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On January 20, 2021, the first day of the Biden Administration, the President took several executive actions that affect government contractors. The President is expected to sign an additional Executive Order (EO) today that addresses several federal worker issues.
First, the President rescinded several Executive Orders (EOs) issued by the prior administration that either directly affected contractors or the regulatory process as a whole.
Section 10 of the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government rescinds Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. EO 13950 had prohibited certain types of training programs by contractors and federal grantees and imposed serious sanctions for contractors or grantees who ran afoul of the EOs limitations. Section 10 also instructs agencies to consider actions to suspend agency actions arising fr
Friday, January 22, 2021
Mask Wearing
The Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing requires “on-duty or on-site Federal employees; on-site Federal contractors; and all persons in Federal buildings or on Federal lands” to follow U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines with respect to mask wearing, social distancing, and other public health measures.
COVID-19 Response
The Executive Order on 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 “creates the position of Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President” who reports directly to the president. This position manages all elements of the COVID-19 response, including “coordinating the Federal Government’s efforts to produce, supply, and distribute personal protective equipment, vaccines, te
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and sections 3301 and 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Ethics Pledge. Every appointee in every executive agency appointed on or after January 20, 2021, shall sign, and upon signing shall be contractually committed to, the following pledge upon becoming an appointee:
“I recognize that this pledge is part of a broader ethics in government plan designed to restore and maintain public trust in government, and I commit myself to conduct consistent with that plan. I commit to decision-making on the merits and exclusively in the public interest, without regard to private gain or personal benefit. I commit to conduct that upholds the independence of law enforcement and precludes improper interference with investigative or prosecutorial decisions of the Department of Ju
by Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig • Jan 22, 2021 at 3:30 pm
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We are only three days into this new era and the recently inaugurated president s hand is on fucking fire. President Biden has already signed over two dozen executive actions and proclamations, largely undoing many of Trump s most destructive policies.
In his first week in office, Biden s orders primarily focused on bolstering the federal government s coronavirus response, reversing Trump s ass-backward environmental rollbacks, halting paranoid immigration policies, and attempting to provide a wee bit of economic relief. These executive actions can be pretty dry, so we re hoping to make this a little fun for you.