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Biden executive action tracker
An index of all executive actions signed by
President Biden
February 4, 2021

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Roadmap

     ▪ Background
     ▪ Executive actions by sector
        ▪ Coronavirus
        ▪ Economy
        ▪ Education
        ▪ Equity
        ▪ Immigration
        ▪ Federal Regulation
        ▪ Census
        ▪ Climate
        ▪ Government Reform
        ▪ Public Health

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Biden has signed 28 executive orders in his first two
       weeks in office
       Executive orders signed by President, as of February 3, 2021
       ■ Total number of EOs signed in their Presidency*

            Biden                28

           Trump                                                                        220

          Obama                                                                                         276

             Bush                                                                                           291

          Clinton                                                                                                                364

*Only includes executive orders, graph does not include other forms of executive action (proclamations, memorandums, or discretionary executive actions)
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The executive order is a tool that has been used by
       almost every president since George Washington

    What is an executive order?

                           Executive order: An official document signed by the president declaring government policy
                           •      The purpose of an executive order is to give instructions to government agencies and departments about
                                  how to execute and enforce legislation
                           •      In recent years executive orders have been used more broadly to instruct agencies and departments how
                                  to operate in certain policy areas

                                                                       •   Courts may declare executive order unconstitutional if it oversteps the
                                                                           executive power granted by law
                                       Judiciary
                                                                       •   Judges may postpone enforcement of executive order until a final
     Checks by                                                             judgement has been made
       other
    government
     branches                                                          •   Congress may pass legislation revoking or modifying the powers it
                                                                           gave to a president through previous legislation
                                      Congress
                                                                       •   If vetoed by the president, Congress can override with 2/3 majority
                                                                           vote in both chambers

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Roadmap

     ▪ Background
     ▪ Executive actions by sector
        ▪ Coronavirus
        ▪ Economy
        ▪ Education
        ▪ Equity
        ▪ Immigration
        ▪ Federal Regulation
        ▪ Census
        ▪ Climate
        ▪ Government Reform
        ▪ Public Health

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Biden executive actions: Coronavirus (1/4)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded

    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Aims to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect federal workers
                           Protecting the Federal                       and those that the workforce interacts with
        1-20-21            workforce and requiring mask-              ▪ It states that “on-duty or on-site Federal employees, on-site Federal
                           wearing                                      contractors, and other individuals in Federal buildings and on
                                                                        Federal lands should all wear masks, maintain physical distance,
                                                                        and adhere to other public health measures”
                                                                      ▪ Creates the position of Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and
                                                                        Counselor to the President and takes steps to prepare the federal
                           Organizing and mobilizing the                government to respond to the ongoing pandemic and potential
                           United States government to                  future threats
        1-20-21                                                       ▪ Duties of the Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and
                           provide a unified and effective
                                                                        Counselor to the President position include organizing government
                           response to combat COVID-19                  efforts to reduce disparities in the response, care, and treatment of
                           and to provide United States                 the virus, coordinating the production, supply, and distribution of
                           leadership on global health                  vaccines and other supplies
                           and security                               ▪ Establishes a National Security Council Directorate on Global
                                                                        Health Security and Biodefense who will be responsible for
                                                                        “monitoring current and emerging biological threats”
                                                                      ▪ Requires masks to be worn in or on airports, commercial aircraft,
                           Promoting COVID-19 safety in                 trains, public maritime vessels, and intercity bus services
        1-21-21                                                       ▪ International travelers are required to have proof of a recent
                           domestic and international
                           travel                                       negative COVID-19 test before entering the United States and must
                                                                        comply with CDC guidelines concerning recommended periods of
                                                                        self-quarantine and isolation after entry into the country

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Biden executive actions: Coronavirus (2/4)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Directs the Director of Health and Human Services (HHS) to
                           Improving and expanding                      accelerate the development of COVID-19 therapies, improve the
        1-21-21            access to care and treatments                capacity of the nation’s healthcare systems, and improve access to
                           for COVID-19                                 quality and affordable healthcare

                                                                      ▪ Utilizes the full capacity of the Federal Government “to protect
                           Extend federal support to                    families, schools, and businesses, and to assist State, local, Tribal,
                           governors’ use of the National               and territorial governments to do the same”
        1-21-21            Guard to respond to COVID-19               ▪ Orders the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to
                                                                        reimburse the states for all costs associated with the use of the
                           and to increase reimbursement
                                                                        National Guard
                           and other assistance provided to
                           states

                                                                      ▪ Establishes a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force that will provide
                           Ensuring an equitable                        recommendations to the President for “mitigating health inequities
        1-21-21                                                         caused or exacerbated by the pandemic and for preventing such
                           pandemic response and
                           recovery                                     inequities in the future”

                           Ensuring a data-driven                     ▪ Orders the heads of all executive agencies to “facilitate the
                           response to COVID-19 and                     gathering, sharing, and publication of COVID-19 related data,” to
        1-21-21                                                         allow Federal, State, and local authorities to develop informed
                           future high-consequence
                           public health threats                        decision concerning the pandemic

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Biden executive actions: Coronavirus (3/4)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Directs the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and
                           Supporting the reopening and                 Human Services to provide states and schools with evidence-based
        1-21-21            continuing operation of school               guidance to assist in decisions on reopening, safely conducting in-
                           and early childhood education                person learning, and mitigation efforts such as cleaning, masking,
                                                                        etc.
                           providers

                                                                      ▪ Orders the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety
                           Protecting worker health and                 and Health to provide revised guidance to employers on workplace
        1-21-21                                                         safety during the pandemic, consider whether temporary COVID-19
                           safety
                                                                        standards are necessary, and to conduct an outreach campaign to
                                                                        inform workers and their representatives of their rights

                           Establishing the COVID-19                  ▪ Establishes the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board which is tasked
                           pandemic testing board and                   with creating a national testing and public health workforce strategy,
        1-21-21                                                         expanding the supply of tests, and increasing laboratory testing
                           ensuring a sustainable public
                           health workforce for COVID-19                capacities
                           and other biological threats
                                                                      ▪ Directs the federal government to take actions to secure necessary
                           Sustainable public health                    supplies for responding to the pandemic
        1-21-21                                                       ▪ Authorizes the Defense Production Act to fill any shortfalls in
                           supply chain
                                                                        personal protective equipment and the resources necessary to
                                                                        produce and distribute tests and vaccines

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Biden executive actions: Coronavirus (4/4)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Orders all executive agencies to “identify actions they can take
                           Economic relief related to the               within existing authorities to address the current economic crisis
        1-21-21                                                         resulting from the pandemic” and to improve access to programs
                           COVID-19 pandemic
                                                                        funded by the Federal Government

                           Suspension of entry as                     ▪ Restricts and suspends entry into the United States from
                           immigrants and non-immigrants                immigrants or nonimmigrants, and noncitizens from the Schengen
                           of certain additional persons who            Area, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Federative
        1-25-21            pose a risk of transmitting                  Republic of Brazil, and the Republic of South Africa during the 14-
                                                                        days preceding their attempted entry into the United States
                           coronavirus disease

         2-2-21            Maximizing assistance from the             ▪ Authorizes the use of FEMA to state, local, tribal, and territorial
                           Federal Emergency Management                 governments in response to COVID-19 to protect and support
                           Agency (FEMA)                                families, schools, and businesses

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Biden executive actions: Economy (1/1)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Encourages the organization of unions and ensures the right of
                           Protecting the federal                       collective bargaining within the Federal Government
        1-22-21            workforce                                  ▪ Requests that the Director of OPM provides a report to the
                                                                        President with recommendations to promote a $15/hour minimum
                                                                        wage for Federal employees

                                                                      ▪ Encourages the government to maximize the use of goods,
                           Ensuring the future is made in               products, and materials produced in, and services provided in, the
        1-25-21            all of America by all of                     United States
                           America’s workers                          ▪ Advises each agency’s senior leadership to handle the issuing of
                                                                        “Made in America” waivers to promote transparency and
                                                                        accountability
                                                                      ▪ Maintains American tariffs on aluminum imported from the United
                           Adjusting imports of aluminum                Arab Emirates
         2-1-21            into the United States                     ▪ Revokes a proclamation signed by former President Trump that
                                                                        instituted a new quota on UAE aluminum imports to the US

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Biden executive actions: Education (1/1)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ The Acting Secretary of Education will extend the pause on federal
                           Pausing Federal student loan                 student loan payments and the interest rate will remain at 0%, until
        1-20-21            payments                                     at least September 30

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Biden executive actions: Equity (1/2)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ This EO was a directive by the Biden administration that the
                                                                        Federal government take a comprehensive approach to advancing
                           Advancing racial equity and                  equity for all, as well as advancing civil rights, racial justice, and
        1-20-21            support for underserved                      equal opportunity
                                                                      ▪ It states agencies must “recognize and work to redress
                           communities through the
                                                                        inequities in their policies and programs that serve as barriers
                           federal government                           to equal opportunity”
                                                                      ▪ Each agency head is responsible for conducting an internal review
                                                                        of whether underserved communities face systemic barriers in
                                                                        accessing the benefits and opportunities associated with each
                                                                        department
                                                                      ▪ Reinforces the Biden administration policy to “fully enforce Title
                           Preventing and combating                     VII and other laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of
        1-20-21            discrimination on the basis of               gender identity or sexual orientation”
                           gender identity or sexual                  ▪ Each agency will develop plans, with consultation from the Attorney
                           orientation                                  General, to implement processes that combat overlapping forms of
                                                                        discrimination, and discrimination based on disability

                           Enabling all qualified                     ▪ Revokes the Trump administration policies that barred transgender
        1-25-21            Americans to serve their                     individuals from serving in the military
                           country in uniform

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Biden executive actions: Equity (2/2)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                           Reforming our incarceration                ▪ Aims to decrease incarceration levels by reducing the government’s
                           system to eliminate the use of               reliance on private profit-incentivized criminal detention facilities
        1-26-21                                                       ▪ “The Attorney General shall not renew Department of Justice
                           privately operated criminal
                           detention facilities                         contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities”

                           Condemning and combating                   ▪ Advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue best
                           racism, xenophobia, and                      practices for advancing cultural competency, language access, and
        1-26-21            intolerance against Asian                    sensitivity towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander
                           Americans and Pacific Islanders              communities with respect to the Federal Government’s pandemic
                                                                        response
                           in the United States
                           Tribal consultation and                    ▪ Reaffirms the policy outlined in the tribal consultation memorandum
        1-26-21            strengthening nation-to-nation               issued on November 5, 2009, that requires each agency to prepare
                           relationships                                a detailed plan of action to engage in regular, meaningful, and
                                                                        robust consultations with tribal officials

                           Redressing our nation’s and the            ▪ Reaffirms the Biden administration’s commitment to securing equal
                           federal government’s history of              housing opportunities for all, and to eliminate racial bias and other
        1-26-21                                                         forms of discrimination in all stages of home-buying and renting
                           discriminatory housing practices
                           and policies

         2-3-21            National black history month,              ▪ Proclaims February 2021 as National Black History Month
                           2021                                       ▪ Reaffirms the Biden administration’s desire to fulfill the promise of
                                                                        equal treatment for all Americans

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Biden executive actions: Immigration (1/3)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Undoes Trump administration restrictions on entry to the United
                           Ending discriminatory bans on                States from citizens of certain Muslim majority states and resumes
        1-20-21            entry to the United States                   the processing of visa applications from passport holders of those
                                                                        countries

                                                                      ▪ Addresses the desire of the Biden administration to reset the
                           Revision of civil immigration                policies and practices for enforcing civil immigration laws to
        1-20-21            enforcement policies and                     safeguard the dignity and well-being of all families and communities
                           priorities                                 ▪ Revokes Executive Order 13768, signed by President Trump, which
                                                                        made sanctuary jurisdictions ineligible for federal grants and
                                                                        directed agencies to use all lawful means to enforce the immigration
                                                                        laws of the United States
                           Termination of emergency with              ▪ Revokes the Trump administration’s declaration of a national
                           respect to the southern border of            emergency on the southern border of the United States
        1-20-21            the United States and redirection          ▪ All construction of the southern border wall is immediately halted
                           of funds diverted to border wall             and the heads of any “appropriate” executive agency will develop a
                           construction                                 plan to redirect border wall construction funds and repurpose
                                                                        contracts

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Biden executive actions: Immigration (2/3)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Since 1991, the United States has granted temporary protected
                           Reinstating deferred enforced                status (TPS) for Liberians who were forced to flee their country due
        1-20-21            departure for Liberians                      to armed conflict
                                                                      ▪ The conflict ended in 2003, however, each President had deferred
                                                                        the enforced departure of the Liberians
                                                                      ▪ Extends the deferral of deportations and work authorizations
                                                                        through June 30, 2022
                                                                      ▪ Aims to protect the 2012 Obama administration memorandum that
                           Preserving and fortifying                    “deferred the removal of certain undocumented immigrants who
        1-20-21            Deferred Action for Childhood                were brought to the United States as children, have obeyed the law,
                           Arrivals (DACA)                              and stayed in school or enlisted in the military”
                                                                      ▪ It states, “The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with
                                                                        the Attorney General, shall take all actions he deems appropriate,
                                                                        consistent with applicable law, to preserve and fortify DACA

                           Restoring faith in our legal               ▪ Creates a Task Force on New Americans, under the Domestic
                           immigration systems and                      Policy Council, which will coordinate efforts to support immigrants
         2-2-21                                                         and refugees, and catalyze state and local integration efforts
                           strengthening integration and
                           inclusion efforts for new                  ▪ Orders the secretary of state, attorney general, and the secretary of
                                                                        homeland security to conduct a review of current practices to
                           Americans
                                                                        identify any that impede access to immigration benefits or to the
                                                                        legal immigration system

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Biden executive actions: Immigration (3/3)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                           Creating a comprehensive                   ▪ Aims for the administration to work with international organizations
                           regional framework to address                and governments in North and Central America to build and
         2-2-21            the causes of migration, to                  strengthen their asylum systems and resettlement capacities, as
                           manage migration throughout                  well as enhance lawful pathways for migration to the United States
                                                                      ▪ Requires agencies to review their mechanisms for identifying
                           North and Central America,
                                                                        individuals from the Northern Triangle who are eligible for refugee
                           and to provide safe and                      resettlement
                           orderly processing of asylum               ▪ Orders the secretary of homeland security and the director of the
                           seekers at the United States                 centers for disease control and prevention to begin the reception
                           border                                       and processing of asylum seekers
                                                                      ▪ Reaffirms the Biden administration’s desire to protect family unity by
                                                                        ensuring that a child is only separated from his parents when the
                           The establishment of                         child’s safety is in question or required by law
         2-2-21            interagency task force on the              ▪ Establishes an interagency task force on the reunification of
                                                                        families; the task force will identify children who are separated from
                           reunification of families
                                                                        their families and facilitate family reunification
                                                                      ▪ Revokes an executive order signed by former President Trump
                                                                        justifying his administration’s position of separating families

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Biden executive actions: Federal Regulation (1/1)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Revokes six directives signed by President Trump that “threaten to
                           Revocation of certain                        frustrate the Federal Government’s ability to confront these
        1-20-21            executive orders concerning                  problems, and empowers agencies to use appropriate regulatory
                           federal regulation                           tools to achieve these goals”

                                                                      ▪ Reaffirms the role of the Office of Information and Regulatory
                                                                        Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review
        1-20-21            Modernizing regulatory review                executive branch regulatory actions
                                                                      ▪ Directs the Office of Management and Budget to produce a set of
                                                                        recommendations to modernize the federal regulatory review
                                                                        process
                                                                      ▪ Outlines the federal regulatory process the Biden administration will
                           Regulatory freeze pending                    use at the outset of their term
        1-20-21                                                       ▪ Freezes sending any departmental rules to the Office of the Federal
                           review
                                                                        Register until Biden’s nominations are confirmed and have the
                                                                        opportunity to review and approve the rule

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Biden executive actions: Census (1/1)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ The Biden administration is instructing the Department of
                           Ensuring a lawful and accurate               Commerce to include the “total number of persons residing in
        1-20-21            enumeration and                              the several States, without regard for immigration status”
                           apportionment pursuant to the              ▪ Effectively revokes Executive Order 13880 signed by President
                                                                        Trump that asked all executive departments and agencies to
                           decennial census
                                                                        provide as much assistance to the Dept. of Commerce as possible
                                                                        in determining the number of citizens and non-citizens in the United
                                                                        States

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Biden executive actions: Climate (1/2)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Directs all executive departments and agencies to “immediately
                                                                        review and…take action to address the promulgation of Federal
                           Protecting public health and                 regulations and other actions during the last 4 years that conflict
        1-20-21            the environment and restoring                with these important objectives, and to immediately commence
                                                                        work to confront the climate crisis”
                           science to tackle the climate
                                                                      ▪ Under the EO a temporary moratorium has been established on all
                           crisis                                       land leasing transactions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for
                                                                        drilling
                                                                      ▪ Restores Obama administration policy on the withdrawal of certain
                                                                        offshore areas in the Arctic and the Bering Sea from oil and gas
                                                                        drilling
                                                                      ▪ Revokes the 2019 permit for the Keystone XL pipeline
                                                                      ▪ Establishes an “Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of
                                                                        Greenhouse Gases”
                                                                      ▪ President Biden accepts the Paris Agreement on behalf of the
        1-20-21            Paris Climate Agreement                      United States reentering the climate deal that President Trump had
                                                                        pulled America out of

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Biden executive actions: Climate (2/2)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Elevates climate considerations to an essential element of United
                                                                        States foreign policy and national security decisions
                                                                      ▪ Creates the position of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate to
                           Tackling the climate crisis at               elevate issues of climate change
        1-27-21                                                       ▪ Establishes a National Climate Task Force to organize and deploy a
                           home and abroad
                                                                        government-wide approach to tackling the climate crisis
                                                                      ▪ Halts the issuing of new oil and gas leases on public land or in
                                                                        offshore waters
                                                                      ▪ Aims to create a carbon pollution-free sector by 2035, and achieve
                                                                        emission-free government vehicle fleets
                                                                      •   Establishes the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and
                           President’s council of advisors                Technology
        1-27-21                                                       •   The council will advise the President on various policy subjects,
                           on science and technology
                                                                          including science, technology, and innovation

                                                                      •   Tasks the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
                           Restoring trust in government                  with ensuring the highest level of integrity in all aspects of the
        1-27-21            through scientific integrity and               executive branch relating to scientific and technological processes
                           evidence-based policymaking

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Biden executive actions: Government Reform (1/1)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Each Biden administration executive agency appointee shall sign an
                                                                        ethics pledge upon becoming an appointee
                           Ethics commitments by                      ▪ The pledge asks that each appointee commit to making decisions
        1-20-21            executive branch personnel                   exclusively in the public interest, commit to conduct that upholds the
                                                                        independence and authority of the Dept. of Justice, and commit to
                                                                        ethical choices in their post-Government employment

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Biden executive actions: Public Health (1/2)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      ▪ Biden informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations that the
                           World Health Organization                    United States intends to remain a member of the World Health
        1-21-21            membership                                   Organization
                                                                      ▪ President Trump’s administration had intended to withdraw the
                                                                        United States from the group on July 6, 2021

                                                                      ▪ Advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reopen
                           Strengthening Medicaid and                   enrollment for a three month period to allow for Americans to sign
        1-28-21            the Affordable Care Act                      up for healthcare during the pandemic
                                                                      ▪ Directs all agency leadership to conduct reviews of department
                                                                        policies to determine if any exist that undermine or restrict access to
                                                                        the healthcare provided in the Affordable Care Act
                                                                      ▪ Revokes the 1984 “Mexico City Policy” implemented by President
                                                                        Reagan
                           Protecting women’s health at               • It prevents foreign non-governmental organizations that
        1-28-21            home and abroad                              receive any U.S. aid from “providing counseling or referrals for
                                                                        abortion or advocating for access to abortion services in their
                                                                        country”
                                                                      • Since 1984, every Democratic president has rescinded the
                                                                        measure, and every Republican has brought it back
                                                                      •   Proclaims February 2021 as American Heart Month
         2-3-21            American heart month, 2021                 •   Reaffirms the Biden administration’s commitment to support
                                                                          Americans in achieving heart health

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Biden executive actions: Public Health (2/2)

    Executive orders are bolded, all other forms of Executive Actions (memorandums, proclamations, discretionary executive actions) remain non-bolded
    DATE                   EXECUTIVE ACTION                           DETAILS
                                                                      •   Proclaims February 2021 as National Teen Dating Violence
         2-3-21            National teen dating violence                  Awareness and Protection Month
                           awareness and prevention                   •   Reaffirms the Biden administration’s commitment to raising national
                           month, 2021                                    awareness about teen dating violence and promoting safe and
                                                                          healthy relationships

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