What Did President Biden Do In His First 100 Days?

President Joe Biden entered the White House in the midst of a deadly pandemic that had killed more than 400,000 Americans by Inauguration Day and left millions without jobs as a result of a steep economic downturn.

Here’s a look back on how the Biden administration set about tackling these unprecedented challenges in his first 100 days including rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine, passing a $1.9 trillion stimulus package, handling the crisis at the southern border and proposing trillions of dollars in government policies aimed at helping middle class families.

In his first 100 days as president, Joe Biden has made one thing clear — he wants to make sure the U.S. outcompetes China on a number of fronts, with technology being front and center.

His policies continue the Trump-era hardline on export controls to Chinese technology companies but adds some new elements — collaboration with allies in areas seen as critical, such as semiconductors and a focus on beefing up domestic capabilities.

“The priority is on domestic innovation and forging technology alliances to coordinate confrontation against China in the tech domain,” Paul Triolo, head of the geo-technology practice at Eurasia Group, said.

What has Biden done so far?

The Biden administration has kept some Trump-era export bans on Chinese companies. Under Trump, telecommunication equipment maker Huawei and China’s largest chipmaker SMIC were put on the so-called “entity list,” which restricts American firms from exporting technology to companies on this blacklist.

Last year, the Trump administration introduced a rule that effectively cut Huawei off from critical semiconductor supplies, a move which has hurt the technology giant’s smartphone business. The U.S. maintains Huawei is a national security threat, a claim the Chinese firm has repeatedly denied.

For Trump, ensuring U.S. technology did not make it into the hands of Chinese companies was key, especially in critical areas like chips.

While Biden has kept these rules in place, he has also announced policies aimed at boosting American innovation.

“Where the Trump administration tended to focus on defensive measures (e.g., restrictions on Chinese military companies), early messaging about Biden’s approach suggests that it pairs those with more offensive, or proactive ones — investments, for example, in alternatives to China,” said Emily de La Bruyere, co-founder of consultancy Horizon Advisory.

In his American Jobs Plan, Biden calls on Congress to make a $180 billion investment in advancing “U.S. leadership in critical technologies and upgrade America’s research infrastructure.” There is also a call to invest $50 billion in manufacturing and research, via the bipartisan CHIPS Act.

Earlier this month, a number of Democrat and Republican lawmakers reintroduced the Endless Frontier Act to the legislative process. This proposes changing the name of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to the National Science and Technology Foundation (NSTF). This is an independent agency of the U.S. government aimed at advancing scientific research.

A technology directorate would be set up under the newly-named NSTF and would be given $100 billion over five years to “reinvigorate American leadership in the discovery and application of key technologies that will define global competitiveness.”

The directorate would fund research in 10 key areas including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, robotics, materials sciences, advanced communications technologies, among others.

The focus on domestic investment but also maintaining export controls is “primarily driven by the perceived need to protect the U.S. company technology leadership in key areas such as semiconductor manufacturing,” Triolo said.

But “raising new barriers around U.S. technologies and essentially weaponizing key supply chains as part of an effort to contain China’s rise are (also) part of the Biden strategy,” he added.

Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - Stimulus package
3:47 - Vaccine rollout
5:38 - Reopening schools
6:58 - Immigration
7:50 - Infrastructure proposal
9:03 - American Families Plan

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What Did President Biden Do In His First 100 Days?

[arayabuchichi]

Who immediately went straight to the comment section 😂?

[marcosmedia]

Went straight to the comments and looked at comments saying that they went straight to the comments.

[flosteader]

He has done an amazing job of sending this country into a downward spiral. Ready or not

[dctifosi]

The comments are more truthful than the content. That said, the big guy did a great job in the first 100 days carrying out Trump's vaccine plan

[matthiasleyva]

pretty sure he said only dictators use executive orders, as he signs 30+ in the first week

[mark-]

He hit my expectations. This country is going to hell in a hand basket. Quickly. Right on track.

[josephderouin]

Why do they all act like we didn’t see him on the TV the whole world saw him how stupid do they think we are

[Resonance_Of_Life]

Played with his dog, Played Golf, Fell down, Slept, read teleprompter, misread teleprompter, Slept some more, Had strings pulled, Forgot what he said, played video games, lost at video games but was told he won to make him happy! Oh yeah, lots and lots of rehearsing before pre authorized questions during press briefings!

[Mr_Swigward]

He passed a record number of radical executive orders. Also, he fell up the stairs.

[itamararonson]

"We have to declare a war on everything; we have a war on crime, the war on poverty, the war on litter, the war on cancer, the war on drugs, but did you ever notice we got no war on homelessness? Huh? No war on Homelessness, you know why? There’s no money in that problem, no money to be made off of the homeless." - George Carlin

[krl]

he lied about a bunch of stuff and is planning to run up a 6 trillion dollar debt in record time.

[mugumyapaultheafricannomad]

I'm i the only one who was interested in comments just after seeing the title of this video??
Straight to comments, i will figure out if i watch it or not later 😆😆😆

[lesliechow]

he opened the border and laid off pipeline workers! Congrats!

[iamrobotc]

Well he spent 10 trillion dollars like a Democrat, ramped up human trafficking on the southern border, canceled the pipeline deal he swore in the debates he wouldn’t, raised my gas about $1.50, fell up a flight of stairs and managed to say the NWord on live tv in his address to Munich... pretty much what we were expecting from someone who would get interviewed by Cardi B...

[luisavitia]

I live in New Mexico the gas was 1.79, now 2.80.

[gonefishn]

Killed thousands of jobs, created a crisis at the border, broke promises he made on his campaign trail from his basement, fell up some steps getting on Airforce One (three times) etc etc etc....

[tabithaekeberg]

Wowser. The media is having to do some heavy lifting these days.

[brandonmc]

Paying people to stay home instead of go to work... great plan for success

[hiryurhys]

Run up the debt beyond any hope of ever driving the USA back into the black...

[travisrogers]

He won both the Princess Cup and Mushroom Cup on Mario Cart 50cc. HIGH FIVE!