1. The 100 Days Masking Challenge. I don’t have much to say about this.
   
2. Biden will stop the withdrawal from the World Health Organisation. The WHO lied about masks and kowtowed to China.
   
3. The administration will create a position for a coordinator for the COVID-19 response. I’m personally dubious that there needs to be any more federal oversight than there already is.
   
4. They want to extend the nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures until March 31. A perfect example of pushing the problem further down the stack. It fixes nothing.
   
5. They will extend the pause on student loan payments. It is predominately the highest earners who have student debts. Those who made that investment in themselves earn more meaning that this is an order which will help doctors, lawyers, professors, and the like.
   
6. America will rejoin the Paris climate accord. Another example of an action which is all signal and no substance.
   
7. They cancelled the construction of the Keystone pipeline which hired tens of thousands of Americans and would have created a more efficient way of transporting necessary fuel.
   
8. Rescinds the 1776 Commission which recognised the nuances of America’s history. It stood in opposition to the revisionist history of the 1619 Project, claiming that the true founding of the US was in 1619. This Project also pretends that children are ignorant of the abomination of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
   
9. Prevent workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Sounds good, but what will change? Reads to me like a commitment to more deeply extend the reach of the government into private businesses.
   
10. Non-citizens will be required to be included in the Census. I don’t know enough about this to comment.
    
11. Fortification of DACA.
    
12. Biden will reverse restrictions on US entry for citizens of certain countries.
    
13. He will weaken immigration enforcement.
    
14. Halt construction of the border wall.
    
15. Extend the deferrals of deportations.
    
16. Requires executive branch employees to sign an ethics pledge.
    
17. Reinforce regulation.
    
    

Orders 11 through to 15 make no sense to anybody who thinks about immigration for many than 5 minutes. Immigration is brilliant, but it needs to be regulated. It makes no sense to stop constructing a border wall other than because it was Trump’s idea. It makes no sense to weaken enforcement of borders. It makes no sense to defer the deportation of illegal immigrants.


 There has been an escalation in leading via executive orders. A new president is inaugurated, performs many executive actions, and then the next president undoes them and enacts their own. There are checks on power for a reason. A policy without the support of the Representatives for whom the American people voted might not deserve to pass.