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January 29, 2021
Biden has signed 42 executive actions since taking office. Heres what each does CNN 1/29/2021 © Evan Vucci/AP President Joe Biden hasnt wasted any time setting his agenda into motion through a flurry of executive actions that address everything from Covid-19 to the climate crisis. While his administration continues the plodding work of coordinating with Congress on more ambitious policy goals, Biden has inked 42 executive actions thus far. See them all here organized by topic. Health care ...
January 28, 2021
By MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Since entering office on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden has signed more than three dozen executive actions addressing the coronavirus pandemic, economy, immigration, climate crisis and more. Here’s a look at all of his executive orders, and other notable executive actions, so far:COVID-19 RESPONSE Executive Order on Protecting [...]
January 27, 2021
Bidens executive orders and actions: What to know © Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images Since entering office on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden has signed more than three dozen executive actions addressing the coronavirus pandemic, economy, immigration, climate crisis and more. Heres a look at all of his executive orders, and other notable executive actions, so far: COVID-19 RESPONSE Executive Order on Protecting Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing: Requires masks, physical distancing and...
January 25, 2021
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 20, 2021, the first day of the Biden Administration, the President took several executive actions that affect government contractors. The President is expected to sign an additional Executive Order (EO) today that addresses several federal worker issues. First, the President rescinded several Executive Orders (EOs) issued by the prior administration that either directly affected contractors or the regulatory process as a wh...
January 23, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021 Mask Wearing The Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing requires “on-duty or on-site Federal employees; on-site Federal contractors; and all persons in Federal buildings or on Federal lands” to follow U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines with respect to mask wearing, social distancing, and other public health measures. COVID-19 Response The Executive Order on Organizing and Mobilizing the Uni...
January 22, 2021
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and sections 3301 and 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Ethics Pledge. Every appointee in every executive agency appointed on or after January 20, 2021, shall sign, and upon signing shall be contractually committed to, the following pledge upon becoming an appointee: “I recognize ...
January 22, 2021
by Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig • Jan 22, 2021 at 3:30 pm Stacks on stacks on stacks. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images We are only three days into this new era and the recently inaugurated presidents hand is on fucking fire. President Biden has already signed over two dozen executive actions and proclamations, largely undoing many of Trumps most destructive policies. In his first week in office, Bidens orders primarily focused on bolstering t...
January 22, 2021
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In the first hours of his new Administration, President Joseph R. Biden issued a new Executive Order (the Order) on Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel. The Order includes an Ethics Pledge that every executive appointee must sign and abide by. The Pledge includes: A lobbyist gift ban Revolving door bans applicable to all appointees entering and leaving government, with additional restrictions on lobbyists and foreign agen...
January 21, 2021
January 20, 2021 at 2:32 PM Shares23 What finer coda to the Trump administration’s orgy of corruption than an executive order rescinding ethics restrictions on lobbying in the final hours? Aaron Sorkin could not have scripted it better. On January 28, 2017, eight days into his term, President Trump signed Executive Order 13770 governing Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Employees. In fulfillment of Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” employees would sign a pledge not to ...
January 20, 2021
Trump has revoked the order that he signed in 2017, which banned administration officials from becoming lobbyists for five years.