White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield defended President Joe Biden’s use of executive actions on ABC’s “The View” on Friday.

“What he's done is looked at some of the most egregious, damaging actions from the Trump administration, done by executive order, and used his authority as president to roll those back and to undo that damage and to start to get us on a better path,” Bedingfield said.

The president has been criticized for relying heavily on executive actions at the beginning of his presidency. Over the first week and a half of his term, Biden has signed  addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, racial equity, health care and more.

--ABC News' Adia Robinson

Since entering office on Jan. 20, Biden has signed more than three-dozen executive actions addressing the  pandemic, economy, immigration, climate crisis and more.

Some of Biden's most notable orders include opening a three-month enrollment period to allow more Americans to sign up for health care during the pandemic, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, stopping construction of the wall on the Southern Border of the U.S., revoking the Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in the military and eliminating the Justice Department use of private prisons.

With Republican opposition growing to the size of his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal, President  on Friday expressed his clearest support yet for Senate Democrats to use a fast-track budgetary tool that would allow the legislation to pass with a simple majority.

Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled that Democrats are preparing to move forward with budget reconciliation: a complex, fast-track process that requires just a simple majority to pass legislation rather than the usual 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster and move forward. In a Senate now split 50-50, the procedure could allow Democrats to pass legislation without a single Republican in favor, with Vice President Kamala Harris able to cast a tie-breaking vote.

A vote on a Senate budget resolution, which is the first step in beginning the reconciliation process, is expected next week in the Senate. It would then go to the House for consideration.

Republicans are calling foul, warning Democrats that using reconciliation to pass COVID relief will diminish Biden's calls for unity throughout his campaign and in his inaugural address.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin and Trish Turner

When President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20, ramping up the available supply of COVID-19 vaccines became one of his administration's top priorities.

Now, the president and his team are hoping to find a way to produce even more vaccine doses at a faster pace, exceeding the quantity and timescale promised by Pfizer and Moderna as part of their contracts with the U.S. government.

But experts say it won't be so easy, as a vaccine is not a steel part but a complex biomedical product.

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ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos and Sony Salzman.

Biden's top coronavirus advisers -- including Chief Medical Adviser on COVID-19 Dr. Anthony Fauci, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients -- have wrapped their first public briefing on the White House's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In contrast with the Trump administration, the Biden administration has pledged to aim for three virtual, public briefings with health experts each week in an effort to be more transparent in their response. Biden is also branding his COVID-19 response team an "equity" task force, chaired by Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith.

In another change promised by the Biden White House, an American Sign Langauge interpreter was also present for the briefing.

After a bit of a rocky start, with Fauci and other speakers having microphone issues, the briefing proceeded for nearly an hour and focused largely on vaccine distribution.
The president's advisers wouldn't entertain questions on what they will do if Congress doesn't give them the money they need -- insisting it is absolutely critical.

Unlike the predictions given by former President Donald Trump, theirs were not rosy, citing death forecasts that could climb past half a million next month and vaccines still in short supply even as the daily numbers of shots have climbed to 1.6 million.

"It will be months before everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one," said Andy Slavitt, another Biden adviser. "Any stockpile that may have existed previously, no longer exists."