Maryland State Wire

On his first day serving as the head of the country, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring mask-wearing of all people who are inside federal buildings and on all federal properties.

Hours after he signed the order, Biden was maskless at an event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. 

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that “he was celebrating an evening of a historic day in our country.”

“Certainly he signed the mask mandate because it’s a way to send a message to the American public about the importance of wearing masks, how it can save tens of thousands of lives. We take a number of COVID precautions here in terms of testing, social distancing, mask-wearing ourselves, as we do every single day. But I don’t know that I have more for you on it than that,” Psaki said, The Epoch Times reported.

The Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing stated that executive department and agency heads should take immediate action.

“The requirements that we’re all under every day here to ensure we’re sending that message to the public, Psaki responded when asked if Biden complied. “Yesterday was a historic moment in our history. He was inaugurated as president of the United States, surrounded by his family. We take a number of precautions. I think we have bigger issues to worry about at this moment in time,” she said.