THE BIDEN-HARRIS RECORD
When President Biden and Vice President Harris took office, our country faced unprecedented crises - a raging pandemic, economic crisis, climate crisis, and racial injustice. The President and Vice President ran for office on the promise to move quickly to tackle these crises head-on and deliver results for working families. That’s what the Biden-Harris Administration has done.
President Biden and Vice President Harris ran for office on the promise to move quickly to deliver results for working families. That's what they've done.
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TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Lowering Costs of Families’ Everyday Expenses
• More People Are Working Than At Any Point in American History
• Making More in America
• Rescued the Economy and Changed the Course of the Pandemic
• Rebuilding our Infrastructure
• Historic Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans
• The First Meaningful Gun Violence Reduction Legislation in 30 Years
• Protected Marriage for LGBTQI+ and Interracial Couples
• Historic Confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Federal Judges of Diverse Backgrounds
• Rallied the World to Support Ukraine in Response to Putin’s Aggression
• Strengthened Alliances and Partnerships to Deliver for the American People
• Successful Counterterrorism Missions Against the Leaders of Al Qaeda and ISIS
• Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights
• Historic Student Debt Relief for Middle- and Working-Class Families
• Ending our Failed Approach to Marijuana
• Advancing Equity and Racial Justice, Including Historic Criminal Justice Reform
• Delivering on the Most Aggressive Climate and Environmental Justice Agenda in American History
• More People with Health Insurance Than Ever Before
THAT’S NOT ALL — PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS ALSO:
• Advanced cutting-edge research on cancer and other diseases through the ARPA-H initiative
• Signed legislation to put more cops on the beat and invest in community policing
• Signed the Electoral Count Act, which takes long overdue steps to protect the integrity of our elections
• Lowered the cost of hearing aids by making them available over the counter
• Created more manufacturing jobs in 2022 than in any single year in nearly 30 years
• Signed an Executive Order to encourage competition across industries
• Took action to lower energy costs for families
• Lowered seniors’ health care expenses, including by capping out of pocket expenses on prescription drugs for seniors at $2,000 per year, ensuring that people enrolled in Medicare will not pay more than $35 for a month’s supply of insulin, and recipients will receive free vaccines
• Accelerated adoption of electric vehicles by reducing costs for families, jumpstarted the first national EV charging network, and made historic investments into EV batteries and materials
• Rejoined the Paris Agreement on day one to reassert the United States global leadership to combat the climate crisis
• Jumpstarted the American offshore wind industry and convened the nation’s first federal-state offshore wind partnership
• Set new policies to reduce super pollutants like HFCs and methane to protect communities and reduce emissions fueling climate change
• Lowered the deficit with the single largest annual reduction in American history
• Secured commitments from 20 leading internet providers to increase speeds and cut prices
• Signed legislation to reauthorize and strengthen the Violence Against Women Act
• Awarded the most ever federal contracting dollars to small businesses and disadvantaged small businesses
• Reignited the Cancer Moonshot with the goal of cutting the cancer death rate by at least half over the next 25 years
• Appointed a record number of women and people of color to serve in his Administration
• Hosted the first White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in over 50 years and released a National Strategy to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases and disparities by 2030
• Awarded more than $1 billion to initiate cleanup and clear the backlog of 49 previously unfunded Superfund sites, over $250 million to clean up hundreds of contaminated brownfield sites and $725 million for abandoned mine lands
• Restored protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments and designated Camp Hale-
• Continental Divide National Monument to conserve our lands and waters, honor our nation’s veterans, protect Tribal cultural resources, and support jobs and America’s outdoor recreation economy
• Signed an Executive Order on Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People
• Invested historic funding for Tribal governments and Native communities
• Mailed over 740 million free COVID-19 tests directly to tens of millions of Americans
Results For The American People
• Two strongest years of job growth in history
• More than 40 million borrowers stand to benefit from student debt relief
• Nearly 11 million jobs created since 2021
• Taken over 100 actions to lower household energy costs by $100 per year
• Helped bring gas prices down more than $1.60 from their summer 2022 peak
• Signed the most significant gun violence prevention legislation in nearly 30 years
• Increased the maximum value of Pell Grants by $900
• 3.5% unemployment rate — the lowest in 50 years
• 750,000 new manufacturing jobs
• Near a record low unemployment rate for Hispanics
• Near a record low unemployment rate for African-Americans
• Record low unemployment rate for people with disabilities
• Millions of Americans are saving $800 per year on health insurance coverage
• $15 minimum wage for Federal workers and contractors
• Fully vaccinated 79% of American adults against COVID-19
• Led the world in a historic release of strategic reserves
• Infrastructure investments in all 50 states, D.C., territories, and throughout Tribal nations
• Over 16 million households receiving lower cost or free high-speed internet through the Affordable Connectivity Program
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