NEW YORK – President Joe Biden vowed on the campaign trail to pass a law protecting LGBTQ Americans from discrimination within his first 100 days in office. But with the Senate’s backing for the Equality Act seen as unlikely, he may already have opted for Plan B.
Biden covered key parts of the civil rights bill — which faces an uphill struggle in a Senate split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats — with an executive order signed on his first day in the White House.
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