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Joe Biden to sign a dozen executive orders on first day; all US states on high alert for protests
Joe Biden’s top aide said on Saturday the incoming US president would sign about a dozen executive orders on his first day in office, as police fearing violence from Donald Trump supporters staged a nationwide security operation ahead of the inauguration.Incoming Biden chief of staff Ron Klain said in a memo to new White House senior staff that the executive orders would address “four overlapping and compounding crises”, namely the coronavirus pandemic, the ailing US economy, climate change and…