Topline
President Joe Biden plans to sign 10 executive orders Thursday aimed at improving the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the administration has confirmed to reporters, jump-starting the president’s ambitious plan to bring the current surge of cases under control and administer 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days.
Key Facts
Biden will “direct agencies to exercise the Defense Production Act,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield told CNN, in order to ramp up production of essential supplies like N95 masks and other personal protective equipment, testing kits and syringes for vaccinations.
He will create a pandemic testing board to increase testing capacity and a Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force to fix imbalances in the populations who are getting vaccinated.
An executive order will mandate face masks on interstate public transportation like airplanes and trains.
Biden will increase state funding for the National Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including having FEMA reimburse schools for coronavirus-related expenses like cleaning and PPE.
Biden will also use FEMA to establish federal community vaccination sites across the country within the next 30 days.
Biden will direct federal agencies to establish a strategy for safely reopening schools, and will direct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to take stricter action around enforcing workplace safety guidelines.
Big Number
$1.9 trillion. That’s how much Biden’s proposed Covid-19 stimulus legislation is set to cost, including $400 billion for vaccinations and testing. The Biden administration’s Covid-19 response will heavily rely on getting increased federal funding from Congress, his administration has said. “We do need Congress to act and act quickly,” White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters Wednesday.
Crucial Quote
“The federal government should be the source of truth for the public to make clear, accessible and scientifically accurate information about Covid-19,” Zients told reporters, saying the Biden administration will be “honest, transparent and straightforward with the American people to rebuild that trust.”
Key Background
Biden signed 17 executive orders on his first day in office, including other public health measures like mandating face masks for federal employees and keeping the U.S. in the World Health Organization. Along with its impending executive actions, the Biden administration unveiled a 23-page plan for its Covid-19 response Thursday, and Bedingfield said on CNN the president plans to “leverage every tool available to him and the federal government” to improve Covid-19 vaccine distribution. The incoming administration will face a challenge in taking over the vaccination effort from the Trump administration, whose rollout of the vaccine was slower than anticipated. “The cooperation or lack of cooperation from the Trump administration has been an impediment,” Zients said Wednesday. Biden administration sources told CNN the new White House is starting from “square one,” as the Trump administration reportedly had “no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to speak of.” “We are going to have to build everything from scratch,” one source said.
Further Reading
Here Are All The Actions Biden Took On His First Day In Office (Forbes)
Biden to sign 10 executive orders aimed at turning around the pandemic (Politico)
Biden to sign executive orders on Covid vaccinations, pandemic response on 2nd day (Associated Press)
Biden Ramps Up Covid Fight With Orders Nixing Trump Policies (Bloomberg)
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