The Patriot Post® · Thursday Executive News Summary

Government & Politics

• Senate confirms Avril Haines 84-10 to be director of national intelligence (CBS News¹)

• Democrats take control of Senate as Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are sworn in (National Review²)

• Joe Biden signs executive orders ending Donald Trump’s travel ban and stopping border wall construction (National Review³), disbanding the 1776 Commission (National Review⁴), and rejoining the Paris climate accord (CNBC⁵)

Examine all 17 executive orders, memorandums, and proclamations here⁶.

• If not for double standards… Biden doesn’t wear a mask at Lincoln Memorial after signing mandate requiring masks on federal land (Daily Wire⁷)

• So woke! White House adds preferred pronouns dropdown to contact form (Examiner⁸)

National Security

• Department of Homeland Security suspends deportations, stops “Remain in Mexico” policy (NPR⁹)

• China sanctions 28 Trump team members, including Mike Pompeo and Peter Navarro (National Review¹⁰)

• Evidence shows well-laid plan by some Capitol rioters (Politico¹¹)

Odds & Ends

• Workers file 900,000 new jobless claims as COVID total tops 75 million (NY Post¹²)

• “Anti-Facebook” MeWe social network adds 2.5 million new members in one week (ZDNet¹³)

• Colleges lobby Biden to halt federal probe into foreign donations; Education Department has already found $6.5 billion in unreported gifts (Free Beacon¹⁴)

• Unsatiated antifa anarchists trash Oregon Democrat Party HQ to mark Biden’s inauguration (Post Millennial¹⁵)

• Pro-Trump protests fizzle out across the country (Examiner¹⁶)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Disbanding of 1776 Commission shows Left’s war on U.S. history (Daily Signal¹⁷)

• Policy: Trump’s Top 10 triumphs (Issues & Insights¹⁸)

• Humor: Biden sees own shadow, predicting just six weeks of being president (Babylon Bee¹⁹)

• Relate humor: Biden and Harris rushed to burn ward after touching Bible (Babylon Bee²⁰)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report²¹.

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