US President Joe Biden signs series of Orders, iiQ8

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US President Joe Biden signs series of Orders, iiQ8

United States of America President Joe Biden signs series of orders

โ–  Declaration that the US is rejoining Paris climate accord.
โ–  Declaration that the US is rejoining World Health Organization.
โ–  Ethical standards for his administration and an order prohibiting interference in the operations of the Justice Department from other parts of government.
โ–  Start of a process to restore 100 public health and environmental rules that the Obama administration created and President Donald Trump eliminated or weakened.
โ–  Start of a process to rejoin the deal restraining Iranโ€™s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
โ–  Executive action to end travel restrictions on people from a variety of Muslim-majority countries.
โ–  Executive action to protect from deportation people who came to the country illegally as children.
โ–  Executive action to make masks mandatory on federal property and when travelling out of state. Others will be asked to wear masks for 100 days.
โ–  Steps to extend pandemic-era restrictions on evictions and foreclosures.
โ–  Legislation to go to Congress proposing to repeal liability protections for gun manufacturers and tightening some other aspects of gun control.
โ–  Immigration legislation to go to Congress as part of an effort to offer a path to citizenship for 11 million people in the US illegally and to codify protections for people who came illegally as children.
โ–  Education Department to be asked to extend the existing pause on student loan payments and interest for millions with student debt. Thursday
โ–  Executive action laying out new steps to expand virus testing, protect workers and set new public health standards. Friday
โ–  Directive to agencies to take unspecified immediate action to deliver economic relief from the pandemic. By Feb 1
โ–  Executive actions to strengthen โ€œbuy Americanโ€ provisions.
โ–  Executive actions to address climate change.
โ–  First steps to expand access to health care, for lowincome women, women of color and other segments of the population.
โ–  First steps to reunite families still separated at the Mexican border. Beyond (some may be tried sooner)
โ–  Ensure 100 million vaccines have been given before the end of his first 100 days.
โ–  Ensure 100 federally supported vaccination centers are up and running in his first month.
โ–  Expand use of the Defense Production Act to direct the manufacture of critical pandemic supplies.
โ–  Win passage of a $2 trillion climate package to get the US to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
โ–  Seek passage of a โ€œMedicare-like public optionโ€ to compete alongside private insurance markets for working- age Americans; increase existing premium subsidies.
โ–  Eliminate certain corporate tax cuts where possible, by executive action, while doubling the levies US firms pay on foreign profits.
โ–  Make a plan within 100 days to end homelessness.
โ–  Expand legal immigration slots.
โ–  Freeze deportations for 100 days, then restore the Obama-era principle of deporting foreigners who are seen as posing a national security threat or who have committed crimes in addition to the crime of illegal entry, thereby pulling back the broad deportation policy of the Trump years.
โ–  Halt financing of further construction of the wall along the Mexican border.
โ–  Within 100 days, establish a police oversight commission to combat institutional racism by then.
โ–  Reinstate federal guidance, issued by Obama and revoked by Trump, to protect transgender studentsโ€™ access to sports, bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity.
โ–  Ensure taxes are not raised on anyone making under $400,000

 

 


 

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