Joe Biden
Joe BidenDC residents sought opportunity to pay meals for national guards Joe Biden could bring ‘unity’ – to the Middle East Biden should not allow the defeat of cancer to take a back seat. the second week of his presidency in the same way he first spent: signed a number of executive actions to put back certain Trump administration policies while implementing his own.
Biden focuses this week on immigration, health care, climate and other areas, and each day follows a designated theme. Here are the items on which Biden is expected to perform, according to a memo received by The Hill.
Monday: ‘Buy American’ day
Biden is expected to sign an executive order instructing agencies to strengthen the requirements to obtain goods and services from U.S. businesses and workers.
During the campaign, Biden promised to make a $ 400 billion investment in federal purchases of products made by American workers during his first term.
He also promised to tighten loopholes and exemptions allowed by federal agencies to intensify overseas-produced products, and to enforce false advertising around products manufactured in the United States.
Former President Trump
Donald TrumpNEW: Rep. Perry played a role in the alleged Trump plan to oust the acting AG Arizona GOP, condemning top state republics McCain, Flake and Ducey Biden and the British prime minister to discuss NATO, multilateralism during the MORE call. signed a Buy-and-Rent U.S. executive order during his first months in office, aimed at raising household wages while limiting the flow of certain visa holders.
Tuesday: ‘Equity’ day
Biden will on Tuesday sign a wide range of executive orders related to racial equity.
The president is likely to set up a police commission and reinstate Obama-era rules on the transfer of military equipment to local law enforcement. He is also expected to sign an executive order ordering the Department of Justice to improve prison conditions and begin eliminating the use of private prisons.
Other executive actions drafted Tuesday include a memorandum targeting agencies to strengthen engagement with Native American tribes, a memorandum recommending the Department of Housing and Urban Development to promote housing equality, and an order discriminate against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
The latter problem came to the fore early in the coronavirus pandemic, when Asian Americans said they were being harassed because the virus originated in China.
Some of the executive actions Biden is likely to take on Tuesday are still being finalized and may include additional measures regarding immigration and the reversal of a ban on transgender troops serving in the military.
A memorandum predicting Biden’s expected actions for his first weeks in office also included preliminary action on voting rights and sentencing at the Department of Justice.
Wednesday: ‘Climate’ day
Biden will announce Wednesday’s plans for a leadership summit to be held in the US on Earth Day as one of the many actions aimed at tackling the climate crisis.
A memo outlining threatening orders also indicates that Biden will sign an executive order initiating a series of regulatory actions to ‘combat domestic climate change and elevate climate change as a national security priority’, although it does not provide further details .
The omnibus order will also resettle the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, as well as a memorandum requesting agencies to make decisions based on available science and evidence.
On its first day, Biden rededicated America to the Paris climate agreement and signed an executive order to revoke a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and stop the leasing of oil and gas at a refuge in Alaska.
Thursday: ‘Healthcare’ day
Biden will on Thursday take the highly anticipated action among proponents of the choice to lift the so-called Mexico City policy, which bans the use of U.S. funding for foreign organizations that offer or promote abortions.
The policy, described by advocates for reproductive health as a “global rule,” was first enacted by then-President Reagan, and was repeatedly repealed in the following years by Democratic presidents and re-enacted by Republican presidents.
Biden will also order a review of the Trump administration’s controversial amendments to the Title X Family Planning Program, which required family planning providers participating in the program to stop delivering or promote abortions in order to remain eligible for financing.
The president will also sign an executive order aimed at strengthening Medicaid and launching an open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act.
Trump has regularly boasted of repealing the Affordable Care Act by repealing the individual mandate, although Republicans could not fully repeal the law as promised.
Friday: ‘Immigration’ day
Biden will build on some of the immigration-related actions he took on his first day in office, with some additional executive orders to be signed on Friday.
According to The Hill’s memorandum, the president is likely to sign an order related to regional migration and border processing that would repeal the Trump administration’s policy around the asylum system and create strategies to address the root causes of migration from Central America. .
Biden will also sign an order setting up a task force to reunite migrant families separated during the Trump administration. Biden himself criticized the Obama administration’s deportation policy during the Democratic primary, but the Trump administration implemented an official policy of no tolerance that led to the separation of thousands of migrant families.
The president will also sign an order calling for an immediate review of the public indictment ‘and other actions to remove barriers and restore confidence in the legal immigration system, including improving the naturalization process’.
A fourth order, setting out principles for the implementation of the refugee admission program, is tentatively on the schedule for Friday, but could be scrapped or changed according to the memorandum.