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PostPosted: 01/17/21 6:43 am • # 1 
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Biden outlines 10-day blitz of executive actions to nullify Trump era
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In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus pandemic, his incoming chief of staff said on Saturday.

The opening salvo would herald a 10-day blitz of executive actions as Biden seeks to act swiftly to redirect the country in the wake of Donald Trump's presidency without waiting for Congress.

On Wednesday, following his inauguration, Biden will end Trump's restriction on immigration to the US from some Muslim-majority countries, move to rejoin the Paris climate accord and mandate mask-wearing on federal property and during interstate travel. Those are among roughly a dozen actions Biden will take on his first day in the White House, his incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, said in a memo to senior staff.

Other actions include extending the pause on student loan payments and actions meant to prevent evictions and foreclosures for those struggling during the pandemic.

“These executive actions will deliver relief to the millions of Americans that are struggling in the face of these crises,” Klain said in the memo. “President-elect Biden will take action — not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration — but also to start moving our country forward.”

"Full achievement” of Biden’s goals will require Congress to act, Klain wrote, including the $1.9 trillion ($2.47 trillion) virus relief bill he outlined on Thursday. Klain said that Biden would also propose a comprehensive immigration reform bill to lawmakers on his first day in office.

Providing a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the US illegally will be part of Biden's agenda, according to people briefed on his plans. Ali Noorani, president of the National Immigration Forum and among those briefed, said immigrants would be put on an eight-year path. There would be a faster track for those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields people from deportation who came to the US as children, and for those from strife-torn countries with temporary status.

On Thursday, the new president's second day in office, Biden would sign orders related to the COVID-19 outbreak aimed at reopening schools and businesses and expanding virus testing, Klain said. The following day, Friday, will see action on providing economic relief to those suffering the economic costs of the pandemic.

In the following week, Klain said, Biden would take additional actions relating to criminal justice reform, climate change and immigration — including a directive to speed the reuniting of families separated at the US-Mexico border under Trump’s policies.

More actions will be added, Klain said, once they clear legal review.

Incoming presidents traditionally move swiftly to sign an array of executive actions when they take office. Trump did the same, but he found many of his orders challenged and even rejected by courts.

Klain maintained that Biden should not suffer similar issues, saying “the legal theory behind them is well-founded and represents a restoration of an appropriate, constitutional role for the President.”

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PostPosted: 01/17/21 6:54 pm • # 2 
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Cue the GOP screaming about EO's being TYRANNY!! :lol


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PostPosted: 01/18/21 12:15 pm • # 3 
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It's going to take a lot more than ten days to undo Grabem's damage.


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PostPosted: 01/18/21 3:31 pm • # 4 
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jimwilliam wrote:
It's going to take a lot more than ten days to undo Grabem's damage.

Try decades.


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PostPosted: 01/18/21 10:50 pm • # 5 
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The strange thing is that, by undoing so many of these policies the orange oaf implemented, Biden is actually making the matter worse. I realize the undoing needs to be done but it just emphasizes to the world that America can't be trusted. Everything goes up in the air every four years.


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PostPosted: 01/19/21 1:19 am • # 6 
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I guess, unless the stuff being undone was the SOURCE of the mistrust.


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PostPosted: 01/19/21 6:29 am • # 7 
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Trump deciding to unilaterally withdraw from treaties with no input from anyone on his staff has already proven to the world that the US can't be trusted. It's word is only good until the next election.


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Biden’s ‘Reverse Honeymoon’
Although a new president traditionally has a honeymoon of 100 days or so, what Biden faces feels more like divorce proceedings.

by Paul Carroll

Although I’d like to think that the big news in the world this week is that my sister Anne turns 60 years old today, I have a feeling that there is considerably more focus on what happens tomorrow at 12:01pm EST, when Donald Trump leaves office and Joe Biden becomes president of the U.S.

The tradition is that the new president has a honeymoon of 100 days or so, when his people settle into their roles in the new administration and he starts to implement his agenda. But Biden’s plans to start out with a series of decisive actions suggest more of a divorce from the tone and policies of the Trump administration, and the dysfunction in Washington nearly ensures that Biden faces the obverse of the usual honeymoon.

Although I think the longer term is still clear — we will get the virus under control some time in 2021 and see a strong economic recovery, barring some craziness at the inauguration or in coming days — I suspect we will all be left guessing about where the economy and the country stand for at least that first stretch of three months-plus.

The biggest variable will, of course, be the pandemic. It’s clear that ....

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PostPosted: 01/20/21 4:21 pm • # 9 
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Biden is live on TV right now with a STACK of EO's.

First one is a mask mandate in Gov't offices.



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PostPosted: 01/22/21 2:23 am • # 10 
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he has no future in politics after this, no future in business, either.
I will leave it up to you to decide what he is trying to do.
but I think you can guess.


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PostPosted: 01/22/21 6:38 am • # 11 
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What is Biden trying to do? Easy - repair as much of the damage to America as possible. It's going to take decades to repair all of it but at least he can start.


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PostPosted: 01/22/21 7:26 am • # 12 
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I didn't even know about this. Must have been buried under all the other BS Trump did or I just wasn't paying attention.

Biden revokes Trump report promoting ‘patriotic education’
Updated Jan 21, 2021; Posted Jan 21, 2021

President Joe Biden revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda.

In an executive order signed on Wednesday in his first day in office, Biden disbanded Donald Trump’s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it released Monday. Trump established the group in September to rally support from white voters and as a response to The New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which highlights the lasting consequences of slavery in America.

In its report, which Trump hoped would be used in classrooms across the nation, the commission glorifies the country’s founders, plays down America’s role in slavery, condemns the rise of progressive politics and argues that the civil rights movement ran afoul of the “lofty ideals” espoused by the Founding Fathers.

The panel, which included no professional historians of the United States, complained of “false and fashionable ideologies” that depict the country’s story as one of “oppression and victimhood.” Instead, it called for renewed efforts to foster “a brave and honest love for our country.”

Historians widely panned the report, saying it offers a false and outdated version of American history that ignores decades of research.

“It’s an insult to the whole enterprise of education. Education is supposed to help young people learn to think critically,” said David Blight, a Civil War historian at Yale University. “That report is a piece of right-wing propaganda.”

Trump officials heralded the report as “a definitive chronicle of the American founding,” but scholars say it disregards the most basic rules of scholarship. It offers no citations, for example, or a list of its source materials.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/01/biden-r ... ation.html


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Last ditch effort by the Trump administration to complicate Biden's job

Justice Department Seeks to Limit Scope of Landmark LGBT Rights Decision
New directive, aimed at a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, comes in the waning moments of the Trump administration

By Sadie Gurman and Jess Bravin

The Justice Department has issued a memo that aims to limit the impact of a landmark Supreme Court ruling protecting gay and transgender people in the workplace, a last-ditch attempt from the Trump administration to hinder policy shifts expected as President-elect Joe Biden begins assembling new leadership at the agency.

The Supreme Court’s June ruling, Bostock v. Clayton County, said a bedrock federal civil-rights law prohibits employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The 6-3 opinion, by Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch, rejected administration arguments that federal civil rights law provides no protection to LGBT employees.

The new memo, dated Sunday and sent by the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, John Daukas, acknowledges the court’s ruling was sweeping but says the department shouldn’t extend it further to areas where longstanding gender-based policies on bathrooms and sports teams could come into play. The 23-page memo, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, also suggests that some employers could cite religious beliefs that would allow them to discriminate against LGBT employees.

“Unlike racial discrimination, the Supreme Court has never held that a religious employer’s decision not to hire homosexual or transgender persons ‘violates deeply and widely accepted views of elementary justice’ or that the government has a ‘compelling’ interest in the eradication of such conduct,” the memo says.

The Trump administration “lost the case, so they are looking for every possible way to narrow its implications rather than acknowledge that the days of discriminating against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity are behind us,” said David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued a companion case to Bostock.

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Biden issues executive order expanding LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections
The order will better protect millions of LGBTQ people from discrimination in many areas of their lives, advocates say.


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PostPosted: 01/24/21 3:32 pm • # 14 
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I didn't even know about this. Must have been buried under all the other BS Trump did or I just wasn't paying attention.

Biden revokes Trump report promoting ‘patriotic education’
Updated Jan 21, 2021; Posted Jan 21, 2021

President Joe Biden revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda.

In an executive order signed on Wednesday in his first day in office, Biden disbanded Donald Trump’s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it released Monday. Trump established the group in September to rally support from white voters and as a response to The New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which highlights the lasting consequences of slavery in America.

In its report, which Trump hoped would be used in classrooms across the nation, the commission glorifies the country’s founders, plays down America’s role in slavery, condemns the rise of progressive politics and argues that the civil rights movement ran afoul of the “lofty ideals” espoused by the Founding Fathers.

The panel, which included no professional historians of the United States, complained of “false and fashionable ideologies” that depict the country’s story as one of “oppression and victimhood.” Instead, it called for renewed efforts to foster “a brave and honest love for our country.”

Historians widely panned the report, saying it offers a false and outdated version of American history that ignores decades of research.

“It’s an insult to the whole enterprise of education. Education is supposed to help young people learn to think critically,” said David Blight, a Civil War historian at Yale University. “That report is a piece of right-wing propaganda.”

Trump officials heralded the report as “a definitive chronicle of the American founding,” but scholars say it disregards the most basic rules of scholarship. It offers no citations, for example, or a list of its source materials.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/01/biden-r ... ation.html


yeah. this shit was offensive, and a step backwards. good riddance.


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I didn't even know about this. Must have been buried under all the other BS Trump did or I just wasn't paying attention.

Biden revokes Trump report promoting ‘patriotic education’
Updated Jan 21, 2021; Posted Jan 21, 2021

President Joe Biden revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda.

In an executive order signed on Wednesday in his first day in office, Biden disbanded Donald Trump’s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it released Monday. Trump established the group in September to rally support from white voters and as a response to The New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which highlights the lasting consequences of slavery in America.

In its report, which Trump hoped would be used in classrooms across the nation, the commission glorifies the country’s founders, plays down America’s role in slavery, condemns the rise of progressive politics and argues that the civil rights movement ran afoul of the “lofty ideals” espoused by the Founding Fathers.

The panel, which included no professional historians of the United States, complained of “false and fashionable ideologies” that depict the country’s story as one of “oppression and victimhood.” Instead, it called for renewed efforts to foster “a brave and honest love for our country.”

Historians widely panned the report, saying it offers a false and outdated version of American history that ignores decades of research.

“It’s an insult to the whole enterprise of education. Education is supposed to help young people learn to think critically,” said David Blight, a Civil War historian at Yale University. “That report is a piece of right-wing propaganda.”

Trump officials heralded the report as “a definitive chronicle of the American founding,” but scholars say it disregards the most basic rules of scholarship. It offers no citations, for example, or a list of its source materials.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/01/biden-r ... ation.html


It was his response to the NYT 1613 Project


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