliance on executive action, and Republicans said it betrayed his vow to build a consensus on issues with Congress.
Biden’s executive orders and actions
“Already in October, incumbent President Biden said ‘you can not [legislate] by executive action, unless you are a dictator, ” Senate IDP leader Mitch McConnell said on Senate floor Thursday. ‘In one week, he signed more than thirty unilateral actions. And working Americans become short after that. ‘
But a Biden White House ally told Fox News that the president’s actions are only a foretaste of what is to come.
“The executive actions are a preview and happen in parallel with what he is campaigning for in Congress,” the source told Fox News. “These are the things he can do immediately, but show what he is going to pursue in Congress, and in some cases, already.”
And despite the president’s “aggressive” actions in his first 9 days in office, a number of Biden administration officials have maintained that these executive orders and actions are “not a substitute” for legislative action, and urged Congress to proceed with the president’s proposed bills, including the $ 1.9 billion US bailout plan.
Meanwhile, a White House official told Fox News that the president’s actions are in line with the ‘priorities’ he set out over the course of the campaign, saying that White House activity in the first few weeks of his government is meant to ‘make good’ on the campaign promises and ‘browse through’ over the last four years of the Trump administration.
A White House official told Fox News the president was firing a number of cylinders to deliver them.
But Biden is not working alone on this executive action.
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A White House official told Fox News the president is committed to surrounding experts and individuals with a broad knowledge of the areas he is focused on. The official told Fox News the White House has urged the people to implement these new policies and regulations.
The official noted, for example, that Susan Rice, White House Home Policy Adviser, was involved in shaping and instituting the executive actions that would promote “racial justice and equity”, and would inform White House reporters and explains that building a “fairer” economy is ‘essential’ for economic growth.
And the official told Fox News that John Kerry, the special presidential committee on climate change, and the national climate adviser to the White House, Gina McCarthy, were involved in shaping work-related climate and energy management orders and actions, ‘fair’ clean energy. and ‘restoration’ of scientific integrity in the federal government.
The official also told dr. Anthony Fauci also had the ability to ‘speak his mind’ on the coronavirus pandemic, which shows a contrast to his work in the Trump administration.
Biden’s move has overturned a number of Trump policies.
Biden’s order stopped the construction of the wall along the border between America and Mexico; reversed the ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military; Trump’s travel ban on mostly Muslim countries reversed; rejoined the World Health Organization after Trump withdrew from the pandemic last year; rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement after Trump withdrew; the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which Trump is trying to get rid of; Trump environmental policy reversed, such as scrapping the contract for the Keystone XL pipeline, and more.
The president’s orders also focused on the coronavirus pandemic, and its impact on the US economy. Biden has extended the eviction and negative moratoriums for those executed until March 31 and extended the interest and principal payments of federal student loans until September 30.
Biden also signed an executive order giving workers ” a federally guaranteed right to refuse work that would endanger their health ”, stating that any worker who refuses the offer to work will still be eligible for unemployment insurance.
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Biden also signed an order to launch a ‘100-Day Masking Challenge’ and an order requiring masks and physical distance in all federal buildings, on all federal land and by federal employees and contractors. Biden has also been instructed to wear masks on public transport, including airports, planes, trains and buses.
Biden also signed an order to order the Secretary of Health to support research on coronavirus treatments, and to expand access to these treatments. He also signed orders to set up a COVID-19 keyboard and a COVID-19 health equity task force.
Biden has also reintroduced COVID-19 travel restrictions for non-US citizens traveling from Brazil and much of Europe – a reversal of Trump’s move a few days before he left office. The ban also blocks most non-US travelers from entering the US when traveling from South Africa, due to the new COVID-19 variant discovered there.
The president also signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to support governors’ deployment of their national guard in their efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus – an effort funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). .
As for the environment, Biden has signed an order ordering federal agencies to eliminate ‘fossil fuel subsidies that comply with applicable legislation and to identify new opportunities to promote innovation, commercialization and implementation of clean energy technologies and infrastructure. . ‘
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The mandates require federal agencies to purchase carbon-free electricity, and clean, emission-free vehicles to create well-paid unions and ‘stimulate clean energy industries’, ‘require purchases to be made in America’, while ‘strict’ maintaining wage and benefits guidelines, and ‘catalyzing’ job creation in construction, manufacturing, engineering and skills by taking steps to ensure that every federal infrastructure investment reduces climate pollution and that steps are taken to clean energy and transmission projects to accelerate under federal location and to allow processes in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Meanwhile, in terms of fairness and justice, Biden also signed orders to ‘define equity as the consistent and systemic fair, equitable and impartial treatment of all individuals’, and instructed agencies to’ allocate federal resources fairly to communities of color to empower and invest. and underserved communities, “while also prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Biden has signed a presidential memorandum instructing the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take steps to redress racially discriminatory federal housing policies that have contributed to gender inequality by administrative gender.
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The memorandum acknowledges the “central role” the federal government played in implementing housing policies in the United States, from redeployment to mortgage discrimination to destructive federal highway construction – which the government said had “racially discriminatory consequences”.
The president also signed an executive order terminating the use of private prisons by the Department of Justice. The order will order the Attorney General not to renew DOJ contracts with private criminal detention facilities.
Biden also reaffirms the federal government’s commitment to tribal sovereignty and consultation, in an effort to restore “federal respect” for tribal sovereignty and the “nation-to-nation relationship” between the federal government and the U.S. Indians and Alaska Natives to strengthen. Strain. Biden’s move is also intended to promote self – determination and promote racial justice for indigenous communities.
Biden also signed a presidential memorandum to combat xenophobia against Asian Americans and the Pacific Islands, and a memorandum extending the designation of the Delayed Enforcement of Departure for Liberians that was in the U.S. for many years until June 30, 2022. .
As for immigration, Biden, in addition to the DACA reaffirmation, has instituted a 100-day ‘pause’ on the deportations of illegal immigrants.
And for health care, Biden signed executive orders that expanded access to the Affordable Care Act during the coronavirus pandemic. The order creates a special subscription period on HealthCare.gov, making it easier for the uninsured to obtain health coverage through ObamaCare during the pandemic. The Department of Health and Human Services opens a three-month period from February 15 to May 15.
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Biden also signed an order that immediately repealed the so-called Mexico City policy, often criticized by critics as the global gag rule. The policy, which was reintroduced by the Trump administration in 2017, does not prevent international non-governmental organizations that offer abortion advice or referrals from U.S. funding. Biden called the rule Thursday an “attack on access to women’s health.”
Biden also signed an order to ‘restore and maintain public confidence in the government’, and commands every nominee in the executive branch to sign an ‘ethical promise’ to ensure that employees act in the interests of the US people and not for their own gain.