Share This: Joseph R. Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States this week. With the capital in full lockdown, the ceremony and parade were observed almost entirely virtually, an eerie start to the new administration. As many predicted, President Biden came out of the gate on day one with a slew of executive orders, reversing Trump policies and setting the tone for the next four years. He also issued 10 executive orders aimed at COVID-19 which promise to usher in an expansive federal management of the pandemic. Meanwhile, the National Guard soldiers who had been deployed to Washington DC — thousands of whom were temporarily deputized as U.S. Marshals — were bumped from the Capitol building to a nearby parking garage while they awaited redeployment.