Week 1 of Biden presidency: More executive orders

[NotDoctor PronounsHe/they]

42 minutes ago, ... said:

President Biden is expected to sign his first executive orders shortly.

I hope his first act in office is to make heterosexuals illegal 

[Dirkje PronounsShe/her/hers]

Trump cant get in the White House anymore. Its now For-Biden!

[Gone]

1 hour ago, NotDoctor said:

I hope his first act in office is to make heterosexuals illegal 

Not heterosexuals. Straights. There is a difference. Katya and Trixie explain it.

[BenG]

Biden arrives at the White House for the first time as POTUS.

[BenG]

President Trump issued a directive for the Secret Service to continue protection for 13 members of his family for another 6 months.

"Under federal law, Trump, his wife Melania and their 14-year-old son are the only members of his immediate family entitled to Secret Service protection after they leave office.

The couple will receive it for their lifetimes, and Barron is entitled to protection until he turns 16. Former Vice President Mike Penceand his wife Karen Pence will also receive continued Secret Service security for the next six months under the same law governing protection.

But Trump wanted every family member who had been protected by the Secret Service during his administration to be covered for another six months, according to the people familiar with his directive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe security arrangements.

That means the expensive, taxpayer-funded security will continue for his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, their three children, his son Donald Trump Jr. and his four children, his son Eric Trump and his wife Lara and his daughter Tiffany Trump."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

[BenG]

Vice President Harris swears in 3 Democratic senators - 2 from the Georgia runoffs and 1 from California who is replacing her.

The Democrats now control the senate, with Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.

[BenG]

President Biden signs his first executive order, mandating face masks on federal property.

[NotDoctor PronounsHe/they]

3 hours ago, ... said:

President Trump issued a directive for the Secret Service to continue protection for 13 members of his family for another 6 months.

"Under federal law, Trump, his wife Melania and their 14-year-old son are the only members of his immediate family entitled to Secret Service protection after they leave office.

The couple will receive it for their lifetimes, and Barron is entitled to protection until he turns 16. Former Vice President Mike Penceand his wife Karen Pence will also receive continued Secret Service security for the next six months under the same law governing protection.

But Trump wanted every family member who had been protected by the Secret Service during his administration to be covered for another six months, according to the people familiar with his directive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe security arrangements.

That means the expensive, taxpayer-funded security will continue for his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, their three children, his son Donald Trump Jr. and his four children, his son Eric Trump and his wife Lara and his daughter Tiffany Trump."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

I know he won't but I would love for Biden to revoke that, just to be petty af

[Gone]

50 minutes ago, NotDoctor said:

I know he won't but I would love for Biden to revoke that, just to be petty af

He should because how much money it is just wasting... IF they are as rich as they say... hire your own damn security...

[MANiCURE1295 Pronounshe/him]

Details of 17 Executive Orders Signed by Biden on First Day in Office:

COVID-19 response 

1) Start a "100 Days Masking Challenge," calling for a nationwide face mask and social distancing mandate in federal buildings, on federal lands and by federal employees and contractors. 

2) Restructure federal government coordination to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden White House is bringing back an Obama-era position called the "Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense," which was organized with additional staff within the National Security Council after the 2014 Ebola epidemic. This directorate office was dispersed into other roles during the Trump administration, but Biden and his campaign advisers argued the move decreased the preparedness of the federal government for the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden will also formally implement a "response coordinator" who will report to the president on vaccine, testing and personal protective equipment production, supply, and distribution. Biden has appointed Jeff Zients, who has been overseeing Biden's COVID-19 team for the presidential transition.  

3) Rejoin the World Health Organization (WHO), which the Trump administration was in the process of leaving. Biden is also looking to reestablish the U.S. as an active leader at the WHO. 
 

Financial relief for Americans

4) Extend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums. Biden will call on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to re-implement and extend the already defunct moratorium until at least March 31. The new president will also call on the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans Affairs to extend the foreclosure moratoriums for their federally backed mortgages. "These emergency measures are important," Mr. Biden's top economic adviser Brian Deese said on the call with reporters, "There are more than 11 million mortgages guaranteed by the VA, Department of Agriculture and HUD that would be extended."   
 

5) Continue "pause" on student loan payments until September 30. The Biden advisers continue to assert Biden still supports his campaign pledge to cancel $10,000 of student loans, but this will take time as it has to go through Congress.  
 

Environment 

6) Rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. The Paris climate negotiations took place under the Obama administration and were led by incoming climate change czar John Kerry when he was  secretary of state. This will take 30 days to go into effect.  

7) End Keystone XL pipeline and revoke oil and gas development at national wildlife monuments. To do this, Biden's climate adviser Gina McCarthy explained the Biden administration will discard or redo more than 100 "harmful" presidential proclamations, memoranda or permits signed by the Trump administration that the new administration views as detrimental to the environment. Other changes include directing agencies to "consider revising vehicle fuel economic and emissions standards" and placing federal working groups to deal with greenhouse gases, according to an outline of the executive orders.

Human rights 

8) Actions to advance racial equity through the federal government. Incoming Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice explained President Biden wants every federal agency to review equity in their programs and actions. For example, with this executive action the Office of Management and Budget will analyze if federal money is equitably distributed in communities of color and other places of need, the outline of the executive action said. Rice also said Trump's "harmful" 1776 Commission, the 18-member board he formulated in September, will be stopped. The commission's goal was to study the president's concern that the American education system was taking a too liberal approach to American history.  
 

9) Count non-citizens in U.S. Census again.  This reverses President Trump's order in July 2020 to not count undocumented Americans, which would affect federal allocation of money and federal representation. 

10) Strengthen workplace discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. At agencies, this broadens the federal protections against sex discrimination to include LGBTQ Americans.

Immigration 

11) Defend "Dreamers" program for undocumented young Americans. In this executive order, calls on Congress to grant permanent status and a path to citizenship to Dreamers — almost a million undocumented young people who were brought to the country as children and shielded from deportation by President Obama. The Trump administration challenged the law but the Supreme Court upheld it. 

12) End so-called "Muslim travel ban”, which in 2017 restricted travel and immigration to the U.S. from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, before adding Eritrea, Nigeria, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, and Tanzania in 2020. The State Department is also instructed to restart visa applications for these countries.  
 

13) Change Trump's arrest priorities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This executive order will repeal the changes Mr. Trump made in the first week of his presidency in 2017 to make interior immigration enforcement much stricter. Few specifics were listed in the outline of the executive order, but the incoming Biden White House team stated the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with other agencies, will "set civil immigration enforcement policies that best protect the American people and are in line with our values and priorities." 

14) Stop border wall construction. Biden will end the national emergency declaration cited by the Trump administration to divert money to the building of the southern wall.  

15) Keep protections for a group of Liberians in the country. Liberians who have been in the United States for many years will be able to remain longer. Their "deferred enforcement departure" will be extended an additional year, until June 30, 2022. President Trump briefly considered ending this deferment before ultimately extending the program.

Regulation 

16) Freezing last-minute Trump administration regulatory actions. Technically, White House chief of staff Ron Klain will be charged with carrying out this out, and a presidential memo will formally state the regulations to be frozen. 

Ethics 

17) Formulate Executive Branch ethics doctrine. Biden wants every executive branch appointee to sign an ethics pledge. The pledge also demands federal employees promise "to uphold the independence of the Department of Justice," the executive order outline states. 
 

I WORKED SO HARD ON THIS I HOPE YALL LOVE IT 

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[thetea]

How hard would it be for him to integrate free health care? Would that take like 10 years or 5 or what, if he was to do it

[Dirkje PronounsShe/her/hers]

4 hours ago, thetea said:

How hard would it be for him to integrate free health care? Would that take like 10 years or 5 or what, if he was to do it

I think that if he’s smart he picks up Obama care and develops it further. As he has other priorities now, the pandemic for an example. 

[BenG]

4 hours ago, thetea said:

How hard would it be for him to integrate free health care? Would that take like 10 years or 5 or what, if he was to do it

Pretty hard I think because even some Dems are not into it and he has no working majority in the Senate

[Gone]

29 minutes ago, ... said:

Pretty hard I think because even some Dems are not into it and he has no working majority in the Senate

I- I just can’t fathom this... 

[little legend]

14 hours ago, ... said:

President Trump issued a directive for the Secret Service to continue protection for 13 members of his family for another 6 months.

"Under federal law, Trump, his wife Melania and their 14-year-old son are the only members of his immediate family entitled to Secret Service protection after they leave office.

The couple will receive it for their lifetimes, and Barron is entitled to protection until he turns 16. Former Vice President Mike Penceand his wife Karen Pence will also receive continued Secret Service security for the next six months under the same law governing protection.

But Trump wanted every family member who had been protected by the Secret Service during his administration to be covered for another six months, according to the people familiar with his directive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe security arrangements.

That means the expensive, taxpayer-funded security will continue for his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, their three children, his son Donald Trump Jr. and his four children, his son Eric Trump and his wife Lara and his daughter Tiffany Trump."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

I understand that he wants protection for his family and etc. and it is logical. But isn't he a billionaire? 

[BenG]

2 minutes ago, little legend said:

I understand that he wants protection for his family and etc. and it is logical. But isn't he a billionaire? 

It's usually only for the First couple and their children, until they become adults. He extended this protection to all his adult children and grandchildren.

[BenG]

Pete Buttigieg, the nominee for Secretary of Transportation, is currently testifying before the Senate commerce, science and transportation committee. If confirmed, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay cabinet secretary to be confirmed by the Senate.

[NotDoctor PronounsHe/they]

Biggest news of this administration so far: Biden has removed Trump's Diet Coke button