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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 United States Government to Provide a Unified and Effective Response to Combat COVID-19 and to Provide ...

Biden issues executive order expanding LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections Jo Yurcaba © Provided by NBC News President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday night that will extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people. Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, called it “the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order concerning sexual orientation and gender identity ever issued by a United States president.” The order directs all federal agencies to implement the Supreme Cour...

The OMB director and the head of the Domestic Policy Council will play key roles in implementing the objectives of a new executive order, which eliminates a Trump-era purge of diversity training materials and include the creation of a new data working group .

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:   Section 1.  Policy.  Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our diversity is one of our country’s greatest strengths.  But for too many, the American Dream remains out of reach.  Entrenched disparities in our laws and public policies, and in our public and private institutions, have often denied that equal opportunity to individuals and communities.  Our country faces converging economic, health, and climate crises that have exp...