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The Trump administration had signed an executive order aimed at protecting the country’s power grid. President Biden has now signed a new executive order – effectively taking away protection for the nation’s power grid.
Trump’s “Executive Order 13920 of May 1, 2020 (Securing the United States Bulk-Power System) sought to ban, replace, and set new criteria on bulk-power system electric equipment coming from a foreign country or national that poses a national security threat. Most understood that this order was focused on China.
While Biden removed other executive orders pertaining to energy, he is discussing the future of this executive order with his energy secretary.
Removal of this order would open the US power grid to Chinese attack.