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Joe biden executive orders record7/23/2023 Revokes a Trump executive order that authorized sanctions on International Criminal Court officialsĮstablishes a White House Gender Policy Council, which will submit a government-wide plan within 200 days with recommendations to “advance gender equity and equality in the United States and around the world” Imposes sanctions and diplomatic expulsions on Russia in response to the country’s interference in the 2020 US election and the SolarWinds cyberattack formally names the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service as the force behind SolarWinds blocks US financial institutions from trading in Russian bondsįorms the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which is intended to provide an analysis of the principal arguments for and against Supreme Court reform. Declares that the 15,000 annual refugee cap set by Trump will be raised to a number to be determined by May 15. Reverses the Trump policy banning refugees from key regions and enables flights from those regions to begin within days. Requires a $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers with disabilities. Eliminates the tipped minimum wage, $7.65 an hour, by 2024. “This threat continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” the president added.Raises the minimum wage of federal contract workers to $15 an hour in early 2022, up from the current $10.95. The “unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of information and communications technology or services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries augments the ability of these foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities in information and communications technology or services, with potentially catastrophic effects,” Biden said in a statement. In this instance, the order targeted Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE - part of an overarching effort to secure the country’s technology from companies potentially under the sway of adversarial governments. The 2019 order invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which grants the president the authority to regulate commerce in response to a national emergency that threatens the U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment produced by firms posing a national security risk. President Joe Biden on Thursday extended for another year a Trump-era executive order that declared a national emergency and prohibited U.S. Biden extends US telecom supply chain order aimed at Huawei, ZTE
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