![]() * Launching a “100 Days Masking Challenge,” asking the American public to do “their patriotic duty” by wearing face masks and instituting a mask mandate requiring face coverings and physical distancing on federal property and by federal employees and contractors. The combination of executive orders, memoranda, directives and letters Biden signed Wednesday include: 29, and international affairs and national security on Feb. He will announce actions on climate change on Jan. “A ‘Buy American’ action will come Monday, and an order addressing racial equity issues will follow Tuesday. “According to guidance shared with Capitol Hill, he plans to issue administrative actions relating to the coronavirus on Thursday and economic relief on Friday,” The Washington Post reported. If you spot a claim you think needs checking, email us at Fact Checker was researched and written by John Steppe of The Gazette.President Biden signed a flurry of executive orders just hours after taking the oath of office on Wednesday, hastening to enact his agenda to address the coronavirus pandemic and to reverse Trump administration policies in areas such as immigration, racial equity and climate change.īiden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, also issued a memo to freeze new regulations and review any that the Trump administration tried to finalize in its last days.īiden’s team reportedly boasted that the 15 executive actions and two directives to agencies far surpassed the number of actions his four predecessors took on their first days in office.Īnd Biden plans more actions over the next 10 days. We give statements grades from A to F based on accuracy and context. The Fact Checker team checks statements made by an Iowa political candidate/officeholder or a national candidate/officeholder about Iowa, or in ads that appear in our market. ConclusionĪt one time, this claim would’ve gotten an A, but Reynolds’ information was outdated. Six presidents - Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt - had more executive orders per year.īut Biden’s projected 160 executive orders per year is well above Trump’s 55 and Obama’s 35. While the exact timing of executive orders from presidents before FDR is murky, the American Presidency Project tracks executive orders per year for all 46 presidents.īiden is at pace to ink 160 executive orders per year, according to the American Presidency Project’s data last updated April 20. When including those symbolic proclamations, Biden still has more executive actions than any of the presidents tracked. The American Presidency Project also tracks “executive orders, memoranda and all proclamations,” which includes symbolic proclamations such as Biden declaring a National Public Health Week or National Volunteer Week. He took office during the Great Depression and was in office for most of World War II. ![]() Add your contacts.įDR had 3712 executive orders over about 12 years, which averages out to about 307 orders per year. ![]() You will begin to receive our Daily On Iowa Politics updates. For all of January and February, Biden outpaced all other presidents for “executive orders, memoranda and substantive proclamations.” But about 60 days into his presidency - before Reynolds’ April 8 comments - the pace of actions no longer exceeded FDR. The American Presidency Project tracks the pace of executive actions from each president in their first 100 days, starting with FDR. While Reynolds’ claim would’ve been entirely correct in January, Biden’s pace of executive actions had slowed by the time Reynolds made the claim April 8 on the radio. Garrett said in an email it was during “the early stages of his presidency.” ![]() ![]() Reynolds did not give a specific time frame for her claim in the radio appearance. John Woolley, the co-director of the nonpartisan American Presidency Project at the University of California-Santa Barbara, told PolitiFact that previous presidents “simply did not charge into office as prepared for action” and likely did not issue as many orders as Biden in his first few days. Records are not as clear about executive orders from presidents before President Franklin D. It cited data from the Office of the Federal Registrar that showed more executive orders - 17 - from Biden than former President Barack Obama’s two and former President Donald Trump’s one in his first two days in office. Rubio said in the video that Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.” PolitiFact said Rubio’s claim, which came two days after Biden’s inauguration, was true. ![]()
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