As The Washington Post reports:
President-elect Joe Biden is preparing to sign a blizzard of executive orders as soon as he is inaugurated Wednesday that will lay out his coronavirus, immigration and climate policies — launching a 10-day cascade of administrative actions aimed at reversing the policies of his Republican predecessor.
The most pressing of his priorities will be measures to combat the ongoing deadly coronavirus pandemic. Once he is sworn in at noon, Biden plans to sign executive actions that will require masks on all federal grounds and ask agencies to extend moratoriums on evictions and on federal student loan payments.
He will urge Americans to don face coverings for 100 days while reviving a global health unit in the National Security Council — allowed to go dormant during the Trump administration — to oversee pandemic preparedness and response. Biden will also begin to reverse steps taken by President Trump to withdraw from the World Health Organization by dispatching Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease official, to speak at the international group’s executive board meeting on Thursday.
Let’s do this thing.
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I have but two things to say today Polsters…
1) Fuck yes
2) God bless America
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Jesus … an Executive Branch run by competent people who actually give a flying fuck about real, live human beings. I'm getting a little verklempt over here.
Here's hoping President Biden has been practicing his penmanship vigorously. I don't want him to have cramps from all the signatures needed in the next few days.
Beyond the Executive Orders, there will be a host of personnel actions to take, appointing acting Secretaries and others to slots the Senate has not gotten around to for confirmation.
I'm sure they either have an e-signature app, or at the least a 50 year old AutoPen they can dig out of storage!
My wife says he should just get a stamp.
or a sharpie.
"practicing his penmanship vigorously…….."
It's also time for Pelosi and Schumer to dust off the Congressional Review Act to see what Trump regulations in the final months can be done away with.
Trump reg changes are frozen. See President Biden’s Executive order #16.
https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1351831836163334144/photo/1
A presidential freeze is not the same as congressional action. I'll refer you to early 2017.
My readings indicated anything done in the last six months.
I'm just wondering how many of those really nice Cross pens he'll wear the nibs down on.
I loved his speech although, at the end, I would have loved to see him, pause, look at his watch and say…"Thanks for coming but I gotta go. I've got a shit ton of work to do!"
First thing is to get warmed up.
It looked cold at the inauguration. Appeared to be minus 45.
But then it's +46. So, it's a little warmer
I see what you did.
I'll bet it felt really cold, with that wind and the fact that D.C. is very damp – it's kind of on a swamp, isn't it? None of that good Colorado dry cold.
Senators Warnock, Ossof, and Padilla were just sworn in. I got tears again watching the Senate chamber used for its proper purpose, after its desecration two weeks ago. They did not win.
Kamala Harris presiding, Schumer acting as Majority Leader.😁😁
Now anything passed by the House will at least get to the Senate floor. Thank you Georgians. The nation owes you one.
Actually, GG, the specific thanks for Georgia go to primarily two people: Stacey Abrams, for her organizing skills, and Donald Trump, because he couldn’t keep his foul mouth shut.
I have deep respect for the work of the former. Latter not so much.
Trump says, "We will be back in some form," I suspect he is thinking of the form of the Sloar:
— Vinz Clortho
What a perfect day. Only 300 showed up for what’s his name’s send off. The music, the poem, the speech by Biden were all phenomenal. Now a concert starting with Bruce Springsteen. A press conference where all questions were answered versus reporters screaming more questions. Anyone else see the similarity between Jen Psaki and West Wing’s CJ Cregg? She even uttered President Barrett’s catch phrase “What’s next”. The O’Biden Administration is just plain refreshing. Aaaahhhh.
We’re back!!!
We noticed that resemblance, too, itlduso. Karen remarked on it and I just smiled. I worried about the rest of the civilized world staying mad at us for a while, but it seems they’re just all as glad we’re back as we are.
Whoopsie! Maybe installing a political hack in the waning days of the Trump administration wasn't a smart idea afterall.
Hosing out the Trumpshit will take some time, but I'm pretty sure they know where to look. Just follow the Trump stink…
Oh Noes! 'A Total Failure’: The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump
Indictment of Moscow Mitch. I hope you have a NYTimes subscription because this is a must read.
I just hope Chuck Shumer is just as aware of his adversary and his tactics and motivations.
Harry, I got a Times subscription just so I could follow all the links that get dropped here.
The EPA website still doesn’t show climate change on the main landing page, or even as an “environmental topic”. The data is still all or mostly there, as far as I can tell, but it’s been disaggregated and one has to search for it. Under Obama, it was a very user-friendly site. Now, not so much.
That was an immediate change that the anti-science Trump administration made, and I guess it’s just one of the messes Biden’s administration will have to clean up. Hopefully, new EPA chief Michael Regan is on it.
The CDC under Dr. Walensky’s leadership seems to be doing better at disseminating accurate coronavirus information.