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--Repealed Trump's ban on travel to the United States from several predominantly Muslim and African countries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--Rescinded rollbacks to vehicle emissions standards; imposing a moratorium on oil and natural gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; revoking the permit for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.