Joe Biden is now a common name known internationally after the heated White House presidential election back in November 2020, when he won in a head-to-head race against Donald Trump, the 45th President of the US. But after Biden was inaugurated, what has he actually been doing?
On his first day in office, Biden signed over 15 executive orders removing many orders that Trump had put into place in his time as president. His move to do this was met with both roaring approval and scathing criticism from both sides, some wondering if it was too hasty, and some seeing that progress was being made for the US.
A notable order from that list would have been the funding removal for Trump’s border wall, which had been planned to separate Mexico and the USA due to Trump’s worry that people would cross the border illegally and come into the USA as undocumented immigrants. The funding was halted as Biden deemed it no longer necessary.
Another executive order made was re-entering the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement was a climate change arrangement created on the 12th of December, 2015, and 196 parties agreed to it and adopted the goal of lowering the global temperature to preferably 1.5 degrees celsius, but at least under 2 degrees celsius. Trump backed out of this agreement on November 4, 2020, one day after the election. However, he had previously announced on June 1, 2017 that he would be backing out of this agreement because it would put the US economy at a “permanent disadvantage”.
One law made by Trump was highly disapproved of by the LGBTQ+ community, but then was reversed by Biden in his large stack of executive order when he allowed transgender people to enter the military. This was countered by a flurry of transphobic orders being released in different states, however, such as Montana politicians proposing a bill that would not allow medical workers to provide trans people care according to the gender they identify as, or politicians in New Hampshire putting into a bill that parents giving their child any care that affirms their identity as ‘child abuse’.
Unfortunately, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows in the White House. Biden has stalled a law put forward by Trump to lower insulin prices, and has promised $2000 stimulus checks to American citizens yet this has not been fulfilled.
Despite the ups and downs of Biden’s time in office so far, there’s still more than 3 years to go and promises made indicate a bright future for America - but only if Biden gives the citizens what he promised in his campaign.
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