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Executive Order: Trump Revokes 80+ Biden-Era Policies

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On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump took bold and sweeping action to dismantle his predecessor Joe Biden’s policies, signing a series of executive orders aimed at swiftly reversing key aspects of the Biden administration’s agenda.

Just hours after taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., including the repeal of almost 80 directives issued by the Biden administration.

“I’m revoking nearly 80 destructive radical executive actions of the previous administration,” Trump told the crowd at the signing ceremony.

President Trump took action by signing an executive order to extend the TikTok ban imposed by the Biden administration, allowing for a 75-day delay to provide his administration with the necessary time to determine the best course of action.

As part of his sweeping policy agenda, President Trump signed an executive order that initiated the US exit from the World Health Organization and simultaneously declared a national energy emergency, with the intention of addressing rising energy costs.

As the first of this kind declared by the U.S. Federal Government, the emergency is expected to enable the government to crank up energy production by tapping emergency powers.

The United States is the largest producer of both crude oil and natural gas in the world and is also the top exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG) globally.

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The incoming U.S. president also signed an executive order to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord.

The move means the United States will pull out of the Paris climate accord for the second time.

During his inauguration speech, Trump, who has long regarded clean energy as expensive and wasteful, also vowed to redouble the efforts to extract and utilise fossil fuels.

“I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill,” he said.

“We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have — the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth,” Trump claimed. “And we are going to use it.”

Adopted in December 2015, the Paris Agreement is an international endeavour to tackle human-caused global warming and related crises, which the United States formally joined in September 2016.

The first Trump administration officially let the United States, one of the world’s top emitters of greenhouse gases, exit the Paris climate accord in November 2020, dealing a major blow to international efforts to combat the climate crisis.

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