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Agencies begin to issue new COVID safety plans February 19 Federal agency plans to protect employees from COVID-19 exposure have taken a more strict approach under the Biden administration than under the Trump administration. (JaruekChairak/Getty Images) President Joe Biden made it a day one priority for federal agencies to standardize COVID-19 safety precautions across all federal workplaces via a Jan. 20 executive order, and agency leaders have begun to release their policies to meet those requirements and tailor them to agency-specific needs. On the whole, these new plans hew closely to requirements outlined in Biden’s executive order and Centers for Disease Control guidance, though they formally override COVID guidance documents issued under the Trump administration.
Fundamental Change: 69 Executive Orders and Actions Already Put into Place by Joe Biden (Updated)
8 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden campaigned on promises to govern by “consensus.” He devoted his Inaugural Address to “unity.” Yet he has issued more executive orders and actions in the first three weeks of his presidency than any president in U.S. history. As the Democrats prepare for the circus side show of impeachment focusing on the past, it’s interesting to look at what he’s already done to change the future.
Jan. 20
1. Memorandum: Regulatory review – This executive action froze many of President Donald Trump’s pending regulatory changes, including a regulation to lower the cost of insulin and epinephrine, which the pharmaceutical industry had opposed.