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On January 20, 2020 President Biden signed seventeen executive orders his first day in office covering topics ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to immigration and more. While the list below is on exhaustive it does cover the executive orders that may impact people living with MS and their loved ones, MS research, and the COVID-19 pandemic. More executive orders are expected from the President over the next few days, so please keep checking back as this list will be updated. 

To date, the President has signed the following executive orders that may impact people with MS: 

• Extends the nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures until at least March 31, 2021. 
• Extends the pause on student loan payments and interests for Americans with federal student loans until at least September 30, 2021. 
• Calls for a nationwide face mask and social distancing mandate in federal buildings, on federal lands and by federal employees and contractors.
• Mandates mask usage in airports and on planes, trains, ships, intercity buses and all forms of public travel.
• Ends the 2017 "travel ban" restricting travel and immigration to the U.S. from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Somalia,Yemen, Eritrea, Nigeria, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, and Tanzania and requires the State Department to restart visa applications from these countries. 
• Resumes Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), working to reduce deportations of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the US as children and have not broken any laws.