A laser focus on the pandemic and economic insecurity has him in good shape at the traditional check-in point.
Wednesday will make one hundred days in office for President Joe Biden and he’ll mark the occasion with a speech to a joint session of Congress. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro assesses “ How Biden Has Fared So Far On His Promises.” Before being elected president, Joe Biden promised he could accomplish a lot of things in his first 100 days in office. We gathered a number of those priorities here, two days after he was declared the winner of the 2020 election. As we approach the 100-day mark of his presidency, and ahead of his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Biden has made a lot of progress on COVID-19, and Americans largely approve of the job he’s doing handling the coronavirus pandemic and the economy. It’s a different story, however, when it comes to immigration, which polls show is the president’s biggest vulnerability at this point. H has also made efforts on racial justice, the environment and switching back to a more multilateral approach to foreign policy. But so far he has not been able to get everything done that he set out to do. Here’s where Biden stands on much of what he promised (jump down to the details on each topic from the graphic): The version on their page is interactive, with each of the major topics linking to its own breakout page. For the sake of posterity, here’s a static version: Granting that most of the DONE agenda was low-hanging fruit or merely required starting the ball rolling, not bad for 100 days, especially given that the impeachment of his predecessor sucked up several days’ bandwidth and contributed to the delays in getting his team in place. Conversely, many of the IT’S COMPLICATED tasks are so big that it’s silly to expect much progress in 100 days; indeed, some will require more than a single presidential term. CNN White House reporter Stephen Collinson is somewhat uncharitable in his assessment, “How Biden anchored his first 100 days on two simple principles.
