US politics live updates: Joe Biden reverse’s Trump policies on Obamacare, abortion funding in executive orders

Biden signs executive orders on healthcare

Another day, another suite of executive orders from Joe Biden. This time, specifically targeting Donald Trump’s actions on a couple of healthcare fronts.

One executive order directed the HealthCare.gov insurance markets to take new applications for subsidised benefits, something Donald Trump’s administration had refused to do. He also instructed his administration to consider reversing other Trump health care policies, including curbs on abortion counseling and the imposition of work requirements for low-income people getting Medicaid.

“There’s nothing new that we’re doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became president,”…