President Joe Biden of the United States, who took office on the 20th (local time), has been busy and busy taking care of state affairs since the first day in the United States. President Biden went straight to work at the White House oval office this afternoon. He said, “I didn’t have time to wait, so I started working right away.”
Biden “I don’t have time to work right away”
Processing of 17 administrative orders and declarations
Designated as’American Unity Day’ on January 20th
Restrictions on wearing masks
Biden handled 17 tasks including administrative orders and proclamations on this day alone. Nine out of 17, according to CNN, reverted to former President Donald Trump’s executive order. It also announced a decree to designate January 20 as the’American Day of Integration’. President Biden, who said that former President Donald Trump has issued the slogan’Make America Great Again’, puts’One America’ as a top priority.
Excluding the inaugural speech on the White House homepage that day, the first notice posted on the White House website was an order from White House Secretary General Ron Klein to “freeze the regulations and procedures in progress by each administration so that the new cabinet can review the policy.” The second announcement was a declaration in the name of President Biden that the United States will return to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It contains the content that “on behalf of the United States, we accept all the provisions of the climate agreement signed in Paris in 2015.”
Then, an open letter was sent to UN Secretary-General Antonius Guterchs, expressing his intention to return to the World Health Organization (WHO). This is a measure to reverse the Trump administration’s declaration of withdrawal that was enforced in July last year. In addition, Anthony Pouch has designated the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as the U.S. representative for WHO. On the same day, it also announced measures to make it mandatory for federal agencies to wear masks for the fight against Corona 19, withdraw the executive order banning entry from seven Muslim countries, including Iran and Iraq, and stop building border barriers. From the first day of his tenure, he started working on a’spiking a nail’ for the former Trump administration as a’speed battle’.
White House spokesman Jen Saki said in the first briefing that day, “I will put truth and transparency back in the briefing room.” I said. To this end, Saki said he would hold a daily White House press briefing for the time being.
Saki announced on the 22nd that President Biden was the first foreign leader to speak with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It seems that there is a need for urgent communication with Prime Minister Trudeau by announcing the suspension of’Keystone XL’, a large-scale oil pipeline project in Canada and the United States.
According to CNN, the Biden administration has set policy areas to focus on, one per day by the end of January. Corona 19 countermeasures on the 21st and economic stimulus on the 22nd. In February, we will address the issue of restoring US leadership around the world.
Meanwhile, two Democratic senators who won the final vote in Georgia took office in front of Vice President Harris on that day, and the Democratic Party became the Senate majority. Ui-suk is 50-50, but Vice President Harris is also the chairman of the Senate.
However, contrary to the aspirations of the Biden administration, it is still unclear how much Congress, especially the Senate, will cooperate.
Reporter Lee Yoo-jung [email protected]