President Trump rescinded 19 executive orders, directives and regulations signed by President Biden, including some related to gender, climate change and labor practices.
Some of the Biden-era orders Mr. Trump rolled back included eliminating the use of the Defense Production Act to push climate initiatives such as mandates for electric heat pumps and solar panels, directing federal agencies to push joining a union as part of employment as well as prioritize workplace safety initiatives and elevating “gender ideology” in foreign diplomacy.
Mr. Trump also reversed his predecessor’s 2021 executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. A September 2022 order by Mr. Biden directing the government to invest more funds in the biotechnology industry to develop materials for clean energy generation was also rescinded.
A White House fact sheet released alongside the executive order blasted Mr. Biden’s order as elevating “radical gender ideology,” “pushing “his Green New Scam,” imposing “unnecessary regulations on industry” and funneling “federal resources into radical biotech and biomanufacturing initiatives under the guise of environmental policy.
“I have determined that the following additional recessions are necessary to advance the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the federal government and unleash the potential of American citizens,” Mr. Trump wrote in his order rescinding the rules.
Since taking office, Mr. Trump has rescinded more executive orders than the total number of orders signed by Mr. Biden during his first year as president, according to the White House fact sheet.
On his first day in office, Mr. Trump rescinded 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders and presidential memoranda as part of a slew of more than 200 executive actions.
“I can undo almost everything Biden did, he through executive order. And on day one, much of that will be done,” Mr. Trump said on the campaign trail.
