What President Biden Has Done - Year One

  • Restores daily press briefings1

  • Cancel Keystone Pipeline

  • Reverse Trump’s Muslim ban

  • Require masks on federal property

  • Rejoins the Paris Climate agreement

  • Extend Student Loan payment freeze

  • Extend eviction freeze

  • Historic stimulus bill passed: - Click to see who was helped - Created nearly 8 million jobs, 200 million Americans fully vaccinated, and unemployment claims are the lowest on average since 1969. It also re-opened 99% of schools and sparked the fastest economic growth in decades

  • Ends funding for Border wall

  • Orders agencies to reunite families separated at border by Trump

  • Orders strengthening of DACA

  • Rejoins The World Health Organization

  • Requires non-citizens to be included in the Census

  • Creates the position of Covid-19 Response Coordinator

  • Rescinds Trump’s 1776 Commission and directs agencies to review actions to ensure racial equity

  • Prohibits administration members from lobbying or registering as foreign agents for two years after leaving

  • Invokes Defense Production Act to produce masks, PPE and vaccines

  • Provide funding to local and state officials to create vaccination sites

  • Ends transgender military ban

  • Ends Federal Contracts With Private Prisons

  • Restores Aid To Palestinians

  • Suspends new leases for oil & natural gas development on federal land

  • Restores access to healthcare.gov

  • Extends fair housing protections to include LGBTQ Americans

  • Ends support for Saudi Arabia led campaign in Yemen

  • Withdraws UN sanctions on Iran

  • Daily Covid deaths reduced in half after one month

  • Secured enough vaccinations for the entire US population

  • Historic stimulus bill passed: - Click to see who was helped (*this link is broken and I don’t know how to fix it because it was hosted on a private GDrive)

  • 1/3 of Americans vaccinated in his first 60 days

  • 1/2 million added to Obamacare healthcare rolls in 6 weeks

  • Extends universal free school lunch through 2022

  • Commits to cutting U.S. emissions in half by 2030 as part of Paris climate pact

  • Reverses Trump’s Anti-Trans Shelter Rule

  • Officially recognizes massacre of Armenians in World War I as genocide

  • Raises Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors and Federal Employees to $15

  • Cancels all border wall contracts using funds intended for military missions

  • Creates new operation to crack down on human smuggling

END OF FIRST 100 DAYS

  • Reverses Trump effort to loosen Arctic drilling restrictions

  • Restores Transgender Health Protections

  • Lifts Secrecy of Visitor Logs Cloaked by Trump

  • Suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  • Restores $1 billion in federal funding for California high speed rail Trump had cut

  • Grows US Economy 6.4% in 1st quarter - 2021

  • In first six months regained job numbers lost under Trump administration. (3 million)

  • Prohibits payday lenders from charging interest rates above that of what individual states allow

  • Reinstalls rules removed by Trump limiting methane emissions from leaks and flares in oil and gas wells

  • Enacts massive EO that provides 76 distinct actions to increase competition, reduce monopolies, and eliminate laws that unfairly treat workers. Including:

    • Eliminating non-compete clauses
    • Stop businesses from collaborating to reduce wages/benefits
    • Stop big tech companies purchasing competitors to unfairly compete with small businesses
    • Importation of prescription drugs from Canada and increase support for generics
    • Hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter
    • Requiring airlines to refund consumer fees when bags are late or Wi-Fi doesn’t work
    • Crack down on railroads and ocean shipping to reduce costs of transporting goods
    • Other anti-monopoly legislation with agriculture, banking and internet

  • 2nd quarter 2021 economy grows 6.5% - Economy surpasses pre-pandemic levels.

  • Achieves historic 45% reduction of poverty levels in first six months

  • Achieves historic 61% reduction of child poverty in first six months

  • Reaches goal of vaccinating 70% of adult Americans

  • Cut Obamacare premiums by 40%

  • Bans the pesticide chlorpyrifos, linked to neurological damage in young children

  • PAWS Act, allowing VA to pay for service dogs for veterans

Student Loan Forgiveness:

  • Round One: Cancels $1 Billion in Student Loan Debt

  • Round Two: Cancels another $1.3 billion in student loan debt

  • Round Three: Cancels another $500 Million In Student Loan Debt (6/16/21)

  • Round Four: Erases student debt for students with disabilities - ($5.8 Billion)

  • Round Five: $1.1 billion in student debt for 115,000 ITT students

    (Three more rounds have occurred in 2022)

  • Forms new Indo-Pacific alliance with UK, Australia allowing for greater sharing of defense capabilities

  • Adds measles to list of quarantinable diseases

  • LGBTQ veterans discharged dishonorably for sexual orientation get full benefits

  • Lifts abortion referral ban on family planning clinics

  • Ended the 20 Year War in Afghanistan - The longest war in American History

  • Global leadership bounce back from record lows

  • Secures agreement of G20 to block corporations from moving jobs or profits overseas in order to avoid paying taxes by establishing a world minimum tax for corporations of 15%

  • Passes largest infrastructure improvement bill in history

  • $11 billion in transportation safety programs

  • $7.5 billion for electric vehicles and EV charging

  • $2.5 billion in zero-emission buses

  • $2.5 billion in low-emission buses and $2.5 billion for ferries

  • $21 billion in environmental remediation

  • $47 billion for flooding & coastal resiliency and “climate resiliency,” including protections against fires

  • $39 billion to modernize transit, largest federal investment in public transit in history

  • $25 billion for airports

  • $17 billion in port infrastructure

  • $11 billion in transportation safety programs

  • $11O billion for roads, bridges, and other much-needed infrastructure

  • $40 billion for bridge repair, replacement, and rehabilitation

  • $17.5 billion is for other major projects

  • $73 billion for electric grid and power structures

  • $66 billion for rail services;

  • $65 billion for broadband

  • $1.47B in loans for forgiveness through PSLF program updates, and $2.82B with employer verification

  • 52 year low in unemployment after one year as president

  • Returns land to Texas family seized for Trump’s border wall

  • Imposes Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in Global Illicit Drug Trade

  • Aside from one Afghanistan strike early on, Biden has ended drone strikes

  • 2.7% average across-the-board pay raise for federal employees

  • Ban goods made by Uyghur slave labor

  • Accelerated Access to Critical Therapies for ALS

  • Distributes $1.5 Billion to Strengthen School Meal Program

  • Formally ends combat mission in Iraq

  • Requiring autos to get 55 MPG by 2026 - Reversing Trump rollbacks - up from 37 MPG we now have

  • Job growth in Biden’s first year tops 6.4 million - Sharpest one-year drop in US history

  • Requires insurance companies to cover cost of at-home covid tests

  • $14 billion for over 500 projects for 2022 to strengthen supply chain and waterways

  • Order to fight malicious cyber activity, from both nation-state actors and cyber criminals

  • Small Business Applications Are 30 Percent Above Pre-Pandemic Levels

  • Farmers flourish under Biden, see recovery from Trump-era trade wars

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RECORD FIRSTS IN PRESIDENT BIDEN’S FIRST YEAR

President Biden and Vice President Harris delivered results for the American people in their first year in office. The President and Vice President made history growing our economy, addressing the climate crisis, and building a judiciary and government that represents America. Despite unprecedented challenges, 2021 was a year of record progress for working families.

  • Jobs: President Biden’s first year was the greatest year of job creation in American history, with more than 8 million jobs created.
  • Unemployment Rate: The unemployment rate dropped from 6.2% when Biden took office to 3.9%, the biggest single-year drop in American history.
  • Unemployment Claims: The average number of Americans filing for unemployment has been near its lowest level since 1969. When the President took office, over 18 million were receiving unemployment benefits, today only 2 million are—also the biggest single-year drop in history.
  • Economic Legislation Passed: Most significant by economic impact of any first-year president.
  • Economy growth is faster than China’s for first time in 20 years - Strongest economic growth since 1984
  • Child Poverty: Experts estimate the lowest child poverty rate ever in 2021.
  • Expanded Access to Health Care: Nearly 5 million Americans have newly gained health insurance coverage.
  • Reduced Hunger: The number of households reporting that they sometimes or often did not have enough food to eat dropped by 32%.
  • Judges Confirmed: More judges confirmed to lower federal courts than any president since President Kennedy.
  • Judges That Reflect Our Nation: More Black women appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals than any president – even over 8 years – in history.
  • Cabinet: First majority non-white Cabinet in history, with most women in the Cabinet, including first woman Treasury Secretary, first LGBTQ+ and Native American Cabinet officials, and first woman Director of National Intelligence.
  • Climate Investments: Largest investments ever in the power grid, electric vehicle chargers, and climate resilience.
  • Clean Water: Largest investment and national, bipartisan plan to get safe and clean drinking water to all Americans.
  • Cleaner Cars: Strongest vehicle emissions standards ever to save drivers money at the pump and reduce pollution.
  • Wind: First-ever approvals of large-scale offshore wind projects.
  • Personnel: Most diverse Administration in history – most women, people of color, disability, LGBTQ+, first-generation American, and first-generation college graduates
  • Drone airstrikes fell 54% compared to Trump
  • Worker’s Rights: 70% of first-year executive orders protect worker’s rights
  • Bankruptcy Filings: Plunged to Lowest Number Since 1985
  • Agricultural Exports Shattered Records in 2021
  • Global approval of US up 15 points during Biden’s first year
  • 5.4 million new small business applications: 20 percent higher than any previous year on record
  • Tripled installation of offshore wind turbines

ORIGINAL POST
Credit: /u/backpackwayne on Reddit

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Edits:
1 Original ABC News link broke; replaced with equivalent article from The Guardian.