He is also starting a “100 days masking challenge” urging all Americans to wear masks and state and local officials to implement public measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to the Nytimes. Biden is requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on all federal property and by all federal employees. Though it is not a national mask mandate, which would most likely fall to a legal challenge, Mr. The order also restores the directorate for global health security and biodefense at the National Security Council, a group Mr. Zients as the official Covid-19 response coordinator who will report to the president, in an effort to “aggressively” gear up the nation’s response to the pandemic. Biden has signed an executive order appointing Jeffrey D. Howard Holland, 82, receives his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Dallas County mass vaccination site at Fair Park on Jan. In his remarks, he stressed the unity of purpose, urging Americans to 'see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors' and pleaded with citizens and leaders to 'join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature'. 'We'll press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibilities,' Mr Biden said during his inaugural address at the Capitol, delivered to a crowd shrunken by coronavirus risks and threats of violence. Collectively, Mr Biden's assertive use of executive authority was intended to be a hefty and visible down payment on one of his primary goals: to, as his top advisers described it, 'reverse the gravest damages' done to the country by Mr Trump. Individually, the actions are targeted at what the president views as specific, egregious abuses by Mr Trump during four tumultuous years. Among the steps he took were orders to rejoin the Paris climate accord and end Mr Trump's travel ban on predominantly Muslim and African countries.

Moving with an urgency not seen from any other modern president, Mr Biden signed 17 executive orders, memorandums and proclamations from the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon. US President Joe Biden unleashed a full-scale assault on his predecessor's legacy on Wednesday, acting hours after taking the oath of office to sweep aside former president Donald Trump's pandemic response, reverse his environmental agenda, tear down his anti-immigration policies, bolster the sluggish economic recovery and restore federal efforts aimed at promoting diversity, said Businesstimes. President Joe Biden signs documents after his inauguration ceremony.