Biden-Harris Admin Agenda in 1 wk: Even bef 1st &2nd couples celebrated their new jobs Pres Biden signed an order lifting the ban on travel from sev mostly-Muslim countries, rejoined WHO & Paris climate agreement, stopped 🚧 of the border wall & expanded protections for LGBTQ ppl
2/Other orders signed in his 1st day on the job incl extending a moratorium on evictions for certain renters, extending a freeze on fed student loan payments & protecting from deportation qualified immigrants who were brought to the US illegally as children.
3/With a goal of getting 100 million vaccines into Americans' arms in the first 100 days, Pres Biden signed a dozen orders Wednesday aimed at increasing the number of available vaccines as well as the number of ppl who can administer them & invoking the Defense Production Act...
4/to ramp up vaccine production & distribution.
Biden was able to make so many changes so quickly bec of the precedent set by his predecessor.
Biden was able to make so many changes so quickly bec of the precedent set by his predecessor.
5/by Thursday morning had reversed 20 Trump executive orders, restored two Obama executive orders, reinstated 12 regulations that had been rescinded or put on hold and revoked three presidential memos and five proclamations.
6/on Day One Pres Bideb offered a sweeping immigration reform package that provides a path to citizenship for immigrants in the US illegally & offers aid to Central America, a proposal aimed at reducing the influx of ppl fleeing nations in that region.
7/The measure wld also increase border sec thru tech instead of a physical wall. Pres Biden proposed a $1.9T coronavirus relief package, incl add’l $1,400 payments to eligible ppl, expanded unemployment ins payments, rental payment relief, food & child care aid & sm business asst
8/Other plans for the 1st 100 days incl addressing criminal justice reform, including creating a nat’l police oversight commission,& changing the tax code, partly by raising corp tax rates to 28%.
Source:
usnews.com/news/politics/…
Source:
usnews.com/news/politics/…
10/Biden's actions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 include a 100-day mask mandate, an order that requires mask wearing & social distancing in all fed buildings & on all fed lands & the creation of a COVID-19 response coordinator.
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