Biden reverses Don health laws
Signs 2 executive orders to build healthcare Pelosi warns ‘enemy is within’ Congress
Washington, Jan. 29: US President Joe Biden has signed two healthcare executive orders which he said were to undo the damage done by his predecessor Donald Trump. The first executive order was about restoring the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid to the way they were before Trump became president.
Biden alleged that under his predecessor, they were more inaccessible, more expensive and more difficult for people to qualify for either of those two items.
The second executive order was about protecting women’s health at home and abroad.
“It reinstates the changes that were made to Title 10 and other things, making it harder for women to have access to affordable healthcare as it relates to their reproductive rights,” he told reporters at the White House on Thursday.
“It has been a busy week, and I have signed executive orders tackling Covid19, the economic and climate crises, as well as advancing racial equity. But, today, I’m about to sign two executive orders that are basically, the best way to describe them, to undo the damage Trump has done,” Biden said.
“There’s nothing new that we’re doing here, other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring the Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became President, which by fiat he changed — made more inaccessible, more expensive, and more difficult for people to qualify for either of those two items: the Affordable Care Act or Medicaid,” he said.
Responding to a question, Biden said that the first thing his administration has got to do is get the
Covid-19 package passed by Congress.
The White House said that the Biden-Harris administration will reopen enrolment to the Health Insurance Marketplace, take additional steps to strengthen Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and protect women’s health.
“These actions demonstrate a strong commitment by the Biden-Harris administration to protect and build on the Affordable Care Act, meet
Washington, Jan. 29: Lawmakers face threats of violence from an “enemy” within Congress, and more money is needed to protect them, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, a startling acknowledgment of escalating internal tensions over safety since this month’s Capitol attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
The California Democrat’s remarks on Thursday came as the acting chief of the Capitol Police said separately that “vast improvements” are needed to protect the Capitol and adjacent office buildings, including permanent fencing.
Such barricades have ringed the complex since the deadly January 6 riot, but many lawmakers have long resisted giving the nation’s symbol of democracy the look of a besieged compound, and leaders were noncommittal about the idea. Pelosi focused her comments on the anxiety and partisan frictions that have persisted in Congress since Trump supporters’ assault on the Capitol, which led to five deaths. She told reporters she thinks Congress will need to provide money “for more security for members, when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about.”
Asked to clarify what she meant, Pelosi said, “It means that we have members of Congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress.” She did not suggest how much money might be needed.
Some lawmakers who voted for this month's House impeachment of Trump have reported receiving threats, and initial moves to enhance safety procedures have taken on clear partisan undertones.
Some Republicans have loudly objected to having to pass through newly installed metal detectors before entering the House chamber, while Pelosi has proposed fining lawmakers who bypass the devices. —