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Joe biden executive orders immigration9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() michael barbaroĪnd my sense is that the last president, Donald Trump, made very liberal use of executive orders in a way that was quite unpopular with Democrats. But executive orders are actions that the president can direct the government to take on his authority alone. So there are limits on what a president can do in terms of spending money. And there’s a lot that presidents have to do with others in our form of government. President? archived recording (president biden)Īnd just as a civics reminder here, executive orders are actions that require nothing but a presidential signature. Sitting next to him is a huge stack of folders with the seal of the presidency on it, each one containing a different executive order, executive action, some kind of memo that he’s going to sign. And I’m going to start today on the compounding crisis of Covid, Covid-19, along with the economic crisis following that. We’re going to be signing a number of executive orders over the next several days of a week. So the visuals already look a little bit different than we’ve come to be used to for the last four years. They’ve put up photos of Joe Biden’s family, bust of Cesar Chavez behind him. They’ve hung different curtains, got a different carpet. They’ve already redecorated a little bit. ![]() Now, he’s sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, looks very different already than President Trump. archived recording (president biden)Īnd I thought with the state of the nation today, there’s no time to waste - get to work immediately. So Joe Biden has been inaugurated under high security, under threat of a pandemic. Mike, I wonder if you can set the scene for us - a man, a plan, a pen. Well, this is going to be the first of many engagements we’re going to have in here. White House reporter Mike Shear on what’s in the orders and the upside and downside of governing by executive action. Today: In his first hours as president, Joe Biden signed a flurry of executive orders, reversing the legacy of President Trump. T06:00:08-05:00 michael barbaroįrom The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. On his first day, President Biden reversed some of his predecessor’s most divisive policies. Transcript Biden’s Executive Orders Hosted by Michael Barbaro produced by Sydney Harper and Eric Krupke edited by Lisa Chow and engineered by Chris Wood.
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