Hi everyone today I'll be discussing what President Joe Biden has done in his first week of being President of the U.S.
15 executive orders - broken up into 10 parts
1. Pandemic
- Heads of departments and agencies take immediate action to require compliance with CDC guidelines
- Requiring social distancing and masks in all federal buildings including employees and contractors
- New office will be established to coordinate the response to the pandemic
- Also a new position called, "Coordinator of the COVID-19 response and counselor to the president", will be created
2. W.H.O
- Biden offers the government to rejoin the "World Health Organization" ~ this move was welcomed by the U.N. secretary
- Anthony Fauci announces that the U.S. will sign up for the WHOs covax program, to advance vaccine efforts
- Biden pushes to accelerate vaccine roll out (100 million vaccines in 100 days)
- Defense Production act will be activated in order to provide more syringes and N-95 masks
3. Travel
- Reversed Donald Trumps travel ban on predominately Muslim countries
- Ordering the resumption of Visas
4. Border Wall
- Biden immediately terminated the national emergency that Donald Trump declared with the border wall
- Paused construction of the border wall
- Biden will asses the legality of funding for the border wall
5. Environment
- Rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement
6. Keystone XL
- Biden revoked the Keystone oil line
7. Deportation
- Wide scale review of deportation priorities
- Biden offered the preservation of DACA
8. Foreclosures
- Foreclosures and evictions have been delayed to at least the end of March 2021
- Student loan payments are delayed until at least September
9. Lobbying
- Biden has issued new ethics rules
- Prohibits any official who leaves the administration from lobbying
10. Census
- Reversed the Trump policy to not include immigrants in the census
That's all I hope you all enjoyed, thank you for reading!
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