is set to be sworn in as the 47th president on January 20, 2025.Â
After succeeding Trump in 2021, President (D) signed in his first 100 days in office, 21 of which directly aimed at revoking Trump administration actions.
tracked five , enacted in the first five months of his presidency, that revoked 14 Trump executive orders that aimed to reform the administrative state. Trump's 2024 that a day-one priority would be to reissue one of those revoked 2020 executive orders designed to allow the president to remove federal employees who would have otherwise had civil service job protection. Here is a look at that revoked executive order and several others.
Two Biden executive orders, and , revoked the following eight Trump executive orders, among others, regarding hiring and removing of federal employees, regulatory reduction, and reducing costs for administrative efforts:
- : Created a new Schedule F in the for employees serving in policy-related roles, making it easier to remove those employees.
- : Established regulatory budgets for federal agencies and required agencies to eliminate two old regulations for each new regulation issued.
- : Established new regulatory reform officers and regulatory reform task forces to oversee the implementation of E.O. 13771.
- : Directed agencies to eliminate non-statutory advisory committees whose missions have been accomplished, whose subject matter has become obsolete, whose primary functions have been assumed by another entity, or whose costs outweigh benefits.
- : Prohibited federal administrative agencies from issuing binding rules through guidance documents.
- : Required federal administrative agencies to provide the public with fair notice of regulations.
- : Required agencies to consider cost reduction efforts in administrative actions.
- : Aimed to expedite the discipline and dismissal processes for federal employees deemed poor-performing.
Biden's Executive Order 13992 also abolished "any personnel positions, committees, task forces, or other entities" established pursuant to the revoked executive orders. These include the regulatory reform officer positions and task forces established under Trump's Executive Order 13777.
In addition to executive orders, Biden signed into law three resolutions of disapproval under the , or CRA, that repealed Trump administration rules. The CRA and executive orders are two mechanisms that, once in office, presidents and elected officials can use to repeal rules and shift regulatory priorities with their administration.
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