Until then, he has committed to doing everything in his power to defend reproductive rights and protect access to safe and legal abortion,” the White House said in a statement on Friday. “President Biden has made clear that the only way to secure a woman’s right to choose is for Congress to restore the protections of Roe as federal law. Where state abortion bans stand amid legal challenges Jackson Women's Health case on June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. 15 to May 15 as a “special enrollment period” for uninsured Americans to sign up on for health insurance amid the pandemic.Abortion rights demonstrators gather to protest against the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs v. In an effort to counter Trump’s attempts to strike down the Affordable Care Act, Biden signed an order directing agencies to re-examine policies that undermined protections for people with pre-existing conditions, complicated the process of enrolling in Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and reduced coverage and affordability of the programs. The president will solicit input from a council of advisors on science and technology, which will advise Biden on “scientific and technical information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the economy, worker empowerment, education, energy, environment, public health, national and homeland security, racial equity and other topics.” Day NineĮxecutive order reinforcing Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act The order also directed agencies to purchase American-made, zero-emission vehicles in an effort to create union jobs as part of Biden’s “Buy American” agenda, suspend new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and conserve at least 30 percent of federal lands and waters by 2030.Īdditionally, the order established the Office of Domestic Climate Policy and a national climate task force, as well as a working group to assist communities impacted by coal mining and power plants and an environmental justice council to “address the disproportionate health, environmental, economic and climate impacts on disadvantaged communities.”Īccording to Biden’s memorandum, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy will review agency policies on scientific integrity, and agencies that oversee research must designate a senior employee to “ensure agency research programs are scientifically and technologically well-founded and conducted with integrity.”Įxecutive order re-establishing presidential council on science and technology to determine its target for emissions reduction and directed federal agencies to incorporate climate considerations into their international plans.

In accordance with the Paris Agreement on climate change, Biden’s plan to tackle climate change called for the U.S. Day EightĮxecutive order initiating plan to combat climate change Additionally, the order directed the attorney general to work to prevent discrimination and hate crimes. In response to a surge in anti-Asian bias amid the coronavirus pandemic, Biden’s order urged the Department of Health and Human Services to consider issuing guidance on cultural competency and sensitivity toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as part of the nation’s Covid-19 response. workers and businesses and to “close loopholes that allow companies to offshore production and jobs while still qualifying for domestic preferences.” Day SevenĮxecutive order calling for evaluation of Trump’s housing policiesĮxecutive order denouncing anti-Asian discrimination and xenophobia In an effort to bolster American manufacturing, Biden signed an executive order directing agencies to strengthen requirements about purchasing products and services from U.S. citizens from entry if they have recently been in South Africa, where a new strain of Covid-19 has been identified.Įxecutive order promoting 'Buy American' agenda Additionally, the ban will bar most non-U.S.

citizens traveling from Brazil and much of Europe, which Trump had scrapped days before his term ended. Proclamation reinstating Covid-19 travel restrictionsīiden reinstated Covid-19 travel restrictions affecting non-U.S. Biden repealed the ban on transgender people serving openly in the military and ordered the defense secretary to “immediately prohibit involuntary separations, discharges and denials of reenlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender identity or under circumstances relating to their gender identity.”

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