He directed the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Attorney General to take all appropriate actions to preserve and fortify DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which provides temporary relief from deportation to dreamers, young people who were brought to this country as children,” Psaki said. “He also launched a whole of government effort to advance racial equity and root out systemic racism from federal programs and institutions. This order protects nation's treasures by reviewing the boundaries for several national monuments, places a temporary moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing in the Arctic national wildlife refuge and reestablishes the interagency working group on the social cost of greenhouse gases. In a second broad executive order, Biden rolled back harmful regulatory reversals made by the previous administration to protect public health and the environment. “He (Biden) rejoined the Paris climate agreement putting the United States back in a position to exercise global leadership in advancing the objectives of the ambitious agreement,” Psaki said. In response, the president asked the education department to extend the pause on student loan payments and interest, she said. The pandemic has also increased the hardships of millions of Americans who owe federal student loans. Noting that COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an almost unprecedented housing affordability crisis, Psaki said the president took immediate action to confront the crisis and asked relevant agencies to extend nationwide moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures. He re-established the national security team responsible for global health, security and bio-defence. "This will strengthen our own efforts to get the (coronavirus) pandemic under control by improving global health, and tomorrow we are not wasting any time,” she said.īiden also officially appointed a COVID-19 response coordinator, a position and team that he had already previously announced but made it official today to create a unified national response to the pandemic.
The president signed an executive order reversing Trump's decision to withdraw from the World Health Organisation, she said.
His first executive order was launching his 100-day masking challenge, asking Americans to mask up for 100 days.īiden is doing his part as well, issuing a mask mandate that will require anyone visiting a federal building or federal land or using certain modes of public transportation to wear a mask, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.Īddressing her maiden news conference on Wednesday, Psaki said Biden has signed 15 executive orders and two other directives. The president said he will be signing a number of executive orders over the next several days of the week. They are important, but we're going to need legislation for a lot of the things we're going to do,” Biden told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House as he signed the first lot of executive orders on Wednesday. “I'm proud of today's executive actions, and I'm going to start by keeping the promises I made to the American people. The executive orders ranged from rejoining the Paris agreement on climate change, halting America's withdrawal from the World Health Organisation, revoking Muslim travel ban and stopping immediate construction of Mexico border wall.
Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images IMAGE: US President Joe Biden signs three documents including an Inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet noinations in the Presidents Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony to making Biden the 46th President of the United States.
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