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January 20, 2021 09:59 AM UTC

President Biden Goes to Work

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President Joe Biden

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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30 thoughts on “President Biden Goes to Work”

  2. 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.

  3. 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. 

        1. "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.

  4. 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!"

    3. 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.

  6. 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.😁😁

      1. 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. 

  8. 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!!!

    1. 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.

  9. Whoopsie!  Maybe installing a political hack in the waning days of the Trump administration wasn't a smart idea afterall.

    Former GOP operative Michael Ellis placed on administrative leave from NSA’s top lawyer job

    Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), now chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), who now leads the Senate Armed Services Committee, in November asked the Pentagon acting inspector general to investigate Ellis’s selection. They raised concerns of “improper political influence” and also that Ellis was picked over other more qualified candidates.

    But as of the weekend Ellis had not taken up the job. The delay was due in part to the need for him to complete administrative and security requirements, such as passing a polygraph test. Nakasone also had concerns about Ellis’s selection and took steps to ensure it was consistent with personnel policies that apply to senior career officials in the intelligence community.

    Hosing out the Trumpshit will take some time, but I'm pretty sure they know where to look.  Just follow the Trump stink…

  10. Oh Noes!  'A Total Failure’: The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump

    “When Trump told them that if he left office, America would fall into an abyss, they believed him,” Arieh Kovler, a political consultant and independent researcher in Israel who studies the far right, said of the Proud Boys. “Now that he has left office, they believe he has both surrendered and failed to do his patriotic duty.”

    The shift raises questions about the strength of the support for Mr. Trump and suggests that pockets of his fan base are fracturing. Many of Mr. Trump’s fans still falsely believe he was deprived of office, but other far-right groups such as the Oath Keepers, America First and the Three Percenters have also started criticizing him in private Telegram channels, according to a review of messages.

     

  11. Indictment of Moscow Mitch.  I hope you have a NYTimes subscription because this is a must read.

    So tell me, Mitch, in these, your final hours as Senate majority leader: Were the judges and the tax cuts worth it?

    Were they worth the sacking of the Capitol? The annexation of the Republican Party by the paranoiacs and the delusional? The degradation, possibly irremediable, of democracy itself?

    As Alec MacGillis makes plain in his excellent book “The Cynic,” Mitch McConnell never does anything unless it serves the interests of Mitch McConnell.

    Which is why McConnell made his unholy alliance with Donald Trump in the first place. By his own admission, McConnell plays “the long game” (it’s the name of his memoir, in fact). He’s methodical in his scheming, awaiting his spoils with the patience of a cat. So if hitching his wagon to a sub-literate mob boss with a fondness for white supremacists and a penchant for conspiracy theories and a sociopath’s smirking disregard for the truth meant getting those tax cuts and those conservative judges … hey, that’s the cost of doing business, right?

    I just hope Chuck Shumer is just as aware of his adversary and his tactics and motivations.

     

  12. 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. 

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