Joe Biden Biography and Net Worth

Joe Biden, also known as Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., is an American politician who serves as the country’s 46th and current leader. On November 20, 1942, he was born. He supported the Democratic Party and served as Delaware’s senator from 1973 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017, he served as President Barack Obama’s 47th vice president.

Joe Biden, who was raised in Delaware, emigrated with his family in 1953 from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Prior to receiving his law degree at Syracuse University, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Delaware.. When he was elected to the Senate in 1972 at the age of 29, he advanced to become the sixth-youngest senator in American history after winning a position on the New Castle County Council in 1970. For 12 years, Biden served as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s chair or ranking member. He oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, and chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995. He also drafted and led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. In 1988 and 2008, Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party’s presidential candidacy. In the presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden. Throughout his two terms as Obama’s vice president, Biden was a trusted advisor to the former president.

In the 2020 presidential election, Biden and his campaign mate, Kamala Harris, defeated incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence. He made history on January 20, 2021, by becoming the first president from Delaware, the first to have a female vice president, and the oldest president in American history. Biden has addressed the COVID-19 outbreak and consequent recession in his role as president. In addition to the Defense of Marriage Act being overturned and the same-sex marriage rights enshrined, he also signed the American Rescue Plan Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Respect for Marriage Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. Ketanji Brown Jackson was chosen for the Supreme Court by him. In terms of foreign policy, Biden reinstated American participation in the Paris Climate Agreement. The war in Afghanistan, during which the Afghan government disintegrated and the Taliban seized power, was ended by him by concluding the withdrawal of American soldiers from Afghanistan that had been discussed and started during the previous administration. He joined Australia and the UK in signing the security treaty known as AUKUS. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he sanctioned Russia and approved the delivery of foreign aid and weaponry to Ukraine.

Early years (1942–1965)

The son of Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. and Catherine Eugenia “Jean” Biden (née Finnegan) was born on November 20, 1942, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He lives with his sister Valerie, two brothers named Francis and James, and is the oldest kid in a Catholic family. While Joseph Sr. had Huguenot ancestry that included English, French, and Irish, Jean was of Irish descent. Stonemason William Biden, who was born in Westbourne, England, in 1789 and immigrated to Maryland in the United States by 1820, is the ancestor of Biden’s paternal line.

When Joe Biden was seven years old, his father’s business had problems. The family then spent a number of years living with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton. Biden’s father had been prosperous, and the family had bought a home in the upscale Long Island neighborhood of Garden City in the fall of 1946. In the 1950s, Scranton’s economy was in decline, and Biden’s father struggled to find stable employment. The family first resided in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, when Biden was 10 years old, before relocating to a home in the adjacent Mayfield neighborhood. Later, Biden Sr. achieved success as a used car dealer, supporting the family’s middle-class way of life.

Biden played baseball and excelled as a halfback and wide receiver for the high school football team at Claymont’s Archmere Academy. Despite having a dismal academic record, he served as class president his junior and senior years. His graduation was in 1961. Biden briefly played freshman football at the University of Delaware in Newark before graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science. He was an average student there.

Since his early twenties, Biden’s stutter has gotten better. Biden has talked about how he tries to lower it by reciting poetry in front of a mirror.

Early career, law school, and marriage (1966–1973)

On August 27, 1966, Joe Biden overcame her parents’ objections to getting married to a Roman Catholic and wed Protestant-raised Syracuse University student Neilia Hunter (1942-1972). Their wedding took place in a Catholic church in Skaneateles, New York. Joseph R. They had three children: “Beau” Biden III (1969–2015), Robert Hunter Biden (born 1970), and Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden. (1971–1972).

After failing a course owing to an admitted “mistake” in which he duplicated a law review article for a paper he authored in his first year of law school, Biden graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968, finishing 76th out of 85 students in his class and earning a failing grade. In 1969, he was admitted to the Delaware bar.

Biden had not openly backed or opposed the Vietnam War before his Senate race and his objection to the way Nixon handled the conflict. While attending the University of Delaware and Syracuse University during a time when the majority of draftees were being sent to the Vietnam War, Biden was granted five student draft deferments. Based on a physical examination, he was granted a conditional medical deferral in 1968; in 2008, a Biden representative claimed the postponement was due to his “asthma as a teenager.”

When Joe Biden interned in 1968 at the Wilmington law office of well-known local Republican William Prickett, he later claimed that he “thought of myself as a Republican.” He opposed the conservative racial policies of Delaware’s Democratic incumbent governor Charles L. Terry and backed Russell W. Peterson, a more liberal Republican, who beat Terry in 1968. Local Republicans sought out Biden, but he chose to register as an Independent due to his dislike of Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon.

In 1969, Biden began practicing law, first as a public defender and then at a business run by a politically engaged Democrat in his community. This Democrat nominated Biden for the Democratic Forum, a group working to restructure and rejuvenate the state party, and Biden later reregistered as a Democrat. He established a law firm with another lawyer. He was not interested in corporate law, and criminal law did not offer a good salary. He added to his income by overseeing real estate.

On a liberal platform that supported public housing in the suburbs, Joe Biden ran for the 4th district seat on the New Castle County Council in 1970. Following a redistricting of council districts, Republican Henry R. Folsom, who had previously held the position, decided to run in the 5th District. Republican Lawrence T. Messick was defeated by Biden in the general election, and he assumed office on January 5, 1971. He was succeeded by Democrat Francis R. Swift on January 1, 1973, and he served until that date. Biden opposed major highway projects while serving on the county council because he thought they may disturb Wilmington communities.

Delaware’s 1972 U.S. Senate campaign

Caleb Boggs, a Republican incumbent, was defeated by Biden in 1972 to become the junior senator from Delaware. He was the only Democrat ready to take on Boggs, and because of his lack of funding, no one thought he had a chance of succeeding. The campaign was run and staffed by family members. Due to Delaware’s tiny size, it was possible to meet voters in person and hand them position papers. The AFL-CIO and Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell both provided assistance to him. His program included civil rights, the environment, the end of the Vietnam War, mass transit, fair taxation, health care, and public discontent with “politics as usual.” Biden trailed Boggs by over thirty percentage points a few months before the election, but his enthusiasm, his attractive young family, and his capacity to appeal to voters’ emotions helped him win with 50.5% of the vote.

Wife and daughter passed away

Few weeks after becoming a senator, on December 18, 1972, Joe Biden’s wife Neilia and their 1-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident in Hockessin, Delaware, while doing Christmas shopping. As Neilia backed out of an intersection, a semi-trailer truck struck her station wagon. Beau, who had a fractured leg and other wounds, and Hunter, who had a mild skull fracture and other head injuries, were their boys and were both rushed to the hospital in fair condition. Biden thought about leaving his position to take care of them, but Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield convinced him otherwise. Biden’s reaction to the incident was one of rage and skepticism. He described how he “felt God had played a horrible trick” on him and how it was difficult for him to concentrate at work.

Even though the truck driver was never charged and the lead prosecutor looking into the accident said there was no proof of drunk driving, Biden claimed the truck driver had been drinking before the crash in 2001 and 2007 after the truck driver passed away in that year. Biden’s spokeswoman stated in 2008 that the vice president “fully accepts” that the claims of drunk driving were untrue. After a 2009 media article, the truck driver’s daughter said that Biden called her to apologize for “hurting my family in any way.”

Joe Biden Second wedding

In 1975, Biden went on a blind date and met Jill Tracy Jacobs, a teacher. On June 17, 1977, they got married in the chapel of the UN in New York. At Lake Balaton in the Hungarian People’s Republic, they spent their honeymoon. Biden attributes his renewed passion in politics and in life to her. As a practicing Catholic, Biden worships at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware, alongside his wife, Jill. Ashley Biden, their daughter, works in social services. She is wed to Howard Krein, a doctor. Before passing away from brain disease in 2015, Beau Biden served as an Army Judge Advocate in Iraq and the Attorney General of Delaware. Hunter Biden worked as a lobbyist and financial advisor in Washington as of 2008.

Joe Biden Teaching Career

At the Widener University School of Law, Joe Biden co-taught a constitutional law seminar from 1991 until 2008 as an adjunct professor. The waiting list for the seminar was frequent. Biden occasionally took a flight from abroad to instruct the session.

 Federal Senate (1973–2009)

Senate business

At the Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center in January 1973, Joe Biden was sworn in as a senator by Secretary of the Senate Francis R. Valeo. His kids Beau and Hunter were there, along with other family members, and Beau’s leg was still in traction due to the car accident. He was the sixth-youngest senator in American history at the age of 30. Throughout his 36 years in the Senate, Biden kept up this routine of taking the 74-minute train ride from his Delaware home to D.C. to see his sons.

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and then again in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008, winning with an average of 60% of the vote. Prior to Roth’s defeat in 2000, he served as William Roth’s junior senator. Roth was originally elected in 1970. He held the 19th-longest tenure of any senator in American history as of 2022.

Joe Biden argued for increased government accountability while focusing on consumer and environmental protection during his early years in the Senate. In a 1974 interview, he classified himself as conservative on some topics, such as abortion and military conscription, but liberal on senior citizens’ issues, civil rights, and healthcare. In addition, Biden worked on armaments control. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II Treaty in 1979, but Congress refused to ratify it. Biden met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to express American concerns and secure modifications that addressed the concerns of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When he criticized Secretary of State George Shultz before a Senate hearing for the Reagan administration’s support of South Africa despite its ongoing practice of apartheid, he attracted a lot of attention.

Biden was one of the Senate’s most vocal opponents of racial integration busing in the middle of the 1970s. Because of the vehement opposition from his Delaware voters, his party eventually abandoned school integration proposals in most states. While opposing its use to address de facto segregation caused by racial patterns of neighborhood residency, as in Delaware, Biden had stated his support for busing to address de jure segregation during his first Senate campaign. He also opposed a proposed constitutional amendment banning busing entirely. Biden backed a law that forbade the use of government monies for student transportation outside of their local school. He co-sponsored an amendment in 1977 that closed gaps in the statute, and President Carter signed it into law in 1978.

In 1981, Joe Biden rose to the position of minority leader on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He served as the Democratic floor manager for the Comprehensive Crime Control Act’s successful passage in 1984. His best legislative achievement at the time, according to his supporters, was amending some of the harshest parts of the statute. The Violence Against Women Act, which Biden has referred to as his most important piece of legislation, and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which included a ban on assault weapons, were both passed in 1994 with the support of Biden. Progressives disliked the 1994 crime law and criticized it for leading to mass incarceration; in 2019, Biden termed his role in approving the law a “big mistake,” criticizing its crack cocaine strategy and lamenting how it “trapped an entire generation.”

Joe Biden supported a 1993 law that forbade gays from enlisting in the military because it regarded homosexuality incompatible with military life. He voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, which forbade states from following suit and forbade the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions and denying their members equal protection under the law. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the statute was declared unconstitutional in 2015.

During the Whitewater and Lewinsky affair investigations in the 1990s, Biden criticized Independent Counsel Ken Starr, saying “it’s going to be a cold day in hell” before another independent counsel was given comparable authority. During President Clinton’s impeachment, he cast a vote for acquittal. In the 2000s, Biden supported bankruptcy legislation that credit card companies wanted. Although Clinton vetoed the bill in 2000, it eventually became law in 2005 as the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, with Biden one of just 18 Democrats to support it. The bill was opposed by prominent Democrats and consumer advocacy groups. Biden firmly backed higher financing for Amtrak and improved rail safety while serving as a senator.

Joe Biden Brain operations

Biden underwent surgery to repair a leaky intracranial berry aneurysm in February 1988 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after experiencing numerous episodes of progressively acute neck pain.He experienced a pulmonary embolism during his recovery, a significant consequence. Biden missed seven months of Senate business following the surgical repair of a second aneurysm in May.

Judiciary Committee of the Senate

Joe Biden was on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for a very long time. He served as its chairman from 1987 to 1995, and from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997, he was a ranking minority member.

Biden presided over two extremely heated U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearings in his capacity as chair. Biden changed his mind about approving a potential Robert Bork nomination after being asked about it in an interview the year before when Bork was actually nominated in 1988. While Biden’s impartiality, humor, and bravery were hailed after the hearings, conservatives were outraged. Biden’s criticisms of Bork, which he framed in terms of the clash between Bork’s strong originalism and the belief that the U.S. Constitution gives rights to liberty and privacy in addition to those expressly stated in its text, rejected some of the points made by some of his opponents. The committee rejected Bork’s nomination 9-5, and the whole Senate rejected it 58-42.

Joe Biden frequently asked complicated constitutional questions during Clarence Thomas’s nomination hearings in 1991, to the point where Thomas occasionally lost track of them. Thomas later said that Biden’s inquiries resembled “beanballs.”After the committee hearing was over, the public found out that Thomas had been charged with making inappropriate sexual remarks while working with Anita Hill, a professor at the University of Oklahoma’s law school. Some of these allegations were known to Biden, but he first just told the committee because Hill was reluctant to speak at the time. Hill spoke during a resumed committee session, but Biden prohibited testimony from other witnesses, including a woman who had leveled comparable accusations and harassment specialists. Biden voted against Thomas’ confirmation, which the full Senate approved 52-48. Women’s organizations and liberal legal advocates strongly believed that Biden handled the hearings improperly and did not do enough to defend Hill. He expressed contrition for how he had treated Hill in 2019, but Hill claimed that she wasn’t satisfied after that.

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Joe Biden was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a very long time. In 1997, he rose to the position as its top minority member, and he presided between June 2001 and 2003 and 2007 to 2009. In general, his views were liberal internationalist. He worked well with Republicans and occasionally dissented from parts of his own party. He interacted with at least 150 officials from international organizations and 60 different nations during this time, emerging as a prominent Democrat on matters of foreign affairs.

Biden sided with 45 of the 55 Democratic senators in opposing the Gulf War authorization vote in 1991, arguing that the United States was virtually entirely responsible for the anti-Iraq coalition’s burden.

As a result of hearing about Serbian atrocities committed during the 1991 Croatian War of Independence, Biden developed an interest in the Yugoslav Wars. Biden was among the first to advocate for the “lift and strike” strategy after the Bosnian War began. For fear of getting entangled in the Balkans, both the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations were hesitant to put the idea into action. Biden and Slobodan Miloevi had a contentious three-hour meeting in April 1993. I think you’re a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one, Biden claimed he told Miloevi. In order to force the Bush administration to arm the Bosnian Muslims, Biden drafted an amendment in 1992. However, he withheld his support in 1994 in favor of a slightly milder position that the Clinton administration favored, until endorsing a tougher amendment the following year that was supported by Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman. The interaction produced a productive NATO peacekeeping operation. In terms of foreign policy, Biden has said that his influence on Balkans policy in the mid-1990s was his “proudest moment in public life.” Biden backed the 1999 NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which urged Clinton to employ all necessary measures, including ground forces, to challenge Miloevi over Yugoslav treatment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, was co-sponsored by him and Senator John McCain.

Afghanistan and Iraq wars

Joe Biden firmly believed that “whatever it takes, we should do it” with regards to the Afghan War. He declared in 2002 that Saddam Hussein, the ruler of Iraq, posed a threat to national security and that there was no choice but to “eliminate” that threat while serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He supported the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq resolution in October 2002, supporting the American invasion of Iraq. He gathered a group of witnesses to speak in favor of the authorisation in his capacity as the committee chair. They gave testimony that blatantly misrepresented the goals, background, and position of Saddam and his secular government, which was an open foe of al-Qaeda, and boasted about Iraq’s fictitious possession of WMD. Biden later started to oppose the war and thought his vote and involvement were “mistakes,” but he did not call for its end. Although he supported the funding for the occupation, he claimed that additional soldiers were required, the war should be declared an international conflict, and the Bush administration should be “level with the American people” regarding its cost and duration.

By the end of 2006, Joe Biden’s position had significantly changed. He disapproved of the 2007 troop surge, claiming General David Petraeus was “dead, flat wrong” to think it would be successful. Instead, Biden favored creating a loose federation of three ethnic nations within Iraq. A comprehensive plan to put an end to sectarian bloodshed in Iraq was unveiled by Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, in November 2006. The plan called for “a third way,” federalizing Iraq and allowing Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis “breathing room” in their own regions, as opposed to continuing the current strategy or withdrawing. A non-binding Senate resolution backing the scheme was voted in September 2007, but no progress was made.

Presidential campaigns

Joe Biden 1988 campaign

On June 9, 1987, Joe Biden formally announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1988. His speaking skills, moderate image, prominent position as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the upcoming Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination hearings, and appeal to Baby Boomers made him a strong candidate; he would have been the second-youngest person to be elected president, behind John F. Kennedy. In the first quarter of 1987, he raised more money than any other candidate.

Staff squabbles caused his campaign’s narrative to become muddled by August, and in September he was charged with stealing a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. Similar remarks about becoming the first member of his family to attend college were in Biden’s address. Joe Biden had previously credited Kinnock with the idea, but failed to do so twice in late August.: 230-232 Kinnock himself was more understanding; the two men met in 1988 and forged a strong friendship.

He also quoted portions of a 1967 speech by Robert F. Kennedy (for which his aides accepted responsibility) and a brief piece from John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address earlier that year. Two years prior, he quoted a 1976 statement by Hubert Humphrey. Politicians sometimes copy one another’s ideas without giving credit, and Jesse Jackson, one of Biden’s opponents for the nomination, had called to point out that Jackson had used the identical Humphrey material as Biden had.

A few days later, it was revealed that during law school, Joe Biden improperly cited an article from the Fordham Law Review. He had to take the course again, but this time he did well. The Delaware Supreme Court’s Board of Professional Responsibility looked into the incident at Biden’s request and found no regulations had been broken.

Biden has lied or exaggerated about various aspects of his early life, including his three college degrees, his full scholarship to law school, his graduation from high school in the top half of his class, and his participation in the civil rights struggle. The fact that there wasn’t much other information about the presidential contest accentuated these revelations, and on September 23, 1987, Biden withdrew his name from consideration, claiming that “the exaggerated shadow” of his prior errors had taken over.

Joe Biden 2008 election

After considering running in several previous elections, Joe Biden officially announced his campaign for president in January 2007. Biden centered his campaign on the Iraq War, his tenure as chairman of significant Senate committees, and his background in foreign affairs. During the campaign, Biden was known for his one-liners. In one debate, he stated of Republican contender Rudy Giuliani, “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.”

Joe Biden struggled to raise money, draw crowds to his rallies, and establish traction in the face of Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton’s high-profile campaigns. In nationwide polls of the Democratic candidates, he never progressed past the low single digits. Biden finished fifth in the Iowa caucuses on January 3, 2008, earning slightly less than 1% of the state’s delegates. That night, he dropped out of the competition.

Biden’s 2008 campaign increased his prominence in the political sphere despite its failure. In particular, it altered the bond between Obama and Biden. Despite working together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the two weren’t particularly close; Biden despised Obama’s fast ascent to political celebrity and Obama thought Biden was blustery and pompous. Following their introduction in 2007, Obama valued Biden’s approach to politics and appeal to working-class people, and Biden claimed he came to believe Obama was “the real deal.”

Joe Biden Campaign for vice president in 2008

Obama secretly informed Joe Biden shortly after he withdrew from the presidential contest that he was interested in finding Biden a significant position in his cabinet. Early in August, Obama and Biden met in private to examine the possibilities; at this time, they grew close. Obama declared that Biden would be his running partner on August 22, 2008. According to The New York Times, the decision was made with the intention of filling the position with a person who has knowledge of international policy and national security. Others highlighted Biden’s appeal to those in the middle class and in the blue collar. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Biden received a voice vote nomination for vice president on August 27.

The media paid significantly more attention to the Republican contender, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, than to Biden’s vice presidential campaigns. As directed by the campaign, Joe Biden kept his speeches short and avoided making snide comments like the one about Obama being put to the test by a foreign power immediately after taking office, which had drawn criticism. Obama was irritated by Biden’s comments in private. He questioned, “How many times is Biden going to say something stupid? Biden became irritated when Obama campaign staffers referred to his mistakes as “Joe bombs” and failed to inform him of strategy conversations. For a month, there were tensions between the two campaigns. Then, after calling Obama to apologize, their relationship improved.

Joe Biden voted in favor of the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which was approved by the Senate with a vote of 74–25. At the time, the financial crisis that spanned 2007–2010 had reached its peak with the liquidity crisis of September 2008. He took part in the vice-presidential debate with Palin on October 2, 2008, at Washington University in St. Louis. Polls conducted after the debate revealed that while Palin exceeded many people’ expectations, generally the debate had been won by Biden.

 Obama and Joe Biden won the election on November 4, 2008, defeating McCain and Palin with 365 electoral votes and 53% of the popular vote.

In accordance with Delaware law, Joe Biden was able to seek for reelection to the Senate at the same time he was campaigning for vice president. He defeated Republican Christine O’Donnell in the election for reelection to the Senate on November 4. Biden made a point of delaying his resignation from the Senate after winning both contests until after his swearing-in ceremony for his seventh term on January 6, 2009. On January 15, Biden supported the release of the second $350 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Later that day, he announced his resignation from the Senate.

 Vice presidential (2009–2017)

In his first tenure (2009–2013), Vice President Joe Biden stated that he did not seek to imitate any previous vice presidency and that he sought to eliminate several specific roles carried out by George W. Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney. He was sworn in as the 47th vice president of the United States on January 20, 2009—the first vice president from Delaware and the first vice president who is Roman Catholic.

 Soon after, Obama compared Joe Biden to a basketball player “who does a lot of things that don’t show up on the stat sheet”. The U.S. position that Kosovo’s “independence is irreversible” was reaffirmed by Biden during his visit there in May. Biden lost an internal fight regarding sending 21,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but his skepticism was respected, and in 2009, as Obama reevaluated his Afghanistan strategy, Biden’s opinions acquired greater sway. Biden became the administration’s go-to guy for conveying messages to the Iraqi leadership about anticipated progress there, traveling to Iraq roughly every two months. More broadly, supervising Iraqi policy fell within Biden’s purview after Obama allegedly declared, “Joe, you do Iraq.” Biden had visited Iraq eight times by 2012, but his control over American policy there diminished after American forces left in 2011.

Joe Biden handled the Obama stimulus program’s infrastructure expenditure, which was designed to assist fight the lingering recession. When he ended his tenure in that position in February 2011, Joe Biden claimed there had been fewer than 1% of stimulus funds that had been fraudulently used. During this time, he was confident that there had been no significant examples of waste or corruption.

When the swine flu outbreak first started in late April 2009, Joe Biden’s off-topic response to a question prompted a rapid White House retraction. The statement restored Biden’s track record of typos. While acknowledging that the administration had “misread how bad the economy was” in the face of growing unemployment until July 2009, Biden remained confident that the stimulus package would add a significant number of jobs once the rate of spending went up. A recording of Biden telling the president that his signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was “a big fucking deal” was made on March 23, 2010. Obama and Biden developed a connection despite having quite different personalities, in part because Obama’s daughter Sasha and Biden’s granddaughter Maisy attended Sidwell Friends School together.

Members of the Obama administration claimed that Biden’s position in the Oval Office required him to be a contrarian and make others justify their claims. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel claimed that Biden contributed to battling groupthink. The nicest thing about Joe, according to Obama, is that he makes people think and defend their opinions when we have everyone together, which is extremely helpful to me. The Bidens frequently entertained their grandchildren in their official residence in Washington while maintaining a laid-back atmosphere, and they frequently traveled back to their home in Delaware.

 Despite forecasts that Democrats would suffer significant losses in the 2010 midterm elections, Joe Biden vigorously campaigned for the party. Joe Biden’s prior connections with Republicans in Congress took on increased significance in the wake of significant Republican electoral gains and the resignation of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. He oversaw the administration’s successful attempt to win support from the Senate for the New START pact. The administration’s compromise tax plan, which included a short-term extension of the Bush tax cuts, was made possible in part by Biden’s support for finding a middle ground and subsequent negotiations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. As the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, the package was approved.

Obama gave Joe Biden the authority to lead negotiations with Congress in March 2011 in order to reach an agreement on federal spending levels for the remainder of the year and prevent a government shutdown. Over the ensuing months, the U.S. debt ceiling crisis developed, but Joe Biden’s relationship with McConnell once more played a crucial role in breaking the impasse and achieving a resolution in the form of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which was signed on August 2, 2011, the same day that an unprecedented U.S. default threatened. According to some sources, Biden was against carrying out the American mission to assassinate Osama bin Laden in May 2011 for fear that a failure would hurt Obama’s chances of winning reelection.

Joe Biden Reelection

In October 2010, Joe Biden claimed that Obama had asked him to continue serving as his running mate for the 2012 election. However, as Obama’s popularity waned in late 2011, White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley looked into the possibility of replacing Biden with Hillary Clinton by conducting some covert polling and focus group research. When Obama’s performance did not much improve, the plan was abandoned, and White House officials later claimed that Obama had never considered it.

Compared to Obama’s view, which had been labeled as “evolving,” Joe Biden’s claim that he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriage in May 2012 attracted a lot of public attention. Obama and his advisers were very angry when Biden made his remarks without getting approval from the administration because Obama had planned to change his position in the months leading up to the party convention. Following the reaction of gay rights activists to Biden’s statements, Obama soon revealed that he too backed same-sex marriage, a move that was partially prompted by Biden’s comments. Obama accepted Joe Biden’s private apology for speaking out, and Obama later recognized in public that it had been done with sincerity.

As the reelection campaign got underway in earnest in spring 2012, Joe Biden had a busy schedule of engagements in battleground states because the Obama campaign viewed him as a retail-level politician. A comment made by Biden in August 2012 in front of a mixed-race audience that Republican efforts to loosen Wall Street restrictions would “put y’all back in chains” brought attention to the vice president’s penchant for colorful language. In his debate with Republican nominee Paul Ryan for vice president on October 11, Joe Biden defended the administration of Barack Obama’s record. On November 6, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were defeated by Obama and Biden thanks to 332 of the 538 Electoral College votes and 51% of the popular vote.

Obama appointed Joe Biden to lead the Gun Violence Task Force in December 2012 with the goal of addressing the reasons behind school shootings and considering potential gun restriction measures to be put in place in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Later that month, in the final hours before the United States slid off the “fiscal cliff,” McConnell and Biden worked out an agreement that resulted in the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 at the beginning of 2013. While raising rates for those with higher incomes, it made many of the Bush tax cuts permanent.

Two terms (2013–2017)

On January 20, 2013, Justice Sonia Sotomayor presided over a brief ceremony in Joe Biden’s official house, Number One Observatory Circle, when he was sworn in for a second term. (a public ceremony took place on January 21).

The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which ended the 2013 federal government shutdown and the 2013 debt limit crisis, was passed in October 2013 with little involvement from Joe Biden. This happened as a result of Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, and other Democratic leaders excluding him from any direct discussions with Congress because they believed Biden had compromised too much in the past.

In 2013, the Joe Biden Violence Against Women Act received a second reauthorization. With Biden and Valerie Jarrett serving as co-chairs, the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault was launched in January 2014, and the White House Council on Women and Girls was established in the first term as a result of the act.

Joe Biden supported arming the Syrian rebels. The Biden-Gelb Iraqi federalization plan of 2006 received additional attention when Iraq fell apart in 2014, with some commentators believing that Biden had been correct all along. The United States would follow ISIL “to the gates of hell,” according to Joe Biden. Biden visited the region 16 times as vice president, which is more than any other president or vice president. He had personal relationships with several Latin American presidents and was given responsibility for the region during the administration. When Biden traveled to Serbia in August 2016, he met with President Aleksandar Vui and offered his regrets for the civilians who had been killed by the bombing campaign during the Kosovo War.

Joe Biden is the longest-serving vice president with the distinction of never having cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.

Joe Biden Participation in the 2016 presidential election

Joe Biden was frequently reported to be getting ready for a potential run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination throughout his second term. In the middle of 2015, after receiving encouragement to run from his friends, family, and donors, and with Hillary Clinton’s favorability ratings on the slide, Joe Biden was said to once more be seriously exploring the idea, prompting the creation of a “Draft Biden 2016” PAC. Biden was still debating running as of late 2015. “Nobody has a right… to seek that office unless they’re willing to give it 110% of who they are,” he stated, feeling that the recent death of his son had largely depleted his emotional reserves. Obama and his wife were by Biden’s side when he made the announcement on October 21, speaking from a platform in the Rose Garden.

Following actions (2017–2019)

After stepping down as vice president, Joe Biden established the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement while serving as an honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Before launching his presidential campaign, Biden held that role through 2019.

Joe Biden published his biography Promise Me, Dad in 2017 and embarked on a book tour to promote it. He and his wife claimed to have made over $15 million from speaking engagements and book sales after the conclusion of his vice presidency by the year 2019.

In addition to supporting candidates, Joe Biden continued to make public comments about politics, climate change, and Donald Trump‘s presidency. He also kept up his work for LGBT rights, a cause he had grown more intimately linked with during his time as vice president. In his eulogy for Senator John McCain in 2018, he praised McCain’s commitment to American ideals and his friendships with people from both parties. Joe Biden persisted in backing initiatives to find cancer therapies.

Joe Biden Presidential election of 2020

Speculation and declaration

Joe Biden was frequently touted in the media as a potential 2020 presidential candidate between 2016 and 2019. Never say never was the response he offered when asked if he would run for office. In January 2018, the political action group Time for Biden was established in an effort to get Joe Biden to run. On April 25, 2019, he eventually announced the start of his campaign, claiming that, among other things, his “sense of duty” had driven him to do so.

Joe Biden Campaign

It was revealed in September 2019 that Trump had allegedly exerted pressure on the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to look into allegations of wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Despite the accusations, there was no proof of any misconduct on the Joe Bidens’ part. The pressure to probe the Bidens was widely perceived by the media as an attempt to harm Joe Biden’s chances of winning the presidency, which led to a political crisis and the House of Representatives’ impeachment of Donald Trump.

Joe Biden Sexcapades

Eight women accused Joe Biden of inappropriate physical contact in the past, including embracing, stroking, and kissing, in March and April 2019. Biden previously referred to himself as a “tactile politician” and acknowledged that this conduct had gotten him into problems. Mark Bowden, a journalist, described Biden’s ingrained tendency of speaking up close in his article, saying that the vice president “doesn’t just meet you, he engulfs you…scooting closer” and leans forward to converse. Joe Biden promised to be more “respectful of people’s personal space” in April 2019.

In national polls, Joe Biden consistently outperformed other Democrats in 2019. Despite this, he placed fifth in the New Hampshire primary and fourth in the Iowa caucuses. In the Nevada caucuses, he did better, getting to the 15% threshold needed for delegates, but he still came in 21.6 percentage points behind Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary by more than 28 points by making powerful appeals to Black voters both on the campaign road and during the debate in South Carolina. He made significant gains in the March 3 Super Tuesday primary voting following the withdrawals and subsequent endorsements of candidates Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. Joe Biden took 18 of the following 26 races, moving him into first place overall.Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren quickly withdrew, and on March 10th, Biden increased his advantage over Sanders by defeating her in four states.

One of the eight women who had accused Joe Biden of inappropriate physical contact in 2019—Tara Reade—accused him of sexual assault in March 2020. The claims Reade made in 2019 and 2020 were contradictory. The sexual assault claim was disputed by Joe Biden and his campaign.

On April 8, 2020, Sanders announced the end of his presidential campaign, and Joe Biden was named as the presumed front-runner for the Democratic Party. In a live conversation from their homes on April 13, Sanders supported Biden. The following day, former president Barack Obama gave Biden his support. On August 11, he declared California’s U.S. Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, making her the first South Asian American and African American to be nominated for vice president on a major party ticket. Joe Biden received the Democratic Party’s official presidential nomination for the 2020 election on August 18, 2020, during the Democratic National Convention.

Change of the presidency

In November 2020, Joe Biden won the election to become the 46th president of the United States. He beat the incumbent, Donald Trump, making him the first contender since Bill Clinton to dethrone George H. W. Bush in 1992 to defeat a sitting president. In an effort to get the election results overturned, Trump refused to concede, claiming that it had been “stolen” from him through “voter fraud.” He also filed a lawsuit challenging the results and spread several conspiracy theories regarding the voting and vote-counting procedures. Because the White House directed federal agencies not to cooperate, Joe Biden’s transition was put off for several weeks. Biden was officially recognized as the apparent winner of the 2020 election on November 23 by General Services Administrator Emily W. Murphy, who also gave the go-ahead for the transition to the Biden government.

Trump instructed his followers to march to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, during the electoral vote count by Congress, declaring, “We will never give up. Never will we give in. It doesn’t take place. In cases when there has been theft, you don’t give in. They stormed the Capitol shortly after that. Joe Biden addressed the nation during the Capitol uprising and described the actions as “an unprecedented assault unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times.” After the Capitol had been cleared, Congress reconvened in joint session and validated the election results, with Vice President Mike Pence announcing Joe Biden and Harris as the winners while serving as President of the Senate.

Presidency (2021–present)

Inauguration

On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden took office as the 46th president of the United States. He is the oldest individual to have taken office at age 78. He is the first president from Delaware and the second Catholic president (after John F. Kennedy). He is also the second non-incumbent vice president (after Richard Nixon in 1968) to be elected president and the first person after George H. W. Bush to have served as both vice president and president. Additionally, he is the first leader of the Silent Generation.

Due to COVID-19 safeguards and significantly increased security as a result of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Joe Biden’s inaugural was “a muted affair unlike any previous inauguration.” Trump was the first departing president since 1869 to skip his successor’s inauguration by choosing not to go.

2021

17 executive orders were signed by Joe Biden in his first two days in office. By the end of his third day in office, he had issued orders that the United States would rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, end the state of emergency at the border with Mexico, instruct the government to rejoin the World Health Organization, require face masks on federal property, take action against hunger in the country, and revoke permits for the Keystone XL pipeline. Biden signed more executive orders in his first two weeks in office than any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt did in their first month.

The Joe Biden administration declared on February 4, 2021, that it was ceasing to support the Saudi-led air operation in Yemen.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus relief package that Joe Biden proposed and lobbied for with the goal of hastening the United States’ recovery from the negative economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, was signed into law on March 11, the first anniversary of the World Health Organization designating COVID-19 a global pandemic. Direct payments to the majority of Americans were included in the package, along with an extension of higher unemployment benefits, money for vaccine distribution and school reopenings, as well as increases in the child tax credit and health insurance subsides. The Senate parliamentarian determined that including the increase in a budget reconciliation bill would be against Senate rules, so the increase was removed from Joe Biden’s original proposal. Democrats decided against trying to overturn the parliamentarian’s decision.

Also in March, as the number of migrants coming from Mexico to the United tates increased, Joe Biden urged them to stay away. Adult migrants “are being sent back” in the interim, according to Biden, who was referring to the ongoing Title 42 policy of swift deportations under the Trump administration. When unaccompanied migrant children began to arrive in greater numbers than the facilities designed to house them (before they were sent to sponsors), Biden earlier promised that his administration would not deport them. As a result, the Joe Biden administration in March asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance.

After nearly 20 years, the United States’ direct military participation in Afghanistan came to an end when Vice President Joe Biden stated on April 14 that the country would postpone the withdrawal of all soldiers until September 11. The U.S. government reached an agreement with the Taliban in February 2020 to evacuate all troops by May 1, 2021. Responses to Joe Biden’s decision ranged from support and relief to concern over the potential collapse of the Afghan government in the absence of American assistance. At an international climate summit held on April 22–23, Vice President Joe Biden declared that the United States would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50%–52% from 2005 levels by 2030.Other nations raised their pledges as well. Joe Biden gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress on April 28, the night before he would complete 100 days in office.

During a resurgence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021, Biden declared, “My party still supports Israel.” Biden traveled abroad for the first time as president in June 2021. He traveled to Belgium, Switzerland, and the UK in just eight days. He met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in private while attending the G7, NATO, and EU summits.

The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which made the celebration a recognized federal holiday, was signed by Joe Biden on June 17. Since 1986, Juneteenth is the first brand-new federal holiday. In July 2021, as the nation’s COVID-19 immunization rate slowed and the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant spread, Biden declared that the nation was experiencing “a pandemic for those who haven’t gotten the vaccination” and that it was “gigantically important” for all Americans to get immunized. AUKUS was a security agreement signed by Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States in September 2021 to maintain “peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term.” Under the terms of the agreement, Australia would get nuclear-powered submarines.

More judges chosen by Joe Biden to the federal bench were confirmed by the end of 2021 than by any other president in their first year in office since Ronald Reagan, at 40. More than any other president in American history, Biden has placed a high priority on diversity in his judicial selections, with a preponderance of appointments going to women and persons of color. Since the courts in these states already tend to be liberal, the majority of his selections have only had a little impact.

According to Morning Consult polling, Joe Biden maintained a positive approval rating of more than 50% during the first eight months of his presidency. It started to fall off in August and by December had dropped into the low forties. The withdrawal from Afghanistan, rising hospitalizations from the Delta variety, high inflation and petrol prices, chaos within the Democratic Party, and a general fall in popularity typical of politics are all blamed for the decline in his support.

Nine months after the COVID-19 recession ended, Joe Biden became office. His first year in office was marked by strong growth in real GDP, employment, wages, and stock market returns, amidst noticeably high inflation. The quickest rate of growth in real GDP in 37 years was 5.9%.The unemployment rate decreased during the year at the fastest rate ever as job creation reached records. The biggest nominal pay and salary growth in at least 20 years helped to counteract the inflation, which by the end of 2021 had risen to 7.1%, a level not seen in nearly 40 years.

Leaving Afghanistan

According to the terms of a US-Taliban agreement signed in February 2020 that established a May 1, 2021 deadline, American forces started leaving Afghanistan in 2020. On May 1, the Taliban launched an assault. The majority of American troops in Afghanistan had left by the beginning of July. In response to the pullout, Joe Biden stated in July that it was “highly unlikely” that the Taliban would take control of the entire nation.

Ashraf Ghani, the president of Afghanistan, left the nation on August 15 after the Taliban offensive caused the government to collapse. with response, Joe Biden gave the order for 6,000 American soldiers to aid with the evacuation of American servicemen and allies from Afghanistan.His pullout strategy drew condemnation from both sides of the political aisle, with the evacuation of American and Afghan allies being criticized as chaotic and inept. The “messy” incident was addressed by Biden on August 16, claiming responsibility for it and acknowledging that it “unfolded more quickly than we had anticipated.” By arguing that Americans shouldn’t “die in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves,” Obama supported his decision to leave.

13 American service members and 169 Afghans were murdered on August 26 in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport. According to a U.S. Army commander, two ISIS-K targets who were “planners and facilitators” were killed on August 27 by an American drone strike. A further American drone strike on August 29 resulted in the deaths of ten civilians, including seven children. When the suspect was revealed to be harmless on September 17, the Defense Department acknowledged that its first allegation that the strike was carried out on an Islamic State suicide bomber threatening Kabul Airport was “a tragic mistake.”

On August 30, the American military left Afghanistan completely. Over 120,000 Americans, Afghans, and other allies were extracted, and Joe Biden termed it “an extraordinary success.” Despite his August 18 promise to keep forces in Afghanistan until all Americans who wanted to leave had left, he conceded that up to 200 Americans who wanted to did not.

Climate and infrastructure

The American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion package addressing topics like transportation infrastructure, utilities infrastructure, broadband infrastructure, housing, schools, manufacturing, research, and workforce development, was suggested by Joe Biden as part of his Build Back Better program in late March 2021. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that covered infrastructure related to transportation, utilities, and broadband, was approved by the Senate in August 2021 after months of negotiations between Joe Biden and lawmakers. The House also voted in favor of the bill on a bipartisan basis in early November 2021. The law was enacted by Biden around the middle of November 2021.

The Build Back Better Act, a $3.5 trillion social spending package with significant provisions on climate change and an expansion of the social safety net, was the other essential component of the Build Back Better agenda. Republicans opposed the bill, therefore Democrats tried to pass it on a party-line vote through budget reconciliation. However, even after the cost was reduced to $2.2 trillion, they were unable to secure Senator Joe Manchin’s support. The Build Back Better Act was scaled back and thoroughly rewritten into the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 after Manchin rejected it, and it now addresses deficit reduction, climate change, healthcare reform, and tax reform.

Joe Biden advocated a deal that the United States and the European Union cut methane emissions by a third by 2030 and tried to add dozens of other nations to the effort before and during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). He made an effort to persuade China and Australia to take further action. To pressure other nations to tighten their climate policy, Obama organized an online Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change. By 2024, Biden promised to increase climate financing for underdeveloped nations. The United States and China also came to a greenhouse gas emission reduction agreement at COP26. 40% of the emissions produced worldwide are attributed to these two nations.

2022

After beginning the year with low popularity ratings because of inflation and rising gas prices, which continued to decline to about 40% in combined surveys by February, Joe Biden began steps to improve his public image in early 2022. In order to enable the passage of the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act—on both of which the Senate had failed to invoke cloture—he supported a reform to the Senate filibuster at the start of the year. The rules change was defeated when Senate Republicans and two Democratic senators, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, banded together to oppose it.

Economy

Real GDP growth in Joe Biden’s second year dropped sharply from 5.9% growth in 2021 to 2.1% growth after somewhat negative growth in the first half sparked recession fears. As the unemployment rate decreased to a 53-year low of 3.5% in December, consumer spending and job creation remained robust throughout the year. The rate of inflation peaked in June at 9.1% but started to decline in the second half of the year, reaching 6.5% in December. Stocks performed the worst since 2008.

Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Bill Clinton’s nominee for the Supreme Court, moderate liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, announced his decision to step down from the bench in January. In the event of a vacancy on the Supreme Court, Biden pledged during his 2020 campaign to appoint the first Black woman. He reaffirmed this pledge upon the announcement of Breyer’s retirement. Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal judge, was nominated by Joe Biden for the Supreme Court on February 25. She was sworn in on June 30 after being confirmed by the US Senate on April 7.

Foreign affairs

The anti-terrorism operation in northern Syria that led in the demise of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the second head of the Islamic State, was directed by Joe Biden in early February. Biden gave his approval to the drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of Al-Qaeda and a key figure in the preparations for the September 11 attacks, in late July.

Also in February, after foreseeing an attack for several weeks, Joe Biden oversaw the U.S. reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, placing harsh sanctions on Russia and approving the sale of more than $8 billion worth of arms to Ukraine. Joe Biden requested $33 billion from Congress for Ukraine on April 29; however, lawmakers later upped it to around $40 billion. “Putin’s war has raised the price of food because Ukraine and Russia are two of the world’s major breadbaskets for wheat and corn, the basic product for so many foods around the world,” said Joe Biden in reference to the escalating energy and food problems.

Joe Biden continues to face difficulties because to China’s aggression, notably in the Pacific. The Solomon Islands-China security agreement raised concerns since it would allow China to establish military outposts all over the South Pacific. As a result of the agreement, Joe Biden worked to deepen connections with Australia and New Zealand, especially after Anthony Albanese became Australia’s new prime minister and Jacinda Ardern’s administration adopted a tougher stance against Chinese influence. Contrary to the long-standing U.S. policy of “strategic ambiguity” regarding China and Taiwan, Joe Biden stated in a September interview with 60 Minutes that American military would defend Taiwan in the case of “an unprecedented attack” by the Chinese. After saying three times before that the United States would support Taiwan in the case of a Chinese attack, Biden made his September remarks. Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly retracted his words and insisted that U.S. policy toward Taiwan has not altered amid rising tension with China. Late in 2022, Biden issued a number of executive orders and federal regulations intended to stifle Chinese technical advancement and keep the United States at the forefront of computers, biotechnology, and clean energy.

With Saudi Arabia, the 2022 OPEC+ oil production cut sparked a diplomatic row that deepened their divide and jeopardized their long-standing relationship.

Diagnosis of COVID-19

Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on July 21, 2022, while allegedly having only minor symptoms. The White House claims Paxlovid was used to treat him. He spent five days working in seclusion at the White House and was put back in it on July 30 after another positive test.

National strategy

The bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, which aims to improve the USPS’s finances and operations, was signed into law by Joe Biden in April 2022.

The Joe Biden administration declared on July 28, 2022, that it will close four large holes on the Arizona-U.S. border near Yuma, an area with among of the busiest pathways for unauthorized crossings. Joe Biden had promised not to build another border wall when running for president. This happened after Biden’s supporters and detractors both condemned the way his administration handled the southern border.

Other pieces of legislation that Joe Biden backed were approved by Congress in the summer of 2022. Following the shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act sought to address issues related to gun legislation. The bill’s gun control measures also fund state red flag laws and other crisis intervention programs, further criminalize arms trafficking and straw purchases, and partially close the boyfriend loophole. Background checks for gun purchases by people under 21 are also extended under the bill. The law was signed by Biden on June 25, 2022.

Joe Biden signed the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 into law on August 10, 2022, after it was first introduced in 2021. For veterans who were exposed to harmful substances while serving in the military, such as burn pits, the measure aims to greatly increase healthcare access and funding. Due to comedian Jon Stewart’s advocacy, the bill received a lot of media attention.

On August 9, 2022, Joe Biden officially signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law. In order to compete economically with China, the act offers billions in new funds to support local semiconductor manufacture and research in the United States.

Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin submitted the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 as a consequence of ongoing discussions regarding Joe Biden’s original Build Back Better program, which Manchin had previously vetoed. The budget plan called for raising $739 billion, authorizing spending of $370 billion on energy and climate change, $300 billion to reduce the deficit, three years of Affordable Care Act subsidies, price-lowering prescription drug reform, and tax reform. The law will reduce US greenhouse gas emissions between 31% and 44% below 2005 levels by 2030, according to a Rhodium Group analysis. The measure (as revised) was approved by the Senate on August 7, 2022, with a 51–50 vote from the Democratic and Republican parties, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie.On August 12, the House approved the legislation, and on August 16, Vice President Joe Biden signed it.

On October 6, 2022, Joe Biden commuted all federal marijuana possession convictions against citizens of the United States.

The Defense of Marriage Act was repealed and the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires the federal government to acknowledge the legality of same-sex and multiracial marriages in the United States, was signed by Biden on December 13, 2022.

2022 elections

In a Philadelphia speech that was televised nationwide on September 2, 2022, Joe Biden urged a “battle for the soul of the nation.” Off-camera, he referred to vocal Trump fans as “semi-fascists,” which was condemned by Republican pundits. Republicans won a narrow majority of 222 seats in the House of Representatives, despite predictions of a Republican wave election, and Democrats retained control of the U.S. Senate with 51 seats, up one seat from the previous Congress. The race for control of the U.S. Congress was much closer than anticipated.

The president’s party gained a net number of governorships in this midterm election, which was also the first time since 1986 that they had not lost any state legislative chambers. Democrats gave Joe Biden credit for their surprisingly good showing, and he hailed the outcome as a victory for democracy.

2023

Democrats gave Joe Biden credit for their surprisingly good showing, and he hailed the outcome as a victory for democracy.

2023

Discovery of classified documents

Joe Biden’s attorneys discovered secret documents from his vice presidency on November 2, 2022, while packing files at the Penn Biden Center. The records dated back to his vice presidency. The U.S. National Archives received the records that day, the White House claims, and they were recovered the following day. On December 20, more top-secret papers were found in the garage of Joe Biden’s house in Wilmington, Delaware.These conclusions were made public in January 2023, and on that day, January 12, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Robert K. Hur as special counsel to look into “possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records.”Six additional objects with secret markings were found at Biden’s Wilmington home on January 20 during a 13-hour consented search by FBI agents.

Visit to Ukraine

Four days before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on February 20, 2023, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska. While there, he vowed to provide Ukraine more military assistance and condemned the conflict. The trip required extensive security planning to ensure everyone’s safety and was unannounced.

Bank collapses

Joe Biden opposed a taxpayer bailout following the 2023 bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank. Additionally, he claimed that the demise of the bank was a result of the partial repeal of Dodd-Frank laws.

Political stances

Joe Biden is seen as a centrist and a moderate Democrat. His stances have consistently supported the Democratic Party’s middle over the course of his lengthy career. Joe Biden’s “most valuable political skill,” according to journalist Sasha Issenberg in 2022, was “an innate compass for the ever-shifting mainstream of the Democratic party.”

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 lowered corporate taxes, but Joe Biden has suggested partially rolling them back, claiming that doing so wouldn’t hinder businesses’ capacity to hire. He supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Joe Biden has consistently backed the Affordable Care Act. (ACA).In order to finance the plan’s expansion and improvement, he has advocated for undoing some tax cuts implemented by the Trump administration. By introducing a public health insurance option, the Biden proposal intends to increase health care coverage to 97% of Americans.

Since 2012, Joe Biden has backed same-sex unions. He also favors overturning the Hyde Amendment and Roe v. Wade. He is against oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In his capacity as a senator, he had strong ties with police organizations and served as the leading advocate for a bill of rights for police officers, which was backed by police unions but opposed by police chiefs. Following his ardent support for the War on Drugs as a U.S. senator, Joe Biden campaigned for president in 2020 on a platform of decriminalizing cannabis. In Joe Biden’s opinion, the issue of global warming requires response. He co-sponsored the Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, the Senate’s toughest anti-global warming legislation. By 2035, he hopes to have a carbon-free power sector in the United States, and by 2050, he wants all emissions to be eliminated. His agenda calls for green construction, re-entry into the Paris Agreement, and environmental protection.

China is the “most serious competitor” that poses threats to the United States’ “prosperity, security, and democratic values,” according to Joe Biden, who has called on the US to “get tough” on it. Speaking to the head of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, about the violations of human rights in the Xinjiang area, Biden promised to impose sanctions and commercial restrictions on individuals and organizations inside the Chinese government that engage in repression.

Joe Biden has stated that while he opposes regime change, he supports non-military assistance for opposition movements. He voted against direct American engagement in Libya, for American involvement in the Iraq War, and against American involvement in the Gulf War. He also favors a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. According to Joe Biden, the United States will stop supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen and will reexamine its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Biden is in favor of extending the New START arms control agreement with Russia in order to reduce the number of nuclear weapons that each country can deploy. Joe Biden became the first American president to formally recognize the Armenian genocide in 2021.

Reputation

Joe Biden was frequently listed as one of the least wealthy senators, which he attributed to his youth when he was elected. During his first tenure, he suggested campaign finance reform legislation because he believed less wealthy public officials would be persuaded to take donations in exchange for political favors. Biden’s net worth was $27,012 in November 2009. The Bidens’ net worth by November 2020 was $9 million, partly as a result of the vice president’s speaking engagements and book sales.

Joe Biden is a fantastic street politician, according to political journalist Howard Fineman. He is neither an intellectual nor a theoretical thinker. He comes from a long history of hard-working Scranton residents, including automobile dealers and auto salespeople. He possesses that amazing Irish talent. Joe Biden has improved with time, according to political commentator David S. Broder: “He responds to genuine people—that’s been consistent throughout. His capacity to comprehend himself and interact with other politicians has also significantly improved. Biden is the kind of genuinely content person who can be as good to others as he is to himself, according to journalist James Traub. Biden has gained recognition in recent years, particularly following the 2015 passing of his eldest son Beau, for his capacity for empathy and speaking about pain. He ran for president in 2020 with the goal of becoming “healer-in-chief,” according to CNN, and The New York Times detailed his long history of being asked to deliver eulogies.

Wolf Blitzer, a journalist and TV host, described Joe Biden as talkative; Mark Bowden, a journalist, said he is known for “talking too much” and leaning in close “like an old friend with something urgent to tell you.” He frequently veers off topic and occasionally “puts his foot in his mouth.” Biden, who is known for making mistakes, referred to himself as “a gaffe machine” in 2018.  Joe Biden’s “weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything,” according to The New York Times.

The New York Times claims that Joe Biden frequently exaggerates or embellishes aspects of his biography, a habit that The New Yorker likewise identified in 2014. For instance, Biden has exaggerated his involvement in the civil rights struggle and misremembered his accomplishments in school, including his three college degrees. Mr. Biden’s folksiness, according to The Times, “can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.”

Joe Biden’s Net Worth

Joe Biden made $17.3 million over his four years in office, but as of June 10, 2021, Forbes estimates that he only had a $8 million net worth.

His net worth was $2.5 million when he was still vice president, but it increased to $8 million during the time he was out of politics, according to Forbes. Joe Biden’s estimated net worth is $9 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

The Bidens’ assets include two Delaware residences worth over $4 million each, $4 million in cash and investments, and a federal pension worth over $1 million. He is also married to Jill. The difference between the two estimations above may be explained by these data, which are approximations.

Although Joe Biden has maintained a consistent political salary, the majority of his fortune has come from speaking engagements and book sales. When Biden first joined the Senate in 1973, his annual salary was $42,500; by the time he departed in 2009, he was earning $169,300. His compensation increased to $230,700 as vice president, and it is now $400,000 as president.

Around the time of its release in 2008, Joe Biden’s first book, “Promises to Keep,” brought in $71,000 in royalties and $9,500 for audiobook rights. However, that is a pittance in comparison to the money he has made since leaving the White House for the first time. According to tax documents examined by Forbes, the Bidens made more than $15 million between 2017 and 2019. Included in that are apparently a second book deal worth $8 million, book tour earnings of $1.8 million, speaking engagement fees of $2.4 million, and a grant from the University of Pennsylvania for $775,000.