Joe Biden makes swift policy changes on COVID-19 and racial justice, but major speed bumps lie ahead Biden has now signed about 45 executive orders, memorandums or proclamations enacting or at least initiating major policy shifts on a wide array of issues US president Joe Biden signing executive orders at the White House. AP
Washington: In the weeks before taking office, President Joe Biden and his aides spent time digging into books about Franklin D Roosevelt, both biographies and volumes exploring his iconic first 100 days, on the theory that no president since then has taken office with the country in a crisis quite so grave.
Who’s Who In U.S. President Joe Biden’s Gov’t Who’s Who In U.S. President Joe Biden’s Gov’t
National security
Biden has chosen officials to oversee U.S. intelligence and defense, and spearhead relations with world leaders and international coalitions. All of these officials must be confirmed by the Senate.
Secretary of State
Confirmed by Senate
The position: Leads foreign policy, diplomacy for the president around the world.
The nominee: Antony Blinken was deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration. Blinken also advised Biden on national security when he was vice president. The two worked together when Biden served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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The Hill. This piece by Stephanie Taylor of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee makes the case that if Democrats want to win again in 2022 and in 2024, the Biden administration should spend significant energy informing the American people of the wonders that the government has delivered to them. The author suggests that, to achieve this goal, the administration “should even consider creating a new position based in the Executive Office.”
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Apparently, President Obama lamented that his administration failed “to tell a story of progress to the American public” about the role he and his administration, and government in general, played in our lives which is funny because I thought the “Life of Julia” and the “You didn’t built that” narratives were all about doing just that. But to be fair, he isn’t alone. That’s what is typically done by politicians looking to justify their importance and by b
President Biden addressed concerns by government watchdog groups in the first days of his presidency by issuing an ethics pledge for administration officials that builds on an Obama-era policy for White House staffers.