President Joe Biden quietly killed 4 executive orders his predecessor Donald Trump signed before leaving office, one seeking to create a lawn of statues honoring American heroes and one that Trump signed after Twitter called his tweets misleading.
The White House broke the news Friday afternoon without comment and did not respond to Newsweek’s request for comment.
Executive decrees do not involve a legal sanction and would possibly be revoked at the president’s will.
Here are the 4 orders Biden revoked on Friday:
‘Prevention of censorship’
Before his Twitter account was permanently suspended after the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, Trump issued an executive order last May because several of his tweets were described as misleading.
“Twitter now selectively makes the decision to put a caution tag on certain tweets in a way that obviously reflects political bias. As reported, Twitter has never placed that tag on any other politician’s tweet. Adam Schiff continued to lie to his supporters by selling the long-denied Russian collusion hoax, and Twitter did not report those tweets written in the official decree.
The order ordered the Commerce Secretary to file a petition with the Federal Communications Commission about the practices of social media corporations and ordered all heads of federal businesses to find out if they were spending federal dollars on advertising on social media platforms. The United States will step in to enforce state legislation that seeks to ban censorship.
Shortly after Trump’s order was issued, the Center for Democracy
Congress’ nonpartisan think tank also warned that this may be just the country’s external obligations and industrial agreements.
”Protect American monuments, monuments and statues and fight criminal violence”
Trump signed an executive order in June when monuments, primarily honoring Confederate infantrymen and others with racist beyond, were removed or, in some cases, disfigured or overturned through protesters.
The order ordered agencies to “prosecute to the fullest extent possible” anyone who sticks to monuments or statues they destroyed for federal reasons. He also threatened to withdraw the budget from local governments other than his own.
“Individuals and organizations have the right to peacefully advocate for the removal or structure of any monument, but no individual or organization has the right to damage, degrade, or a monument by the use of force,” Trump wrote in the order.
”Building and rebuilding monuments for American heroes”
According to the order, the lawn will open before the 250th anniversary of the proclamation of the declaration of independence on July 4, 2026. No location has been identified.
Just before leaving office, Trump added more than two hundred other names to his list of other people to be honored, adding Kobe Bryant, Alex Trebec and Walt Disney.
“America owes its greatness to its sacrifices beyond,” Trump wrote in the order. “Because the afterlife is in danger of being forgotten, monuments will be needed to honor those who came here earlier. “
“Name change of U. S. foreign aidTo promote U. S. influence. “
A month before his resignation and after Biden was named the winner of the 2020 election, Trump signed an executive order to create a unified “brand” for federal aid to other countries, which goes through other systems and agencies.
Under the order, the president would create a new federal logo to update all agency-specific ones and the new logo would be released 120 days later.
The order stated that its goal was to “foster goodwill among U. S. foreign aid recipients and the American people, and to inspire the governments of countries that receive foreign aid to the United States. “
“[It is] imperative that recipients of U. S. foreign aid be aware of the multiple efforts of American taxpayers to help them and their lives,” Trump wrote.
You’ve got four loose pieces left this month.
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