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The White House has invited people to a sendoff celebration for President Trump's final flight on Air Force One.
Former chief strategist Steve Bannon and rapper Lil Wayne were among those pardoned by Trump on his way out the White House door.
Via: https://www.npr.org
Members of the Trump administration won't have to wait five years before lobbying the agencies where they worked. Trump had been highly critical of former President Clinton for a similar reversal.
The 46th president will be undoing some of his predecessor's executive actions.
"It's going to be hard, because there's still going to be people that think the election was a fraud," said Yumaira Saavedra of Pennsylvania.
Via: http://www.theguardian.com
In this moment of unprecedented crises, Congress and the Biden administration must respond through unprecedented action
Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Garth Brooks are among the stars who will perform. Trump will not be attending.
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to sign 15 executive actions upon taking office Wednesday, immediately reversing key Trump administration policies. Why it matters: The 15 actions — aimed at issues like climate change and immigration — mark more drastic immediate steps compared with the two day-one actions from Biden's four predecessors combined, according to incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki.Get smarter, faster with the news CEOs, entrepreneurs and top politicians read. Sign up for Axios Newsletters here.What they're saying: The actions are the first of many, Psaki said in a news release, as Biden works "to address the four crises that he's laid out" — COVID-19, the economic crisis, racial injustice and climate change. * "In the coming days and weeks we will be announcing additional executive actions that confront these challenges and deliver on the President-elect's promises to the American people," Psaki said, "including revoking the ban on military service by transgender Americans, and reversing the Mexico City policy." Highlights * Moving to rejoin Paris Climate Agreement * Asking the Department of Education to extend student loan relief * An executive order to rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit * Rejoining the World Health Organization * Asking the CDC to "immediately" extend eviction restrictions * Reversing Trump's travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries * Temporarily halting oil and gas leasing in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge * An initiative on advancing racial equity in federal policymakingGo deeper: See the full listSupport safe, smart, sane journalism. Sign up for Axios Newsletters here.
A super PAC that supported President Trump’s 2020 re-election bid is changing its name – and its mission.
Via: https://www.businessinsider.com
A source told CNN that President Trump agreed with the advice against self-pardoning, but was disappointed with the outcome.
President Donald Trump revoked one of his first executive orders in one of his final acts of office.
Via: https://slate.com
Steve Bannon got one. Joe Exotic didn’t, so far.
President Trump will leave the White House for the final time at 8 a.m.
Poetry "can see beyond abstract language of sociopolitical jargon and arrive at greater truths," said Blanco, who was the country's first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet.
On "Intelligence Matters," Mike Morell talks with Dr. Ken Wickiser about the growing threat of synthetic biology.
The White House has invited people to a sendoff celebration for President Trump's final flight on Air Force One.
Signs executive order releasing them from ethics pledge that included five-year ban on lobbying those agencies.
Analysis: The unprecedented militarized event summarizes much of what alarms America's friends — and pleases its adversaries.
Via: https://www.cnn.com
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is expected to swear in three new, barrier-breaking Democratic senators on Wednesday afternoon after her own inauguration, officially giving Democrats control of the Senate for the first time since they lost the chamber in the 2014 elections.
Via: https://www.businessinsider.com
The location of the laptop remains unknown, but an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it was only used for presentations.
Via: https://www.npr.org
As Joe Biden is inaugurated, he is hoping to bring America together. But the country's modern divisions didn't begin and end with Trump.
Trump leaves office disgraced and humiliated, the worst president in American history. No one should fear him now
A fourth presidential directive will formally halt Mr. Trump's bid to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census figures used to award states seats in Congress.
‘When you are cracking the glass ceiling, your scalp ends up with the shards’
Via: https://www.breitbart.com
Actor-comedian Billy Eichner, star of Disney's 2019 remake of "The Lion King", took to Twitter on Tuesday to bash President Donald Trump, his family, as well as all of the president's supporters, a group of American voters of more than 74 million people, adding, "the rest of us need to make sure this never happens again."
Joe Biden will sign orders on wearing masks, rejoining the Paris climate agreement and ending the ban on Muslim travelers, among other issues.
Via: https://www.cnn.com
President-elect Joe Biden will issue an executive order to dissolve the 1776 commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US, Biden's transition team announced Wednesday.
Despite its reputation as a leader of resistance, California saw more pro-Trump crowds than any other state during the president's term in office.
Via: https://www.cnn.com
President-elect Joe Biden plans to take 17 executive actions in the first hours of his presidency Wednesday, signing a flurry of executive orders, memoranda and directives to agencies implementing his first moves to address the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of Donald Trump's signature policies.
Via: https://www.cnn.com
Donald Trump's era in Washington is over. The all-consuming, camera-hungry, truth-starved era that fixated the nation and exposed its darkest recesses officially concludes at noon Wednesday.