On the very first day, US President Joe Biden signed several executive orders, most notably among them was the order to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.
Washington DC| Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as America’s 46th president on Wednesday. US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office to Joe Biden as the nation’s 46th president. Also Kamala Harris, the first American woman of Indian origin, was sworn in as the Vice President. Biden did what the whole world expected when he sat in the chair of power. As soon as he got the president’s chair, Joe Biden took many important decisions and overturned the orders of former President Donald Trump.
On the very first day, US President Biden signed several executive orders, most notably the Paris Climate Agreement. The White House has reported that the US will return to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Biden announced to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. He made this promise to the people of the country during the election. Not only this, Joe Biden signed a decision to control an epidemic and intended to intensify the war against the coronavirus. According to this order, the US administration has made wearing masks and maintaining social distancing mandatory.
In addition, Joe Biden overturned Donald Trump’s decision dubbed as the ‘Muslim Travel Ban’ in the US. Under this, Trump had banned travel of some members of Muslim countries and African countries to America. Not only this, Biden also overturned Trump’s decision to build a wall on the Mexico border and withheld funding for it. Mexico has praised Joe Biden after the decision.
Not only this, US President Joe Biden has also signed an order banning the expansion of the Keystone XL pipeline soon after becoming President. Keystone is an oil pipeline that carries crude oil from the Canadian province of Alberta to the US states of Illinois, Oklahoma and Texas. Biden spoke out against the Keystone XL pipeline and said that we don’t need tar sands. A key promise of Biden’s presidential campaign was the commitment to cancel the Keystone XL project.
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