Immigrationĭefend "Dreamers" program for undocumented young Americans. At agencies, this broadens the federal protections against sex discrimination to include LGBTQ Americans. Strengthen workplace discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Rice on the Wednesday press call said Trump's was an "approach that violates the Constitution and the Census Act and is inconsistent with our nation's history and our commitment to representative democracy." The Biden team's outline of the executive order said Biden "will ensure that the Census Bureau has time to complete an accurate population count for each state" and that "he will then present to Congress an apportionment that is fair and accurate so federal resources are efficiently and fairly distributed for the next decade." Census again. This reverses President Trump's order in July 2020 to not count undocumented Americans, which would affect federal allocation of money and federal representation. The commission's goal was to study the president's concern that the American education system was taking a too liberal approach to American history.Ĭount non-citizens in U.S. Rice also said Trump's "harmful" 1776 Commission, the 18-member board he formulated in September, will be stopped. For example, with this executive action the Office of Management and Budget will analyze if federal money is equitably distributed in communities of color and other places of need, the outline of the executive action said.
Incoming Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice explained President Biden wants every federal agency to review equity in their programs and actions. Other changes include directing agencies to "consider revising vehicle fuel economic and emissions standards" and placing federal working groups to deal with greenhouse gases, according to an outline of the executive orders.Īctions to advance racial equity through the federal government. Biden also will reverse the 2020 decision by the Trump administration to allow land development at the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah and at the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine national monuments in New England, which were set aside for wildlife protection by former President Obama in 2016. Revoking permits will effectively nix the Keystone pipeline. To do this, Biden's climate adviser Gina McCarthy explained the Biden administration will discard or redo more than 100 "harmful" presidential proclamations, memoranda or permits signed by the Trump administration that the new administration views as detrimental to the environment. This will take 30 days to go into effect.Įnd Keystone XL pipeline and revoke oil and gas development at national wildlife monuments. The Paris climate negotiations took place under the Obama administration and were led by incoming climate change czar John Kerry when he was secretary of state. The Biden advisers continue to assert Biden still supports his campaign pledge to cancel $10,000 of student loans, but this will take time as it has to go through Congress. Biden's top economic adviser Brian Deese said on the call with reporters, "There are more than 11 million mortgages guaranteed by the VA, Department of Agriculture and HUD that would be extended."Ĭontinue "pause" on student loan payments until September 30. "These emergency measures are important," Mr. The new president will also call on the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans Affairs to extend the foreclosure moratoriums for their federally backed mortgages. To do this, Biden will call on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to re-implement and extend the already defunct moratorium until at least March 31. Financial relief for AmericansĮxtend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums.
Biden is also looking to reestablish the U.S. Rejoin the World Health Organization (WHO), which the Trump administration was in the process of leaving. Biden's COVID-19 team for the presidential transition.
Biden has appointed Jeff Zients, who has been overseeing Mr. Biden will also formally implement a "response coordinator" who will report to the president on vaccine, testing and personal protective equipment production, supply, and distribution. This directorate office was dispersed into other roles during the Trump administration, but Biden and his campaign advisers argued the move decreased the preparedness of the federal government for the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden White House is bringing back an Obama-era position called the "Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense," which was organized with additional staff within the National Security Council after the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Restructure federal government coordination to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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