United States President Joe Biden has signed a slew of executive orders, actions and memorandums in the first month of his presidency as he looks to deliver on his campaign promises of addressing the country’s COVID-19 crisis and reversing a number of his predecessor – Donald Trump’s policies.
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As part of his many executive actions are halting funding for Trump’s border wall with Mexico, reversing the travel embargo on Muslim countries, making wearing of masks mandatory in federal buildings, bolstering the country’s vaccine supplies, among others.
The 78-year-old Democrat has so far signed over 50 executive actions, of which 22 are direct reversals of Trump’s actions, according to a report in CNN.
Biden has also signed more executive orders and memorandums than the last three presidents, according to data from the Federal Registry through February 25 of their first year in the White House.
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Biden has signed 41 orders and memorandums so far (not including corrections or clerical memos), while Trump had signed 24 till this point in 2017. Barack Obama had 26, while George W Bush had seven.
Here are all of Biden’s executive orders and other actions:
Executive Orders:
1. Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions
Signed: 24/02
2. America’s Supply Chains
Signed: 24/02
3. Revocation of Executive Order 13801
Signed: 17/02
4. Establishment of the White House Office of
Faith- Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Signed: 14/02
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5. Blocking Property With Respect to the
Situation in Burma
Signed: 10/02
6. Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To
Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration
Signed: 04/02
7. Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration
Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans
Signed: 02/02
8. Establishment of Interagency Task Force on
the Reunification of Families
Signed: 02/02
9. Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework
To Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and
Central America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers
at the United States Border
Signed: 02/02
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10. Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable
Care Act
Signed: 28/01
11. Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and
Abroad
Signed: 27/01
12. President’s Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology
Signed: 27/01
13. Reforming Our Incarceration System To
Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities
Signed: 26/01
14. Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of
America by All of America’s Workers
Signed: 25/01
15. Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve
Their Country in Uniform
Signed: 25/01
16. Protecting the Federal Workforce
Signed: 22/01
17. Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19
Pandemic
Signed: 22/01
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18. A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain
Signed: 21/01
19. Supporting the Reopening and Continuing
Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers
Signed: 21/01
20. Protecting Worker Health and Safety
Signed: 21/01
21. Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and
International Travel
Signed: 21/01
22. Improving and Expanding Access to Care and
Treatments for COVID-19
Signed: 21/01
23. Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing
Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other
Biological Threats
Signed: 21/01
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24. Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and
Recovery
Signed: 21/01
25. Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19
and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
Signed: 21/01
26. Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement
Policies and Priorities
Signed: 20/01
27. Revocation of Certain Executive Orders
Concerning Federal Regulation
Signed: 20/01
28. Protecting the Federal Workforce and
Requiring Mask-Wearing
Signed: 20/01
29. Protecting Public Health and the
Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis
Signed: 20/01
30. Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch
Personnel
Signed: 20/01
31. Preventing and Combating Discrimination on
the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
Signed: 20/01
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32. Organizing and Mobilizing the United States
Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and
To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
Signed: 20/01
33. Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration
and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census
Signed: 20/01
34. Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
Signed: 20/01
Proclamations:
1. Revoking Proclamation 10014
Signed: 24/02
2. Remembering the 500,000 Americans Lost to
COVID- 19
Signed: 22/02
3. National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and
Prevention Month, 2021
Signed: 03/02
4. National Black History Month, 2021
Signed: 03/02
5. American Heart Month, 2021
Signed: 03/02
6. Adjusting Imports of Aluminum Into the
United States
Signed: 01/02
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7. Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and
Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting
Coronavirus Disease 2019
Signed: 25/01
8. Termination of Emergency With Respect to
the Southern Border of the United States and Redirection of Funds Diverted to
Border Wall Construction
Signed: 20/01
9. Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the
United States
Signed: 20/01
10. A National Day of Unity
Signed: 20/01
Other Documents (Including memoranda, notices, determinations, letters, messages, and orders):
1. Continuation of the National Emergency
Concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
Signed: 24/02
2. Continuation of the National Emergency With
Respect to Cuba and of the Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of
the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels
Signed: 24/02
3. Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World
Signed: Published: 26/02
4. Continuation of the National Emergency With
Respect to Libya
Signed: 11/02
5. Restoring Trust in Government Through
Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking
Signed: 27/01
6. Maximizing Assistance From the Federal
Emergency Management Agency To Respond to COVID-19
Signed: 02/02
7. Condemning and Combating Racism,
Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the
United States
Signed: 26/01
8. Redressing Our Nation’s and the Federal
Government’s History of Discriminatory Housing Practices and Policies
Signed: 26/01
9. Tribal Consultation and Strengthening
Nation-to- Nation Relationships
Signed: 26/01
10. Memorandum To Extend Federal Support to
Governors’ Use of the National Guard To Respond to COVID-19 and To Increase
Reimbursement and Other Assistance Provided to States
Signed: 21/01
11. Modernizing Regulatory Review
Signed: 20/01
12. Preserving and Fortifying Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Signed: 20/01
13. Reinstating Deferred Enforced Departure for
Liberians
Signed: 20/01
