Biden signs order revoking measures issued by Trump

US Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden after a briefing at Rose Garden of the White House. Pic/AFP

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will revoke several measures issued by his predecessor Donald Trump.

The order, signed on Friday, will revoke the measure to establish a "National Garden of American Heroes" that called for erecting statues of hundreds of prominent Americans, though some of them are controversial over their racial records.

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The order also revoked Trump's another action which prioritised punishment for those caught vandalising statues. The former President took the two measures in response to protests targeting monuments of controversial historic figures amid demonstrations against racial injustice in the wake of the custodial death of George Floyd.

Under the executive order, a May 2020 order signed by Trump that directed federal agencies to review Section 230, a law that provides protections to social media companies, was also revoked. Biden also withdrew a Trump executive order intended to block the entry of immigrants into the US who were deemed to be a "financial burden" on the healthcare system.

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