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President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed three executive orders as he set about to overturn several key directives of his predecessor Donald Trump in his first hours working from the Oval Office.
A tired-sounding Biden, 78, signed orders re-joining the Paris Climate Accord, promoting “racial equity” in healthcare and other areas and requiring anti-COVID-19 masks be worn in federal buildings.
Biden had been expected to sign up to 17 executive orders right away, most of them overturning directives of his predecessor Donald Trump. He said in the Oval Office that additional orders would come “over the next several days to week.”
“I thought there’s no time to wait. Get to work immediately,” said Biden next to a high stack of executive orders. “There’s no time to start like today.
“I’m going to start by keeping the promises I made to the American people. There’s a long way to go, these are just executive actions. They are important but we’re going to need legislation for other things we’re going to do,” Biden told reporters.
He also said that former President Trump left him a “very generous letter” despite skipping the inauguration for a Wednesday morning flight to Florida.
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