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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 20, 2021

President Joe Biden is poised to take action on 53 executive items over the next 10 days as he seeks to implement his own policies, The Hill reports. Today, in his first day in office, he is expected to sign an extension of a nationwide moratorium on evictions through the end of March, National Public Radio reports. Other orders to be signed in the coming days include requiring face masks be worn on federal lands, repeal of a travel ban on certain Muslim countries, halting construction on a border wall, new public health measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic, restoring collective bargaining rights to federal employees, establishing a policing commission and reunifying immigrant families previously separated at the border.