In a tidal wave of executive orders and actions signed during his first week in office, President Joe Biden went around Congress to begin addressing a series of campaign promises. "We are at a precarious moment in our economy," said Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, previewing the actions, "The American people cannot afford to wait. So many are hanging by a thread." Advertisement: After first getting the U.S. back into the Paris climate accords to combat climate change, recommit to the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic, halting federal funding for Trump's wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, lifting restrictions on people from Muslim countries and ending the deportation threat against the DREAMers, Biden announced a third wave of actions.