Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
An executive order is a means of issuing federal directives in the United States, used by the President of the United States, that manages operations of the federal government. The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources. Article Two of the United States Constitution gives the president broad executive and enforcement authority to use his or her discretion to determine how to enforce the law or to otherwise manage the resources and staff of the executive branch. The ability to make such orders is also based on expressed or implied Acts of Congress that delegate to the president some degree of discretionary power.
The United States federal civil service is the civilian workforce of the United States federal government's departments and agencies. The federal civil service was established in 1871. U.S. state and local government entities often have comparable civil service systems that are modeled on the national system, in varying degrees.
The presidency of Joe Biden began at noon EST on January 20, 2021, when Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. A Democrat from Delaware, he took office following the 2020 presidential election, in which he defeated incumbent Donald Trump. He is accompanied in office by Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman, first African American, and first Asian American to hold that office.
Joe Biden became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for president in April 2020, and formally accepted the nomination the following August. Biden's transition team, led by Ted Kaufman, had already been announced on June 20. Further co-chairs joined the team alongside Kaufman in September. The results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 7, 2021, and the transition ended when Biden was inaugurated at noon EST on January 20, 2021.
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 2021.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Joe Biden during the first quarter of 2021, beginning from his inauguration as president of the United States on January 20, 2021 to March 31, 2021. To navigate between quarters, see Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency. For the Q2 timeline see Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency.
The economic policy of the Joe Biden administration, or "Bidenomics" is characterized by goals to increase the national minimum wage and expand worker training, narrow income inequality, invest in clean energy and infrastructure, expand access to affordable healthcare, and forgive student loan debt. The March 2021 enactment of the American Rescue Plan to provide relief from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was the first major element of the policy.
The environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration includes a series of laws, regulations and programs introduced by Joe Biden since he took office in January 2021. Many of the actions taken by Joe Biden administration have been aimed at halting the policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and have been characterized as a return to the Obama administration's climate change policy of reducing of CO2 emissions. Some of those actions are on a national level, such as revising and strengthening the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), while others are of global significance, such as rejoining the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. The main climate target of the Biden administration is to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Joe Biden's immigration policy is predicted to reverse many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration. During his first day in office, Biden reversed many of Trump's policies on immigration, such as halting the construction of the Mexican border wall, ending Trump's travel ban restricting travel from 14 countries, and an executive order to reaffirm protections for DACA recipients. The Biden administration and Department of Homeland Security, under leadership of Alejandro Mayorkas, dramatically reined in deportation practices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), prioritizing national security and violent crime concerns over petty and nonviolent offenses.
Executive Order 13985, officially titled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, is the first executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. It advances racial equity and support for underserved communities through the federal government.
The COVID-19 policy of the Joe Biden administration seeks to mitigate the public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
The social policy of the Joe Biden administration aims to improve on racial equity with executive orders.
Executive Order 13986, officially titled Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census, is the second executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. The order reverses Executive Order 13880 and other Trump administration policies that had excluded non-citizens from the census count for the 2020 census. Executive Order 13986 requires non-citizens to be counted in the 2020 census, both for the purposes of enumeration and determining congressional apportionment.
The Joe Biden administration pledged to pass government ethics reform. The Biden administration also pledged to pass legislation and enforce policies to enforce electoral reform, in response to the influence of special interests and gerrymandering in elections.
Executive Order 13988, officially titled Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, is the fourth executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.
Executive Order 13990, officially titled Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis is an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on January 20th, 2021 which implements various environmental policies of his administration including revoking the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline and temporarily prohibiting drilling in the arctic refuge.
