Accomplishments

Biden Administration Accomplishments

January, 2020 – June, 2023

Biden Administration Accomplishments For Working Americans

  • Bonus credit to companies to pay prevailing wages and hire Registered Apprentices (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Create good-paying jobs making clean energy in America (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • $0 (no) tax increase for families earning less than $400,000 a year (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • $800 annual savings on health insurance premiums for 13 million Americans (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • $500 annual savings for Americans through clean energy tax credit programs (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • 15% minimum tax on billion dollar corporations (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • 1% surcharge on corporate stock buy-backs (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Released gas from Strategic Petroleum Reserve, decreasing gas prices by more than $1.60 /gallon (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Lowers the cost of goods (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Ensures more American-made technologies (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Makes more semiconductors in America (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Creates more manufacturing jobs (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Companies have announced $300 billion in manufacturing investments in the US (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • More good-paying jobs, including union jobs and jobs that don’t require a four-year degree (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Helped create millions of jobs (American Rescue Plan)
  • Funded historic vaccination campaign to provide free COVID vaccinations (American Rescue Plan)
  • 79% of adults are fully vaccinated (American Rescue Plan)
  • Reopened all K-12 schools by providing funds to safely operate schools (American Rescue Plan)
  • Helped 200,000 child care providers keep their doors open (American Rescue Plan)
  • Delivered relief to American households with Economic Recovery checks (American Rescue Plan)
  • Largest investment in public transportation in American history (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Builds first-ever national network of EV charging stations (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Invests in rebuilding ports and airports (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Most significant investment in passenger rail service since Amtrak’s inception (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Builds a more resilient power grid and brings new clean energy technologies to scale (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Provides affordable, high-speed internet for every American (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Largest investment in rebuilding our road and bridges since the Interstate Highway System (1950s) (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures patients receive lifesaving care (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Protects access to reproductive health care, including abortion, during medical emergencies (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Protect patient privacy and sensitive health information (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights
  • Support the right to travel across state lines for medical care (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights

Biden Administration Accomplishments For Older Americans

  • $800 annual savings on health insurance premiums for 13 million Americans (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • $2,000 annual cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Medicare can finally negotiate the price of certain high-cost drugs (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Capped insulin at $35 for a month’s supply for seniors (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Funded historic vaccination campaign to provide free COVID vaccinations (American Rescue Plan)
  • 79% of adults are fully vaccinated (American Rescue Plan)
  • Lowers the cost of goods (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Largest investment in public transportation in American history (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Provides affordable, high-speed internet for every American (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Largest investment in rebuilding our road and bridges since the Interstate Highway System (1950s)
  • Most significant investment in passenger rail service since Amtrak’s inception

Biden Administration Accomplishments For Children

  • Reopened all K-12 schools by providing funds to safely operate schools (American Rescue Plan)
  • Funded historic vaccination campaign to provide free COVID vaccinations (American Rescue Plan)
  • Helped 200,000 child care providers keep their doors open (American Rescue Plan)
  • Provides affordable, high-speed internet for every American (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Expands mental health services in schools and support school safety (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Helps remove firearms from dangerous individuals (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • First major gun safety legislation in three decades (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)

Biden Administration Accomplishments For Veterans

  • Expands health care services for toxic-exposed veterans (PACT Act)
  • Removes red tape from eligibility process (PACT Act)
  • Delivers benefits to 5 million more veterans (PACT Act)
  • Authorized 31 new clinical sites (PACT Act)

Biden Administration Accomplishments For Manufacturing and Technology

  • $500 annual savings for Americans through clean energy tax credit programs (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Bonus credit to companies to pay prevailing wages and hire Registered Apprentices (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Create good-paying jobs making clean energy in America (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Lowers the cost of goods (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Ensures more American-made technologies (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Makes more semiconductors in America (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Creates more manufacturing jobs (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Companies have announced $300 billion in manufacturing investments in the US (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • More good-paying jobs, including union jobs and jobs that don’t require a four-year degree (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Helped create millions of jobs (American Rescue Plan)
  • Helped 200,000 child care providers keep their doors open (American Rescue Plan)
  • Funded historic vaccination campaign to provide free COVID vaccinations (American Rescue Plan)
  • 79% of adults are fully vaccinated (American Rescue Plan)
  • Largest investment in public transportation in American history (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Builds first-ever national network of EV charging stations (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Provides affordable, high-speed internet for every American (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Most significant investment in passenger rail service since Amtrak’s inception (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Largest investment in rebuilding our road and bridges since the Interstate Highway System (1950s) (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Builds a more resilient power grid and brings new clean energy technologies to scale (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)

Biden Administration Accomplishments For A Cleaner America

  • On track to cut emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero by 2050 (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • $500 annual savings for Americans through clean energy tax credit programs (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Create good-paying jobs making clean energy in America (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Largest investment in public transportation in American history (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Largest investment in tackling legacy pollution (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Builds first-ever national network of EV charging stations (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Most significant investment in passenger rail service since Amtrak’s inception (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Builds a more resilient power grid and brings new clean energy technologies to scale (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)

Biden Administration Accomplishments For Social Equity

  • Bonus credit to companies to pay prevailing wages and hire Registered Apprentices (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • More good-paying jobs, including union jobs and jobs that don’t require a four-year degree (CHIPS and Science Act)
  • Reopened all K-12 schools by providing funds to safely operate schools (American Rescue Plan)
  • Largest investment in public transportation in American history (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Provides affordable, high-speed internet for every American (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Secures protections for millions of same-sex and interracial couples (Respect for Marriage Act)
  • Reverses the discriminatory ban on transgender service members (Respect for Marriage Act)
  • Strengthens non-discrimination protections in health care, housing, education, and employment (Respect for Marriage Act)
  • Ensures transgender Americans can access government support and services (Respect for Marriage Act)
  • Bipartisan confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and other Federal judges of diverse backgrounds (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)
  • Appointed record percentages of women, racial and ethnic minorities, and civil rights lawyers and public defenders (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)
  • Ensures transgender Americans can access government support and services (Respect for Marriage Act)
  • Ensures patients receive lifesaving care (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Protects access to reproductive health care, including abortion, during medical emergencies (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Protect patient privacy and sensitive health information (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Support the right to travel across state lines for medical care (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Announced debt relief of up to $20,000 for Americans earning less than $125,000 per year who had Pell Grants and up to $10,000 for all other college-tuition borrowers below that income threshold; created plan to provide millions of these borrowers a more affordable, monthly student loan payment through changes to income-driven repayment plans (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)
  • Working to end our failed approach to marijuana by pardoning all federal offenses for simple marijuana possession and urging governors to do the same; initiated a process to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)
  • Signed an executive order on his first day in office directing the federal government to advance equity and racial justice; investing in communities facing persistent poverty and advancing programs and policies to deliver racial justice; delivered reforms to improve prison conditions and help people get back on their feet after incarceration; signed an executive order on safe, effective, and accountable policing that mandated federal reforms such as banning chokeholds, restricting no-knock entries, and creating a national police accountability database; and restricted transfer of military equipment to police departments (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)

Biden Administration Accomplishments For A Safer America

  • Funded historic vaccination campaign to provide free COVID vaccinations (American Rescue Plan)
  • 79% of adults are fully vaccinated (American Rescue Plan)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Largest investment in rebuilding our road and bridges since the Interstate Highway System (1950s) (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Helps remove firearms from dangerous individuals (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • Narrows the “boyfriend loophole” to keep guns out of the hands of convicted dating partners (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • Expands mental health services in schools and support school safety (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • First major gun safety legislation in three decades (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • Requires people age 18 to 21 to undergo enhanced background checks (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • Funds red flag laws and other crisis interventions (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • Clarifies who needs to register as a federally licensed gun dealer and run back background checks before selling a weapon (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
  • Makes gun trafficking and straw purchases (using a proxy buyer to purchase a firearm for someone who is unable to pass a background check) distinct federal crimes (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)

Biden Administration Accomplishments For A Healthier America

  • $800 annual savings on health insurance premiums for 13 million Americans (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • $500 annual savings for Americans through clean energy tax credit programs (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Create good-paying jobs making clean energy in America (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • On track to cut emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero by 2050 (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Medicare can finally negotiate the price of certain high-cost drugs (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Capped insulin at $35 for a month’s supply for seniors (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • $2,000 annual cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Funded historic vaccination campaign to provide free COVID vaccinations (American Rescue Plan)
  • 79% of adults are fully vaccinated (American Rescue Plan)
  • Ensures access to clean drinking water in every community by replacing lead pipes (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Largest investment in tackling legacy pollution (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Builds a more resilient power grid and brings new clean energy technologies to scale (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
  • Ensures patients receive lifesaving care (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Protects access to reproductive health care, including abortion, during medical emergencies (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Protect patient privacy and sensitive health information (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)
  • Support the right to travel across state lines for medical care (Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights)

Biden Administration Accomplishments For A Better World

  • On track to cut emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero by 2050 (Inflation Reduction Act)
  • Largest investment in tackling legacy pollution (Bipartisan Infrastructure Act)
  • Builds first-ever national network of EV charging stations
  • Most significant investment in passenger rail service since Amtrak’s inception (Bipartisan Infrastructure Act)
  • Builds a more resilient power grid and brings new clean energy technologies to scale (Bipartisan Infrastructure Act)
  • Rallied the world to support Ukraine by providing unprecedented security and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and imposed swift and severe sanctions on Russia (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)
  • Strengthened alliances and partnerships with our Allies, including congressional support for Sweden and Finland to join NATO; worked with the G7 alliance to coordinate an international responses to our biggest challenges, from energy security to sanctions on Russia; deepened our security and economic partnerships in the Indo-Pacific and brought Atlantic and Pacific partners to address our competition with China (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)
  • Ordered successful missions to remove key leaders of ISIS and Al Qaeda (Other Actions Taken by Biden Administration)