Part of the presidency of Joe Biden | |
Date | January 20, 2021 | – April 30, 2021
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Personal U.S. Senator from Delaware 47th Vice President of the United States Vice presidential campaigns 46th President of the United States Tenure |
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The first 100 days of Joe Biden's presidency began on January 20, 2021, the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. The first 100 days of a presidency took on symbolic significance during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term in office, and the period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president. The 100th day of Biden's presidency was April 30, 2021.
In his first 100 days, President Biden signed 42 executive orders, more than any of his predecessors since Harry S. Truman.[1] Many of these executive orders were reversals to Donald Trump's policies and to resume where Barack Obama—under whom Biden served as vice president—left off after his two terms in office. On March 11, he signed the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion bill to help relieve economic strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
Biden's first two years in office was concurrent with the Democrats holding a slim majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, with the elections of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Georgia, marked an overall government trifecta for the Democrats for the first time since the 111th Congress in 2009 at the beginning of Obama's presidency.[3] This was crucial in ensuring the passage of the American Rescue Plan, as every Republican senator voted against it.[4]