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President Biden’s first 100 days
An overview of Biden and congressional Democrats’
priorities for the first 100 days of his presidency
April 29, 2021
PRODUCER
National Journal Presentation CenterVarious priorities promised by Biden to address in
his first 100 days
Immigration Unions
• Create an immigration reform bill, which would • Create a cabinet-level working group that will solely
include a path to citizenship for immigrants, an focus on promoting union organizing and
increase in the number of immigration and collective bargaining in the public and private
asylum judges, and provide health care for sectors
immigrants detained at the border
LGBTQ policy Gun violence
• Enact the Equality Act, which would ensure equal • Direct the FBI to produce a report detailing cases in
rights under the law for LGBTQ+ Americans which background checks are not completed
• Direct his Cabinet to ensure the Act is enforced within 10 business days
across all federal department and agencies • Direct the AG to deliver recommendations for
• Direct federal resources to help prevent violence restructuring the ATF and related Justice agencies
against transgender women, particularly • Repeal protections for gun manufacturers and
transgender women of color closing background check loopholes
VAWA Taxes
• Pass the Violence Against Women Act • Eliminate the 2017 tax cuts
• Double the taxes that companies who have gone
overseas have to pay on foreign profits
S O U R C E The State, The Washington Post, Joe Biden for President
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 10/15/20 2Overview of Biden’s first three months in office
Senate confirmations and impeachment trial
▪ Trump’s impeachment trial started soon after inauguration
▪ Twenty-one of Biden’s cabinet and cabinet-level members have been confirmed by the Senate
Addressing the coronavirus pandemic
▪ Passed a major stimulus bill
▪ Created a nation-wide testing strategy
▪ Overtook management of vaccine development and distribution
Reversing Trump admin policies
▪ Started the process of rejoining international orgs: Paris Climate Accord, WHO, Iran nuclear deal
▪ Reversed executive orders on immigration, reproductive health and civil rights
Advancing legislative priorities
▪ COVID-19 Relief (H.R.1319), American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
▪ Climate change and infrastructure, American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan
▪ Election reform (H.R. 1), reinstating the Voting Rights Act
▪ Immigration reform
S O U R C E National Journal
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 4/29/21 3Immediate executive actions by President Biden
Day 1
1. Student loans: Ask Dept. of Ed. to extend pause on repayment of federal loans and interest
2. Climate: Rejoin the Paris Climate Accord
3. Immigration: Reverse the “Muslim Ban”
4. Masks: Launch “100 Day Masking Challenge” and mandate mask wearing on federal property
and inter-state travel
5. Evictions: Extend nationwide restrictions on evictions and foreclosures
Day 2: Executive actions focused on mitigating COVID
Day 3: Executive actions focused on economic relief
January 25-February 1, 2021
1. Strengthen Buy American provisions
2. Criminal justice reform
3. Racial equity
4. Climate crisis and science
5. Reuniting families separated at Southern border
S O U R C E National Journal
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 1/19/21 4Immediate executive actions by President Biden
February 22- March 24, 2021
1. American Rescue Plan
2. Gender discrimination
3. Voting access
4. Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions
5. Immigration policy
6. America’s supply chains
March 31-April 29, 2021
1. American Jobs Plan and Made in America Tax Plan
2. Gun control
3. Establishment of Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court
4. Addressing Russian interference in US elections
5. Worker organizing and collective bargaining
6. Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors
7. American Families Plan
Day 100 = April 29, 2021
S O U R C E National Journal, WhiteHouse.gov.
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 4/29/21 5Potential roadblocks to a president’s agenda
• In the Senate, most legislation requires 60 votes to advance to a final yes/no vote
Filibuster • Limited legislation can be passed with a simple majority vote, via “reconciliation”
• The majority party could abolish the filibuster by a simple majority vote on a rule
change
• Democrat’s majority margin will be slim in the Senate
Intra-party • Centrist factions will hold outsized influence over legislation: conservative
Democrats and liberal Republicans
divisions
• Reforms supported by only one party will be difficult to pass if not moderated
• Many regulations issued by the Trump administration have been stalled in court
Court
• Any administration is likely to see most executive actions challenged in court, which
challenges could delay any quick attempts at reform
S O U R C E Politico, NPR
A S H L E Y T H I E M E 1/19/21 6President Joe Biden’s cabinet picks
PICTURE BORDER INDICATES NOMINEE HAS BEEN CONFIRMED
Vice President State Treasury Defense
Kamala Harris Antony Blinken Janet Yellen Lloyd Austin
Attorney General Interior Agriculture Commerce
Merrick Garland Deb Haaland Tom Vilsack Gina Raimondo
Health & Human Housing & Urban
Labor Transportation
Services Development
Marty Walsh Pete Buttigieg
Xavier Becerra Marcia Fudge
Homeland
Energy Education Veterans Affairs
Security
Jennifer Granholm Miguel Cardona Denis McDonough
Alejandro Mayorkas
Cabinet-level officials
Director of the
White House White House Office of Science EPA
Chief of Staff OMB Director and Technology Administrator
Ronald Klain TBD Policy Michael Regan
Eric Lander
US Ambassador
Director of Nat’l US Trade Small Business
to the UN
Intelligence Representative Administrator
Linda Thomas-
Avril Haines Katherine Tai Isabel Guzman
Greenfield
S O U R C E Biden-Harris Transition. Politico
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 4/29/21 7Status of legislative priorities for the first 100 days
COVID-19 stimulus Health care
• H.R.1319 – American Rescue Plan Act of • H.R.153 – Protecting Consumer Access to
2021: Became Law Generic Drugs Act of 2021: Introduced
• H.R.3 – Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs
Now Act: Introduced
Climate change/infrastructure Immigration
• H.R. 1512 - Climate Leadership and • S.264 – Dream Act of 2021: Introduced
Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act • H.R.1177/S.348 – US Citizenship Act:
of 2021: Introduced Introduced
• On March 31, Biden released his American Jobs
Plan, a $2 trillion proposal to restore and
upgrade US infrastructure
Education Political/government reform
• S.96/H.R.604 – Reopen and Rebuild • H.R.1 – For the People Act of 2021: Passed
America’s Schools Act of 2021: Introduced House
• On April 28, Biden released his American
Families Plan, a $1.8 trillion proposal which
includes investments in child care, universal
preschool, and free community college
S O U R C E The State, The Washington Post, AP News, WhiteHouse.gov, Congress.gov
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 4/29/21 8Biden’s American Rescue Plan overview
Key Provisions
• ~$1.9T price tag Topline breakdown (in billions)*
• ~$15B for distributing vaccines Direct relief (checks, UI) $1,000
• ~$50B to expand testing and contact tracing Business, state, local & tribal $480
• ~$130B to K-12 schools for safety equipment
Vaccines, testing & schools $400
• $1,400 stimulus checks for individuals earning less than
$75,000/year plus $1,400 for every dependent of qualifying
individuals, regardless of age
Timeline
• $300/week in supplemental unemployment benefits
through September 6, 2021 • Initial bill passed House on February 27, 2021
• Amended bill passed Senate on March 6, 2021
• Child tax credit increases for couples earning less than • House passed amended bill on March 10, 2021
$150,000/year and single parents earning less than
$112,500/year • Key changes:
• Decreased income cap for checks
• Earned Income Tax Credit increase from ~$540 to • Decreased supplemental UI benefit but
~$1,500 for childless people
extended length
• Additional PPP funding and increased definition of which • Removed minimum wage increase
organizations can receive PPP funding (blocked by secretary of the Senate)
• Biden signed the bill into law on March 11, 2021
• Additional funding for airline and restaurant industries
* Numbers in graph are approximate, due to complexities of the bill and appropriations of funding
S O U R C E Associated Press News, House Committee on the Budget, New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC, Investopedia, GovTrack, CBS News, ABC.
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 3/8/21 9American Jobs Plan summary
BACKGROUND: On March 31st, President Biden released his $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, a proposal to restore and
upgrade US infrastructure, and his Made in America Tax Plan, a proposal to overhaul the corporate tax code and fully fund
the American Jobs Plan within 15 years. The American Jobs Plan focuses on:
Repairing highways, roads, and bridges Expanding high-speed broadband
internet access
Completing and Shifting towards clean
upgrading new schools energy
Purpose Outlook
▪ Rebuild US infrastructure after ▪ Republican support for the plan in
decades of disinvestment the Senate appears unlikely
▪ Create millions of jobs ▪ To avoid the filibuster, Democrats
▪ Position the US to out-compete would need the support of their
China entire caucus plus ten Republican
senators
▪ Democrats could use budget
reconciliation to pass the
legislation with a simple majority,
which they already used to pass
the American Rescue Plan
S O U R C E NPR, The White House, Vox
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 4/5/21 10Rollback of Trump policies via executive order
T O P I C D E T A I L S
• Rejoin the Paris Climate Accord
• Reinstate or expand Obama-era mileage standards, reversing the Trump
administration’s decrease of annual fuel economy increases from 5% to
Environment 1.5% through 2026
• Reinstate mercury and air toxics standards, an Obama-era policy that
mandated that power plants use certain mercury pollution controls
• Re-establish relationships with our allies, calling world leaders before
his inauguration to say “we’re back and you can count on us again”
Foreign policy • Rejoin the World Health Organization (WHO), which Trump withdrew
from in July, and restore American leadership
• Restore all Trump administration limitations on the Affordable Care Act
and instruct his administration to drop the federal lawsuit to strike down
Health care the ACA
• Reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era health policies
• End family separations at the border and prosecution of parents for
minor immigration violations
• Reverse EO 13769, known as the Muslim ban by opponents
Immigration • Reverse the public charge rule
• Reverse Trump administration policies that have reduced the refugee
program, and would seek to raise the admissions cap
S O U R C E Reuters, The State, The New York Times, The Washington Post, EHS Daily Advisor
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 10/15/20 11After 100 days in office, 57% of voters
approve of President Biden’s job performance
Do you approve or disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance?
MORNING CONSULT POLL CONDUCTED APRIL 24-26, 2021 OF 14,872 REGISTERED VOTERS
■ Approve ■ Disapprove ■ Don’t know or other
All voters 57% 39% 4%
Democratic 94% 5%
Indpendent 50% 40% 9%
Republican 18% 80%
S O U R C E Morning Consult.
P R E S E N T A T I O N C E N T E R 4/29/21 12You can also read
