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• BIDENS DAY ONE AGENDA SERIES

President-elect Biden had supported and campaigned for both candidates prior to the runoff elections on January 5. 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. Kessler, and Yale University's Marcella Nunez-Smith. Two days after becoming the projected winner of the 2020 election, Biden announced the formation of a task force to advise him on the COVID-19 pandemic during the transition, co-chaired by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former FDA commissioner David A. On November 23, after Michigan certified its results, Murphy issued the letter of ascertainment, granting the Biden transition team access to federal funds and resources for an orderly transition. Murphy initially refused to begin the transition to the president-elect, thereby denying funds and office space to his team.

Though Biden was generally acknowledged as the winner, General Services Administration head Emily W. National Guard soldiers at the Capitol, January 20, 2021 2 Transition period, inauguration, and first 100 days.He responded to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia. However, during the withdrawal, the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control, leading to Biden receiving bipartisan criticism. foreign policy toward strategic competition with China and, to a lesser extent, Russia. military forces from Afghanistan, declaring an end to nation-building efforts and shifting U.S. In terms of foreign policy, Biden completed the withdrawal of U.S. Biden proposed an expansion of the social safety net through the Build Back Better Act, but those efforts, along with voting rights legislation, failed in Congress. He appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman, to serve on the U.S. 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. īiden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that temporarily established expanded unemployment insurance and sent $1,400 stimulus checks to most Americans in response to continued economic pressure from COVID-19.

BIDENS DAY ONE AGENDA SERIES

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. He also halted funding for Trump's border wall, an expansion of the Mexican border wall. participation in the Paris Agreement and revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. On the first day of his presidency, Biden made an effort to revert President Trump's energy policy by restoring U.S. Biden entered office amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic crisis, and increased political polarization. He was inaugurated alongside Kamala Harris, the first woman, first African American, and first Asian American vice president. Biden, a Democrat from Delaware who previously served as vice president under Barack Obama, took office following his victory in the 2020 presidential election over Republican incumbent president Donald Trump. Joe Biden's tenure as the 46th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2021.