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Joe BidenHoyer: House is going to vote on the COVID-19 relief bill on Friday. Pence meets with senior members of the Republican Studies Committee. Powell rejects Republican Party inflation fears on Wednesday reversed a series of actions issued by the former President Trump
Donald Trump Romney: “Sure” Trump would win the Republican Party nomination in 2024 if he ran for the Pence presidency by meeting with senior members of the Republican Studies Committee Trump says “without a doubt” Tiger Woods will be back after the accident MORE, lifting certain visa bans, undoing an order seeking to set new standards for federal architecture and revoking a memo calling for possible funding cuts for cities that saw major protests last summer.
The White House issued an executive order that undid several Trump actions at once. Among the targets were requests for architecture and financing analyzes for “lawless areas”, as well as measures that restricted the labor rights of Pentagon civilian workers and reversed regulations during the pandemic.
Trump in September signed a five-page memorandum ordering federal agency heads to report to the Office of Management and Budget detailing all federal funds provided to Seattle, Portland, New York and Washington, DC, with the potential to remove these jurisdictions from federal money.
The shift came after each of these cities saw massive protests over the summer against racial injustice, with protests in Portland in particular becoming violent at times. Trump used these demonstrations as a rallying cry to support law enforcement, which had been criticized after a series of murders of blacks at the hands of the police.
Trump also signed an order last December entitled “Promoting beautiful federal civic architecture”, in which he stated that federal buildings “should uplift and beautify public spaces, inspire the human spirit, ennoble the United States and command public respect. in general.”
Biden separately reversed a Trump proclamation that was extended twice that suspended the issuance of H-1B visas, H-2B visas, H-4 visas, L-1 visas and certain J-1 visas. The former president extended these restrictions until the end of March before leaving office.
The Trump administration argued that visa bans were necessary in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic to ensure that American workers were protected while the economy slowly recovered. But in revoking the measure, Biden argued that it harmed the country, in part “by preventing some family members of US citizens and legal permanent residents from joining their families here.
“It also hurts industries in the United States that use talent from around the world,” said Biden in the repeal.
Many of Biden’s actions during the first month of his presidency focused on undoing his predecessor’s actions. He reversed Trump’s decisions to leave the Paris climate agreements and the World Health Organization, rescinded a license for the Keystone XL pipeline, and issued an order to strengthen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program after Trump tried to close it it.