Facing resistance, Biden reaches out to GOP governors
By Matt Viser Washington Post,Updated February 25, 2021, 6:25 p.m.
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WASHINGTON â President Biden called Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on her iPhone hours after she toured the site of a tornado that killed a 14-year-old boy in her state. Biden almost instantly signed disaster declarations sought by Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma. He invited Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson to the White House to discuss the coronavirus pandemic.
All are Republicans. None are from states Biden came close to winning.
In his first five weeks in office, Biden is spending as much time â if not more â courting Republican governors as he is wooing the senators he needs to pass legislation. It is part of a strategy that lays the groundwork to make something of an end-run around Republicans in Congress, who may be resistant to his ideas, as he looks for outside-the-Beltway allies who might help him
Biden signs executive order rejoining Paris climate accord; new curbs on US oil industry
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To review all of Donald Trump s actions weakening climate change protections
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced America s return to the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change, the centre piece of a raft of day-one executive orders aimed at restoring US leadership in combating global warming.
The announcements also included a sweeping order to review all of former President Donald Trump s actions weakening climate change protections, the revocation of a vital permit for TCEnergy s Keystone XL oil pipeline project from Canada, and a moratorium on oil and gas leasing activities in the ArcticNational Wildlife Refuge that Trump s administration had recently opened to development.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced America's return to the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change, the centerpiece of a raft of day-one executive orders aimed at restoring U.S. leadership in combating global warming.