Week 194
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| Tuesday, October 1 | | |
| Wednesday, October 2 | - President Biden and Democratic presidential nominee vice president Kamala Harris visit two Carolinas, the states hit by hurricane Helene. Biden flies by helicopter over the worst-hit areas in the city of Asheville, North Carolina.[1] [2]
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| Thursday, October 3 | | |
| Friday, October 4 | | |
| Saturday, October 5 | | |
| Sunday, October 6 | | |
Week 195
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| Monday, October 7 |
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| Tuesday, October 8 |
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| Wednesday, October 9 | - President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach of Ireland Simon Harris at the White House.[6]
- President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak by phone amid the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. The 30-minute conversation is the first between Biden and Netanyahu since August 2024.[7]
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| Thursday, October 10 | | |
| Friday, October 11 | | |
| Saturday, October 12 | | |
| Sunday, October 13 | - Axios reports the relationship between Kamala Harris's team and Joe Biden's White House has been increasingly fraught and filled with rising tensions in the final weeks before Election Day, according to 10 people familiar with the situation.[8]
- The United States Department of Defense announces that its country will send American military personnel and a high-altitude missile defense system, THAAD, to Israel.[9]
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Week 196
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| Monday, October 14 | | |
| Tuesday, October 15 | | |
| Wednesday, October 16 | | |
| Thursday, October 17 | - President Biden lands late in Berlin, Germany on this day and meets French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a meeting in the same city on the next day to discuss further assistance to Ukraine and President Zelenskyy's Victory Plan.[10] [11]
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| Friday, October 18 | - U.S. Representative Mike Turner the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence sends Biden a letter demanding that his administration immediately give the House Intelligence Committee a classified briefing concerning the possible engagement of North Korean troops in a potentially escalating and broadening Ukrainian conflict. Turner also states in the letter to Biden his view that the use of North Korean troops against Ukraine must be a red line for the United States and NATO.[12]
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| Saturday, October 19 | - President Biden approves the State of North Carolina disaster declaration and orders Federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight from September 16 to September 20, 2024.[13]
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| Sunday, October 20 | | |
Week 197
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| Monday, October 21 | - First Lady Jill Biden unveils an enhanced and educational tour of the White House for public visitors.[14] [15]
- At the White House, President Biden honors the prestigious National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 39 recipients, including film directors Steven Spielberg and Spike Lee, singers Queen Latifah, and posthumously, Selena Quintanilla.[16] [17]
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| Tuesday, October 22 | - President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob at the White House.[18]
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| Wednesday, October 23 | | |
| Thursday, October 24 | | |
| Friday, October 25 | - President Biden formally apologizes to Native Americans for abusive government-funded boarding schools that abused indigenous children and forced them to assimilate over a 150-year period.[19]
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| Saturday, October 26 | | |
| Sunday, October 27 | | |
Week 198
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| Monday, October 28 | - President Biden goes to an early voting location in his home state of Delaware, where he helps an elderly woman in a wheelchair and waits in line for his turn at the booth.[20]
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| Tuesday, October 29 | | |
| Wednesday, October 30 | - In a telecall with Latino voters, President Biden states that “the only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump’s] supporters”. His statement is made in a response to a joke made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Donald Trump’s rally on 27 October. A controversial statement by President Biden is having repercussions on the campaigns of the two presidential nominees for the White House.[21]
- President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides at the White House.[22]
- President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden participate in the 2024 White House Halloween event.[23]
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| Thursday, October 31 | - The Associated Press reports the White House altered the record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns.[24] [25]
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Week 198
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| Friday, November 1 | | |
| Saturday, November 2 | | |
| Sunday, November 3 | | |
Week 199
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| Monday, November 4 |
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| Tuesday, November 5 |
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| Wednesday, November 6 | - Republican Party nominee former president Donald Trump becomes president-elect after he had secured the projected total to 276 electoral votes. Democratic Party nominee vice president Kamala Harris concedes defeat and congratulates Trump on his victory.[29] [30]
- President Biden calls President-elect Donald Trump in the early morning to congratulate him on his victory.[31]
- President Biden announces the expedited granting of over US$6 billion in military aid to Ukraine.[32]
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| Thursday, November 7 | - At the White House, President Biden delivers his statement following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.[33]
- A Texas federal judge rules President Biden's program favoring undocumented immigrants married to American citizens is illegal.[34]
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| Friday, November 8 | | |
| Saturday, November 9 | | |
| Sunday, November 10 |
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Week 200
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| Monday, November 11 |
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| Tuesday, November 12 | - President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House.[37] [38]
- President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the White House.[39] [40]
- U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, who was the first sitting Democrat in Congress to openly call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 United States presidential election after the first presidential debate, states after Trump's win, “I only regret I didn’t do it earlier ... I believe that the only person in our caucus who doesn’t share some responsibility for the outcome is Dean Phillips, who came out early.”[41]
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| Wednesday, November 13 |
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| Thursday, November 14 | | |
| Friday, November 15 |
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| Saturday, November 16 | - In the afternoon, President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru. This is the third official meeting between the leaders of the United States and China and the last time Biden had a meeting with Xi as president. The US president attends the closing of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru. During his visit, President Biden and Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, inaugurate a mega port in the city of Chancay, 80 kilometers from Lima.[44] [45]
- At a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru, President Biden condemns the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops in Russia and express deep concern over China's continued support for Russia's defence industrial base.[46]
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| Sunday, November 17 | - In the early afternoon, President Biden arrives in Brazil ahead of the G20 summit and lands in Manaus for a historic visit to the Amazon region. He flies over the forest and visits a museum one day before the opening of the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. This is the first time a sitting president of the United States has visited the Brazilian Amazon region, according to the White House.[47] He becomes the first sitting president of the United States to set foot in the Brazilian Amazon region in the 200-year history of relations between the two nations.[48]
- President Biden authorizes Ukraine to use American-supplied long-range missiles in the war against Russia. The change in the US government's stance is due to the sending of North Korean troops to fight in the war in Ukraine alongside the Russians.[49]
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Week 201
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| Monday, November 18 | - President Biden attends the G20 summit hosted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[50]
- President Biden meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, when President Biden along with prime ministers Trudeau and Meloni miss in time for the official photo of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty.[51]
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| Tuesday, November 19 | - President Biden approves providing anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine.[52]
- President Biden meets with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the margins of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the U.S.-Brazil strategic relationship.[53]
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| Wednesday, November 20 | - President Biden celebrates his 82nd birthday, marking an age milestone never before reached by an acting commander of the country.[54] [55]
- President Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards.
- The United States vetoes a ceasefire resolution in the war in the Gaza Strip at the United Nations Security Council. This is the fourth time that the Americans have rejected a proposal for a truce between Israel and Hamas since the conflict began in October 2023.[56]
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| Thursday, November 21 |
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| Friday, November 22 | - At the White House, President Biden receives the Boston Celtics team, NBA champions in the 2023/2024 season. Star Jayson Tatum gives the president a team shirt, with Biden's name on the back.[59]
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| Saturday, November 23 |
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| Sunday, November 24 |
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Week 202
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| Monday, November 25 |
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| Tuesday, November 26 |
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| Wednesday, November 27 | | |
| Thursday, November 28 |
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| Friday, November 29 | | |
| Saturday, November 30 | - The United States condemns the excessive use of force by police against Georgian protesters and suspends its strategic partnership with Georgia following the Georgian Dream party's decision to suspend the country's European Union accession process.[71]
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