Friday, January 22, 2021

They're flooding the zone!-----President Biden's 17 Executive Orders in Detail - The New York Times

President Biden's 17 Executive Orders in Detail - The New York Times
  • ...On Racial and L.G.B.T. Equality
...revoked Mr. Trump’s executive order limiting the ability of federal agencies, contractors and other institutions to hold diversity and inclusion training.
The president designated Susan E. Rice, who is the head of his Domestic Policy Council, as the leader of a “robust, interagency” effort requiring all federal agencies to make “rooting out systemic racism” central to their work. 
...It starts a data working group as well as the study of new methods to measure and assess federal equity and diversity efforts.
  • On the Economy
Mr. Biden is moving to extend a federal moratorium on evictions and has asked agencies, including the Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development Departments, to prolong a moratorium on foreclosures on federally guaranteed mortgages that was enacted in response to the coronavirus pandemic. 
The president is also moving to continue a pause on federal student loan interest and principal payments through the end of September...Read all!

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