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Biden targets Trump's legacy with first-day executive actions

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Biden is signing a flurry of executive orders, memorandums and directives to agencies, his first steps to address the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of former President Donald Trump's signature policies.
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Biden also reversed several of Trump's attempts to withdraw from international agreements, beginning the process of rejoining the Paris climate accord and halting the United States' departure from the World Health Organization -- where Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, will lead the US delegation.
His first action was to impose a mask mandate on federal property, a break in approach to dealing with the pandemic from Trump, who repeatedly downplayed the virus. Biden also installed a coronavirus response coordinator to oversee the White House's efforts to distribute vaccines and medical supplies.

Damn, ain't wasting no time trying to undo Trump's damage.
 


Damn, ain't wasting no time trying to undo Trump's damage.
It's nice to have the pandemic in specific be addressed.
 
It's nice to have the pandemic in specific be addressed.
It's nice to have a President who talks as an adult. It will be nice to be able to get back to bashing Republocrats in general and not have to worry if Trump is going to end us all through some ****ing crazy ass antic.
 
It's nice to have a President who talks as an adult. It will be nice to be able to get back to bashing Republocrats in general and not have to worry if Trump is going to end us all through some ****ing crazy ass antic.

We are not at that point yet. Trump was only the symptom of a deeper problem within the ranks of the Republican hierarchy. The Republican party has a lot of things it has to to become semi-sane yet.
 
We are not at that point yet. Trump was only the symptom of a deeper problem within the ranks of the Republican hierarchy. The Republican party has a lot of things it has to to become semi-sane yet.
There's problems all over the place on the R and D side, I don't know if we're at the state to address them. But I feel that we've taken a step or two back from the edge.
 
Nothing substantive on the pandemic?

Interesting.
 
Joe is the essential American, he might as well be Audie Murphy at this point, the proud soldier who politely destroys the opposition while displaying that uniquely American charm, the son of an average man who rose to become someone special and never forgot where he came from and who he serves. Today, he reaffirmed that America as a nation will not go quietly into that good night, no sir, we will not.
 
So, when is Joe going to get the gov't back in the business of regulating water puddles?
 
It's nice to have the pandemic in specific be addressed.
GIve him a week. two weeks and no one will be dying of the virus, right?
 
It's nice to have a President who talks as an adult.

That may be the best thing of all.

But these are great too:

--Made Jeff Zients the government’s official Covid-19 response coordinator, reporting to the president. Restored the directorate for global health security and biodefense at the National Security Council, a group that Mr. Trump had disbanded
--Imposed a national mandate requiring masks and physical distancing in all federal buildings, on all federal lands and by all federal employees
--Terminated Mr. Trump’s efforts to leave the World Health Organization, sending Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, to participate in the group’s annual executive board meeting on Thursday.
--Revoked the Trump administration’s plan to exclude noncitizens from the census count
--Bolstered the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects “Dreamers” from deportation
--Repealed Trump's ban on travel to the United States from several predominantly Muslim and African countries
--Directed the State Department to develop ways to address the harm caused to those prevented from coming to the United States because of the ban
--Halted construction on Trump's border wall while his administration examines the legality of the wall’s funding and contracts (Trump had stolen money from the defense department for it)
--Directed federal agencies to conduct reviews looking to eliminate systemic discrimination in their policies and to reverse historic discrimination in safety net and other federal spending. Began a working group examining federal data collection on diversity grounds
--Required the federal government to not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, a policy that reverses action by Mr. Trump’s administration
--Overturned a Trump executive order that had limited the ability of federal government agencies to use diversity and inclusion training.
--Canceled Mr. Trump’s 1776 Commission, which released a report on Monday that historians said distorted the history of slavery in the United States.
--Will rejoin the Paris climate accords
--Rescinded rollbacks to vehicle emissions standards; imposing a moratorium on oil and natural gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline; and re-establishing a working group on the social costs of greenhouse gasses
--Extended a federal moratorium on evictions and asked agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, to prolong a moratorium on foreclosures on federally guaranteed mortgages. The extensions all run through the end of March.
--Continued a pause on federal student loan interest and principal payments through the end of September
--Mr. Biden also froze all new regulations put in motion by his predecessor to give his administration time to evaluate which ones should move forward — if any.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said that the executive actions Mr. Biden took on Wednesday would be followed by a steady stream of others almost daily.
 
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Oh yeah...he killed jobs and a chance for America to stay less dependent of OPEC!
If you look at the actual information, you would know that is incorrect. The dacl pipeline basically was taking tar sands from canada to get process in texas to sell to china... with all but about 35 jobs in the u.s. effected, and all profits to canada pretty much
 


Damn, ain't wasting no time trying to undo Trump's damage.
Nothing there I disagree with.
Excellent first effort.
 
Trump promised that the "fake news" media would stop reporting on the pandemic the day after the election. Why didn't that happen?
THey can't be that blatent. But it didn't stop Cuomo or Creature from the Black lagoon in Chicago.
 
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