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Ending Muslim travel ban , rejoining Paris climate agreement top Joe Biden s to-do list on Day 1 in office
Hours after being sworn in as the 46th US president, Joe Biden would sign 15 executive orders including rejoining the Paris climate agreement, a 100-day mask mandate, and reversing the Muslim ban undoing some of the major policies of his predecessor Donald Trump. Biden s first presidential actions would also include sending a comprehensive bill on immigration to the Congress, incoming White House officials said.
The immigration bill proposes an eight-year pathway to illegal immigrants and removing the per-country cap for employment-based green cards, a move that would benefit hundreds and thousands of Indian IT professionals in the US, whose current wait period for legal permanent residency runs into several decades.
With his early Washington departure, Trump gets one final ride with Air Force One designation
From CNN s Pete Muntean and Greg Wallace
By breaking with tradition and leaving Washington while still president, Trump’s final military flight this morning is expected to carry the designation “Air Force One.”
It
is typical for outgoing presidents to depart Washington on one of the airplanes maintained by the 89th Airlift Wing of the Air Force and typically known as Air Force One. The new president typically offers this as a courtesy to his predecessor.
But it is
not typical for that final flights to be officially called Marine One and Air Force One since those craft only have those names when the President is on them.