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Joe Biden Took Just Hours To Reverse Some Of Trump's Most Controversial Orders
US president Joe Biden spent his first day in office walking back his Republican predecessor’s legacy and establishing a new order, through a flurry of executive actions.
Within hours of his inauguration on Wednesday, the new president set himself to work on reversing Donald Trump’s policies, telling reporters there was “no time to waste” in issuing the 17 executive orders, memorandums and directives.
“Some of the executive actions I’m going to be signing today are going to help change the course of the Covid crisis, we’re going to combat climate change in a way that we haven’t done so far and advance racial equity and support other underserved communities,” he said in the Oval Office.
“These are just all starting points.”
Here are seven of Biden’s executive orders you should know about.
1. Rejoining the Paris climate agreement
Biden is reentering the US into the 2016 Paris Agreement, which his climate-change-denying predecessor pulled the country out of in 2017. His executive order means the US will once again become a formal party to the global negotiations in 30 days.
The move ends the US’s brief but symbolic exit from the global pact to slash planet-heating emissions that virtually every nation in the world has joined. It also lays the groundwork for the new administration’s climate action: among his other actions on Wednesday included orders to pull permits for the 1,200-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline and to reestablish the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.
The move was welcomed worldwide by climate change leaders and campaigners, who said they wanted to see an ambitious US commitment to cut emissions this decade and a diplomatic push to encourage other countries to do the same.
