President Barack Obama had blocked the pipeline’s progress over environmental and land rights concerns, but its developers found an ally in Trump, who gave it a green light over the concerns of both environmentalists and Native American groups.īiden will also reverse Trump’s 2017 decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The orders on the coronavirus fall more into the former category, but those on climate and immigration are both.īiden’s first actions on climate, for instance, will be to revoke the permit that allowed the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline - which, once complete, would have moved 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to the Gulf Coast - to move ahead with its construction. The president-elect’s list of planned executive actions is both “partly substantive and partly symbolic,” as the New York Times’s Michael Shear and Peter Baker put it.
Biden’s executive orders attempt to begin undoing Trump-era policy While many of Biden’s coronavirus-related orders will continue or extend Trump-era policy, the orders focused on his other priorities will expressly undo the Trump administration’s work. But Biden’s officials have said pressuring Congress to pass legislation addressing these needs will be a key priority. The orders will not - and cannot - address Biden’s promise for more direct checks to Americans, or to provide financial aid for struggling businesses, state, and local governments that sort of spending can only be approved by Congress. The orders will request that a pause on evictions due to nonpayment of federally backed mortgages be extended until March as well.Īnd Biden will continue the student loan freeze, also currently scheduled to end on January 31, requesting that the Education Department not require monthly payments to resume until at least September 30. Included in those orders will be a requirement that masks be worn on federal property, as well as a request for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to extend its eviction moratorium, currently set to expire on January 31, until at least the end of March. Immediately after his inauguration, Biden also plans to sign a sweeping set of 17 executive actions to address those four crises - the coronavirus, the economy, climate, and racial justice - as well as to begin to undo some of President Donald Trump’s legacy.
President-elect Joe Biden has an ambitious legislative rescue plan, but he isn’t waiting for Congress to begin addressing what his team calls the “four overlapping and compounding crises” facing America.
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