01/25/2025
Thought I'd put this out here before America haters start talking about Trump's executive orders and reversals of the Biden policies. Which is EXACTLY what Biden. With nearly twice as many executive orders than the previous 3 presidents. The majority of which were to rescind Trump policy.
President Biden signed a flurry of executive actions in his first 100 days in office, primarily aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic and dismantling many of former President Donald Trump’s policies.
The executive actions include halting funding for the construction of Trump’s border wall, reversing Trump’s travel ban targeting largely Muslim countries, imposing a mask mandate on federal property, ramping up vaccination supplies, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, ending federal use of private prisons and reversing Trump’s ban on transgender Americans joining the military.
In his first 100 days in office, Biden signed more than 60 executive actions, 24 of which are direct reversals of Trump’s policies.
Biden has defended the number as necessary to undo what he considers “bad policy” inherited from Trump, especially on immigration
To date, 10 of his 12 actions on immigration are reversals of Trump’s policies.
And I want to make it clear — there’s a lot of talk, with good reason, about the number of executive orders that I have signed — I’m not making new law; I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said as he signed a series of actions on immigration from the Oval Office on February 2. “What I’m doing is taking on the issues that — 99% of them — that the president, the last president of the United States, issued executive orders I felt were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country, particularly in the area of immigration.”
See Biden’s first 100 days of executive actions below.
Biden takes early lead on executive actions
So far, Biden has signed more executive orders and memorandums than any of the last three presidents, when comparing how many each had published in the Federal Register through April 30 of their first year in office. These do not include corrections or clerical memos, which include delegations, designations and certifications.
04/16/2021Topic: immigrationType: MemoReversal: yes
Reverses the Trump policy banning refugees from key regions and enables flights from those regions to begin within days. Declares that the 15,000 annual refugee cap set by Trump will be raised to a number to be determined by May 15.
04/01/2021Topic: otherType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Revokes a Trump executive order that authorized sanctions on International Criminal Court officials
02/24/2021Topic: economyType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Revokes a series of seven Trump administration actions that had eased regulatory requirements, as well as actions that called for withholding funding from cities for allowing protests in support of Black Lives Matter, that imposed stricter work requirements to be eligible for federal welfare and that promoted “beautiful federal civic architecture”
02/24/2021Topic: immigrationType: ProclamationReversal: yes
Revokes a Trump-era proclamation that limited legal immigration during the Covid-19 pandemic
02/17/2021Topic: laborType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Revokes a Trump administration order creating an industry-led apprenticeship program
02/04/2021Topic: immigrationType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Expands the United States Refugee Admissions Program and rescinds Trump policies that limited refugee admissions and required additional vetting
02/04/2021Topic: immigrationType: MemoReversal: yes
Directs relevant agencies to ensure LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers have equal access to protections, requires the Department of State to lead a standing group to respond quickly to international LGBTQI+ human rights abuses and to report annually to Congress on global LGBTQI+ abuses, directs agencies to review Trump administration policies and rescind those that are inconsistent with this memo within 100 days
02/02/2021Topic: immigrationType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Revokes Trump’s order justifying separating families at the border and creates a task force that recommends steps to Biden to reunite separated families
02/02/2021Topic: immigrationType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Aims to address economic and political causes of migration, works with organizations to provide protection to asylum seekers and ensures Central American asylum seekers have legal access to the United States. Rescinds Trump administration policies and guidelines and also initiates a review of policies “that have effectively closed the U.S. border to asylum seekers”
02/02/2021Topic: immigrationType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Rescinds Trump’s memo requiring immigrants to repay the government if they receive public benefits. Elevates the role of the executive branch in promoting immigrant integration and inclusion, including reestablishing a Task Force on New Americans. Requires agencies to review immigration regulations and policies
02/01/2021Topic: economyType: ProclamationReversal: yes
Reinstates tariffs applied under the Trump administration to aluminum imports from the United Arab Emirates, citing the need for domestic production of aluminum for national security and reviving industry
01/28/2021Topic: health careType: MemoReversal: yes
Rescinds the “Mexico City Policy,” a ban on US government funding for foreign nonprofits that perform or promote abortions
01/25/2021Topic: equityType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Reverses the Trump administration’s ban on transgender Americans joining the military
01/22/2021Topic: economyType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Restores collective bargaining power and worker protections for federal workers, and lays the foundation for $15 minimum wage
01/20/2021Topic: censusType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Requires non-citizens to be included in the Census and apportionment of congressional representatives
01/20/2021Topic: immigrationType: ProclamationReversal: yes
Reverses the Trump administration’s restrictions on US entry for passport holders from seven Muslim-majority countries
01/20/2021Topic: immigrationType: Executive OrderReversal: yes
Undoes Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement within the United States
01/20/2021Topic: immigrationType: ProclamationReversal: yes
Halts construction of the border wall by terminating the national emergency declaration used to fund it
