President Joe Biden talked with reporters after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House. In this file photo, President Donald Trump is shown.
President Joe Biden can claim to have laid claim to a banner first year in office. There are plenty of setbacks revealed by the numbers.
The United States got most of their COVID-19 vaccines. Economic growth and inflation both went up. The war in Afghanistan ended with a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. troops. Infrastructure bills passed. Biden's social and climate proposals were slowed down by the price of the legislation.
Biden's first year had some notable numbers.
The vaccination rate was 63.5%. Most Americans were jabbed. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have higher vaccination rates.
The unemployment rate was 3.9%. Biden's first year was marked by the low unemployment rate. Unemployment was at 6.4% when he took over the economy. The Congressional Budget Office had expected the unemployment to go up to 4.6% by the end of the year, but it was 6.4 million jobs added last year.
8% inflation. Biden got burned as inflation reached a 40-year high. Biden's economic leadership was disapproved of by higher prices. Some economists said higher prices were a sign that Biden's relief package was too large.
$1 trillion. Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law includes $550 billion in new spending. Biden pulled back from his original proposal to get an agreement. He proposed a package of social and climate initiatives, but they were not approved by the Senate. Biden proposed $4 trillion in spending and got 25% of it.
13 deaths. The number of US troops who died in a suicide bombing at the gate of the airport in Afghanistan during the U.S. evacuate of more than 124,000 people from that country. Scores of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghan allies were left behind after 169 Afghans were killed. More than 2,460 U.S. service members died in Afghanistan over the course of two decades.
There are over one million border crossings in the Southwest. After Biden became president, migrants began streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border. During his first 10 months in office, there were four times as many encounters with border agents.
There were 20 natural disasters. There were 20 extreme weather and climate disasters that caused damages in excess of $1 billion and killed 688 people. There were two floods, 11 severe storms, four tropical cyclones, a wildfire, and a winter storm. Since 1980, the U.S. has averaged 7.4 disasters per year that have caused $1 billion or more in losses.
There are 24 states. Biden visited half of America's 50 states in his first year. Pennsylvania and Michigan were the top destinations, even though they were not at his homes in Delaware. He won the 2020 election in both states. Biden went to 35 states.
41 federal judges. During his first year in office, Biden had more judges confirmed to the bench than any of his predecessors. According to the White House, 80% of those are women and 53% are people of color.
There are 103 days. It took an average of 103 days for Biden nominees to be confirmed. The average time for nominees in the first years of the previous six administrations was less than that of Ronald Reagan.
There are nine news conferences. On Wednesday there will be a 10th. Biden has been very quiet. During his first year, he held nine news conferences and 22 media interviews. He has fewer news conferences than any of his predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors.
The references are not a joke. It's one of Biden's favorite lines. Civil rights icons, labor unions that built the middle class, air pollution from Delaware chemical plants, and Biden's disregard of polls on his economic agenda were some of the things he said were not a joke. It's seriously.
He said that people of goodwill would break their silence and help win the battle.
President Lyndon B. Johnson met with civil rights leaders in his White House office. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by Lyndon Baines Johnson. The most comprehensive civil rights bill was passed by Congress. King said that the law was a great moment, like the signing of the Emancipatio.
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