- Joined
- Dec 17, 2015
- Messages
- 6,289
- Reaction score
- 7,652
- Points
- 113
So far...
1. Memorandum: Regulatory review – This froze many of Trump’s pending regulatory changes, including a regulation to lower the cost of insulin and epinephrine, which the pharmaceutical industry had opposed.
2. Announcement: COVID-19 proposal – Biden introduced his controversial $1.9 trillion plan for coronavirus relief, though over $1 trillion of funding from previous proposals approved under Trump had not yet been spent,
3. Executive Action: Rejoining Paris Climate Agreement – Biden announced that the U.S. was returning to the agreement, even though the treaty is unfair to the U.S, and the U.S. had lowered emissions after Trump withdrew.
4. Executive Order: ‘Equity’ as Policy Goal – Each federal agency must “assess whether, and to what extent, its programs and policies perpetuate systemic barriers to opportunities and benefits for people of color and other underserved groups.” (Update: #4 also abolished Donald Trump’s order establishing the 1776 Commission.)
5. Executive Order: Ending Trump Travel Bans: This refers to the Trump travel bans on terror-prone countries as “discriminatory,” suggesting that they were motivated by anti-Muslim and anti-African prejudice.
6. Executive Order: Federal Mask Mandate – Biden required everyone to wear masks “in Federal buildings and on Federal lands” — an order that he and his family promptly violated that evening during Inaugural celebrations.
7. Executive Order: Organizing New COVID Response – Biden reorganized existing coronavirus response within the White House, creating the position of “Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the .”
8. Executive Action: Staying in World Health Organization: Writes to the United Nations to declare that the U.S. would not be leaving the WHO, despite concerns about China’s dominance & WHO’s failure on COVID.
9. Executive Order: Revoking Trump Immigration Policies: Revokes Trump’s interior immigration enforcement policy, including an executive order in which Trump had taken on “sanctuary” cities and states.
10. Executive Order: Revoking Trump Regulatory Reforms: Revokes several of Trump’s executive orders that had been aimed at reducing the number of regulations and streamlining existing federal regulations.
11. Executive Order: Including Illegal Aliens in Census: Directs the Census to count the population of each state “without regard to whether its residents are in lawful immigration status” in redrawing congressional districts.
12. Executive Order: Revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline: Revokes the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Also invokes a moratorium on oil and gas leasing in ANWR & other federal lands as part of a regulatory review.
13. Executive Order: Imposing Transgender Agenda on Women’s Sports:“Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.”
14. Executive Action: Memorandum Promoting More Regulations: calls for regulatory review to “ensure that regulatory review serves as a tool to affirmatively promote regulations” rather than discourage them.
15. Executive Order: Ethics Pledge Restricting Lobbying – Though some senior members of the administration were involved in lobbying, #15 restricts administration staff from lobbying for a period of time after they leave.
16. Executive Order: Ending Border Wall Construction – Biden declared: “It shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall.”
17. Executive Action: Pausing Student Loan Payments – Biden continued a pause on student loan repayments that Trump enacted during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as shutdowns kept people from working.
18. Executive Action: Memorandum Deferring Deportation for Liberians – Biden allowed Liberians who fled civil war in their country to stay in the U.S., though the war ended long ago. Trump had also extended this status.
19. Executive Action: Memorandum Preserving DACA – Biden reversed Trump’s policy, which had declared Obama’s unilateral Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to be a usurpation of Congress’s legislative power.
20. Executive Order: Mask-wearing on Domestic Transportation: expands the mask mandate to forms of domestic transportation that cross state lines, including commercial air travel (where it was mandatory anyway).
21. Executive Order: Plan for More Coronavirus Therapies – In what was largely a reprise of existing policy under Trump, Biden ordered the federal government to investigate the best options for treating coronavirus.
22. Executive Order: ‘Data-driven Response’ to COVID – Biden directed federal agencies to gather data on coronavirus, which they were doing already, but now led by the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator.
23. Executive Action: Memorandum on Federal Funding to National Guard for COVID – Biden directed the FEMA to reimburse 100% of the cost to states of using the National Guard in COVID. (was 75%)
24. Executive Order: Supplies for Fighting COVID Through Defense Production Act – Biden ordered the federal government to review existing medical stockpiles and fill in the gaps by using the Defense Production Act.
25. Executive Order: Requiring ‘Equity’ in Coronavirus Relief and Response: creates the “COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force” to make sure that coronavirus relief and intervention helped promote the goal of “equity.”
26. Executive Order: Creating Conditions for Schools to Reopen – This policy was ” to help create the conditions for safe, in-person learning as quickly as possible,” though schools in many major cities remain closed.
27. Executive Order: Promoting COVID Safety in the Workplace: Directs the Secretary of Labor to ” use Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforcement to promote COVID safety in the workplace.
28. Executive Action: Memorandum to Strengthen Global Response to Pandemic: #28 “The U.S. would work with international partners and institutions on COVID, revoking sanctions against rogue regimes if necessary.
29. Executive Order: Creating COVID-19 ‘Testing Board’: #29 launched an effort to boost coronavirus testing and tracing, including the creation of a COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to address bottlenecks in the system.
30. Executive Order: Promoting Federal Government Help for the Economy – #30 Federal agencies to try to help the economy recover from coronavirus, including making relief programs more user-friendly & accessible.
31. Executive Order: Revoking Trump Order to Streamline Federal Workforce – Biden revoked several of Trump’s executive orders on the federal workforce and backed a $15/hr minimum wage for federal employees.
32. Executive Order: Revoking Transgender Military Ban: “#32 claims substantial evidence that allowing transgenders to serve in the military doesn’t have any meaningful negative impact on the Armed Forces,”.
33. Executive Order: Buy American: Biden ordered federal agencies to prioritize buying from American companies excluded Trump’s emphasis immigration enforcement.
34. Executive Action: Travel Ban on South Africa – Biden imposed a travel ban on South Africa, where a new variant of coronavirus was discovered.
35. Executive Action: Memorandum Banning the Use of ‘China Virus’ – #35 opposed anti-Asian discrimination, “including references to the COVID-19 pandemic by the geographic location of its origin.”
36. Executive Action: Memorandum Promoting Consultation with Tribes: Biden expressed “respect for Tribal sovereignty and self-governance” & “commitment to fulfilling Federal trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribes.”
37. Executive Order: Elimination of Private Prisons – As part of efforts to eliminate “systemic racism,” #37 vowed to eliminate private prisons.
38. Executive Action: Systemic Racism in Past Federal Housing – Biden declared that past federal housing policy had been racist, and restored an Obama-era rule considering “disparate impact” to be racial discrimination.
39. Executive Order: Making Climate Change the Focus of National Security – “It is the policy of my Admin. that climate considerations are an essential element of United States foreign policy & national security.”
40. Executive Order: Creating ’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) – “t is the policy of my Administration to make evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data,”.
41. Executive Action: Memorandum Requiring ‘Evidence-based Decisions’ in Government Policy – Biden declared: “Scientific findings should never be distorted or influenced by political considerations.”
42. Executive Order: Expanding Obamacare During Coronavirus – Biden created a special enrollment period for Obamacare to help those who may have lost their health insurance due to losing jobs during the pandemic.
43. Executive Action: Restoring U.S. Funding to Overseas Groups Providing Abortion – Biden reversed a policy against funding groups that provide abortion counseling, claims it an effort to protect women’s health care.
44. Executive Action: Proclamation Maintaining Tariffs on Aluminum from UAE: Biden reversed Trump’s decision to remove tariffs on aluminum from the UAE, which had been a reward for peacemaking with Israel.
45. Executive Action: Memorandum Directs FEMA to Help with COVID: Biden reaffirmed ongoing efforts directing the DHS to use FEMA to assist state and local governments with coronavirus.
46. Executive Order: Reversing Public Charge Rule on Immigration : Biden began reversing Trump’s enforcement of a long-standing (but ignored) policy against immigrants that would become a burden on the state.
47. Executive Order: Addressing ‘Root Causes’ of Migration from Central America Biden vowed to work with “El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras (the “Northern Triangle”) to address the root causes of migration.”
48. Executive Order: Task Force to Reunite Families –Biden created the “Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families,” to help children apprehended at the border (assumes they arrived with “families. Executive Order: Expanding Refugee Program for Impact of Climate Change –Biden expanded US refugee programs, includes “resettlement of individuals displaced directly or indirectly from climate change.”
50. Executive Action: Memorandum on ‘Revitalizing’ Foreign Service – Biden offered an effective paean to the “Deep State,” praising the “remarkable professionals & patriots“whose expertise has too often been sidelined.”
51. Executive Action: Memorandum Restructuring National Security Council – Biden issued guidelines for the structuring of the National Security Council, which Trump had streamlined.
52. Executive Action: Memorandum Promoting ‘LGBTQI’ Rights Worldwide – Biden ordered a global effort to decriminalize homosexuality, an existing policy under Trump. I = “intersex.”) Feb. 11
53. Executive Action: Terminating Southern Border Emergency –Biden wrote to Congress to inform it that he had ended the national emergency on the southern border, ends construction of Trump’s border wall.
54. Executive Action: Extending National Emergency in Libya – Biden wrote to Congress to extend the national emergency regarding Libya, a war dating to the first term of the Obama-Biden admin. — by a year.
55. Executive Action: National Emergency on Burma Coup – Biden wrote to Congress to inform it that he had ordered various actions blocking economic activity relating to Burma in response to the recent military coup there.
56. Executive Order: Establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships: tales a page from George Bush’s book & linked faith-based organizations with service delivery.
57. Executive Action: Reversing the “Remain in Mexico” Policy for Asylum Applicants. Reverses a Trump agreement with Mexico, announcing that asylum applicants would soon be able to await adjudication in the U.S.
58. Executive Action: Forbearance and Foreclosure Protections for Homeowners: extends a program to protect homeowners, begun under the Trump administration, that was set to have expired in March.
59. Executive Order: Revoking Trump’s Order on Apprenticeships. Revokes Trump’s order to address a skills gap by letting industries train apprentices. Unions opposed it and wanted more government control.
60. Executive Action: Continuing the National Emergency Regarding Cuba and Maritime Traffic: continues a 25-year-old national emergency relating to Cuba, despite Obama-Biden’s past effort at “normalization.”
61. Executive Order: America’s Supply Chains: directs government departments to study the U.S. supply chains on batteries, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, rare earths, and other materials manufactured in China.
62. Executive Order: Revoking Several Trump Executive Orders: revokes a slew of Trump-era executive orders, from orders involving the financial system, to orders dealing with the widespread riots of 2020.
63. Executive Action: Revoking Proclamation Restricting Immigration During Coronavirus for Economic Reasons: Revokes Trump’s proclamation limiting immigration during America’s recovery from the pandemic.
2. Announcement: COVID-19 proposal – Biden introduced his controversial $1.9 trillion plan for coronavirus relief, though over $1 trillion of funding from previous proposals approved under Trump had not yet been spent,
3. Executive Action: Rejoining Paris Climate Agreement – Biden announced that the U.S. was returning to the agreement, even though the treaty is unfair to the U.S, and the U.S. had lowered emissions after Trump withdrew.
4. Executive Order: ‘Equity’ as Policy Goal – Each federal agency must “assess whether, and to what extent, its programs and policies perpetuate systemic barriers to opportunities and benefits for people of color and other underserved groups.” (Update: #4 also abolished Donald Trump’s order establishing the 1776 Commission.)
5. Executive Order: Ending Trump Travel Bans: This refers to the Trump travel bans on terror-prone countries as “discriminatory,” suggesting that they were motivated by anti-Muslim and anti-African prejudice.
6. Executive Order: Federal Mask Mandate – Biden required everyone to wear masks “in Federal buildings and on Federal lands” — an order that he and his family promptly violated that evening during Inaugural celebrations.
7. Executive Order: Organizing New COVID Response – Biden reorganized existing coronavirus response within the White House, creating the position of “Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the .”
8. Executive Action: Staying in World Health Organization: Writes to the United Nations to declare that the U.S. would not be leaving the WHO, despite concerns about China’s dominance & WHO’s failure on COVID.
9. Executive Order: Revoking Trump Immigration Policies: Revokes Trump’s interior immigration enforcement policy, including an executive order in which Trump had taken on “sanctuary” cities and states.
10. Executive Order: Revoking Trump Regulatory Reforms: Revokes several of Trump’s executive orders that had been aimed at reducing the number of regulations and streamlining existing federal regulations.
11. Executive Order: Including Illegal Aliens in Census: Directs the Census to count the population of each state “without regard to whether its residents are in lawful immigration status” in redrawing congressional districts.
12. Executive Order: Revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline: Revokes the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Also invokes a moratorium on oil and gas leasing in ANWR & other federal lands as part of a regulatory review.
13. Executive Order: Imposing Transgender Agenda on Women’s Sports:“Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.”
14. Executive Action: Memorandum Promoting More Regulations: calls for regulatory review to “ensure that regulatory review serves as a tool to affirmatively promote regulations” rather than discourage them.
15. Executive Order: Ethics Pledge Restricting Lobbying – Though some senior members of the administration were involved in lobbying, #15 restricts administration staff from lobbying for a period of time after they leave.
16. Executive Order: Ending Border Wall Construction – Biden declared: “It shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall.”
17. Executive Action: Pausing Student Loan Payments – Biden continued a pause on student loan repayments that Trump enacted during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as shutdowns kept people from working.
18. Executive Action: Memorandum Deferring Deportation for Liberians – Biden allowed Liberians who fled civil war in their country to stay in the U.S., though the war ended long ago. Trump had also extended this status.
19. Executive Action: Memorandum Preserving DACA – Biden reversed Trump’s policy, which had declared Obama’s unilateral Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to be a usurpation of Congress’s legislative power.
20. Executive Order: Mask-wearing on Domestic Transportation: expands the mask mandate to forms of domestic transportation that cross state lines, including commercial air travel (where it was mandatory anyway).
21. Executive Order: Plan for More Coronavirus Therapies – In what was largely a reprise of existing policy under Trump, Biden ordered the federal government to investigate the best options for treating coronavirus.
22. Executive Order: ‘Data-driven Response’ to COVID – Biden directed federal agencies to gather data on coronavirus, which they were doing already, but now led by the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator.
23. Executive Action: Memorandum on Federal Funding to National Guard for COVID – Biden directed the FEMA to reimburse 100% of the cost to states of using the National Guard in COVID. (was 75%)
24. Executive Order: Supplies for Fighting COVID Through Defense Production Act – Biden ordered the federal government to review existing medical stockpiles and fill in the gaps by using the Defense Production Act.
25. Executive Order: Requiring ‘Equity’ in Coronavirus Relief and Response: creates the “COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force” to make sure that coronavirus relief and intervention helped promote the goal of “equity.”
26. Executive Order: Creating Conditions for Schools to Reopen – This policy was ” to help create the conditions for safe, in-person learning as quickly as possible,” though schools in many major cities remain closed.
27. Executive Order: Promoting COVID Safety in the Workplace: Directs the Secretary of Labor to ” use Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforcement to promote COVID safety in the workplace.
28. Executive Action: Memorandum to Strengthen Global Response to Pandemic: #28 “The U.S. would work with international partners and institutions on COVID, revoking sanctions against rogue regimes if necessary.
29. Executive Order: Creating COVID-19 ‘Testing Board’: #29 launched an effort to boost coronavirus testing and tracing, including the creation of a COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to address bottlenecks in the system.
30. Executive Order: Promoting Federal Government Help for the Economy – #30 Federal agencies to try to help the economy recover from coronavirus, including making relief programs more user-friendly & accessible.
31. Executive Order: Revoking Trump Order to Streamline Federal Workforce – Biden revoked several of Trump’s executive orders on the federal workforce and backed a $15/hr minimum wage for federal employees.
32. Executive Order: Revoking Transgender Military Ban: “#32 claims substantial evidence that allowing transgenders to serve in the military doesn’t have any meaningful negative impact on the Armed Forces,”.
33. Executive Order: Buy American: Biden ordered federal agencies to prioritize buying from American companies excluded Trump’s emphasis immigration enforcement.
34. Executive Action: Travel Ban on South Africa – Biden imposed a travel ban on South Africa, where a new variant of coronavirus was discovered.
35. Executive Action: Memorandum Banning the Use of ‘China Virus’ – #35 opposed anti-Asian discrimination, “including references to the COVID-19 pandemic by the geographic location of its origin.”
36. Executive Action: Memorandum Promoting Consultation with Tribes: Biden expressed “respect for Tribal sovereignty and self-governance” & “commitment to fulfilling Federal trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribes.”
37. Executive Order: Elimination of Private Prisons – As part of efforts to eliminate “systemic racism,” #37 vowed to eliminate private prisons.
38. Executive Action: Systemic Racism in Past Federal Housing – Biden declared that past federal housing policy had been racist, and restored an Obama-era rule considering “disparate impact” to be racial discrimination.
39. Executive Order: Making Climate Change the Focus of National Security – “It is the policy of my Admin. that climate considerations are an essential element of United States foreign policy & national security.”
40. Executive Order: Creating ’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) – “t is the policy of my Administration to make evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data,”.
41. Executive Action: Memorandum Requiring ‘Evidence-based Decisions’ in Government Policy – Biden declared: “Scientific findings should never be distorted or influenced by political considerations.”
42. Executive Order: Expanding Obamacare During Coronavirus – Biden created a special enrollment period for Obamacare to help those who may have lost their health insurance due to losing jobs during the pandemic.
43. Executive Action: Restoring U.S. Funding to Overseas Groups Providing Abortion – Biden reversed a policy against funding groups that provide abortion counseling, claims it an effort to protect women’s health care.
44. Executive Action: Proclamation Maintaining Tariffs on Aluminum from UAE: Biden reversed Trump’s decision to remove tariffs on aluminum from the UAE, which had been a reward for peacemaking with Israel.
45. Executive Action: Memorandum Directs FEMA to Help with COVID: Biden reaffirmed ongoing efforts directing the DHS to use FEMA to assist state and local governments with coronavirus.
46. Executive Order: Reversing Public Charge Rule on Immigration : Biden began reversing Trump’s enforcement of a long-standing (but ignored) policy against immigrants that would become a burden on the state.
47. Executive Order: Addressing ‘Root Causes’ of Migration from Central America Biden vowed to work with “El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras (the “Northern Triangle”) to address the root causes of migration.”
48. Executive Order: Task Force to Reunite Families –Biden created the “Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families,” to help children apprehended at the border (assumes they arrived with “families. Executive Order: Expanding Refugee Program for Impact of Climate Change –Biden expanded US refugee programs, includes “resettlement of individuals displaced directly or indirectly from climate change.”
50. Executive Action: Memorandum on ‘Revitalizing’ Foreign Service – Biden offered an effective paean to the “Deep State,” praising the “remarkable professionals & patriots“whose expertise has too often been sidelined.”
51. Executive Action: Memorandum Restructuring National Security Council – Biden issued guidelines for the structuring of the National Security Council, which Trump had streamlined.
52. Executive Action: Memorandum Promoting ‘LGBTQI’ Rights Worldwide – Biden ordered a global effort to decriminalize homosexuality, an existing policy under Trump. I = “intersex.”) Feb. 11
53. Executive Action: Terminating Southern Border Emergency –Biden wrote to Congress to inform it that he had ended the national emergency on the southern border, ends construction of Trump’s border wall.
54. Executive Action: Extending National Emergency in Libya – Biden wrote to Congress to extend the national emergency regarding Libya, a war dating to the first term of the Obama-Biden admin. — by a year.
55. Executive Action: National Emergency on Burma Coup – Biden wrote to Congress to inform it that he had ordered various actions blocking economic activity relating to Burma in response to the recent military coup there.
56. Executive Order: Establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships: tales a page from George Bush’s book & linked faith-based organizations with service delivery.
57. Executive Action: Reversing the “Remain in Mexico” Policy for Asylum Applicants. Reverses a Trump agreement with Mexico, announcing that asylum applicants would soon be able to await adjudication in the U.S.
58. Executive Action: Forbearance and Foreclosure Protections for Homeowners: extends a program to protect homeowners, begun under the Trump administration, that was set to have expired in March.
59. Executive Order: Revoking Trump’s Order on Apprenticeships. Revokes Trump’s order to address a skills gap by letting industries train apprentices. Unions opposed it and wanted more government control.
60. Executive Action: Continuing the National Emergency Regarding Cuba and Maritime Traffic: continues a 25-year-old national emergency relating to Cuba, despite Obama-Biden’s past effort at “normalization.”
61. Executive Order: America’s Supply Chains: directs government departments to study the U.S. supply chains on batteries, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, rare earths, and other materials manufactured in China.
62. Executive Order: Revoking Several Trump Executive Orders: revokes a slew of Trump-era executive orders, from orders involving the financial system, to orders dealing with the widespread riots of 2020.
63. Executive Action: Revoking Proclamation Restricting Immigration During Coronavirus for Economic Reasons: Revokes Trump’s proclamation limiting immigration during America’s recovery from the pandemic.