President-elect Biden is planning to sign several executive decrees on the first day of his presidency, his new chief of staff announced in a statement.
The president-elect will sign about a dozen executive orders that day, including reversing President Trump’s travel ban to 13 Muslim-majority countries, returning to the Paris Climate Agreement and extending the pause in student loan payments, according to Ron Klain.
Biden will also begin his “100 Day Mask Challenge” with a mask mandate on federal property and during interstate travel. Klain promised that the president-elect would sign additional executive orders on climate change and access to health care in the first week of the new government.
“Much more needs to be done to combat COVID-19, rebuild our economy better, combat systemic racism and inequality and address the existential threat of the climate crisis,” Klain said in the statement. “But on February 1, the United States will be moving in the right direction on all four of these challenges – and more – thanks to the leadership of President-elect Joe Biden.”
Biden has long promised to rescind Trump’s travel ban and return to the Paris Climate Agreements on the “first day” of his presidency. He also promised to send a bill to Congress to create a path to citizenship for the nation’s Dreamers, the immigrants brought to the US as children and the 11 million undocumented who currently live in the US
But in November he eased that deadline, pledging to pave the way for citizenship in the first 100 days.
“Part of that will depend on the type of cooperation that I can or cannot get from the United States Congress,” acknowledged Biden.
During the campaign, Biden pledged to end the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) that keep migrants in Mexico during hearings. Known as the “Stay in Mexico” policy, opponents claim that it puts migrants in danger, but Trump officials said it was the key to ending the “catch and release” whereby migrants were released to the United States. .
Biden will take the oath on Wednesday after a turbulent period where President Trump has regularly repeated that the presidential election has been “rigged” and allegedly a massive electoral fraud. The President’s House impeachment this week for inciting an insurrection after protesters stormed the Capitol after a rally where he spoke.
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Inauguration Day, of course, will look different from previous years. The Congress was invited, but each member won only one guest ticket.
President Trump said he would not attend the ceremony, but Vice President Mike Pence is expected.
States sent their National Guards to Washington in anticipation of further potential unrest. Still, Biden said he was “not afraid” to take the oath of office outside.