#17 executive orders signed by president biden series
The order lays out a series of non-controversial policy statements, such as “we must protect consumers, investors, and businesses in the United States” and “we must support technological advances that promote responsible development and use of digital assets.” Broadly speaking, the White House is seeking to strike the right balance from the positives of crypto-financial efficiency, inclusion, American leadership in global finance-with its negatives: potential illicit financing, consumer and business abuse, and regulatory arbitrage. "The President-elect has promised to root out systemic racism from our institutions," said Susan Rice, his Domestic Policy Council director.The executive order should be thought of more as a call to action than as a specific game plan. Other actions by the new president will require a government-wide, proactive equality effort for minority groups, in hiring, contracting, and service.
is going to take care of business at home." “Internationally, it’s an important way of making clear the U.S. brings forward a new, ambitious target under the Paris agreement," said David Waskow, director of the World Resources Institute’s international climate initiative.
“Internationally there will be a expectation that the U.S. emissions-reductions targets and encouraging other countries to follow suit. Now, the Biden administration can play a critical role setting more aggressive U.S. was a driving force behind the formation of the landmark Paris agreement. Under former President Barack Obama, the U.S. had pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 26%-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Under the Paris agreement, some 195 member countries set their own voluntary emissions-reduction targets, with the goal of keeping global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels. "The day-one climate executive orders will begin to put the US back on the right footing, a footing we need to restore American leadership, helping to position our nation to be the global leader in clean energy and jobs," said McCarthy. Other actions Biden transition announced-īiden will reverse Trump decisions to ease emissions and efficiency standards, and rescind the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a large project that would bring relatively high-polluting Canadian oil into the United States. Gina McCarthy, the new administration's chief climate advisor, said returning to the 2016 Paris accord was essential to making fighting climate change a central tenet of Biden administration policy. "America's withdrawal from the international arena has impeded progress on the global response and left us more vulnerable to future pandemics," he said. To underscore Biden's decision, Zients said, leading US coronavirus expert Anthony Fauci will lead a delegation to take part in the WHO Executive Board meeting on Thursday. That includes reversing Trump's decision to leave the World Health Organization. Wednesday "starts a new day, a new, different approach to managing the country's response to Covid-19 crisis," he said. Jeff Zients, the new president's point-man for fighting the pandemic, said Biden would start by establishing an office of Covid-19 response inside the White House.Ī 100-day "masking challenge" will be led with a presidential order for wearing masks in all federal properties and activities, setting the standard for private companies, individual states and communities to follow suit, Zients said. Many of the actions will take government policies back to where they were on Janu- the final day of the Barack Obama-Joe Biden administration, before Trump entered office and took a wrecking ball to many of their initiatives. He also plans to send a bill to Congress to revamp immigration policies and give millions of undocumented migrants living in the country a path to citizenship that the Trump administration denied.īiden "will take action - not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration - but also to start moving our country forward," the aides said in a statement. He will also set a mask mandate on federal properties to stem the spread of Covid-19 restore protections of nature reserves removed by Trump and seek freezes on evictions and protection for millions behind on their mortgages due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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