[260][261], Following the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24, 2022, President Biden addressed the nation. [242] Press secretary Psaki said it was important that U.S. money and notes reflect the "history and diversity" of the country and that putting Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill would do so. The idea was viewed as a compromise between the progressive and moderate flanks of the Democratic Party. [498], Biden has also been interviewed by Drew Barrymore, Jake Tapper, Jonathan Capehart, Yonit Levi, George Stephanopoulos, David Muir, Scott Pelley, Lester Holt, and Norah O'Donnell, for The Drew Barrymore Show,[499] CNN,[500] MSNBC,[501] Channel 12 in Israel,[502] ABC News,[503][504] 60 Minutes,[505] NBC,[506] and CBS News,[507] as well as a solo interview by Heather Cox Richardson[508] and Brian Tyler Cohen. Manufacturing Jobs During the presidential campaign, Biden regularly referred to manufacturing jobs as the " backbone of America " and vowed to " revitalize " American manufacturing with a ". [412] A month later, Biden met Macron, telling him his administration was "clumsy" and that he was "under the impression that France had been informed long before" that France's deal with Australia was "not going through". [407] Biden pledged support for the European project and for Ukraine's sovereignty as well as the need for global cooperation on fighting the pandemic and climate change. [122][123] It would also expand the eligibility of these checks to adult dependents who have been left out of previous rounds of relief. The mobile, advanced rocket systems have been a gamechanger for Ukrainian forces, allowing them to fire at Russian targets from dozens of miles away and quickly drive away before Russian artillery can target their position. [119] The repealing of Trump's three executive orders comes as the orders were used to transfer civil servants and career scientists and replace them with employees friendly to the Trump administration. [319], In August 2021, Biden sanctioned three additional Cuban officials who were also reportedly involved in the suppression of anti-government protesters in Cuba. [100], On May 6, 2021, the Biden administrationannounced that it supports waiving patent protections on existing COVID-19 vaccines so that other countries can produce generic variants, following weeks of pressure from the international community. [246][247][248], Three days after the Atlanta spa shootings that killed 8 people, including 6 Asian women, Biden and Vice President Harris travelled to Atlanta. [432][433] The Biden administration was pressed on potential oil deals with Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran that would have them increase their oil production. They alleged he acted as an unregistered foreign lobbyist for the United Arab Emirates. [278][276], Austin has said his number one priority is to assist COVID-19 relief efforts, pledging he would "quickly review the Department's contributions to COVID-19 relief efforts, ensuring that we're doing everything that we can to help distribute vaccines across the country and to vaccinate our troops and preserve readiness. Biden served 36 years as a U.S. senator from Delaware and went on to serve as. It also approved support equipment, spares and technical support to the Arab nation. Joe Biden has now been in Delaware for 150 days: President has spent [141] Several of the physical infrastructure provisions featured in the proposal were included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. [6] He signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; a ten-year plan brokered by Biden alongside Democrats and Republicans in Congress, to invest in American roads, bridges, public transit, ports and broadband access. "[40][41] He explicitly decried white supremacy and nativism, calling them an "ugly reality" of American life he vows to defeat that clouds the "American ideal" set out in the U.S. [184], In 2021, the Biden administration proposed a 20-year ban on oil and gas drilling around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a site in northwestern New Mexico that contain important Ancestral Puebloan sites. "[287] He described China as the "most serious competitor" that poses challenges on the "prosperity, security, and democratic values" of the U.S.[288], Biden nominated Antony Blinken to serve as Secretary of State who took office on January 26, 2021. [213][214][215], Biden instructed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to focus on violent offenders of immigration laws rather than all offenders of immigration laws. Biden signed the Act into law on November 15, 2021. [16], On November 7, four days after Election Day, Biden was projected to have defeated the incumbent president Donald Trump, becoming president-elect of the United States[17][18][19][20][21] with 306 of the total 538 electoral votes, and 81,268,924 popular votes versus 74,216,154 votes for Trump. [449] On 2 August 2022, the State Department approved the potential sale of 300 MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical Ballistic Missiles (GEM-T) for the Patriot missile defense system to Saudi Arabia. For the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported it stopped migrants at the U.S. border nearly 2.4 million times, a record surge driven by sharp increases in Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans making the trek. President Joe Biden decamped to Wilmington on Friday, escaping the White House he's likened to a "gilded cage" for a weekend at his Delaware home. The first NASAMS is coming to Ukraine (17 October 2022), now that NASAMS training is nearly complete. Coolidge - Biden. [389] On April 12, he called the war a "genocide". Senator, to the post of NASA administrator. The number of bridges in the U.S. rated as poor and needing repair, according to the White House. Democrats said the $1,400 plus the $600 checks former President Donald Trump signed into law shortly before Biden assumed office . [122] In Biden's plan, he would issue a national testing strategy that attempts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 by increasing laboratory capacity and expanding testing. That day he issued an executive order directing businesses with more than 100 employees to require vaccination of their workers or weekly testing, affecting about 80 million Americans. He expressed deep sorrow for the Afghan victims as well. [171][172], In March 2021, 21 Republican state attorneys general of 21 states sued the Biden administration for revoking the Keystone XL pipeline permit. Biden has spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping a half-dozen times since the start of his term. The term "news conference" refers simply to an interaction between the President and multiple members of the press in a relatively formal setting. [240][241] This effort follows that of the Obama administration, which was blocked by Steven Mnuchin. [134] Due to incentives from the CHIPS and Science Act, Micron Technology will invest billions in new semiconductor manufacturing in New York. [227][228][229] By the end of April 2021, the number of children held in Border Patrol facilities fell by 84%, placing them under HHS care. [411] In a conciliatory call a few days later, Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to reduce bilateral tensions, and the White House acknowledged the crisis could have been averted if there had been open consultations between allies. As part of the agreement, the U.S. agreed to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia. The areas that were purchased by oil companies can be expected to produce around 4.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.12 billion barrels of oil over the next 50 years. The US president, who promised to rebuild trust and transparency after Donald Trump's adversarial tenure, is facing criticism as Sunday marks 116 days since his last press interview. [472] Polls for the election cycle were the most accurate since 1998, though Republican-aligned pollsters such as the Trafalgar Group had a notable polling miss. [146] The bill was effectively merged with climate change and other provisions that didn't make it into the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, for a total $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act. A timeline of President Joe Biden's first 100 days in office - NBC News Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia questioned the administration's "legal justification for acting without coming to Congress." [370] The Biden administration is also planning to impose sanctions against Russia because of the 2020 SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign, which compromised the computer systems of nine federal agencies. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics "[75], However, shortly before taking office in January 2021, Biden's team abruptly dropped the proposal, frustrating many online progressives who already viewed the public option healthcare proposal as a failure to fight the status quo. . [55][56], Biden altered his cabinet structure, elevating the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and ambassador to the United Nations as cabinet-level positions. I have learned my lesson. [15], Biden announced his candidacy in April 2019, having previously sought the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008, being unsuccessful both times. Much can be accomplished during a president's first 100 days, which is why. [31][32], On January 6, a mob of thousands of Trump supporters violently broke into the Capitol in the hope of overturning Biden's election, forcing Congress to evacuate during the counting of the Electoral College votes. [161], During his first week in office, Biden established the position of White House National Climate Advisor, appointing environmental health and air quality expert Gina McCarthy to the role. [388] On March 29, 2022, Biden appeared to heighten his condemnation concerning Putin made at the end of his NATO trip to Europe, stating that he makes "no apologies" for previously stating that "Putin cannot remain in power". The federal debt stood at $27.6 trillion when Biden took office. At age 78, Biden is the oldest U.S. president in history. The summit was significantly shorter than expected, only lasting three and a half of the predicted five hours. [28], On January 5, 2021, the Democratic Party won control of the United States Senate, effective January 20, as a result of electoral victories in Georgia by Jon Ossoff in a runoff election for a six-year term and Raphael Warnock in a special runoff election for a two-year term. Biden signed AUKUS, an international security alliance, together with Australia and the United Kingdom. [115], On January 22, 2021, Biden signed an executive order that removed schedule F, overturning a number of Trump's policies that limited the collective bargaining power of federal unions. [339][340][341], After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the Biden administration froze about $9 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, blocking the Taliban from accessing these billions of dollars in reserves held in U.S. bank accounts. [4] On his second day, he issued a series of executive orders to reduce the impact of COVID-19, including invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950, and set an early goal of achieving one hundred million COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States in his first 100 days.[5]. [325] In April 2021, President Biden formally announced that American troops would instead withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, which would signal an end to theU.S.'s longest war. [471], Many pundits had failed to predict the Democrats' resilient performance; Simon Rosenberg was one exception. Joe Biden's First 100 Days in Office - What Is President Biden's Plan? Amongst the hosts was Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, the UAE's national security adviser Tahnoun bin Zayed and director of the Emirati intelligence service, Ali Mohammed Hammad Al Shamsi. Lawyers for former stripper Lunden Roberts asked an Arkansas court Friday to jail the . That represents 730 days since his inauguration and a whole lot of other numbers as well. "By sheer volume, Biden is . Spicemas Launch 28th April, 2023 - Facebook [181], In January 2021, Biden had issued a 60-day ban on oil and gas leases and permits on federal land and waters. They spoke to Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates and leaders and condemned sexism, and racism against Asian Americans. [417][418], On February 25, 2021, President Biden ordered retaliatory airstrikes on buildings in Syria that the Department of Defense said were used by Iranian-backed militias to carry out rocket attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq. All but one of those were phone or video calls. Joe Biden: Age, Presidency, Family - History The number of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, that the administration has committed to send to Ukraine. [5][91] Biden signed an order on January 21 that directed FEMA to offer full reimbursements to states for the cost of using their own National Guard personnel and emergency supplies such as Personal Protective Equipment in schools. Politics latest updates: NHS 'on the brink' says nursing union as [386] On February 25, the White House announced the US would personally sanction Putin and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. [168] On January 27, 2021, Biden signed a number of executive orders aimed at combating climate change,[169] one of them setting climate change as a key consideration for U.S. national security and foreign policy. The reported 5,858 encounters in January to 9,457 in February constituted the largest one-month percentage increase in encounters with unaccompanied children since U.S. Customs and Border Protection began recording data in 2010. [114], Biden gave a speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on September 12, 2022, the 60th anniversary of Kennedy's We Choose to Go to the Moon speech, promoting his administration's revival of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot, including the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. 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The following is a timeline of the presidency of Joe Biden during the first quarter of 2021, beginning from his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021, to March 31, 2021. [125] While debates and negotiations over the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 were ongoing, some Republicans, including House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, Donald Trump Jr., and Rep. Madison Cawthorn, focused instead on the decision by the Dr. Seuss estate to stop publishing what many viewed as a racially-offensive Dr. Seuss book and the re-branding of the "Mr. It marked the first federal gun safety law to have been enacted in 30 years. April 14, 2023. When questioned about the apparent shortage of tests, Jen Psaki replied, Should we just send one to every American? Biden entered office amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic crisis, and increased political polarization. [494] The project is the country's second large-scale offshore wind project (after a similar wind-power development in Massachusetts). Democrats expanded their narrow Senate majority while Republicans took control of the House of Representatives by a far smaller margin than expected.