Fundamental Change: 69 Executive Orders and Actions Already Put into Place by Joe Biden (Updated)
8 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden campaigned on promises to govern by “consensus.” He devoted his Inaugural Address to “unity.” Yet he has issued more executive orders and actions in the first three weeks of his presidency than any president in U.S. history. As the Democrats prepare for the circus side show of impeachment focusing on the past, it’s interesting to look at what he’s already done to change the future.
Jan. 20
1. Memorandum: Regulatory review – This executive action froze many of President Donald Trump’s pending regulatory changes, including a regulation to lower the cost of insulin and epinephrine, which the pharmaceutical industry had opposed.
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Dr. Ashok Sharma is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in the Department of the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre of Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs; a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy; and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. He is also the Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Auckland Branch. Ashok is the author of India s Pursuit of Energy Security: Domestic Measures, Foreign Policy and Geopolitics and Indian Lobbying and its Influence in US Decision Making: Post-Cold War. LESS. MORE