No Time Like Today
Biden signed 15 executive orders and 2 agency actions on Wednesday evening. “There’s no time to start like today,” says the incoming president.
Here are the Executive Orders and Actions Signed by Biden on Day One.
Executive Orders
- An executive order requiring that people wear masks and maintain social distancing on federal property.
- The launch of a “100 Days Masking Challenge” to encourage Americans to wear masks.
- The reversal of Trump’s decision to remove the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, will lead the American delegation, CNN reported.
- An executive order that creates the position of COVID-19 response coordinator and restores the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, a team in charge of the pandemic response, within the National Security Council.
- An executive order to extend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums. The moratorium for evictions will be extended until at least March 31.
- Extended the existing pause on student loan payments and interest for Americans with federal student loans until at least Sept. 30. “These are emergency measures that will help to make sure that no American is put in the place of having to make the decision to pay their student loan payment or put food on the table in the short term and will help to provide some near-term relief,” Brian Deese, the new director of the White House National Economic Council, told The Washington Post.
- An “instrument” that will allow the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change within 30 days. The executive order fulfilled a campaign promise and represented a stark rebuke of Trump’s “America First” approach, the Post reported. Trump officially withdrew the nation from the Paris agreement on Nov. 4.
- An executive order with the aim of “embedding equity across federal policymaking and rooting out systemic racism and other barriers to opportunity from federal programs and institutions.” This order will also disband the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, which released a report on Monday that historians said distorted the role of slavery in the U.S.
- An executive order reversing an order that excluded undocumented immigrants from the Census. The order now requires non-citizens to be included in the Census and the apportionment of congressional representatives.
- An executive order revoking Trump’s “harsh and extreme immigration enforcement” and directing agencies to set immigration policies more “in line” with the Biden administration’s “values and priorities.”
- A proclamation that will pause the construction of the border wall with Mexico and determine how to best divert those funds elsewhere. The order includes an “immediate termination” of the national emergency declaration that allowed the Trump administration to redirect billions of dollars to the wall, the Times reported.
- A memorandum to extend a designation allowing Liberians who have been in the United States for a long time to remain. The order would block the deportation of Liberians who have been living in the United States.
- An executive order directing the government to interpret the Civil Rights Act as prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, in addition to race, color, religion, sex and national origin.
- An executive order enacting new ethics rules for government officials. The rules will require executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge, barring them from acting in their personal interest.
- An executive order reversing “regulatory process executive orders” enacted by the Trump administration. Directs OMB director to develop recommendations to modernize regulatory review and reverses Trump’s regulatory approval process.
Executive Actions
- A memorandum directing officials to “preserve and fortify” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The memo strengthens DACA after Trump’s efforts to undo protections for undocumented people who were brought into the country as children.
- An executive action repealing two proclamations, informally known as the “Muslim ban” that restricted entry into the U.S. from majority-Muslim countries. Biden directed the State Department to restart visa processing for individuals from the affected countries, The New York Times reported. The president also asked the agency to develop ways to address the harm caused to those who were prevented from coming to the United States because of the ban.
Expect a lot more executive actions and orders in the next few days.
Any executive action or order by Trump, good or bad, will soon be tossed.
Mish
Biden will be merely a mask of hypocrisy on the ugly face of business as usual….politically correct of course…. evil nonetheless…
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Both parties should move to curb executive power when it comes to things that should be done through legislation. Each President has increasingly used executive actions to unilaterally govern. This is an opening the oligarchs will love the next time they try to overthrow the government here. In previous eras Presidents rarely used executive actions. Now they use it as a matter of circumventing the hard work of legislation and negotiation. The truth of the matter is the system wasn’t designed to change very quickly by design. Biden should have rescinded all executive actions first and then worked through the House and Senate. We just get an executive branch that swings from one extreme to the other.
The worthless, spineless EU circus is ever so happy with Biden ! Biden hired Obama veteran, Vicky Nuland-Fuck Europe, so that s one promising aspect to start with…Will the Circus be arm twisted again into giving membership to Ukraine ? Would be quite interesting for Hunter! Unlike Trump, Biden won t mind us buying cheap gas from Russia , will he ? Maybe he will send us your LNG for free? Why not, we re all jolly good friends now, aren t we ?
It says that he is responding to the interests of his base, interests which would not be put into law by a very divided Congress. Now if only there was a way for him to bypass the Supreme Court’s decision to allow religious groups to ignore state and local limits on the number of people that can gather together at any one time and place. Massive gatherings of people, many not wearing masks, are a great way to spread the covid-19 virus.
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what message do Biden’s executive actions send?
it says he won, its as simple as that
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It says that he is responding to the interests of his base, interests which would not be put into law by a very divided Congress. Now if only there was a way for him to bypass the Supreme Court’s decision to allow religious groups to ignore state and local limits on the number of people that can gather together at any one time and place. Massive gatherings of people, many not wearing masks, are a great way to spread the covid-19 virus.
What is the likelihood of Biden overturning Trump’s Executive Order forcing American investors to dump their holdings in certain Chinese companies? It seems that the big losers from that order were or will be Americans not Chinese. The forced sales will be done at depressed prices, hurting American investors and providing windfall bargains for Chinese investors.
An executive order with the aim of “embedding equity across federal policymaking and rooting out systemic racism and other barriers to opportunity from federal programs and institutions.”
This is absurd. Everything in the federal gov’t is slanted towards favoring minorities. There are many contracts where preferential treatment is given to minority and female owned contractors. Unless the plan is to reverse the blatant discrimination that currently exists against white men, this is a complete joke.
Agreed.
This is the dark side of Biden and the Democrats. Buying wholesale into the anti-racism movement.
But guess what. We’re automatically racist for even SAYING anything to challenge this crap. That’s where we are in this day of SJW ascendancy.
Ah number 11, a symbol of Trump’s unconstitutional national emergency declaration that allowed him great power over the purse a POTUS was never meant to have. It’s symbolic of Trump’s first two years of tweeting and playing golf and not going about appropriations for a border wall with much fight as Republicans held majority in both houses. You can’t be mad at Joe on this one MAGAts. This is all on Trump. The money Congress already appropriated can’t be reversed by executive fiat–only the money he took from the national emergency.
Probably a good thing. MAGA rioters on January 6 showed us how easily walls are beaten as numerous pictures show them scaling a wall on the back side of the Capitol to participate in their riot.
How long will the Orange Menace stay gone? Not long; soon either Trump will make a comeback or the corporate media will inflate another racist straw man to run against. https://www.blackagendareport.com/trump-othello-corporate-theater
He’s good for cable news ratings. They understand that and will accommodate his comeback tour. Truly you have to look at it as a comedy team, the Donald and the news.
What are the great themes of our time?
Racial and Social Justice
Wealth Inequality
Climate Change
Overpopulation
Mass Migration
Resource Depletion
Burgeoning Public Debt
Regional Conlicts
American Empire In Decline
How the next few American Presidents handle these issues is going to determine whether mankind HAS a future…not just the shape of the future.
I believe that in the right circumstances the American people have the ability to come together and create synergies that can overcome a great deal of what ails us as a nation. But it won’t happen as long as various factions are trying to tear the system down and play the blame game.
If you’re someone who prays, I suggest praying for this old man…..he has his work cut out for him.
Spot on. The most difficult presidency of my lifetime. Perhaps since FDR.
I’m curious about how number 13 on Mish’s list will affect religious organizations like churches, schools and charities.
“An executive order directing the government to interpret the Civil Rights Act as prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, in addition to race, color, religion, sex and national origin.”
Will an Evangelical School be forced to retain a homosexual teacher? Will an Evangelical church be forced to hire homosexual clergy? Will a Catholic charity be required to hire staff members who change their gender? If so, that’s an egregious assault on religious freedom.
Many people who like Strauss and Howe thought Trump was going. to be the “grey champion” of this Fourth Turning.
Might I be the first to suggest that it could be Joe Biden, as unlikely as that might seem right now..
Yes that was an interesting book. What Biden is saying shows a depth of understanding, a new “new deal” for the workers as an example, an understanding there is a tremendous amount of work to be done. Good book for understanding a major aspect of the current political situation: Michael Lind The New Class War – The Rise of the Metropolitan Elite. Although this is superficial I was converted into a minor fan of Biden when I was made aware of his excercise routine, that he can do 44 push-ups as well. Motivated me to start doing them myself. We’ll find out soon enough whether he can rise to the situation. Just wish he was a better public speaker.
I wonder if they will use up senate time to use the Congressional Review Act to undo some of the most egregious recent regulations.
Hey Mish,
That your president. Soon we will have the socialist utopia you crave so much. I hope you’re the first they round up when it’s time for communism
Going through the list. I also don’t agree on Biden’s position on evictions and foreclosures. I’m against this. This merely inflicts pain on the owner of the home. We’d be far better off using the bankruptcy courts and using direct payments to people the government deems worthy of assistance. But this action merely forces the owner of the home to subsidize thoe who can’t afford their rent or those who own the mortgage
For every person you can’t evict, another is not houses.
IN the end, preventing evictions hurts the current renter, who accumulates massive debt, it hurts the landlord, who doesnt’ get paid (and likely accumulates massive debt), and it hurts the potential renter, who doesnt’ get houses.
For every person evicted, another is housed. I don’t get why the government doesn’t understand this. It’s a zero sum game for housing….the way the government does it is the worst possible intervention as it hurts everyone involved.
I’m not thrilled by prohibiting evictions without some plan to help landlords deal with their cash flow problems. I don’t see any bailout that addresses our business specifically to deal with this….and the truth is that’s a major oversight.
I am curious of the Trump side, you know Hannity and company, suddenly have an epiphany and realize POTUS has no authority over such contracts between land owner and renter. They didn’t seem to mind when Trump was pushing these executive actions. I get a feeling Sean Hannity’s selective outrage is about to shine yet again.
Eviction moratorium is well intended, and CAN function in a decent way, but not if property owners get zilch from their investments. At some point the back rent owed is obviously too much. So what happens to those LLs who cannot realistically collect? Is it just too bad so sad for them? Inequity, it seems.
what about the two family home owner who depends on tenant rent?
Had to look up the difference just now of how executive actions differ from executive orders. Executive orders have the same force as laws and go through judicial review and get published. Executive actions are symbolic and meaningless
Cancelling the XL pipeline may be a mistake. Just encourages oil shipments via rail which is simply more expensive and even more prone to environmental risks. Warren Buffett may be smiling however
Imho…..the dirty, low yield /low EROEI, environmentally disastrous tar sands oil should be left in the ground…..but that’s just me. I’m sure Charlie Koch can make it happen.
Best way to do that is to promote alternatives such solar and wind and carbon standards, not by stopping pipelines. The tar sands is not cheap oil. It will go away if cheaper alternative are developed. My concern is we’re not stopping it but redirecting how it gets distributed
Yup, just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
In this case it’s payback to Buffet who is a big democrat supporter.
Standard operating procedure for both parties to reward their donors. Expect to see plenty of this over the next few years just as the Republicans rewarded their friends.
In the end, we as tax payers lose.
My view is Buffett is just an opportunistic vulture here and played no role in the kill but he certaintly benefits
Labor will be disappointed, a lot of jobs lost.
Many of Trump’s executive orders were plain silly and meaningless. Probably Biden needs to undo at best a third. I’ll second the motion which Trump executive orders were “good”?
And spiteful.
in contrast Biden’s actions are focused and policy driven , communicated in advance and apparently vetted
Wiki has all 220, The White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Trump in four years issued 220 executive orders , almost as many as Obama did in eight. Many of Trump’s executive actions were done specifically to undo Obama era actions. Trump just had an Obama thing going on. Considering his birtherism it’s probably deep seated racism. Only makes sense that Biden immediately reverse the most egregious of Trump’s.
All modern Presidents are over relying on actions instead of going to the legislature. The next President can alter these actions yet again but I suspect Trump will be seen as an outlier as his thinking was sort of atavistic on many issues and not based on any science or rational analysis.
We’re probably going to continue to see a bevy of new actions but I suspect the pace will slow. These actions were prepared over the past few months and were sitting in a cue
One of the dilemmas the middle class are facing. Housing. Cheap money has allowed Wall Street to become the biggest landlord in the U.S.
The SEC has allowed them to put their loans into MBS and move the risk to the bond investors. In addition, they were able to get these loans backed by the GSEs.
So it is easy for them to raise more money to buy more houses without any risk of a downside.
When Wall Street Is Your Landlord
With help from the federal government, institutional investors became major players in the rental market. They promised to return profits to their investors and convenience to their tenants. Investors are happy. Tenants are not.
The artificially high price of housing backstopped by the Fed is likely one of the primary drivers of the migrations to red states that Mish outlined in a previous post.
Much cheaper housing.
People illegally in the US count for representation? That’s interesting.
Many years ago I suggested that people in other countries should have US congressional representation. After all, congress has a lot of affect on people worldwide. Shouldn’t those people have a voice in congress?
As it is, shouldn’t states with illegal residents count such people at a fraction, say 3/5ths, rather than as full citizens?
LOL. Also, what about all the people who wanted to come to the U.S. legally but obeyed the laws and were denied via immigrations quotas…etc.
The joke is on them now. The should have snuck in.
The stock market looks a bit bubbly right now but with more stimulus coming down the pipe….I am not yet ready to take the risk off.
You should read the constitution when you get a chance.
If a person lives in the US, they are a resident, and are a human in our country. Why should we not count them because they broke a law? Should we not count those imprisoned?
“Any executive action or order by Trump, good or bad, will soon be tossed.”
I’m confused. “Good?” Please cite an example, tia.
I’m just trying to appease the attackers with an honest statement. Of course “good” is in the eyes of the beholder.
Thank you, got it.
That last thread was intolerable. I booted 4 people.
Curiously, I did not say much of anything. I reported the news highlights without comment.
Yet, the nut cases came out of the woodwork. The inauguration itself was too much for them to take.
The worst part of all of this is the idol worship. We were never supposed to care this much about the President, either positive or negative. Now there are people who think the predecessor was the Second Coming and are suicidal finding out he wasn’t.
I am glad Biden is President, though I could not care less about the man. There is no way he could be a cult leader. May we have nothing but boring Presidents forever.
220 executive orders, many worth noting, The White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Hey Mish. Did you notice how Joe DID NOT hold up each executive order ‘parading his magnificent Sharpie signature’ after signing each order. I guess hes just not a ‘proud boy’. Jeez what a shame.