high energy Joe: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/executive-actions-biden/index.html Biden targets Trump's legacy with first-day executive actions (CNN)President Joe Biden is finalizing 17 executive moves just hours after his inauguration Wednesday, moving faster and more aggressively to dismantle his predecessor's legacy than any other modern president.
“My guess is the first thing history will mention is the riots. And rightly so. Tax reform doesn’t offset armed insurrection.” — Mick Mulvaney, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on Donald Trump’s legacy.
Don't forget your shine box Peter https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/20/biden-fires-nlrb-peter-robb/ Biden fires Trump-appointed labor board general counsel who refused to resign A standoff between the Biden administration and the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel ended Wednesday evening in the top lawyer’s firing, according to a White House official. The fracas over now-former general counsel Peter Robb’s tenure unfolded just hours into Joe Biden’s presidency. It began earlier Wednesday, when the Biden administration asked Robb to resign, the White House official said, a precedent-breaking move first reported by Bloomberg Law. But Robb, a Trump appointee with 10 months left in his Senate-confirmed role, refused. In a letter to the White House, he called the request “unprecedented since the nascence of the National Labor Relations Act” and said his removal “would set an unfortunate precedent,” according to Law360. Biden reportedly told Robb he should step down by 5 p.m. or he would be fired. By 8:45 p.m., the general counsel position on the NLRB’s online organizational chart was listed as “vacant.”
https://www.insider.com/joe-biden-scraps-trump-definition-of-gender-trans-military-ban-2021-1 President Biden shows support for trans Americans, scrapping Trump's definition of gender and promising to overturn the trans military ban President Joe Biden passed an executive order on his first day, protecting LGBTQ+ people from employment, housing, and medical discrimination. The move has a clause that reverses Trump's definition of gender as the one you were assigned at birth. In the coming weeks, Biden's team says, he will also overturn Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect LGBTQ+ people, which will prohibit medical discrimination against queer and trans people. The order includes a clause that scraps former President Donald Trump's legal definition of gender as "biological sex," or the gender someone was assigned at birth. In the "coming weeks," the White House said Biden also plans to overturn the transgender military ban put in place in 2017 by former President Donald Trump. What's more, within hours of taking office, the White House contact sheet was updated to ask for people's pronouns, giving the options she, he, they, and other.
Yes, Biden is proceeding with his campaign promise to take actions to punish and marginalize anyone who is normal, here legally, and pro-American. You go to the end of the line if you fall into any of those categories. America has a caste system now based on skin color and freak show proclivities.
Doesn't bother me, whether I support it or not. We keep hearing, "why are we celebrating the first woman this, the first "black" that, isn't it supposed to be about qualification?" Yes, it is, thank you.
https://markets.businessinsider.com...luding-proposed-crypto-rule-2021-1-1029989717 Biden freezes all federal regulatory proposals, including Mnuchin's controversial crypto wallet legislation, until his new administration can review them Joe Biden halted all last-minute rules from Trump's administration, including those for cryptocurrency. Hours after Biden's inauguration ceremony, the order was circulated in a memo to all federal agencies. Controversial crypto regulations proposed by Steve Mnuchin on December 18 were met with criticism. President Joe Biden has frozen all federal regulatory proposals, including former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's proposed rules on self-hosted crypto wallets, until his new administration can review them. Biden asked his chief of staff, Ron Klaine, to communicate the order to all federal departments and agencies in a memo Wednesday. Except for emergency situations, any proposed rules should be halted and any sent to the Office of the Federal Register should be immediately withdrawn, Klaine said. The US Treasury, under Mnuchin, announced proposed rules in December requiring registered crypto exchanges to verify the "identity of their customers, if a counterparty uses an unhosted or otherwise covered wallet and the transaction is greater than $3,000." Under the proposed rules, users of such crypto exchanges who wish to move their holdings into private, or self-hosted wallets, would be required to provide detailed personal information for transactions over $3,000. These exchanges would also have to report transactions valued at more than $10,000 to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN. A 15-day public comment period for the rule was proposed initially, but this was extended following backlash from crypto groups and companies. Critics pointed out that the proposed rules threaten crypto innovation and privacy rights of individuals and entities that transact in cryptocurrencies. Biden's freeze on new regulatory proposals seems to be a welcome move for some crypto advocates. "We fought hard & earned the right to take a breath & reset," Jake Chervinsky, the DeFi Group co-chair at the Blockchain Association said in a tweet. "Janet Yellen isn't Steve Mnuchin. I'm optimistic."
https://www.npr.org/sections/presid...-have-made-it-easier-to-fire-top-civil-servan Biden To Toss Trump Plan That Would Have Made It Easier To Fire Top Civil Servants President Biden plans to sign an order on Friday that will toss a plan that would have made it easier to fire top career civil servants, and hire political appointees into high-ranking positions — a practice known as "burrowing." Former President Trump's plan to create the "Schedule F" category had been decried by federal unions as an attack on people he called the "Deep State" when it was announced in October. But the Biden White House was quick to cancel the classification, saying it "undermines the foundations of the civil service." The order that Biden plans to sign also will lay the groundwork to require federal contractors to pay a $15 per hour minimum wage and offer emergency paid leave — something Biden wants to accomplish within his first 100 days in office, his top economic adviser Brian Deese told reporters. Biden also plans to revoke three other Trump executive orders that had rolled back certain collective bargaining protections, Deese said.