military.Īnd incoming director of the Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice, said instituting a 100-day moratorium on deportations “is not a presidential action” but “has to happen from the agencies.”īiden’s top priority upon taking office is tackling the pandemic as it enters its deadliest phase to date. foreign aid from going to any organization that provides abortions, along with other health services that the Trump administration dramatically expanded - and revoke Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. Specifically, Psaki confirmed that Biden would move in the early days of the administration to reverse the Mexico City policy - a decades-old rule barring U.S. This is just the beginning,” said incoming Press Secretary Jen Psaki, adding that Biden would take more actions “over the next 10 days.” Though several actions that Biden had previously promised to take are missing from the Day One blitz - including a reversal of Trump administration restrictions on funding for abortion providers and a 100-day moratorium on deportations - top officials in the incoming administration stressed to reporters on the Tuesday night call that additional announcements would soon follow. Though many progressive advocates and lawmakers, including the soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have pressed Biden to issue an executive order forgiving student loan debt, Biden will, at least initially, kick the decision to Capitol Hill.īiden “supports Congress acting immediately to cancel $10,000 of federal student loan debt per person,” said Brian Deese, incoming National Economic Council director. Biden will also ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other relevant agencies to extend federal eviction and foreclosure moratoriums through March, and will ask the Department of Education to extend the pause on interest and payments for federal student loans through September. They also include revoking the Keystone XL pipeline, and repealing the Trump administration’s interior immigration enforcement order that sought to withhold federal funds from cities that shielded undocumented immigrants.Īdditional actions include halting construction of the border wall, “shoring up” protections for so-called Dreamers, and rejoining the Paris climate accord, which would make the U.S. The executive orders as previewed by Biden’s team in the days leading up to his swearing-in include a nationwide mask and social-distancing mandate on federal lands, in federal buildings, and for federal employees and contractors, the creation of a Covid-19 response team that reports directly to the president, and the termination of Trump’s so-called Muslim ban. But his team boasted that the 15 executive actions and two directives to agencies surpassed the number his four predecessors took on their first days in office. With a tied Senate, a slim House majority and a lasting Trump imprint on the federal judiciary narrowing the avenues open to Biden to enact his agenda, many Democrats have urged him to lean heavily on his executive powers in the years to come.īiden himself has repeatedly said he would rather work with both parties in Congress than use his executive authority unilaterally. The collective effort was characterized by multiple senior White House officials as “undoing” and “reversing” policies implemented by Trump that were “harmful” or “inhumane.” They’re also aimed at addressing the “overlapping and intertwined crises” that the Biden administration inherited, Gina McCarthy, the incoming White House domestic climate policy director, explained Tuesday on a call with other senior officials.īiden’s orders signal an early willingness to flex his executive authority to advance core policy goals - though he has notably steered clear, so far, of using such powers to tackle the biggest wish-list items from progressives in his party.
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