{"id":26539,"date":"2021-01-21T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26539"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:07:51","slug":"what-are-the-17-executive-orders-signed-by-newly-inaugurated-president-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26539","title":{"rendered":"What are the 17 executive orders signed by newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of months ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26329\">a posting<\/a> explaining the role of executive orders in the American political system and suggesting that, once in the Oval Office, Joe Biden would enact a slew of such orders to undo some of the worst features of the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it has proved to be. But what have these 17 executive orders done? In summary: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandate federal employees and contractors to wear masks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Re-enter the World Trade Organisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restructure the federal government&#8217;s Covid-19 response<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extend moratorium on home eviction and foreclosure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extend freeze on student loan repayments <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rejoin the Paris climate accord<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restore environmental regulations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Root out systemic racism in federal government programmes and and institutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restore counting of non-citizens in US census<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preserve and fortifying protections for Dreamers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reverse the travel bad on 13 Muslim-majority countries <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repeal of Trump executive order on interior enforcement <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop construction of the wall on the US-Mexico border<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defer enforced departure for Liberians <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandate an ethics pledge for executive branch appointees <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restore regulatory actions by the government curbed by Trump<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more information on these 17 executive orders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/biden-s-first-17-presidential-orders-1.1150769\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I did a posting explaining the role of executive orders in the American political system and suggesting that, once in the Oval Office, Joe Biden would enact a slew of such orders to undo some of the worst features of the Trump presidency. So it has proved to be. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26539"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26547,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539\/revisions\/26547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}