Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order from President Joe Biden that sought to lower the price of drugs.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton.
An executive order issued by President Joe Biden just days before he leaves office aims to shore up America's cyber defenses while making it easier to go after foreign countries that launch cyberattacks.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday issued pre-emptive pardons for General Mark Milley, Dr Anthony Fauci and members of the Jan. 6 congressional committee and witnesses, saying they "do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions."
When Biden's AI Order was established, half a dozen US politicians applauded the measure alongside industry executives like Microsoft President Brad Smith, who called it a "critical step forward in the governance of AI technology" (In October, Microsoft founder Bill Gates quietly supported Kamala Harris for president with a $50 million donation).
The rescinded order directed Medicare and Medicaid to test ways to lower drug costs for enrollees. Those tests hadn’t started, so current drug prices are unaffected.
The rescinded orders include directives boosting the Affordable Care Act exchanges, coordinating the government’s COVID-19 response and overseeing artificial intelligence tools.
Fox & Friends hosts called on government workers to take their “example” from President Donald Trump and not former President Joe Biden.
Critics immediately tore into the former intel boss, with one calling him a “pathetic liar” about the laptop’s provenance.
There’s good reason to believe that the president’s campaign of revenge will be felt throughout the federal government.