President Trump focused on gender, labor policy and industry regulations beyond the 12 previous executive orders and directives signed by former President Biden on Friday.
According to White House officials, Trump has signed an execution order revoking 18 enforcement lawsuits that have signed 18 enforcement actions Biden signed during his four-year term.
With the Friday executive order signed, Trump revoked nearly 100 enforcement measures in the first two months as he moved to rebuild the federal government.
Trump has retracted Biden's enforcement actions that “elevated radical gender ideology in US diplomacy and foreign aid.” Since returning to the office, Trump has tried to roll back his trans rights.
Previous administrations also allowed the Department of Energy to utilize the first-established Defense Production Act (DPA) to expand the production of US clean energy technologies, first enacted in 1950. It ended on Friday. This includes the “instructions” of electric heat pumps and solar panels.
Trump also rescinded an executive order signed by Biden in 2024, focusing on improving labor standards. Biden's order directed federal agencies to prioritize a variety of labor practices, including high wages, a road to unions and safety participation in the workplace.
The president has turned around Biden's 2021 An executive order that increased the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour.
In September 2022, Biden wrote an order to invest government funds in the US biotech industry, seeking to bolster the creation of the materials needed to generate clean energy. Trump overturned the order on Friday, saying that the previous administration had diverted federal money “to radical biotechnology and bio-manufacturing initiatives under the guise of environmental policy.”
In January, Trump also overturned many Biden-era executive orders.
Trump has rolled back an order that bans gifts from lobbyists to appointees who have resigned from serving the federal government after taking office. Biden's executive order also allowed a one-year ban on those “shadow lobbying.”
The Biden order also called on the Department of Health and Human Services to consider new medical expenses and delivery models that will reduce drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
