Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies.

[elleng]

Source: WaPo

President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities.

He will rejoin the Paris climate accords, according to those close to his campaign and commitments he has made in recent months, and he will reverse President Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization. He will repeal the ban on immigration from many Muslim-majority countries, and he will reinstate the program allowing “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States illegally as children, to remain in the country, according to people familiar with his plans.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-first-executive-orders-measures/2020/11/07/9fb9c1d0-210b-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. God, I hope so.

That would be wonderful.

[appalachiablue]

2. TG. Can an election be annulled? Or voided?

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

15. Don't think so unless you can prove they didn't have qualifications to run... citizenship....

... age... residency, etc.

[appalachiablue]

16. What a shame the record can't be expunged; time for clean up

[thecrow]

21. Mental stability?

Just asking for a friend....

[Raven123]

3. Will probably get writer's cramp signing them all

[SledDriver]

12. In pen too. Not with a Sharpie.

[MyOwnPeace]

46. And wondering............

if he'll hold them up for everybody to see what a "big boy" he is because he used a "Sharpie" to sign his name........ (Oh, wait - that was the guy we just fired!)

[yaesu]

4. Also putting together a major Covid task force starting Monday

Link to tweet

[Autumn]

5. Wonderful. He took Mitch at his word when he said he would stop anything Biden tried to do

I don't think Mitch can stop those so he can bitch himself to death about Biden and his EOs What a wonderful world.

[Cha]

6. Great Bien can do as many as he

wants.

I remember the gop screaming when Pres Obama did even one.. well, that ship sailed.

[sandensea]

23. A (happy) Freudian slip there, Cha

You know, 'Great Bien' would mean 'great good' in Spanglish.

And I think you're right!

[Cha]

26. lol.. I just saw that.. I forgot the "d"!

Si. . I know some Expanol!

sandensea

[sandensea]

33. A bailar!

[Lock him up.]

24. Yep. Let's tell Joe to keep the Reality-TV style the mobster started.

But sign them with a pen. Not a lame sharpie.

[Cha]

28. Right.. Biden doesn't do Sharpies..

Is that what all that sharpie talk was about? trump signed the EOs with them? Good god!

[Lock him up.]

30. He also committed the crime of altering the course of hurricane Dorian

A Federal felony (yep, another one).

LOCK.HIM.UP

[Cha]

32. Wow.. not sure I understand how

he could do that.. but there's so many crimes of his to be investigated when he isn't in charge Anymore.

[Lock him up.]

34. He just used a sharpie to draw the wrongful path on the map (to the left of the official path) cause

... earlier, he warned his voters in the panhandle hurricane Dorian was going to hit them hard (when it didn't at all and the NOAA never issued any forecast in that direction).

he's such a criminal moRan.

[Cha]

35. omg.. TY for that.. I didn't pay attention

to everything he did obviously.

He had to stick his damn ASSFACE into EVERYTHING.. and everything he touches DIES.. I do know that.

[Lock him up.]

40. Yep. People complained he made 'em spend money to protect their properties and overstock for nothing

It would be useful for a DUer to post the long list of Federal felonies he committed and ordered his underlings to commit.

LOCK.HIM.UP

[Cha]

41. +100000

[sheshe2]

7. He will do more for this country to set it back on course...

He will do more for this country to set it back on course in a few hours of taking his oath than it took for trump to destroy it.

We have a long row to hoe. All of this will be a great beginning.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Very timely, excellent posturing to neuter Trump's remaining time in office

and sap him of power. Anything he does, any mischief, is subject to imminent reversal.

[Earthshine2]

9. It's important to show the world on day 1 that it's safe to play with us again.

Trump and his policies need to be completely repudiated.

[Lock him up.]

36. For that it's important to prosecute every crime (local, national & international) the fascist admin

committed, to show the world law and order applies to everyone (nobody is above the law).

Otherwise, the cRiminals could come back to power in 4, 8, 12, 16 years. They've lost faith in us for 4 years.

[Earthshine2]

37. Frankly, I think Biden will do as Obama did. Paraphrase: "We're going to look forward, not back."

Trump will make a lot of pardons in the next few weeks, but these will only affect federal crimes.

I hope some state-level attorneys general will pick up the many trails.

I do not expect Biden's DOJ to do very much. (I hope I am wrong, of course.)

[Lock him up.]

42. I think they'll settle for the mass-muRderer-in-chief to rot in a State-prison cell for 450 years?

Money laundering, tax frauds and bank frauds, slowing the mail, State RICO prosecutions maybe.

LOCK.HIM.UP

[Ligyron]

48. If he doesn't have his DOJ prosecute those criminals it will be a huge mistake.

His supporters and their leaders will slap away any goodwill extended their way and be back to do it again next time. Besides, there are thousands of people who died as a direct result of their deliberate cruelty, who are crying out for Justice.

Ignoring criminal activity is not the way to go.

[marble falls]

10. There's a lot of damage he's done that can be reversed PDQ.

[Rizen]

11. Yes! Time to clean house!

[aggiesal]

29. The corrupt & damaged rot buried within each department ...

is going to be harder to remove.

[Stuart G]

13. The Trump crowd doesn't know what is coming..Biden is not new & he knows what and how to do it.

Also, Biden has 4 very bright people to help & they have been there..Obama, & 2 Clintons, & Carter...

Yes, I think they will help Biden in every way possible...
and...lastly...Biden knows when & how to seek that help from those 4. & not embarrassed asking for
help from people who have been there...

[bedazzled]

63. A lot more gets done when you're not being micromanaged by an idiot

These people understand the importance of Delegation

[KG]

14. bet repubs go back to hating exec orders post haste

[keithbvadu2]

20. Yes! Repubs whined that Obama was legislating by EO but they got over that quickly when Donald got i

Yes! Repubs whined that Obama was legislating by EO but they got over that quickly when Donald got into the swing of it.

[Steelrolled]

62. Yeah the complaints about executive orders switch back and forth

like a pendulum. I reckon in about 8 years it will start swinging back.

[James48]

17. Joe: Don't forget us Federal Employees

Trump attacked us with Executive Orders destroying federal worker Unions, and is trying to politicize the federal work force. Please immediately, on day one, revoke Trumps EO’s on harming unions and collective bargaining, and make Federal Workers great again.

Oh, and please ensure your AG prosecutes those intentional Hatch Act violators over the last four years. You HAVE to, or else we will have a repeat in the future.

[Lock him up.]

27. That's worth writing a formal letter to him. Very well written.

He will be happy to read it and act on it.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. He'll probably need to do a binder full of E.O.s in order to reverse

the abject horror of the E.O.s that were put in place.

[Ligyron]

49. Bet they are working on that as we speak.

Well, maybe we'll give them today, Sunday, off if they want but they can start tomorrow

[BumRushDaShow]

50. I read an article last night that said that he was already on it

In fact - and let's just say this is what he has "staff" for - they probably already sifted through every E.O. over the past 3+ years and started sorting them by category and impact. And I believe as part of the campaign in general, candidates have teams of advisors who are assigned to various policy subjects and are SMEs (subject matter experts). Thus they can come up with the language, if any, to replace current E.O.s and/or recommendations for rescinding current E.O.s, and/or draft new E.O.s (with a legal review because certainly the courts can invalidate E.O.s, and that was successfully done against 45 many many times).

[Ligyron]

53. Yes, it would make sense that the Dems would be making contingency plans.

I mean, beside staffing up for whatever legal battle the orange dumbass and his flying monkeys dreamed up.

They knew Joe and Kamala would most likely win, and as you said, would need expertise in those areas. In fact, I'm sure more than a few not yet tapped like the SME types you mention were examining the damage and what could be done about it, and have been doing so for the past couple years as a mental exercise even, if not part of their employment.

Hopefully they'll hit the ground running and not give those bastards any breaks this time.

[BumRushDaShow]

54. Yeah. There are a few liberal "think tanks" out there

that specialize in this sort of thing and write policy papers and whatnot.

I anticipate that doing a transition in this case (although thankfully only needing to deal with one term's worth of changes), will result in them unearthing all kinds of draconian and illegal crap within the Executive Branch itself, that might go beyond any relevant E.O.s I.e., all the agency guidance documents.

Since "technically" the Vice President is the "functiona/workingl" manager of all of the various Departments/agencies (the heads of which are direct reports), Kamala and her team will be very busy getting all the actings in place and doing a top to bottom review of all the rot that was not only introduced into these agencies, but was allowed to set in and fester for all these years. The entire lot of them need to hand in their resignations and take ALL of their own appointees (who didn't need Senate confirmation as it is permitted for them to be appointed by a Senate-confirmed appointee) with them.

[Ligyron]

55. In that case I'll be curious to see which ones flee the country to Venezuela or the like, lol.

I also hope Biden and team won't hesitate to appoint all the acting whatevers needed if Mc Turtle and Co attempt to block the staffing heads of agencies. etc. It's time to play hardball with these traitors, they've been given enough chances over the years to act and conduct the biz of government like civilized adults.

Gotta work our asses off and hope like hell we can win those two Senate seats up for grabs too as we all know how much quicker and more successful at saving democracy it would were those two and the Senate in our corner.

[BumRushDaShow]

59. LOL

(am thinking it was Paraguay, which DU used to have posts about after finding out Shrub allegedly bought land there due to that country having no extradition treaty with the U.S. )

But it's always par for the course to get a handle on installing actings in all of the Departments and agencies, and I think in this case, it might be difficult because so many highly qualified people were so disgusted, they left.

And I know right now, GA is fired up, but the hope is that they will actually STILL be fired up when January rolls around because special elections are notoriously extremely low turnout events - even less than primaries - and they literally will need as many people who turned out for this general election, to turn out for those special elections, in order to have some chance to actually be competitive, let alone succeed.

[Ligyron]

60. I know, plus Turdeew, that Gov and their minions will throw everything they have at this election.

Both they and the Repug leadership nationwide know every bit as well as we do how important this runoff is to the future of this nation.

Maybe we can somehow turn out enough voters as long as we can keep them engaged in some fashion. Maybe Trump or the other two idiots will do something so outrageous, so harmful and personal to the people of Georgia, and do so at just at the right time, that they can't ignore or forget about the need to vote and will do so no matter how many hurdles they place in their path. One thing we know is that in Georgia, even at 41% to their 41%, we have enough to overcome them at if a few independants jump in on our side

There are a few countries in S. and Central America that have no extradition treaty with us, like I know Bolivia and Equator do not as well as Nicaragua.

[BumRushDaShow]

61. The federal government is currently operating on a Continuing Resolution until Dec. 11

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/29/senate-continuing-resolution-avoids-shutdown-423217

and THAT might end up with some drama depending on how much extortion is involved regarding anything to do with additional CARES Act funding, and whether 45 will go scorched earth with a shutdown, right before Christmas, in the middle of what will be an even worsening pandemic, and would let the place burn down just as Biden is coming in.

And as a note related to the C.R. and GA - CDC has its HQ in Atlanta.

Of course these C.R. lapses always come with some kind of stipulation that forces employees to work, potentially without retroactive pay, if the positions are needed to protect life and for security. However if there are government contracts involved (and there are many) and those contracts weren't funded with what they call "no-year" funds (e.g., grants or user fees) or aren't multi-year, with funding able to cross fiscal years, then Contracting Officers in those agencies have to issue STOP WORK notices to those contracors and none can be paid (and none will get retroactive pay either). And for all we know, there might be PPE contracts or even smaller but critical goods and services procurements related to the COVID Vaccine development projects (ancillary to the actual Vaccine work, which is probably fully funded across fiscal years) or related to the purchases of test kits that are supposedly being purchased for distribution to the states, that might be impacted.

[ffr]

19. And restore our IC, All the people who know what the fuck they're doing

You know, experts.

[cstanleytech]

22. I wonder if I didn't can take a page out of Trump's book and take money

from the defense budget and reallocated to something else like combating the covid-19 virus and its impact on the economy?
If the Republicans try to complain or take him to court he could and then point out their hypocrisy when they allowed Trump to do as he wanted.

[Blue Owl]

25. Go fuck yourself Trump you miserable asshole

[Aussie105]

31. Sounds like Joe and Kamala are going to hit the ground running.

That's a good thing.

Lots to clean up and straighten out after Trump.

I bet the executive orders are being penned right now.

Expect a huge flurry once 20th of Jan 2021 comes around.
Executive orders need signing. WH staff needs appointing, government officials need appointing, others need to be moved sideways, yep, busy busy time ahead!

[Sugarcoated]

38. I hope reinstating

protections for our beautiful national parks, animals and the environment will be in that stack of EO's.

[pazzyanne]

51. +1,000,000!

That is at the top of my wish list as well. Selling off and leasing away America's public lands has had me seeing red for 4 years. That land was put in trust so that our future generations would share and appreciate our country's natural beauty, and to provide habitat for our wildlife. Much damage has been done in that area, and with all of the top priority needs, I'm afraid it will get lost in the blizzard of repair work that needs to be done.

[burrowowl]

39. Here's hoping!

[DFW]

43. The amount of damage control needed is staggering

I am extremely reassured that Biden realizes that snd does not plan to wait before getting to work on it

[pfitz59]

44. Biden will actually attend daily briefings

and listen to the experts.

[Maxheader]

45. Most excellent...!

Go Joe go...Make sure all the federal lands cheetox was turning over

to the oil corps..don't...l am a happy country burb..!!...

[George II]

47. I was hoping we'd hear about this. I'm sure he's had staffers working on drafts....

....and setting priorities for the first few days of his administration.

He'll probably wind up with writer's cramp before the first inaugural ball (if there is one) on January20.

[elleng]

56. Apparently/allegedly, a group's been working for MONTHS.

No surprise to me AT ALL, our 'shadow government' at work, as it should be, now in the light.

[DENVERPOPS]

52. You know what?

In my opinion it would probably be better to keep the rhetoric down until Biden is in office.
Biden doesn't need to be broadcasting to them what he is going to do, and giving them a heads up so they can prepare for it.....

Something like this serves no real purpose at this particular stage.

It only serves to make his 70 Million crazier than they already are.........And we don't need more craziness in the next two plus months that they are still in charge...........

[aggiesal]

57. I completely agree. Never tell the opposition what you're going to do ...

It allows them to prepare a counter-strategy.

Learned that lesson early in my professional career.

[dawn5651]

58. cue the kicking and screaming of the gop saying biden isn't including them

[Sparky 1]

64. Yes! I hope he includes reversing all of Trumps disastrous plans for the animals.

That includes protecting endangered species, stopping the Alaskan wilderness oil drilling, and getting rid of Trump's wickedly cruel hunting policies. Nobody seems to be remembering the animals lately that I have heard.