President Biden to Sign Over a Dozen Executive Orders Today

And following his inauguration, President Biden intends to get right to work signing over 15 new executive orders. Among his top priorities, Biden will re-engage with the World Health Organization and reinstate the White House’s National Security Council’s pandemic unit. Eviction and foreclosure moratoriums will be extended and the president will ask for a similar extension on student federal loans. He will also take aggressive steps to ensure equality by signing a number of orders to prevent workplace discrimination, reallocate resources to under served communities, and another that clearly re-defines the term equity. Biden is also expected to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and roll back environmental deregulation actions issued by President Trump. He will further tackle issues of immigration by immediately terminating funding to and construction of the border wall. He will revoke what he considers to be aggressive policies, such as the Muslim ban, as well as strengthen Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or the DACA program, and much more. Finally, Biden will sign a new executive order that’s meant to “restore and maintain public trust and government.” From here on out, every appointee of the executive branch must sign an “ethics pledge” to ensure they are working solely on behalf of the American people. For the time being, there will be a temporary freeze on all orders recently issued by former President Trump until the Biden Administration can review thoroughly them.