Week 37
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Friday, October 1 | - President Biden travels to Capitol Hill where a divided Democratic Party is struggling to pass a Senate-approved infrastructure bill.[1] Questioned on the deadline, Biden said "It doesn't matter when. It doesn't whether it's in six minutes, six days, or six weeks -- we're going to get it done."[2]
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Saturday, October 2 | - President Biden works to pass the infrastructure bill and says frustration is part of government before leaving for the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware.[3]
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Sunday, October 3 | | |
Week 38
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Monday, October 4 | - President Biden returns to the White House to announce that the government could breach its $28.4 trillion debt limit in a historic default unless both parties join to vote on the infrastructure bill in the coming weeks.[4]
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Tuesday, October 5 |
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Wednesday, October 6 | - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offer a short-term suspension on the U.S. debt celling to avert an economical crisis until Democrats are able to pass a permanent solution.[7]
- President Biden meets with multiple CEOs of several major banks to talk about the debt ceiling.[8]
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Thursday, October 7 | - President Biden says that more U.S. businesses need vaccine mandates.[9]
- NASA posts a video called Get Curious with Vice President Harris on YouTube.[10]
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Friday, October 8 | - President Biden signs a bill called the HAVANA Act authorizing additional support for diplomats and government officials who are suffering from Havana syndrome.[11]
- President Biden signs a proclamation restoring the Bear Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments.[12]
- President Biden delivers remarks on the economy and job creation figures for September.[13]
- President Biden issues a proclamation to make Indigenous Peoples' Day a federal holiday, making him the first president to do so.[14]
- President Biden rejects the attempt by former president Donald Trump to assert the executive privilege over records relating to the 2021 Capitol attack.[15]
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Week 39
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Monday, October 11 | - President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden attend his nephew's wedding, Cuffe Owens, who is the son of President Biden's sister Valerie Biden Owens, to reality TV star Meghan O'Toole King.[16]
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Tuesday, October 12 | - President Biden extends the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to next year.[17]
- Vice President Harris meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.[18]
- The Biden administration announced that they would no longer carry out mass arrests of unauthorized immigrants at worksites, instead focusing on, in Antony Blinken's words, illegal acts committed by unscrupulous employers.[19]
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Wednesday, October 13 | - President Biden signs two acts into law, H.R. 2278, which links the September 11th National Memorial Trail with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, and the Flight 93 National Memorial. The second act is S. 848, known as "Consider Teachers Act of 2021", which modifies the service obligation verification process for TEACH Grant recipients and to extend the service obligation window due to the pandemic.[20]
- The Biden administration announces the expansion of offshore wind energy for a clean energy revolution, potentially holding as many as seven new offshore lease sales by 2025.[21]
- President Biden delivers remarks about easing supply chain bottlenecks. The carriers of these goods, Walmart, FedEx, and UPS, will work around the clock.[22]
- Vice President Harris holds a meeting with Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley.[23]
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Thursday, October 14 | - President Biden delivers remarks about vaccine mandates.[24]
- President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House.[25]
- The Biden administration plans to restart the Remain in Mexico policy starting in mid-November.[26]
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Friday, October 15 |
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Saturday, October 16 | - President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden honor fallen law enforcement officers at the United States Capitol for the 40th National Peace Officers' Memorial Service.[32]
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Sunday, October 17 | | |
Week 40
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Monday, October 18 |
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Tuesday, October 19 | - President Biden extends the deadline to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act for the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking to February 2022.[36]
- President Biden signs an executive order that hopes to eliminate racial problems in the U.S. education system among African-Americans, and improve their education and financial outcomes.[37]
- Jen Psaki and an analysis from the New York Post confirms that the government is flying illegal underage Haitian immigrants from the Florida border to New York early in the morning.[38]
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Wednesday, October 20 | - President Biden delivers remarks about his bipartisan infrastructure bill and his childhood in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.[39]
- Staff members of The White House celebrates Vice President Harris' birthday, including Biden and her husband Emhoff.[40]
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Thursday, October 21 | - President Biden attends a CNN Town Hall located in Baltimore, Maryland, hosted by Anderson Cooper.[41] He blamed OPEC for the increasing gas prices. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia's minister of energy, Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, said that they have a limited role in oil and that he is upset that gas oil is overshadowing actual real problems.[42] [43]
- President Biden and Vice President Harris celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Biden compared his priorities on voting rights, police reform, and climate change to that of King Jr. in the civil rights movement. He mainly remarked about the infrastructure bill debate and the COVID-19 pandemic. Harris said that King was a prophet and said that the monument is "dedicated to a man who lived among us".[44]
- Vice President Harris campaigns with former Virginia governor and gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Dumfries ahead of the gubernatorial election.[45]
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Friday, October 22 | - President Biden delays release of documents of the JFK assassination, citing pandemic related issues. The documents will release on December 15 of 2021 out of respect, while the remaining ones will be reviewed and will release the same day next year.[46]
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Week 41
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Monday, October 25 | - President Biden goes to New Jersey to promote his economic agenda, saying that the infrastructure bill is for "rebuilding the arteries of America" and speaking in length about the Portal Bridge at a maintenance facility in Kearny, New Jersey. He also spoke in an elementary school in Plainfield about a fundamental shift in learning.[48]
- President Biden rejects the latest executive privilege request by former President Donald Trump to keep the documents of the January 6 Capitol attack out of Congress' hands.[49]
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Tuesday, October 26 |
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Wednesday, October 27 |
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Thursday, October 28 | - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sues President Biden over his vaccine mandates, alleging that the president doesn't have the authority and that it violates procurement law.[53]
- After months of negotiations, President Biden announces the framework for his infrastructure bill ahead of his trip to Rome. House Speaker Pelosi appeared at an afternoon news conference announcing the proposal, but did not vote on it. Senator Bernie Sanders encouraged progressive colleagues to vote out of the package, saying that it needed to be improved and that it had some gaps.[54]
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Friday, October 29 |
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Saturday, October 30 |
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Sunday, October 31 | - President Biden convenes with world leaders during the G20 summit to address supply chain changes and other interruptions in the global economy.[60]
- President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[61]
- President Biden and the leader of the European Union Ursula von der Leyen announce a deal that will crack down on "dirty steel" from China that cause climate change.[62]
- White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that she tested positive for COVID-19.[63]
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Week 42
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Monday, November 1 | - President Biden attends the COP26 conference in Glasgow and mainly remarks about climate change.[64]
- President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to share concerns over the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état and agreed that the Burmese military must cease violence, release political prisoners, and return to democracy.[65]
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Tuesday, November 2 |
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Wednesday, November 3 |
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Thursday, November 4 | - The Biden administration publishes details of vaccine mandates for workers.[74]
- Ben Shapiro's company, The Daily Wire, filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.[75]
- A White House aide who accompanied with President Biden to the COP26 conference has tested positive for COVID-19. He is currently isolating in Scotland.[76] [77]
- President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden light a diya in the Blue Room of the White House to celebrate Diwali.[78]
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Friday, November 5 |
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Week 43
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Monday, November 8 | - The White House said that businesses should move forward with the vaccine mandate for workers, despite the court-ordered pause on Saturday.[85]
- President Biden welcomes the Milwaukee Bucks to the White House to celebrate their victory in the 2020–21 NBA season.[86]
- Karine Jean-Pierre, spokeswoman for the White House, said in a press meeting that the Army Corps of Engineers is replacing Line 5 of the oil and gas pipeline, which could potentially increase winter gas prices.[87] [88]
- Representative Paul Gosar tweets an altered video of the intro of Attack on Titan with him depicted as a hero killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Biden, and calling for violence against migrants. It was met with immediate backlash, with people saying that he should be banned from Twitter. Ocasio-Cortez herself criticized the video, citing several instances of harassment she has faced on the job.[89] [90]
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Tuesday, November 9 | - Vice President Harris arrives in France at the start of a European diplomatic tour.[91]
- Vice President Harris visits a COVID-19 lab at the Pasteur Institute.[92]
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Wednesday, November 10 | - First Lady Jill Biden honors children of injured troops in her first solo event.[93]
- President Biden delivers remarks about the infrastructure victory and inflation prices at the Port of Baltimore.[94]
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Thursday, November 11 |
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Friday, November 12 | - The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was honored by President Biden's mention of Satchel Paige in his Veterans Day speech.[96]
- President Biden briefly participates in the virtual APEC summit, hosted by New Zealand.[97]
- Jen Psaki returns to the White House after testing positive with COVID-19, saying that she tested negative on Thursday.[98]
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Week 44
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Monday, November 15 |
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Tuesday, November 16 |
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Wednesday, November 17 | - The federal government auctions off oil leases from US-Mexico border for $190 million, despite Biden's promise during his campaign not to sell oil.[103]
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Thursday, November 18 | - President Biden holds separate bilateral meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the White House.[104]
- President Biden attends the North American leaders's summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This is the first time since the end of the Obama administration in 2016 when a US president has attended the meeting.[105]
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Friday, November 19 |
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Saturday, November 20 | - President Biden celebrates his 79th birthday.[108]
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Sunday, November 21 | | |
Week 45
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Monday, November 22 | - President Biden condemns the Waukesha car rampage at a Christmas parade, where a SUV plowed into it, killing five people and injuring 48, as a "horrific act of violence". He also says that he's monitoring the situation very closely.[109]
- President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travel to Fort Bragg to celebrate a "Friendsgiving" with military personnel and families.[110]
- First Lady Jill Biden welcomes the arrival of the 2021 White House Christmas tree.[111]
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Tuesday, November 23 | - President Biden signs H.R. 1510, which requires the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to report to Congress about the use of cameras in medical facilities, and S. 108, which authorizes the Seminole Tribe of Florida to convey interests in certain off-reservation land owned by them.[112]
- President Biden delivers remarks about easing U.S. oil reserves for refining them into gasoline and other energy products. He also delivers remarks about inflation, the biggest since 31 years ago.[113] [114]
- President Biden stops by DC Central Kitchen to thank volunteers and help assemble meals for the community.[115]
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Wednesday, November 24 |
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Sunday, November 28 | - President Biden wishes Jewish people in the United States and around the world a Happy Hanukkah.[120]
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Week 46
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Week 46
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Wednesday, December 1 | - President Biden delivers remarks about the economy.[126]
- On the 33rd anniversary of World AIDS Day, President Biden delivers remarks about the administrations efforts to fight AIDS and HIV.[127]
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Thursday, December 2 |
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Friday, December 3 | - President Biden delivers remarks on the economy and job creation figures for November.[130]
- The Biden administration announced that it was consulting with Congress and allies on options to dissuading Russia from carrying out an attack on Ukraine.[131]
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Saturday, December 4 | | |
Sunday, December 5 | - President Biden releases a statement on the death of former Kansas Senator Bob Dole.[132]
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Week 47
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Monday, December 6 | - President Biden hosts the 44th Kennedy Center Honor Awards.[133]
- The Biden administration announces a diplomatic boycott against the 2022 Winter Olympics to protest human rights abuses in China.[134]
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Tuesday, December 7 |
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Wednesday, December 8 |
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Thursday, December 9 |
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Friday, December 10 |
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Saturday, December 11 |
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Week 48
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Monday, December 13 | - President Biden and Senator Joe Manchin had a phone call about the senate vote for the Build Back Better Plan. According to a spokesperson for Manchin, he had a productive conversation with Biden and will talk in the following days.[147] Before the meeting started, Manchin raised serious concern, citing the proposal's entirely relying on temporary programs.[148]
- President Biden signs an executive order that streamlines the process for social security and Medicare.[149]
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Tuesday, December 14 | - President Biden delivers a proclamation on Bill of Rights Day.[150]
- President Biden marks nine years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting by pointing to his administrations efforts to curb gun violence.[151]
- President Biden invites newly elected mayors from across the country to discuss infrastructure and the Build Back Better plan.[152]
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Wednesday, December 15 |
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Thursday, December 16 |
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Friday, December 17 |
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Saturday, December 18 |
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Sunday, December 19 | - Senator Joe Manchin said that he would not support the economic and climate agenda of the Biden administration.[159]
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Week 49
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Monday, December 20 | - President Biden announces a new puppy he adopted, named Commander.[160]
- President Biden tests negative for COVID-19 after being in close contact with a White House aide who was revealed to have tested positive in the morning.[161]
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Tuesday, December 21 |
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Wednesday, December 22 | - The Biden administration extends payment pause for student loan borrowers until May 1.[163]
- President Biden is interviewed by David Muir mainly about the shortage in COVID-19 testing kits.[164]
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Thursday, December 23 |
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Saturday, December 25 |
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Sunday, December 26 | | |
Week 50
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Monday, December 27 | - President Biden attends a virtual meeting with several national governors, saying that the Omicron variant "should not be a source of panic".[166]
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Tuesday, December 28 | - President Biden and Jill Biden take their new dog, Commander, on a walk near their second home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Paparazzi of Washington press agents started taking pictures.[167]
- President Biden releases a statement on the death of former Nevada Senator Harry Reid.[168]
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Wednesday, December 29 | | |
Thursday, December 30 | - President Biden holds a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss rising tensions in Ukraine.[169]
- President Biden speaks with Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric.[170]
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Friday December 31 | - President Biden celebrates the first New Year's Day countdown of his administration.
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