INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Washington: On day one in office, US President Joe Biden has signed 15 executive orders, reversing some of the key foreign policies and
national security decisions of his predecessor Donald Trump.The executive orders ranged from rejoining the Paris agreement on climate
change, halting America's withdrawal from the World Health Organisation, revoking Muslim travel ban and stopping immediate construction of
These are just executive actions
They are important, but we're going to need legislation for a lot of the things we're going to do," Biden told reporters in the Oval Office
of the White House as he signed the first lot of executive orders on Wednesday.The president said he will be signing a number of executive
orders over the next several days of the week."And I'm going to start today on the compounding crisis of COVID, along with the economic
challenge, asking Americans to mask up for 100 days.Biden is doing his part as well, issuing a mask mandate that will require anyone
visiting a federal building or federal land or using certain modes of public transportation to wear a mask, White House Press Secretary Jen
Psaki said.Addressing her maiden news conference on Wednesday, Psaki said Biden has signed 15 executive orders and two other directives.The
strengthen our own efforts to get the (coronavirus) pandemic under control by improving global health, and tomorrow we are not wasting any
time," she said.Biden also officially appointed a COVID-19 response coordinator, a position and team that he had already previously
announced but made it official today to create a unified national response to the pandemic
He re-established the national security team responsible for global health, security and bio-defence.Noting that COVID-19 pandemic has
triggered an almost unprecedented housing affordability crisis, Psaki said the president took immediate action to confront the crisis and
millions of Americans who owe federal student loans
In response, the president asked the education department to extend the pause on student loan payments and interest, she said."He (Biden)
rejoined the Paris climate agreement putting the United States back in a position to exercise global leadership in advancing the objectives
of the ambitious agreement," Psaki said.In a second broad executive order, Biden rolled back harmful regulatory reversals made by the
several national monuments, places a temporary moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing in the Arctic national wildlife refuge and
reestablishes the interagency working group on the social cost of greenhouse gases."He also launched a whole of government effort to advance
racial equity and root out systemic racism from federal programs and institutions
He directed the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Attorney General to take all appropriate actions to preserve and
fortify DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which provides temporary relief from deportation to dreamers, young people who were
He sent a proclamation effective immediately halting further funding construction of the previous administration's border wall and
terminating the so-called national emergency use to wastefully divert billions for wall construction," she said.Biden also sent an
immigration bill (the US Citizenship Act of 2021) to Congress to modernise the immigration system, she said.Biden told reporters that these
running: rebuild the backbone of the country, the middle class
And so there's going to be a lot of focus on that
I think some of the things we're going to be doing are we're going to be are bold and vital, and there's no time to start like today," he
