A Running List Of President Biden's Achievements

1. Diverse Executives: Biden was inaugurated as the oldest president, second Catholic president, and first president from Delaware. Kamala Harris was the first female vice president, highest-ranking woman in American history, first black vice president, first black female vice president, second-highest ranking black person in American history, highest-ranking black female, highest-ranking HBCU graduate, first Asian vice president, first Asian female vice president, first South Asian vice president, first South Asian female vice president, and highest-ranking Asian person in American history and the first woman, first black woman, first Asian woman, and first Asian person with presidential powers. 

2. An LGBT2SQIA+-Inclusive Federal Government: Pete Buttigieg was the youngest and first openly-LGBTQ Senate-confirmed cabinet member. Gina Ortiz Jones was the first open lesbian to serve as the undersecretary of a military branch and Shawn Skelly was the second openly-trans official confirmed by the Senate and first to serve in an appointed defense position. Brenda Sue Fulton, an LGBTQ rights activist, was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, was the first transgender government official. Chantale Wong was the first lesbian ambassador and first LGBTQ woman of color ambassador. Karine Jean-Pierre was the first LGBTQ woman and second black woman to deliver a White House Daily Press Briefing.

3. A Female-Inclusive Federal Government: Janet Yellen was the first female Secretary of Treasury. Avril Haines was the first female Director of National Intelligence. Appointed the first all-female White House Communications Team in American history. Jennifer Abruzzo was the first woman to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Saw First Lady Jill Biden become the first to keep her job while holding her position. Delivered the first joint address and first SOTU address to Congress to feature two women behind the president. Had the narrowest pay gap of any White House in history, with women making an average of 99 cents for every dollar a man does, and reached gender parity in the cabinet for the first time ever.

4. A Female-Inclusive Military: Kathleen Hicks was the first female Deputy Secretary of Defense, making her the highest-ranking female defense official in U.S. history. Jacqueline Von Ovost and Laura J. Richardson were the first women to head TRANSCOM and SOUTHCOM respectively, making them only the second and third women to head a COCOM, the only female four-star general in the military and fifth in Air Force history (Von Ovost), and the second female four-star in Army history (Richardson). Christine Wormuth served as the first female Secretary of the Army. Created the position of Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and appointed Kelly Magsamen as the first person and first woman to hold the position. Melissa Dalton was the first woman and person of color to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs. Saw the first woman graduate from the U.S. Army's sniper school. Launched a joint DOJ-DOS International Program to Support Women in Leadership Roles in Counterterrorism. Appointed Linda Fagan to head the U.S. Coast Guard, making her the first woman to head a military branch.

5. A Racially-Inclusive Federal Government: Deb Haaland was the first Native American and first Native American female cabinet secretary. Michael S. Regan was the first black director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Isabel Guzman was the first Hispanic woman Small Business Administration director. Cecilia Rouse was the first woman of color to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. Katherine Tai was the first Asian U.S. Trade Representative. Lloyd Austin was the first black Secretary of Defense. Gwynne Wilcox was the first black woman to serve on the National Labor Relations Board. Seema Nanda was the first Asian woman to be Solicitor of Labor. Rohit Chopra was the first Asian-American to chair the CFPB and David Uejio served as the first Asian-American acting director. Charles Sams III was the first Native American National Park Service Director in U.S. history. Lina Khan was the first Asian-American to chair the FTC. Xavier Becerra was the first Hispanic Secretary of Health and Human Services. Appointed Robert Santos the first Latino and first Senate-confirmed person of color to lead the Census Bureau. Alejandro Mayorkas was the first Hispanic and first immigrant Secretary of Homeland Security. Jennifer Granholm was the first immigrant Secretary of Energy. Appointed Shalanda Young the first black female OMB director. Confirmed Lisa Cook as the first black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve and Philip Jefferson as only the fourth black man to serve on the body. Signed an executive order advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal workforce.

6. A Diverse Federal Judiciary: Appointed the first Muslim-American male and female federal judges, the latter of whom was also the first Bangladeshi-American. Appointed more AAPI female federal judges than all prior presidents combined. Appointed more Native American federal judges than any president in history. Appointed more black female federal judges than any president in U.S. history. Appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson the first black woman to ever serve on the United States Supreme Court. Installed statues at the U.S. Capitol honoring Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

7. Prioritizing The Judiciary: Created a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Supreme Court. Appointed more federal judges in his first year than any president since Reagan, including more district court judges than any president since Kennedy. Saw Democratic judges outnumber Republican ones for the first time in years. Appointed judges to the DC Superior Court at an unprecedented pace.

8. Government Ethics And Transparency: Mandated all federal employees take a strict ethics pledge, restored the tradition of the president and VP releasing their taxes, and prevented the White House from interfering in federal investigations and prosecutions, particularly at the DOJ. Restored the policies of posting White House visitor logs and conversations with world leaders for the public to read. Signed the Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act, mandating that government budget justifications be made available on a website, and mandated that companies that receive government contracts worth $500,000 or more reveal their true owners. Allowed Senate offices and committees to share employees and established ethics guidelines for doing so. Signed the CFTCF Management Act to preserve a federal whistleblower program. Declassified 1,500 documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Marked Sunshine Week by directing federal agencies to apply a presumption of openness to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

9. Postal Service Reform: Restored political balance as well as personal and professional diversity to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. Signed the Postal Service Reform Act, removing onerous budget requirements that drove the USPS into debt and saving the agency over $50 billion.

10. Protecting The Right To Vote: Took legal action against Georgia, Arizona, and Galveston County and the state of Texas for their new voter suppression legislation and gerrymandered maps targeting black and Latino voters. Mandated that voting resources be translated into Native languages and made available at TCUs, established a Department of Education toolkit to educate young Americans on their civic responsibilities, made voting resources available to 12 million military service members and veterans, launched a vote.gov website available in 10 languages, launched a voting resource center for community care centers, and made American Job Centers voter registration sites and the Small Business Administration the first federal agency to be designated as a voter registration agency. Ordered the DOJ to investigate an increase in violence against election workers, resulting in multiple indictments on federal felony charges. Secured an agreement with the state of Ohio to protect the rights of military and overseas voters. Mandated that federal employees be eligible for paid time off to vote. Provided resources to help federal inmates who are eligible to vote do so. Released best practices election checklists to voters experiencing homelessness and service providers who can help them register and vote.

11. Overhauling Federal Procurement: Banned the use of reverse auctions in complex government projects. Signed the PRICE Act to promote innovative and rigorous cost efficiencies for federal procurements and acquisitions by the Department of Homeland Security.

12. A People-Friendly Government: Signed an executive order expanding online tax filing options, allowing customers to schedule IRS callbacks, creating a centralized and modernized online FWS permit system, testing the expansion of the use of SNAP benefits for online shopping, allowing individuals to use telehealth for workers’ comp appointments, allowing online submission of workers’ comp documents, expanding online support and options for Medicare enrollment, allowing automatic online enrollment and renewal in and of benefit programs online, expanding telehealth for patients, emailing eligible students about grants and scholarships, creating an online repayment portal for student loans, streamlining VA.gov and the VA app with on-demand customer support, testing innovative airport security technologies to reduce wait times, expanding customer support and feedback options for the TSA, allowing online SBA loan applications, delivering a streamlined online disaster aid application, allowing online submission of Social Security forms, accepting online signatures in the same way as regular ones, redesigning the USA.gov website so it provides access to all government benefits, reducing the burden to apply for USAID funds, letting individuals update their mailing address once and have it apply to all government benefits, reducing barriers to access tribal grant programs, allowing the online renewal of passports, and expanding interagency information sharing.

13. Restoring White House Traditions: Restored the traditions of unveiling predecessors' portraits and hanging predecessors' family pictures on the White House Christmas tree; attending the Kennedy Center Honors and hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner; and more.

14. Supporting Capitol Police: Signed the Capitol Police Congressional Gold Medal Act, landmark legislation to bolster security, erase debt, and give congressional gold medals for and to the Capitol Police Force. Signed the Capitol Police Emergency Assistance Act, giving the U.S. Capitol Police the authority to directly request emergency assistance.

15. Combating Domestic Terrorism: Released the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism and expanded the government's definition of extremism. Made domestic extremism a focus area for DHS grants, securing tens of millions of extra dollars to fight it. Targeted domestic extremist recruitment online, joining the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online, and among members of the military, establishing a DOD Domestic Extremism Working Group and updating transition instructions to prevent veterans from being recruited. Established a DOJ unit dedicated to combating domestic terrorism and made thousands of arrests, more than any president in history.

16. A Humane Border: Ended the state of emergency at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Canceled contracts for the Trump Border Wall. Ended the family separation policy and established a task force to reunite families either in the US or their country of origin. Reinstated the Central American Minors Program allowing children from the Northern Triangle to come to the United States as refugees. Ended Title 42 for unaccompanied minors.

17. Protecting Refugees From The Middle East: Rescinded the Trump ban on Muslim immigration. Increased refugee admissions from 15,000 to 125,000. Restarted the P-2 Program for Iraqi refugees.

18. Improving The Quality Of Life For Immigrants: Reestablished the Task Force on New Americans and elevated the role of the executive branch in promoting immigration integration. Terminated a 2018 agreement that prevented families from helping undocumented children and replaced it with a new one prioritizing the safe and orderly transfer of children. Repealed a policy requiring immigrants to reimburse the federal government for public benefits and another that prevented recipients of government benefits from getting green cards. Required the census to include non-citizens.

19. Promoting Legal Immigration: Announced an Early Career STEM Research Initiative, expanded the STEM Optional Practical Training Program, and updated policy for O-1A visas and USCIS rules to attract STEM talent from around the world to the United States. Established an Interagency Working Group to Promote Naturalization and directed government agencies to identify and eliminate barriers to naturalization and eliminate the naturalization backlog. Revoked a Trump-era policy requiring immigration judges to fulfill case quotas, increased the number of immigration judges and staff, and issued a new rule to streamline asylum claims to reduce the 1.3 million immigrant backlog. 

20. Stopping Unfair Immigration Enforcement Practices: Stopped ICE from targeting undocumented immigrants at COVID vaccine sites and revoked rules limiting the issuance of visas because of COVID-19. Halted ICE, CPB, and all other federal agencies from conducting raids on workplaces. Stopped deporting immigrants solely because they are undocumented. Limited the power of Customs and Border Patrol’s controversial “Critical Incident Teams” that often cover up abuses of authority. 

21. Stemming The Root Causes Of Immigration: Secured billions of dollars in government and private-sector funding for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, improving millions of lives and helping to stem the root causes of migration from these “Northern Triangle” countries. Saw Honduras elect its first female president, a socialist friendly to the United States, and charged the nation’s former president with drug trafficking while launching the U.S.-Honduras Strategic Dialogue. Launched U.S.-Costa Rica, U.S.-Panama, and U.S.-Colombia Collaborations on Migration and Protection to assist migrants in the Northern Triangle countries. Designated TPS to Honduras and El Salvador.

22. A Comprehensive LGBT2SQIA+ Foreign Policy: Appointed a Global LGBTQI Rights Envoy; resumed flying pride flags at U.S. embassies; and launched the Words Matter campaign to raise awareness about anti-LGBTQI+ discrimination in Poland that reached over 12 million Poles. Expanded birthright citizenship of babies born abroad to same-sex couples. Announced a third-gender option and changed the rules for gender assignment on passports, impacting nearly nine million non-binary, transgender, and intersex individuals. Established a committee to expand access to these IDs for people across the country. Enhanced training related to LGBTQI+ refugees for the staff of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, recognized informal same-sex marriages for asylum-seekers if the countries they came from did not permit them, and provided intensive HHS case management to refugees vulnerable to discrimination. Increased funding for the Global Equity Fund to $10 million; increased HHS funding for LGBTQI+ persons abroad, including the launch of a new transgender care and resource center in India; updated USAID guidance on integrating the needs of LGBTQI+ individuals in food security- and education-related development programming; added LGBTQI+-related terms to overseas grant applications for the Departments of Labor and HHS; launched a transgender recruiting initiative in the Peace Corps; and updated the Fulbright Scholarship application to include a non-binary gender option for the first time. Launched a $5 million foreign assistance program to increase LGBTQI+ participation in democracies around the world and included LGBTQI+-related language in the annual UN democracy resolution for the first time. Instituted Resident Legal Advisors in the Baltic states and former Yugoslavia to crack down on anti-LGBTQI+ violence.

23. Recognizing The Validity Of LGBT2SQIA+ Americans: Designated the site of the Pulse Nightclub shooting as a national memorial. Restored the tradition of officially proclaiming Pride Month and saw Kamala Harris as the first sitting vice president to march in a pride parade. Recognized Transgender Visibility Day, Transgender Remembrance Day, and International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Revoked a ban on diversity training. Updated SAMHSA research on the harm done by conversion therapy

24. Promoting An LGBT2SQIA+-Inclusive Military: Repealed the ban on transgender military service. Ended a long-standing ban on gender-affirming care for transgender veterans. Restored VA benefits to veterans discharged due to sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or HIV status. Allowed veterans to identify as transgender and nonbinary on VA medical records. Established an LGBT2SQIA+ Inclusion Initiative for the military that saw the military’s first openly-gay helicopter team in the U.S. Navy. Launched the USNS Harvey Milk, named after the famed LGBT2SQIA+ rights leader.

25. Expanding And Protecting LGBT2SQIA+ Healthcare: Approved the first-ever request from a state to add gender-affirming care to a state's federally-funded healthcare program. Increased research funding to establish improved standards of care for gender-affirming procedures. Enforced non-discrimination protections in healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. Unveiled an ambitious goal of ending HIV/AIDS in the United States by 2030 with an updated, whole-of-society national strategy, the reinstatement of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, the diversification of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, the appointment of the first African-American Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator, the allocation of billions of dollars in funds to fight HIV/AIDS at home and abroad, and more. Saw the FDA approve the first injectable HIV prevention drug, Apretude. 

26. Defending LGBT2SQIA+ People Against Hate And Discrimination: Directed the CFPB to enforce the ECOA to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in loan and credit services. Reinterpreted Title IX, ensuring discrimination against LGBTQ students is banned in all federally-funded schools. Restored the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Disparate Impact, and Equal Access rules while ensuring all those seeking emergency housing are assigned based on their gender identity. Enforced the Fair Housing Act to protect LGBTQ people. Postponed a Trump-era HHS rule that would have discriminated against LGBTQ people in foster care, adoption, homelessness, refugee, elder care, and public health programs. Expanded resources for transgender and gender diverse youth in care. Filed briefings in lawsuits arguing that transgender inmates in Georgia have the right to be housed according to their gender identity and that banning trans kids from getting healthcare and playing sports in Arkansas and West Virginia is unconstitutional while suing Alabama for its law banning gender-affirming care. Established a Working Group on Safety, Opportunity, and Inclusion for Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals, which led to the DOJ and other agencies enhancing support for the National Center for Culturally Responsive Victim Services, funding grants to prevent violence against transgender women (especially those of color), seeing COPS co-host a training session on campus safety for trans women, allowing the use of CVI funds to protect trans women, and more, leveraging federal resources to protect transgender women for the first time. Established new protocols to end discrimination against transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people in airports by implementing gender-neutral screening.

27. Accountability For Saudi Arabia: Ordered the release of a report confirming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman killed Jamal Khashoggi, sidelined bin Salman in favor of dealing directly with King Salman, and sanctioned the individuals involved in Khashoggi's killing. Declassified documents related to Saudi Arabia's ties to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

28. Waging Peace In Yemen: Stopped the flow of weapons used by Saudi Arabia to wage war in Yemen. Appointed Tim Lenderking a Special Envoy for Yemen; held discussions with heads of state and foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Oman, Yemen, and other nations; and saw the launch of UN Consultations on the Yemeni Peace Process, ultimately resulting in a two-month Ramadan truce, the formation of a Presidential Leadership Council. Delivered an unprecedented billions of dollars in humanitarian aid to Yemen in 15 months.

29. Support For Victims Of 9/11: Marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by establishing the 9/11 National Memorial Trail Route. Signed an executive order providing $3.5 billion in frozen funds in Afghanistan to the victims of 9/11 who had sued the nation for allowing the Taliban to flourish but had not received compensation.

30. Peace Between Israel And Palestine: Resumed ties with the Palestinian Authority, including resuming the U.S.-Palestinian Economic Dialogue and providing hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian and peace assistance to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Launched a Negev Forum with Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain, and the UAE to collaborate on the issues of national security, health, tourism, education, energy, and food and water.

31. Enhancing Relationships With Gulf States: Designated Qatar a major non-NATO ally. Signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Arab Emirates to enhance digital cooperation and entrepreneurship in the 21st century.

32. Ending The War In Afghanistan: Ended the War in Afghanistan, airlifted 125,000 Americans and Afghans in the largest such operation in history, provided tens of millions of dollars in funds to repatriate these folks, and provided a historic $4.5 billion in aid to the Afghan people through humanitarian organizations in the country. Signed legislation giving the congressional gold medal to the soldiers killed in the terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport.

33. Change In Pakistan: Marked the 75th anniversary of U.S.-Pakistan relations by assisting in the removal of pro-Russian, far-right, corrupt Pakistani leader Imran Khan.

34. A New Era In Iraq: Successfully brought an end to the War in Iraq. Lent U.S. support to the first ever papal visit to Iraq and the Baghdad Conference aimed at regional peace and prosperity. Saw civilian casualties in Iraq hit their lowest level since the U.S. invasion in 2003.

35. Combating Terror In The Middle East: Killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi in a raid on his compound on the Syria-Turkey border and ISIS deputy caliph Abu Yasser al-Issawi in an airstrike in Iraq. Saw Iraq capture ISIS Finance Minister Sami Jasim Muhammad al-Jubari and Abu Obeida Baghdad, the mastermind of the largest suicide bombing in Iraqi history. Backed Kurdish forces in defeating an attack on a prison in Syria, the largest ISIS attack in nearly three years. Saw the genocide of the Yazidis by ISIS recognized as genocide for the first time in a court of law. Convicted Jihadi George and Jihadi Ringo of felony crimes for their roles in the 2014-15 ISIS beheadings and saw them sentenced to life in prison.

36. Overhauling America’s Drone Strike Policy: Revoked policies covering up civilian deaths from drone strikes and declassified documents related to the deaths of hundreds of civilians due to drone strikes during prior administrations. Mandated that drone strikes receive direct presidential approval and cut the number of drone strikes by nearly 90 percent.

37. Defeating Terror In Other Locations Around The World: Designated ISIL-DRC and ISIL-Mozambique as terrorist groups and deployed U.S. troops to help train and assist in defeating these groups. Redeployed 250 U.S. troops to defeat al-Shabaab in Somalia. Assassinated ISIL-Greater Sahara leader Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi. Launched the Africa Focus Group of the Global Coalition to defeat ISIS and welcomed Burkina Faso and Benin to the Coalition. Offered rewards for information leading to the killing or capture of the leaders of ISIS-K in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sanctioned an al-Qaeda network in Brazil; Hezbollah financers in Guinea, Lebanon, and Iraq; an ISIS network in South Africa; financers of ISIS in Indonesia, Turkey, and Syria; and financers of al-Qaeda linked terrorist group MMI in Indonesia and Boko Haram from the UAE and Nigeria.

38. Protecting Cultural Property: Signed cultural property agreements with Egypt, Albania, and Nigeria. Banned Americans from importing artifacts from Afghanistan to protect them from Taliban-aided criminal and terrorist groups. Partnered with Google Arts and Culture and the Cultural Heritage Center (CHC) to expand access to cultural heritage sites to global audiences.

39. Combating Corruption Around The Globe: Signed a memorandum establishing the fight against corruption as a core U.S. national security interest and announced a strategic initiative that includes partnering with developed nations to combat corruption, targeting the real estate of corrupt individuals, establishing a kleptocracy asset recovery rewards program, reinvigorating U.S. participation in the Open Government Partnership and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and expanding and requiring anti-corruption work as part of U.S. foreign aid. Sanctioned and/or indicted major criminal networks as well as politicians involved in government corruption in El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malta, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Bulgaria, Albania, Venezuela, Guatemala, Armenia, and Kenya. Hosted the COSP to the UN Convention against Corruption. Partnered with the Alliance for Innovative Regulation to launch the First TechSprint to Combat Global Corruption.

40. Opposing Abuses In Nicaragua: Signed the RENACER Act, establishing a new government initiative to monitor corruption and human rights abuses in Nicaragua plus Russian activities there as well as cutting off all lending ties with Nicaragua, adding Nicaragua to the list of nations subject to corruption sanctions, and reviewing whether or not Nicaragua should be allowed to continue operating in CAFTA.

41. Rethawing Cuba: Signed the HAVANA Act, which covers the medical expenses of embassy staff afflicted with the mysterious "Havana syndrome." Restaffed the Cuban embassy and engaged with Cuban-American leaders and the international community to sanction Cuba, review the U.S. remittance policy, and ensure Cubans have internet access. Reinstated the the Cuban Family Reunification Parole (CFRP) Program; made it easier for families to visit relatives and for authorized U.S. travelers to engage with the Cuban people, attend meetings, and conduct research; and increased support for independent Cuban entrepreneurs.

42. A Vision For Venezuela: Added Venezuela to a list of nations whose emigrants are eligible for Temporary Protected Status. Eased the sanctions imposed on Venezuela to encourage the resumption of negotiations. Negotiated the release of two American hostages held in Venezuela.

43. Haiti’s Helping Hand: Arrested numerous individuals for the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse. Signed the Haiti Development, Accountability, and Institutional Transparency Initiative Act to build the long-term capacity of the Haitian government, civil society, and private sector to foster economic opportunity; promote freedom of the press and assembly; hold the perpetrators of the La Saline Massacre accountable; and generally work to secure the sustainable post-hurricane, post-earthquake, and post-COVID development of the nation; working with the Haitian-American diaspora to achieve this goal. Helped secure freedom for 17 American missionaries held hostage for months in Haiti and arrested numerous high-profile gang leaders for the act. Provided 100,000 Haitians with Temporary Protected Status and relaunched the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program. Partnered with Haiti in the implementation of the Global Fragility Act, the facets of which are described below.

44. Bolstering Caribbean Ties: Hosted the first Jamaican prime minister to visit the White House since 1995 and saw Jamaica and Barbados become independent from the United Kingdom while pledging tens of millions of dollars in crime prevention, climate change, and other forms of aid to the nations.

45. Strengthening Transatlantic Ties: Negotiated a new Atlantic Charter with the UK to focus on 21st century issues like climate change and cybersecurity. Established a U.S.-German Dialogue on Holocaust Issues to combat Holocaust denial and rising anti-Semitism and launched a U.S.-Germany High-Level Economic Dialogue in the Washington Declaration. Established a U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council. Launched a Transatlantic Quad with Germany, the UK, and France. Deepened security ties with Finland, negotiated new U.S.-Czech Republic and U.S.-Denmark Defense Cooperation Agreements, saw Germany restore its military power, and started the U.S.-E.U. Dialogue on Defense. Launched the U.S.-Turkey Strategic Mechanism. Opened the Fulbright Program for Secondary STEM Educators in Croatia.

46. Reducing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Instituted a five-year extension of the NEW START Treaty. Restored a U.S. policy of disclosing the size of its nuclear arsenal to aid in arms reduction negotiations. Issued the Joint Statement of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races. Announced a proposal to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention. Strengthened the Chemical Weapons Convention to include aerosolized use of CNS-acting chemicals by LEOs to prevent nations from using chemical weapons on their own citizens under the guise of crowd control and policing. Announced a partnership with Japan to support the global passage of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Sanctioned Russian, Chinese, and North Korean individuals and entities involved in North Korea's nuclear weapons program as well as entities related to Iran's nuclear program. Signed NCMOUs with Ghana and the Philippines.

47. Strengthening Interamerican Ties: Announced America would host the Summit of the Americas, reconvened the North American Leaders’ Summit, and established a trilateral AMEXCID-Global Affairs Canada-USAID partnership. Reconvened the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue and established a U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue to mark the bicentennial of our nations' relationship. Reversed a Trump-era plan to move responsibility for Greenland from the European Command to the Northern Command. Designated Colombia a major non-NATO ally. Launched a Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership based on dozens of shared principles aimed at addressing global threats in tandem with our closest neighbor. Provided tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to Venezuelan and Bolivian refugees in Northern Chile.

48. Fighting Crime Around The Globe: Sanctioned dozens of entities and individuals in Mexico, China, Colombia, and Brazil for manufacturing and trafficking fentanyl and opioids. Reestablished the Trilateral Working Group on Trafficking in Persons and the U.S.-Canada Cross-Border Crime Forum. Entered into CLOUD Act agreements with Australia and Canada. Increased INTERPOL funding by tens of millions of dollars, the first major increase in well over a decade. Signed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United Arab Emirates. Delisted FARC as a terrorist organization after the group reached an agreement with the government of Colombia to stand down and designated FARC-EP and Segunda Marquetalia for refusing to do so. Backed Colombian security forces to help them capture the highest-level drug lord since Pablo Escobar (Dairo Otoniel) and extradited him to the United States, offered a reward for the arrest of Bolivian and Honduran drug lords, and indicted former Guatemalan and Ecuadorian politicians for leading international drug rings. Offered rewards for the arrest of a Russian fraudster.

49. Leading With Human Rights: Rejoined the United Nations Human Rights Council. Reversed Trump sanctions on International Criminal Court officials while seeing the last two war crimes convictions from Yugoslavia upheld. Launched an Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative to partner with other developed nations to block technology used by nations and organizations to harm human rights. Sanctioned officials, organizations, individuals, and other entities in Syria, Iran, Sudan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda for the repression, detention, abuse, and killing of prisoners of conscience, protestors, journalists, and civilians. Revitalized the Guidance on U.S. Foreign Policy on Human Rights Defenders. Became the first U.S. president to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide and that Ahmadiyya Muslims face persecution. Charged a former U.S. arms dealer in Kurdistan for torturing a government informant, only the fourth torture charge in the U.S. in 30 years. Announced the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State Relations, which has gathered nearly 100 nation signatories. Launched U.S.-E.U. Human Rights Consultations.

50. Strengthening Relationships In Central Asia: Held the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Uzbekistan Strategic Partnership. Saw Turkmenistan elect a new president for the first time in 15 years, providing a possibility for reform. Became a member of the International Monetary Fund for Macroeconomic Management in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia. Saw the U.S.-Kazakhstan Open Skies Air Transport Agreement enter into force. Launched human rights consultations with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

51. Reforming America's Foreign Service: Restored the custom of appointing career diplomats to at least 70 percent of foreign posts instead of political donors and other cronies. Saw the U.S. Department of State ranked among the best places to work in 2021 while shifting the focus in the hiring process from testing to education and experience. Launched an Enterprise Data Council and Data in Diplomacy Awards to implement and accelerate the State Department's first-ever Enterprise Data Strategy, which will better leverage data and analytics to help inform foreign policy and management decisions.

52. Managing Matters In Myanmar: Sanctioned Myanmar's military for its overthrow of the elected government in a coup as well as members of its judiciary and wealthy businesspeople who support the regime, over 100 individuals and entities in total. Negotiated the release of two American journalists held by the military junta. Added Myanmar to the list of nations whose emigrants are entitled to Temporary Protected Status. Recognized the atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslims as genocide and provided hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to refugees. Provided tens of millions of dollars in funding to assist NGOs in documenting human rights abuses in Myanmar.

53. Strengthening Asia-Pacific Ties: Reinvigorated U.S. relations with Vietnam by launching a new CDC Southeast Asia, Peace Corps Vietnam, U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, and a medical trauma exchange in addition to pledging the deployment of another U.S. Coast Guard vessel, the creation of a civil dialogue on space, the mutual lowering of tariffs, and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for habitat restoration, climate change, education for 150,000 Vietnamese students, the removal of chemicals and explosives left from the war, support and inclusion for the disabled, the transition to a digital economy, promoting minority-owned businesses, and other projects. Lifted a controversial visa sanctions regime on Laos, allowing Lao tourists and immigrants to enter the United States. Strengthened the U.S.-Singapore Strategic Partnership by launching a new climate partnership, expanding the TCTP to include courses on climate change and sustainability, signing three MOUs expanding cybersecurity efforts, launching a supply chain dialogue, launching a growth and innovation partnership, expanding student exchange programs between the United States and Singapore, and reaffirming the common belief in the safe and peaceful exploration of space. Signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia more than doubling investment and trade financing, increasing collaboration on education, supporting green economic funding and women- and minority-owned businesses, increasing digitalization, and prioritizing digital and security cooperation. Fortified the U.S.-ASEAN Strategic Partnership by providing over $100 million to control tuberculosis, establish an ASEAN-U.S. Health Ministerial, launch the U.S.-ASEAN Climate Action Program and ASEAN-U.S. Environment and Climate Change Ministerial, study air pollution, strengthen pharmaceutical standards and product quality, launch a Smart Transport Asia program to improve fuel economy standards, establish a Smart Cities Innovation Fund, launch the ASEAN-U.S. Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Program, initiate an ASEAN-U.S. Transportation Ministerial, launch an ASEAN-U.S. Ministerial on Women and promote gender equity in the medical field, and provide loans to universities. Launched the U.S.-E.U. Dialogue on the Indo-Pacific.

54. Competing With China: Sanctioned Cambodian officials for corruption related to the construction of a Chinese-linked naval base in the nation. Launched "B3W" (Build Back Better World) to compete with China's "Belt and Road" program. Established AUKUS, a military alliance with Australia and the UK to combat Chinese dominance in the Indo-Pacific. Announced a devastating boycott of Chinese seafood unless the nation works to end its rampant illegal fishing practices. Diplomatically boycotted the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act banning goods made by forced labor, which comprise most goods from the Xinjiang province. Worked with nearly a dozen key allies to prevent China from securing key parts or playing a role in developing rules for the development and deployment of secure, private-sector-led 5G networks. Signed an executive order banning U.S. citizens from investing in companies with ties to China’s military and surveillance industry. Indicted and/or sanctioned dozens of PRC individuals for engaging in repression of activists within the United States. Banned the federal government from using maps that inaccurately depict Taiwan as part of China.

55. Punishing Belarus: Partnered with American, Asian, and European nations to impose travel restrictions and sanctions worth billions of dollars on hundreds of banks, defense firms, and elite individuals tied to the government of Belarus for their fraudulent 2020 election, silencing of political opponents, use of refugees as a political weapon, assistance to Russia in invading Ukraine, and diversion of Ryanair flight 4978, even sanctioning Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Charged four Belarusian government officials with conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy, which carries a penalty of 20 years to life, for diverting Ryanair flight 4978. Imposed a Khashoggi ban on Belarusian officials for their actions to attempt to forcibly repatriate a Belarusian athlete during the Tokyo Olympics. Closed the U.S. Embassy in Minsk. Extended the sanctions on Russia, the harshest ever imposed by one nation against another, to Belarus.

56. Supporting Ukraine: Bolstered American support for Ukraine by finalizing a Strategic Defense Framework, reaffirming U.S. support for NATO membership, increasing U.S. security assistance, finalizing an R&D agreement for military technology, signing a Space Situational Awareness MOU, extending by seven years the Agreement Regarding Ukraine related to weapons of mass destruction, launching a secure 24/7 communications link on nuclear threats posed by Russia, doubling investments in human rights and anti-corruption reform, establishing a Strategic Energy and Climate Dialogue, finalizing an MOU on commercial cooperation, and signing an MOU giving the nation billions for any future projects they see fit. Lifted Trump-era steel tariffs on Ukraine. Provided $15 billion in security and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine (including hundreds of millions of dollars for countries to support refugees who fled Ukraine), including the first Stinger missiles and $100 million in civilian security assistance, more than three times as much as Obama and Trump combined. Provided a sovereign loan guarantee of $1 billion to bail out the Ukrainian economy. Granted Ukrainians in the United States Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Launched the European Democracy Resilience Initiative to preserve democracy, protect human rights, and combat disinformation in Ukraine and surrounding nations and gather evidence of Russian war crimes.

57. Sanctioning Russia: Personally sanctioned Vladimir Putin, his top foreign minister, and members of his security council as well as Duma members who started the invasion of Ukraine and the relatives of the aforementioned individuals; sanctioned all of Russia’s biggest banks and nearly 100 of their subsidiaries responsible for 80 percent of Russia’s banking industry, leading to Russia being ranked “junk” by the S and P 500; banned Russia from trading sovereign debt in Western nations; established a Task Force for Energy Security to end Europe's reliance on Russian fossil fuels, the biggest source of income for Russia's economy, as well as a U.S.-E.U. High-Level Dialogue on Russia; banned transactions involving the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Finance while cutting off Putin's access to gold reserves, resulting in the ruble crashing and causing a bank panic; cut off major sources of Russian access to civilian and military technology and sanctioned dozens of defense entities and individuals; banned Western investment in the Donbas region of Ukraine and the entire nation of Russia; canceled the Nord Stream 2 pipeline; suspended Russia's permanent observer status at the Organization of American States; sanctioned and restricted the visas of dozens of Russian elites and their families and companies and established a DOJ task force as well as a joint EU-G7 to seize assets and arrest these individuals; kicked Russia from the SWIFT system; led a historic and rare UN vote condemning the invasion and kicked Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council; banned Russian aircraft from U.S. airspace; instituted export controls on Russia’s oil refining sector and banned Russian oil, coal, and gas while releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bolster the U.S. energy supply; saw states ban contracting with Russian entities; banned the import of Russian alcohol, seafood, and diamonds as well as the export of luxury goods to Russia; prevented Russia from accessing IMF and World Bank funds; supported ICC and ICJ investigations into potential Russian war crimes, the former of which resulted in Russia being found culpable for illegal activities, and formally condemned Putin as a war criminal; sanctioned Russian propagandists and prevented state-owned media from making a profit; revoked Russia's PNTR status; expanded these sanctions to include cryptocurrency; and more after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, doing so with the partnership of dozens of Asian, NATO, EU, and other allies. Joined the EU in sanctioning the Wagner Group, in particular for their incursion into Mali and human rights abuses there. Instituted a "Khashoggi Ban" and other sanctions against dozens of Russians involved in suppressing Chechen dissidents living in Europe as well as suppressing and torturing Russian dissidents at home and abroad. Negotiated the release of American citizen Trevor Reed.

58. Renewed Relations With Africa: Reconvened the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which had only been held once, in 2014. Removed sanctions on Burundi in the wake of the nation's efforts to purge corruption as well as numerous successful elections. Declared a state of emergency and imposed sanctions on Ethiopian and Eritrean forces responsible for war crimes before assisting in the negotiation of a humanitarian truce and the beginning of a resolution of longstanding problems through political dialogue. Played an integral role in negotiating a political agreement that brought an end to the 2021 coup in Sudan. Signed a $2.2 billion development agreement with Nigeria to promote public health, clean energy, and environmental quality in the nation while opening a new U.S. consulate. Issued sweeping visa restrictions against Somali officials who refused to step down after they lost democratic elections in the nation, ultimately assisting in the peaceful transfer of power. Announced the extension and redesignation of Somalia for Temporary Protected Status while providing billions of dollars in humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa. Tripled U.S. trade with Algeria. Partnered with Libya, Mozambique, Togo, Benin, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, and Guinea in the implementation of the Global Fragility Act to prevent conflict, promote stability, advance economic progress, combat corruption and crime, promote human rights, and protect democracy with the assistance of billions of dollars in funding.

59. Gaining America Global Respect: Increased America's global reputation from 30 to 50 percent approval, the highest rate in 15 years, a gain of 20 points or 60 percent.

60. To The Moon And Back: Expanded the National Space Council to include the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Education, and Labor as well as the National Climate Advisor; gave the council more power to consult with the OMB and make budgetary recommendations. Created a U.S.-France Comprehensive Dialogue On Space and joined the Space Climate Observatory. Secured the membership of the Isle of Man, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, France, New Zealand, Poland, Colombia, Romania, Bahrain, Singapore, and Israel to the Artemis Accords. Announced a unilateral ban on anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) testing to encourage other nations to follow.

61. Fortifying Relationships With Pacific Islands: Launched the SALPIE Initiative to build economic cooperation with small and less-populous island economies. Secured millions in aid for the volcano- and hurricane-wrecked island of Tonga and expanded internet connectivity in East Micronesian nations like FSM, Nauru, and Kiribati. Assisted in the resolution of the 2021 Samoan Constitutional Crisis and Solomon Islands Unrest. Announced a Special Presidential Envoy for Compact Negotiations to negotiate amendments to certain provisions of the Compacts of Free Association with the FAS. Partnered with Papua New Guinea in the implementation of the Global Fragility Act, the facets of which are described above.

62. A Carbon-Neutral Federal Government: Announced the federal government would achieve a 65 percent emissions reduction by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050, including carbon-free electricity by 2030, 100 percent ZEV acquisitions by 2035, a Buy Clean policy, and a 50 percent reduction in building emissions by 2032 and carbon neutrality by 2045. Appointed two advisors to innovative new climate roles dealing with policy at home and diplomacy abroad. Established the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity to focus on the health impacts of climate change and the Climate Change Support Office to support the U.S. climate envoy.

63. Cutting Methane: Secured the commitment of more than 100 nations to slash methane emissions 30 percent by 2030 and put the United States on track to do so at home, including by reinstating crucial methane limits undone by the Trump administration.

64. Carbon Neutrality Worldwide: Rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement and announced the U.S. would host the Clean Energy Ministerial and Mission Innovation. Hosted a Global Climate Leaders' Summit in which world leaders from a dozen other countries bolstered their pledges to achieve carbon neutrality. Announced a new Net-Zero World program to partner with dozens of nations to develop country-specific carbon neutrality goals, help codify the goals of these countries, and provide tens of billions of dollars in financial support to create jobs primarily benefiting women and disadvantaged communities, starting with Argentina, Chile, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Ukraine. Partnered with Romania, Poland, Kenya, Latvia, and other nations to build first-of-a-kind small modular reactor plants under the FIRST Initiative and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Armenia on Civil Nuclear Cooperation. Provided funding for South Africa to phase out coal (which makes up nearly 80 percent of its power grid) by 2050. Launched the Greening Government Initiative with Canada to work in collaboration with nations around the world to make government carbon neutral. Partnered with Sweden, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Finland to advance cooperation in Quantum Information Science and Technology.

65. Advancing Clean Energy Technology: Announced the First Movers Coalition to convince dozens of companies collectively worth trillions of dollars in “dirty” industries like steel, shipping, construction, and aviation to transition to low-carbon technologies and materials, with the primary goal being to spur the growth of these green industries and create exponentially more progress in these industries. Launched a Clean Energy Demand Initiative in which more than 75 companies pledged nearly $100 billion in investments in clean energy technology to stimulate the market. Announced billions of dollars in funding to help U.S. companies get a foothold in emerging clean energy technology markets around the world. Launched the Climate Entrepreneurship For Economic Development (CEED) Initiative to connect climate entrepreneurs with peer thought partners, industry mentors, and partnership opportunities around the world. Launched a Green Recovery Investment Platform and expanded the U.S.-Europe Energy Bridge to support regulatory reforms to create open and transparent clean energy markets around the world. Announced $9.5 billion in major clean hydrogen initiatives in the manufacturing sector. Established a Buy Clean Task Force to support low-carbon materials made in American factories. Advanced the first carbon-based trade policies to reward American manufacturers of steel and aluminum. Launched the Initiative for Interdisciplinary Industrial Decarbonization Research and Industrial Technology Innovation Advisory Committee (ITIAC).

66. Cleaning Up Carbon Dioxide Pollution: Released new guidance on the responsible deployment of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS) technologies. Announced the next Earthshot, the Carbon Negative Shot, to foster research into how to conduct carbon dioxide removal to offset any carbon emissions that are not mitigated by 2050. Established a landmark $5 billion initiative to cap and plug abandoned oil and gas wells, keeping millions of tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

67. Leading The Way In Clean Cars: Established new fuel economy standards that will ensure cars get 50 miles to the gallon by 2027 and even more by 2030 while undoing the Trump administration’s fuel economy rollbacks. Mandated the federal government’s entire fleet of vehicles be converted to electric ones by 2035. Announced a goal of making the majority of America’s new vehicle sales electric by 2030. Announced a New Joint Office of Energy and Transportation to oversee the installation of a network of 500,000 EV stations by 2029. Restored state power to regulate tailpipe emissions and adopted California's tough standards on tailpipe emissions from heavy trucks and buses, which make up 25 percent of all transportation emissions, to reduce nitrogen oxides in the sector by 90 percent by 2031 in the first major update to these rules in two decades.

68. Halting Fossil Fuel Extraction On Federal Lands: Canceled construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Halted oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

69. Phasing Out Coal By 2035: Announced a review process as a first step to phase out the federal coal leasing program. Restored mercury rules and instituted new wastewater and air pollution rules that led to the closure of 40 percent of America's coal plants.

70. Cutting Other Climate-Killing Chemicals: Created a North American Strategy on Methane and Black Carbon to phase out both chemicals in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Ratified the Kigali Amendment and instituted a rule in order to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, a dangerous, climate-warming chemical used in the refrigeration process, by 2040. Announced a 33 percent reduction in the amount of soot allowed in the atmosphere.

71. National Security And Climate Change: Launched the first-ever National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change, Department of Defense Climate Risk Analysis, Report on the Impact of Climate Change on Migration, and DHS Strategic Framework to Address Climate Change and restored federal programs to protect climate refugees.

72. Fighting Climate Change With Agriculture: Launched the AIM For Climate Initiative to invest billions of dollars at home and in dozens of foreign countries to modernize agricultural technology to fight climate change. Began a $1 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program to finance pilot projects that create market opportunities for climate-smart agriculture and forestry products and a $800 million program to restore and bolster biofuel production.

73. Raw Materials For Clean Energy: Negotiated the investment of tens of billions of dollars into creating a domestic supply chain of minerals like nickel, lithium, cobalt, and graphite (critical to making electric vehicles and solar panels) in virtually every state across the country and invested federal funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make reclaiming and utilizing these minerals easier. Updated the Mining Act of 1872 for the first time with an Interagency Working Group based on principles of responsibility, sustainability, community, recycling, royalty fairness, mine reclamation, certainty, science, and community input. Updated and prioritized the federal list of critical materials and strengthened critical mineral stockpiling. Invoked the Defense Production Act to secure minerals for supplying clean energy.

74. Environmental Justice: Established a White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and built an Environmental Justice Screening Tool. Delivered on the Justice40 Initiative, overhauling existing federal disaster relief and climate change programs to deliver 40 percent of benefits to underserved communities as well as applying the same standard to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Distributed hundreds of millions of dollars in environmental justice grants to thousands of small organizations across the country. Announced an EPA plan to crack down on pollution in communities of color and a DOJ strategy on environmental justice with the launch of an Office on Environmental Justice in the Environmental and Natural Resources Division and a complementary enforcement strategy and a memorandum restoring the use of supplemental environmental projects.

75. Environmental Restoration: Invested $1 billion, the largest amount ever, in cleaning up the Great Lakes of 22 areas of concern that were the sights of famous environmental disasters, leaving just three remaining major sources of pollution in the Great Lakes. Invested $1.1 billion, the largest amount ever, in the Florida Everglades, the largest ecosystem restoration project in the world. Invested $7 billion in beginning or speeding up the cleaning of hundreds of Superfund and Brownfield sites around the country. Extended the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund through 2034.

76. Tree Hugging In Action: Restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, North America’s largest temperate rainforest. Announced a domestic and international initiative aimed at ending deforestation and restoring tens of billions of acres representing 40 percent of all deforested areas by 2030, including the announcement that the U.S. has far surpassed the goals laid out in the 2020 Bonn Challenge and will give and/or mobilize over $10 billion more to help other nations do the same as well as the donation of $1.5 billion to save the Congo Basin, the donation of the $1.7 billion to secure indigenous rights over forest land, and the establishment of a public-private partnership called the Forest Investor Club and the Forest Finance Risk Consortium.

77. Protecting Threatened Wolves: Lifted the population cap, added a genetic objective to address limited gene flow, and limited killing methods for the endangered Mexican gray wolf while seeing a study reveal these wolves are the oldest gray wolf subspecies in North America. Saw the federal courts restore protections to gray wolves in 44 states across the country. Saw a study reveal red wolves predate coyotes in North America, leading to them being considered a separate species by most, and reversed a Trump-proposed rule that would have demanded hunting and reduced protection of red wolves and effectively doomed them to extinction while releasing captive-bred red wolves into the wild and seeing the first litter of wild red wolf pups born in nearly five years.

78. Sustainable Hunting and Fishing: Restored Migratory Bird Treaty Act provisions gutted by the Trump administration. Opened up or expanded hunting or fishing opportunities on millions of acres of public lands, the largest such expansion in U.S. history. Launched a Task Force on Collaborative Conservation (backed up with $1.5 billion in funding) with the Western Governors Association to support the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. Invested $3.5 billion under the Great American Outdoors Act and the American Rescue Plan Act to support outdoor recreation. Established an American Fisheries Advisory Committee to assist in the awarding of fisheries research and development grants.

79. Defending Marine Mammals: Instituted new rules to protect the North Atlantic right whale from ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. Filed the first USMCA complaint against Mexico over its failure to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction in fishing nets. Saw a new species of whale, the Rice’s whale, discovered in the Gulf of Mexico.

80. Protecting America's Land And Sea: Undid Trump's rollback of climate change provisions in the National Environmental Policy Act. Reestablished Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, protecting five million acres of land from commercial exploitation. Protected Chaco Culture National Historical Park from mineral exploitation. Announced a new "America the Beautiful" initiative aimed at protecting 30 percent of America’s land and sea by 2030 and secured pledges from Canada and Mexico to do the same, making it a North American initiative. Halted a contentious nickel mine in the pristine Boundary Waters area of Minnesota. Canceled the controversial Bristol Bay Gold Mine, saving Alaska’s largest salmon run. Joined the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and partnered with Palau for the 2022 Our Ocean Conference. Invested over $100 million to study the ecosystem of the Long Island Sound.

81. Combating Wildlife Trafficking Around The World: Launched National Geographic Kids Africa, a partnership to create a television series and educational outreach program to highlight and inspire young conservationists across the continent. Imposed visa restrictions targeting wildlife traffickers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Partnered with Colombia, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, and Ecuador to launch the Sustainably Managed Fisheries Initiative, train port authorities, provide access to SeaVision to improve maritime awareness, partner with Florida International University and Global Fishing Watch, operationalize boarding procedures from the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement and provide Coast Guard patrol vessels, support Mobile Training Teams, install AIS Systems, expand efforts to Colombia's Gorgona Island, create a ten-year plan to keep local patrol vessels afloat, host joint workshops and launch task forces, train wildlife trafficking prosecutors, and provide tens of millions of dollars in grants to local NGOs in order to combat IUU fishing.

82. Tackling Oceanic Plastic Pollution: Backed and advanced a global treaty for plastic pollution. Announced a National Recycling Strategy with the goal of increasing the recycling rate to 50 percent by 2030. 

83. Powering Homes With Clean Energy: Invested $65 billion in clean energy power, the largest investment in American history, and created a new Grid Development Authority and Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. Put the United States on track to triple offshore wind production by 2030 and power tens of millions of homes, roughly one in five, with this renewable energy, with historic auctions bringing in tens of billions of dollars. Launched SolarApp+ to reduce regulatory barriers to rooftop solar and power millions of homes with clean energy; backed Washington, D.C.'s "Solar for All" program and used it as a model to expand access to solar energy for residents of affordable housing projects; and began a pilot program to connect homeowners in multiple states with LIHEAP benefits for solar energy programs. Allocated tens of billions of dollars in funding to prevent millions of Americans from having their heat shut off over the winter by helping them pay energy bills and weatherizing their homes, the largest such investment in American history, through LIHEAP and other programs. Launched a new Building Performance Standards Coalition to improve energy efficiency, lower costs, reduce emissions, and create jobs among the group representing more than 20 percent of American buildings.

84. Bolstering Climate Resilience: Used the Defense Production Act to produce gear for fighting climate change-driven fires in California. Established a Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, drastically altering how America prevents and fights wildfires. Launched FSOC, TDFIO, SEC, DOL, FAR, NOAA, USDA, HUD, VA, FEMA, NFIP, and countless other agency initiatives to revamp the government climate change website, protect savings and loans and mortgages and investments and insurance policies from climate risks, mandate climate impact assessments in construction procurements, make the federal government’s assets resistant to climate change, and more. Made the largest investment in resilience against climate-related natural disasters, which especially harm communities of color: almost $50 billion.

85. Aid For Puerto Rico: Established a White House Working Group on Puerto Rico. Released more than $20 billion in climate change prevention and disaster relief funds for Puerto Rico held hostage by the Trump administration. Canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in federal loans to give Puerto Rico some breathing room by not having to pay back federal loans. Signed the Puerto Rico Recovery Accuracy In Disclosures Act requiring consultants and advisors of the island's Fiscal Oversight Board to disclose potential conflicts of interest, the same standard used in bankruptcy proceedings in the mainland United States. Provided $12 billion to stabilize and modernize Puerto Rico's energy grid with 100 percent renewables by 2050. Expanded Child Tax Credit Access in Puerto Rico from covering just 10 percent of children on the island to 97 percent and more than tripled the maximum Earned Income Tax Credit for Puerto Ricans, bringing it in line with the benefits available to the rest of the nation.

86. Ensuring Clean Drinking Water For All: Launched a government-wide initiative aimed at researching, restricting, and remediating PFAS pollution. Invested $55 billion in clean drinking water, the largest investment in history and enough to bring clean drinking water to millions of Americans and over 100,000 schools and care centers, with a special focus on rural, tribal, and disadvantaged communities. Announced the United States would remove all lead pipes and paint by the end of the decade.

87. Investing In Public Transit: Made the largest investment in public transit in U.S. history, allocating $90 billion over five years, including $10 billion to bring it to new communities and $6 billion for zero-emissions vehicles. Secured the largest funding for passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago, $66 billion, including $24 billion to modernize the Northeast Corridor and $12 billion to invest in high-speed rail. Invested $15 billion in clean buses, ferries, and EVs. 

88. Repairing Roads And Bridges: Invested $110 billion in roads, bridges, and major projects, including the largest dedicated bridge investment since the Interstate Highway System, enough to repair every single damaged bridge in the country, as well as the largest single-year road funding in decades, which allowed the United States to complete the $1.2 billion Appalachian Development Highway System.

89. Racial Equity In Infrastructure: Mandated that the Department of Transportation ensure that the projects its grant recipients engage in do not further discrimination in communities. Announced $1 billion in special funding to reconnect disadvantaged communities divided by transportation infrastructure.

90. Bolstering America's Supply Chains: Distributed $42 billion to repair and increase the competitiveness of America's ports, waterways, and airports (including the biggest investment in ports in U.S. history). Launched a Trucking Action Plan providing tens of millions of dollars to expedite CDLs, expanding access to registered apprenticeships, focusing on hiring veterans, and expanding trucker pay while reducing time spent loading and unloading goods, resulting in the hiring of nearly 900,000 truckers, more than any president in U.S. history, and undoing years of decline in the trucking industry in its best year in decades. Secured nearly $100 billion in private-sector investments in semiconductor manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of jobs by fortifying one of the areas of the supply chain most impacted by the COVID pandemic. Implemented sector-specific supply chain resilience plans in casting and forgings, missiles and munitions, energy storage and batteries, strategic and critical materials, and microelectronics in the Department of Defense. Achieved energy independence for the first time in history.

91. Restoring Made-In-America: Codified the Made-In-America Office, launched a website designed to promote transparency into exceptions from Made-In-America laws, and created a Made-In-America Council. Raised the threshold for products to be considered Made-In-America from 55 percent to 75 percent. Secured a global minimum tax rate of 15 percent with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, preventing a race to the bottom for taxes that leads to jobs being shipped overseas.

92. Broadband For All: Secured universal broadband with $80 billion (including $10 billion from ARPA, $65 billion from IIJA, and the rest from federal tribal and rural grants) and by banning digital redlining with the Digital Equity Act, requiring providers to offer low-cost affordable plans, requiring providers to help families compare with a "Broadband Nutrition Label," boosting competition, and providing a permanent new grant to the bottom 25 percent of earners in America, ultimately reaching 10 million Americans.

93. Transportation Safety: Utilized $11 billion to increase road safety, including the creation of a Safe Streets for All program to benefit cyclists and pedestrians and the replacement of leaky, outdated pipelines that threaten public safety, as well as establishing new regulations on vehicles like limos. Launched new FAA rules cracking down on unruly passengers and the use of lasers to attack pilots while allocating hundreds of millions of extra dollars for airport and airline security and ordering the DOJ to prioritize hundreds of felony cases of violence by airline passengers. Secured $8 billion in funding for rail safety.

94. Advancing Global Health: Rejoined and strengthened the mission of the World Health Organization. Restored the White House Directorate for Global Health Security. Partnered with the African Union CDC via an MOU to bolster public health in the second-most-populous and least-developed continent on Earth.

95. Ending The Deadliest Crisis In U.S. History: Increased COVID-19 testing. Used the Defense Production Act more aggressively than any prior president to produce and distribute PPE. Implemented federal mask and vaccine mandates. Provided 1 billion at-home testing kits to Americans and dramatically expanded the number of testing sites while requiring insurance companies to cover testing and issuing emergency authorization for COVID breath tests. Provided universal N95 masks to Americans. Deployed thousands of military personnel to nearly every state to deal with COVID variants. Launched civil rights investigations, withheld funding, and paid for the salaries of school board members to stop states from banning mask and vaccine mandates. Mobilized the Department of Justice to investigate threats and violence against school board members who implemented COVID restrictions. Rolled out the best booster shot program in the world: one for all adults and two for Americans over 50. Authorized the Pfizer COVID treatment pill for emergency use. Authorized the J and J vaccine for emergency use and the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine permanently; expanded vaccination to kids ages five to 16. Fully vaccinated more than 250 million Americans, or 80 percent of the total U.S. population. Joined forces with the G7 and EU to provide 1.5 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to developing nations via COVAX and the Global VAX Initiative. Launched a landmark test to treat initiative that will allow people to get rapid COVID-19 tests and, if necessary, treatment on the spot. Issued new guidance on prescribing antiviral treatments for COVID and launched a marketing campaign to increase their use, ultimately seeing them become widely available. Prioritized COVID-19 care for the disabled by expanding testing and prevention opportunities for a variety of disabilities at the federal, state, and local level as well as in the private sector. Increased the annual federal government funding cap for the Foundation for the NIH and Reagan-Udall Foundation from a maximum of $1 million to a minimum of $1 million and a maximum of $5 million. Launched the Clean Air in Buildings Challenge to improve ventilation and stop the spread of COVID-19. Created a covid.gov website to provide access to testing, vaccination, and treatment for COVID-19. Launched a whole-of-government approach to identify and correct the barriers in detecting and treating Long COVID.

96. Mental Health And Substance Abuse: Signed the DEBAR Act, allowing the DEA to stop chemical companies and pharmacies who sell prescription drugs illegally from selling controlled substances. Signed the Methamphetamine Response Act requiring the ONDCP to designate meth an emerging threat and create an emergency response plan. Provided a $2.5 billion investment in community-based mental health and addiction treatment service providers. Launched a $5 billion program to increase youth mental health services, including the creation of a K-12 mental health toolkit, the launch of a Youth Mental Health Forum with MTV, the quadrupling of the number of navigators to help Americans receive mental health treatment, a mandate that states report the Medicaid and CHIP Child Core Set, and the hiring of thousands of mental health counselors in schools across the country (an increase of 65 percent and 17 percent for social workers and counselors in schools, respectively). Launched a DOJ investigation into whether the state of South Carolina violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by subjecting adults with mental illnesses to unnecessary institutionalization and risk of institutionalization in adult care homes instead of providing integrated community-based mental health services and concluded an investigation that found the state of Colorado indeed did so. Launched and shored up the 988 mental health crisis service hotline with hundreds of millions of dollars in new investments. Signed the Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act into law, which, combined with the American Rescue Plan Act, provided more than $250 million to address burnout among mental health professionals. Signed the STANDUP Act requiring state, tribal, and local entities that receive funding for priority mental health needs to implement evidence-based suicide awareness and prevention policies. Issued guidance on protections for people with opioid use disorder under the Americans with Disabilities Act and found that Indiana violated the law in this respect.

97. Declaring War On Child Poverty: Expanded and reformed the Child Tax Credit, cutting child poverty in the United States by half. Expanded SNAP benefits by nearly 30 percent, the largest increase in American history. Joined the Global Coalition for School Meals and pledged $5.5 billion to end child hunger at home and $5.5 billion to end child hunger abroad. Improved school lunch rules to make them healthier for the first time in a decade. 

98. Focusing On Small Businesses: Gave small businesses a restart package for pandemic-related openings and provided $10 billion to relaunch the State Small Business Credit Initiative. Signed the PPP Extension Act, giving the program hundreds of billions of dollars of extra funds and extending it by several months, while overhauling the distribution of funds to increase funds to LMI communities by nearly 65 percent and the smallest businesses by 35 percent, triple lending to microbusinesses, reduce the average loan size in half, and increase loans to rural small businesses by 40 percent. Signed the Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act, allowing millions of small business owners to keep their doors open for an additional year. Increased opportunities for small businesses in Department of Defense contracting. Saw the number of new small business applications increase 30 percent above pre-pandemic levels and a new small business boom beat the record for new small businesses started by 20 percent.

99. The Best-Ever President For Minority-Owned Small Businesses: Made the Minority Business Development Agency a permanent government agency in the Department of Commerce. Launched a landmark initiative to increase the percentage of federal goods purchased from small, disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) from 10 percent to 15 percent, an increase that will bring these businesses an extra $100 billion. Launched a centralized education hub called SCORE for Hispanic Entrepreneurs that provides personalized support and resources for Hispanic-owned small businesses. Expanded the number of PPP loans made to CFIs and MDIs by a factor of six.

100. Cracking Down On Government Program Fraud: Appointed a chief prosecutor and established strike forces at the DOJ to tackle pandemic relief program fraud and identity theft while reestablishing the Respect for and Transparency with Oversight Community and launching an Initiative on Identity Theft Prevention and Public Benefits as well as an Interagency COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force.

101. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Created 8.3 million jobs, the eighth-highest number of any president in U.S. history. Saw the unemployment rate drop from 6.7 percent to 3.6 percent, a drop of nearly 50 percent. Helped 18 states reach their lowest unemployment levels in U.S. history, including one (Nebraska) that reached the lowest level of any state in U.S. history (1.8 percent). Saw unemployment insurance claims hit their lowest rate in more than 50 years. Restored the Hispanic and black unemployment rates to beneath their pre-pandemic levels.

102. An Economic Boom: Oversaw the creation of five trillion-dollar American companies. Saw the global economy surpass $100 trillion for the first time in history. Saw a retail boom increase sales by more than 15 percent in stores across America. Secured a record GDP growth of 5.7 percent, the largest since the Reagan administration.

103. Investing In The Arts And Humanities: Saved the Liberty Theater in Eunice, Louisiana. Provided $135 million each for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities in the American Rescue Plan Act. Increased the budgets for NEA and NEH by tens of millions of dollars each.

104. Cryptocurrency: Signed the first ever executive order related to cryptocurrency research, paving the way for the first cryptocurrency regulations, and saw the crypto market go from $1 trillion to $4 trillion. Made the largest financial seizure in Justice Department history in the form of $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency, leading to the establishment of a Crypto Crime Task Force at the DOJ and a Crypto Crime Unit at the FBI, which would go on to shut down Hydra, the world's largest darknet server and one estimated to be responsible for $5.2 billion in cryptocurrency profits from drug trafficking and fraud, or 80 percent of the illicit global darknet trade in cryptocurrency.

105. Cybersecurity: Held a Spain-U.S. Cybersecurity Seminar and the inaugural U.S.-Kenya Cyber Dialogue as part of an initiative bringing together more than 30 partners and allies to work on cybersecurity while updating NATO cybersecurity policy for the first time in nearly a decade and announcing a historic Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework with the EU to replace a prior one struck down in 2020 by European courts. Secured a historic $1.5 billion for cybersecurity infrastructure in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Signed an executive order mandating that the federal government use at least the same standards of cybersecurity protection as America’s leading companies and issued a call to action for other companies to adopt the same standards. Signed the K-12 Cybersecurity Act, requiring CISA to identify and address the cybersecurity threats facing elementary and secondary schools. Extended the Industrial Controls System Cybersecurity Initiative to the water sector. Disrupted and prevented a major cyberattack by Russia's central intelligence agency (GRU) before it could occur and offered a $15 million reward for the Russian Conti Cybercrime Network, which had attacked dozens of pieces of critical infrastructure in the U.S. and Costa Rica. Established a State Department Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Signed the Better Cybercrime Metrics Act to improve the collection of data related to cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime. Established a DHS consortium with nonprofits to deliver cybersecurity training in support of homeland security.

106. Fighting Homelessness: Launched the landmark House America Initiative, providing billions of dollars to rehome 100,000 Americans, cutting America’s homelessness rate by over 15 percent. Provided $800 million to support thousands of youth and students experiencing homelessness.

107. Affordable Housing: Announced immediate measures to provide affordable housing to hundreds of thousands of people across the country by relaunching the HUD-Treasury Risk Sharing Program, boosting the supply of manufactured and two-to-four-unit housing, prioritizing individuals and families over large investors, working with state and local authorities to boost the housing supply, and including 20,000 new affordable homes in the aforementioned initiative, cutting the mortgage delinquency rate in half. Launched a Call to Action to Prevent Evictions mobilizing state courts, community activists, and law students in nearly 40 states to prevent hundreds of thousands of evictions through individual legal aid and the largest expansion of eviction diversion programs in decades.

108. Fiscal Responsibility: Devoted nearly $100 billion to provide pension relief and solvency and protect the retirements of three million Americans. Helped state and local governments prevent budget shortfalls. Cut the deficit by 65 percent ($1.85 trillion) in two years, the fastest cut in U.S. history and the first time the deficit has been cut by more than $1 trillion in a single year in U.S. history. Paid down the U.S. debt for the first time in six years.

109. Landmark Overhauls To Nursing Homes: Established a minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes, announced an initiative to phase out rooms with three or more residents and work to make single-resident rooms the default, overhauled the SNF-VBP program by measuring and publishing staff turnover and weekend staffing rates as a metric of the quality of care provided, launched a new initiative that continued to reduce the overprescription of medications in nursing homes, made the SFF program that targets the worst facilities have stricter rules and a shorter timeline for the implementation of change, reinstituted the use of per-day fines for code violations, established a new database to tracker nursing home owners and providers across the country, began publicly reporting information on corporate ownership of nursing homes, improved Nursing Home Care Compare by making data more understandable and relying on verifiable instead of self-reported data, established new requirements to ensure nurse aid trainees are notified of their eligibility for reimbursement upon employment and that free training opportunities are widely published, launched a National Nursing Career Pathways Campaign, assisted states in tying Medicaid payments to clinical staff wages and benefits, strengthened requirements for on-site preventionists, enhanced requirements for pandemic and emergency preparedness, and integrated pandemic lessons into nursing home requirements.

110. Waging War On Rural Poverty: Doubled funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission, investing hundreds of millions of additional dollars in economic and social recovery for the poorest region in the United States. Provided hundreds of millions of dollars in extra funding for rural colleges that need it the most. Launched a multibillion-dollar initiative called the Build Back Better Regional Challenge to help rural communities withstand future economic shocks as well as an equally large program specifically catered toward diversifying the economy in coal communities. Delivered billions of dollars in medical, food, and energy assistance to rural communities, helping cut rural poverty by 70 percent. Launched the Rural Partners Network in 10 states and Puerto Rico to help rural communities receive full access to federal benefits that they are entitled to.

111. Investing In Native Communities: Made the largest investment in Native American tribes in U.S. history, $32 billion to bolster public health, education, and economic development on reservations, via the American Rescue Plan Act. Provided $1.7 billion in funding to 16 Native American tribes, the most funding ever to the largest number of tribes ever, to ensure access to critical water rights infrastructure.

112. Unprecedented Respect for Indigenous Peoples: Was the first president to proclaim Indigenous Peoples Day. Launched the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to investigate abuses at America’s defunct boarding school system, including finding the remains of Native children murdered and speaking with survivors of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, in partnership with Canada. Launched an initiative to remove names detrimental to Native Americans from hundreds of federal properties. Signed the Shadow Wolves Enhancement Act, authorizing ICE to reclassify Tohono O'odham "Shadow Wolves" as ICE special agents.

113. Improving Collaboration With Native Peoples: Signed an executive order mandating that every federal agency release plans on how to improve collaboration and cooperation with and the improved gathering of input from tribal communities; signed Tribal Treaty Rights and Sacred Sites Memorandums of Understanding; established a Tribal Treaty Rights Database; established an Interagency Working Group on Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge; launched the Tribal Homelands Initiative; established the Native Language Working Group; launched the USDA Food Sovereignty Initiative and Hall of Tribal Nations; established the first-ever Secretary of the Interior’s Tribal Advisory Committee, DHS Tribal Homeland Security Council, HUD Tribal Advisory Committee, VA Tribal Advisory Committee, and VHA Native Affairs Office; and restored the White House Council on Native American Affairs.

114. Combating Crimes Against Native Americans: Established a task force within the DOJ, HHS, DOI, and DHS to create a strategy to improve public safety and justice for Native Americans, address the MMIW crisis, put the nation's first special emphasis on two-spirit Americans, and provide greater support to victims and greater emphasis on prevention. Relaunched the Trilateral Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls. Expanded special criminal jurisdiction of tribal courts to cover non-Native perpetrators of sexual assault, child abuse, stalking, sex trafficking, and assault on tribal LEOs on Native lands and supported the launch of a pilot project to enhance access to safety for survivors in Alaska Native villages. Launched the Not Invisible Commission under the Not Invisible Act to make policy recommendations to guide the Department of Justice and Department of Interior.

115. Historic Funding For MSIs: Signed executive orders to break down barriers for students of HBCUs, TCUs, ANNAPISIs, HSIs, and other MSIs and allocated a historic $5.8 billion in new funding to them.

116. Targeting Hate Crimes Against Black Americans: Launched a hate crime reporting campaign in South Carolina to push the state to pass legislation. Secured the conviction of the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery on federal hate crime charges and saw them sentenced to life in prison on state charges, establishing an important legal principle that a history of racist comments and/or subconscious bias, not just making racist comments during a crime or being a member of white supremacist group, is enough to secure a hate crime conviction. Signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal crime for the first time in U.S. history. Prosecuted those responsible for the largest wave of violent threats toward HBCUs in American history (during Black History Month, nonetheless) while providing Project SERV grants to affected schools to hire mental health professionals and security experts as well as resource guides to help MSIs detect, deter, and prevent threats and acts of violence.

117. Top-Down Police Reform: Signed a historic executive order that banned federal law enforcement from using carotid chokeholds and conducting no-knock warrants; rescinded bans on federal law enforcement using body cams, mandated they wear them, and granted control of body cam footage to local police departments to increase transparency; established a national database of police misconduct; mandated annual anti-bias training as well as de-escalation training; restored and expanded the ban on the transfer of military equipment to police; expanded officer and community mental health services; and much more. Established the DHS LECC and the DOI Task Force on Park Police Reform. Secured federal convictions for all four police officers who killed George Floyd, establishing a legal precedent that on-duty police officers have a duty to intervene in cases of police misconduct, and launched a pattern-or-practice investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. Restored the use of consent decrees and announced pattern-or-practice investigations into the Louisville Police Department, Mount Vernon Police Department, and Phoenix Police Department while strengthening these investigations. Invested $125 million in new funding in the COPS program that aims to build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Announced a new Collaborative Reform Initiative through the COPS Office that includes a continuation of the CRI-TAC program as well as an updated Critical Response program and Organizational Assessments program.

118. Expanding Healthcare For Tens Of Millions Of Americans: Established special enrollment periods for the Affordable Care Act and COBRA that saw five million Americans gain health insurance in just one year. Helped 14.5 million Americans enroll in Obamacare in the most successful open enrollment period in U.S. history with drastically reduced premiums. Relaunched the “Champions for Coverage” program. Fixed the "Family Glitch," expanding or lowering the cost of healthcare coverage for 1.2 million Americans. Saw Missouri and Oklahoma expand Medicaid, providing healthcare to 400,000 Americans.

119. Creating Jobs In Public Health: Created a Public Health AmeriCorps to rally and train 5,000 workers to meet America’s public health needs for the future. 

120. The Maternal Health President: Expanded Medicaid to cover 12 months of postpartum care for all new moms, compared to just two months for roughly half of all moms as provided for under previous federal law. Established the first birthing-friendly hospital designation by HHS and CMS to spur hospitals to improve maternal health outcomes. Automated patient access to maternal health records. 

121. Reducing Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Healthcare: Quadrupled the number of navigators for healthcare enrollment with a focus on low-income and black and brown communities and expanded marketing to include six additional languages. Became the first president to proclaim Black Maternal Health Week. Signed an executive order strengthening maternal health quality measurements and evaluating measurements by race and ethnicity to identify inequities. Saw 13 percent of medical professionals in the National Health Service Corps identify as black in spite of them only comprising five percent of America’s medical field as a whole. Closed the racial gap in COVID vaccinations among black and Latino adults with a health equity initiative. Signed the John Lewis NIMHD Research Endowment Revitalization Act, allowing former centers of excellence to be eligible for minority health research endowment.

122. Equal Access To Housing And Financial Services: Signed an executive order directing the federal government to redress racial bias in home appraisals and mandate HUD funding recipients come out with their own plans to combat racial bias. Launched the largest initiative to combat redlining in over 50 years with a partnership between the DOJ, the OCC, and the CFPB.

123. Unprecedented Respect For Black Americans: Dissolved the 1776 commission established to implement education that tried to hide the brutality of slavery. Signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making Juneteenth a national holiday. Resumed the effort to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill and saw Maya Angelou become the first black woman to appear on U.S. currency. Christened the USNS John Lewis. Awarded the congressional gold medal to Willie O’Ree, the first black player in the NHL. Saw Elena Meyers Taylor become the most decorated black athlete in Winter Olympics history. Redesignated the Brown v. Board of Education Historic Site a national historic park and expanded it.

124. Stopping AAPI Hate: Signed an executive order directing federal agencies to rework their language to be more sensitive to AAPI communities in the midst of an unprecedented rise in hate crimes. Signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act to expedite and expand the prosecution of hate crimes against Asian-Americans during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Funded NSF research to combat AAPI hate through more than 100 grant programs. Translated information about hate crimes reporting into the six most common Asian languages in the United States. Issued a comprehensive memorandum on improving the Justice Department's efforts to combat hate crimes and hate incidents and provided tens of millions of dollars in grants to combat AAPI hate crimes. Revitalized the DOJ's Community Relations Service, integrated AAPIs into community-based violence prevention efforts, and provided training to enhance civil rights reporting and strengthen relationships between law enforcement and community members. Ordered the DHS to assess threats against the AAPI community and FEMA to identify systemic barriers in nonprofit security grant benefits and opportunities. Confronted COVID-19-related bullying and harassment in schools.

125. Unprecedented Respect For Asian Americans: Signed the Amache National Historic Site Act, making this Japanese internment camp a national historic site. Reestablished the White House Initiative on AANHPIs and reinvigorated it by creating a Presidential Advisory Commission on AANHPIs and appointing the first-ever White House Senior Liaison to the AANHPI Communities. Updated HUD's Language Access Plan for the first time in nearly 15 years and provided web resources to reach those with limited English proficiency. Expanded language access and assistance for AAPI individuals seeking NEA funds. Restored the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust to provide homesteads for hundreds of Native Hawaiian families. Established an SOP for consultation with Native Hawaiians. Supported the 'Umeke 'ai Waimea Nui program to feed Native Hawaiians in need. Expanded rental assistance to Native Hawaiians via millions in additional funding for the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant. 

126. Freedom Of Religion: Reestablished the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and expanded its mission to include combating systemic racism, increasing opportunities for disadvantaged communities, strengthening pluralism, and promoting its work around the world. Appointed Rashad Hussain as the first Muslim International Religious Freedom Ambassador. Launched the U.S.-Israel-UAE Religious Coexistence Working Group to Advance Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue and Counter Religious Intolerance and Hatred.

127. Defending Reproductive Rights: Rescinded the Mexico City Policy banning funding for foreign NGOs that support abortion and resumed funding to the United Nations Population Fund. Repealed the Title X Gag Rule, thereby restoring federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Saw the FDA permanently allow mifepristone to be delivered by mail. Restored the Affordable Care Act contraceptive mandate.

128. Disability Rights: Was the first president to include ASL interpreters at every White House briefing. Provided nearly $15 billion to support home- and community-based services for the disabled as well as bolster IDEA funding to support students with disabilities. Expanded access to competitive integrated employment for youth and adults with disabilities. Signed an executive order to identify and reduce barriers to voting for disabled individuals and issued new dropbox accessibility requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Issued new web accessibility requirements under the ADA.

129. Disability Rights Around The World: Restored the position of Special Advisor on International Disability Rights and appointed Sara Minkara, a blind, Muslim, first-generation American, to fill it. Announced a global initiative to provide 500 million people with glasses, wheelchairs, hearing aids, prosthetics, etc. by 2030. Launched a global initiative to develop inclusive healthcare systems for the disabled in nations all around the world. Launched the Disability Inclusive Democracy Year of Action with more than 100 world leaders and experts to explore common challenges and unique solutions to expand access to democracy for disabled people around the world.

130. Combating ALS: Eliminated the waiting period for ALS patients to begin receiving Social Security disability benefits and made technical corrections to previous legislation. Signed the ACT for ALS Act, allocating $500 million for ALS treatment and research over five years (more than twice as much as the famous Ice Bucket Challenge raised).

131. Ending Cancer As We Know It: Relaunched the White House Cancer Moonshot with a goal of cutting cancer death rates in half by 2047 and improving the experience for patients and their families by forming a cancer cabinet, expanding HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening, clearing the 10 million-test COVID cancer screening backlog, hosting a White House Cancer Moonshot Summit and Cancer Roundtable Conversation Series, launching a bilateral effort with the UK, and more to: prevent cancer, diagnose it sooner, address inequities, target the right treatments to the right patients, speed progress against the deadliest and rarest cancers (including childhood cancers), to learn from all patients, and to support caregivers and survivors. Established the landmark Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, better known as ARPA-H, the largest investment in cancer research in U.S. history.

132. Promoting Biosimilars: Signed the Advancing Education on Biosimilars Act, which allows the federal government to educate consumers and companies about biosimilars and thereby lower the cost of prescription drugs.

133. Fair Flights: Overhauled DOT regulations to give hundreds of thousands of passengers refunds for flights that were canceled due to COVID-19 and extend this new policy permanently. 

134. Protecting The Health Of Consumers: Signed the FASTER Act, which mandates that food companies include sesame as a major allergen on their packaging. Announced a ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, which are known to target young and vulnerable audiences with their addictive carcinogens.

135. Promoting Competition In The Defense-Industrial Base: Strengthened oversight of mergers, modernized IP-related considerations as it relates to anticompetitive practices, and launched an outreach initiative for new businesses to promote competition in the defense-industrial base.

136. Targeting Unsavory Medical Practices: Finalized and instituted a ban on surprise medical bills by creating a process of behind-the-scenes negotiations between insurers and providers not involving the patients. Rescinded guidelines on vertical mergers that saw them as a positive for hospitals and replaced them with an aggressive new strategy of preventing such mergers, which decrease competition and raise prices. Led a CFPB crackdown that resulted in 70 percent of medical debt being erased from credit reports in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

137. Giving The Gift Of Hearing: Lowered the cost of hearing aids by allowing them to be sold over the counter.

138. Striking Back At A Century’s Worth Of Bad Practices In The Meat Industry: Launched a joint USDOJ-USDA online tool allowing farmers and ranchers to report anti competitive practices. Invested $1 billion in funds to support independent players in the meatpacking industry by creating a pipeline of workers, speeding up certification, funding existing construction projects, increasing access to capital, and more. Reversed the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken the law and announced new rules to strengthen enforcement and provide greater clarity under the Packers and Stockyards Act. Announced joint FTC-USDA rules cracking down on and imposing financial penalties for the first time for "Made in USA" fraud in the meat and poultry industries.

139. Modern-Day Trustbuster: Appointed noted Big Tech critics to the FTC, securing a progressive majority, and ended more than 40 years of administrative gridlock by giving them rule-making authority and holding its first public meeting in history, resulting in its very mission statement being changed to protect workers as well as consumers and to promote a fair economy. Reinvigorated federal antitrust enforcement by pursuing cases more aggressively for violations of all existing laws and aggressively creating new rules and informing the public, with hundreds of suits or interventions being filed across the country AND the world. Announced a DOJ-FBI initiative to combat collusion schemes amid supply chain disruptions. Strengthened federal merger reviews by modernizing guidelines to be better at detecting and preventing anticompetitive deals. Updated antitrust leniency policies allowing companies to self-report and avoid prosecution in exchange for testimony against fellow violators.

140. A New Era Of Accountability In Banking: Repealed the OCC’s True Lender Rule, which had made it easier for predatory banks to lend at higher interest rates. Announced an end to rubber stamping of bank mergers, which has closed down 75 percent of banks in 40 years and causes higher prices as well as increases in crime and poverty and amplification of the risk posed by financial crises, by blocking some of them for the first time in decades. Announced a CFPB crackdown on banks that make much of their money from overdraft fees, resulting in some of America’s largest banks representing tens of millions of Americans cutting fees or halting the practice entirely.

141. Leveling The Playing Field In Ocean Shipping: Launched a joint DOJ-Federal Maritime Commission initiative to enforce the Shipping Act and other pieces of legislation promoting competition in the ocean shipping industry and established a new audit program to investigate unfair fees and port congestion. Negotiated with the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to keep them open 24/7, allowed port authorities to redirect project cost savings to tackle supply chain issues, funded an upgrade to the Port of Savannah, conducted a comprehensive survey of the nation’s inland and sea ports, and allocated hundreds of millions of dollars in additional grant money to tackle supply chain issues at ports. Instituted a fee for cargo ships in ports for longer than nine days and for abandoned empty cargo containers, resulting in a 70 percent decrease and 25 percent decrease, respectively. Invested $600 million in port workforces across California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Florida, and numerous other states.

142. Supporting Victims Of Crime: Signed the VOCA Fix Act, expanding the percentage of victim costs covered by the Victims of Crime Fund from 60 percent to 75 percent and extending its funding. Signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, banning forced arbitration clauses for these crimes in the workplace retroactively and allowing millions of Americans to take cases of sexual assault and sexual harassment to court. Provided billions of dollars in funding to support domestic violence and sexual assault survivors and their children. Established a federal civil cause of action for "revenge porn," established a National Resource Center on Cybercrimes Against Individuals, and launched new grants to support state, local, and tribal efforts to combat these crimes. Enacted the Fairness for Rape Kit Backlog Survivors Act, requiring state victim compensation programs to allow sexual assault survivors to file for compensation without being unfairly penalized due to rape kit backlogs. Improved the healthcare system's response to domestic violence and sexual assault, including through enhanced training for sexual assault forensic examiners.

143. Combating Violence Against Women: Announced two new training and technical assistance resources for law enforcement from the Office of Violence Against Women: LETTAC and DV RISC. Launched the first-ever National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. Reauthorized and bolstered the historic Violence Against Women Act that Biden wrote as a senator in 1993. Strengthened the application of evidence-based practices by law enforcement in responding to gender-based violence, promoting the use of trauma-informed, victim-centered training and improving homicide reduction initiatives. Updated the SMART Prevention Program and CHOOSE Youth Program to reduce dating violence, help children who have been exposed to domestic violence, and engage men in preventing violence.

144. Women’s Rights Around The World: Established a historic Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund to support women’s economic security around the world. Launched the Advancing Women’s and Girls’ Civic and Political Leadership Initiative and the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse. Reviewed and updated America’s global strategy to prevent gender-based violence.

145. Assisting Reentry and Reducing Recidivism: Ordered the Office of Personnel Management to evaluate barriers that exist in federal employment for formerly incarcerated individuals and take steps to reduce them while hiring a formerly incarcerated individual at the DOJ as a Second Chance Act visiting fellow. Allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to help formerly-incarcerated individuals reenter society and reduce recidivism. Released a joint Treasury-Labor report instructing employers on how to leverage tax credits to incentivize the hiring of formerly incarcerated individuals. Allowed formerly incarcerated individuals access to 70,000 emergency housing vouchers and reduced restrictions that had been placed on PPP recipients and SBA microloan recipients with criminal records. Launched a Department of Labor-Department of Justice Job Training Program in the Bureau of Prisons; launched a Growth Opportunities Program to provide career mentorship and paid work training to justice-involved youth and young adults and the Pathway Home Program to do the same for justice-involved adults. Issued new guidance to increase hiring of formerly incarcerated individuals in federal contracting. Brought in the first Second Chance Fellow to develop education reentry policy in the Department of Education, doubled the number of colleges available for the Second Chance Pell Initiative, and prevented incarceration from forcing student loan borrowers into default. Expanded access to federal housing programs and veterans' benefits programs for formerly incarcerated individuals and established a six-month Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for Medicare to allow individuals who were incarcerated to sign up for benefits. Launched a partnership between the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Council of State Governments called Reentry 2030 to set state-level reentry goals for 2030 as well as a Reentry Toolkit available for local and nongovernmental leaders to use.

146. Information-Based State-Level Criminal Justice Reform: Launched the Justice Counts Initiative to help states make smarter criminal justice decisions based on up-to-date, actionable data related to incarceration, recidivism, and more than a dozen other aspects of the criminal justice system.

147. Limiting Harsh Sentencing: Reinstated a moratorium on the federal death penalty. Revoked DOJ guidance that mandated the harshest sentences for criminals and limited plea bargains as well as an old DOJ policy that prohibited compassionate release for people who accepted plea bargains. Announced a new rule implementing the Federal Time Credit Program established by the First Step Act. Expedited clemency, allowing thousands of nonviolent federal drug offenders placed on home confinement during COVID-19 to have the rest of their sentences commuted.

148. Expanding Access To Representation: Signed an executive order expanding access to legal representation and the courts. Reestablished the Office for Access to Justice. Took action at the DOJ to improve access to programs for Americans with limited English proficiency.

149. A New Era For Cannabis: Saw New Jersey, Arizona, Montana, New York, New Mexico, Virginia, and Connecticut legalize marijuana; the St. Regis Mohawk and Crow Tribes legalize marijuana; Colorado and Oregon increase the legal amount of marijuana; Alabama and Mississippi legalize medical marijuana; Texas expand its medical marijuana program; Louisiana decriminalize marijuana; and more.

150. Prison Reform: Ended federal contracts with private prison companies, resulting in 4,000 prisoners being transferred from private facilities. Launched civil rights probes into Georgia’s prison system for abuse of LGBTQ inmates and Texas's juvenile prison system for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of juveniles while concluding an investigation that determined Mississippi's prison system to be unconstitutional. Saw a Senate group launch a probe into corruption in the federal prison system.

151. Pardons And Commutations: Granted three pardons and 75 commutations for nonviolent drug-related offenses.

152. Cracking Down On White Collar Crime: Eliminated the corporate ignorance defense by prioritizing the prosecution of individual members of corporations responsible for illegal activities. Secured tens of millions of dollars in increased funding to hire hundreds of additional prosecutors for cases of white collar crime.

153. Combating Sexual Assault In The Military: Established a special counsel with the exclusive authority to refer sex crimes to court martial. Mandated that each Secretary of a Military Department appoint at least one high-ranking official as a special trial counsel. Established sexual harassment as a standalone offense under the UCMJ and required independent investigation. Authorized a DOD Safe Helpline to receive sexual assault reports and support victims. Established a uniform document management system for the military justice system. Established a DOD Primary Prevention Workforce to develop training to prevent sexual assault in the military. Designated an office to track allegations of retaliation toward those who report sexual assault. Returned the Military Justice Review Panel to full functionality.

154. Creating Opportunities For Veterans And Their Families: Signed the THRIVE Act, expanding veteran employment and relevant education programs. Signed the Hire Veteran Health Heroes Act, establishing a program to hire medical personnel for the VA straight from similar roles in the military. Signed the John M. McHugh Tuition Fairness For Survivors Act mandating that dependents of veterans who receive VA benefits pay only in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Saw the veteran unemployment rate tie a record low of 2.4 percent.

155. Targeting Veteran Mental Health And Substance Abuse Issues: Signed the DUMP Opioids Act, establishing a universal medication dropoff program for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Signed the Sergeant Ketchum Rural Veterans Mental Health Act to establish three new VA clinics in areas where mental health issues are especially prevalent and initiate a study on further steps the government can take to improve the mental health of rural veterans. Initiated an unprecedented nationwide effort to combat suicide with a focus of firearms and veterans.

156. Veteran Health And Wellbeing: Signed the SAVE LIVES Act, expediting the administration of COVID vaccines to veterans and their families. Provided a historic $17 billion in healthcare, housing, and other services for veterans. Created a presumption of exposure to make it less burdensome for veterans exposed to burn pits to prove their disability was a result of this exposure; began processing disability claims for sinusitis, asthma, and rhinitis, as well as nearly a dozen types of respiratory cancer; expanded testing to prove the link between burn pit exposure and rare cancers and respiratory illnesses; expedited the process to allow ILER to reach full operating capacity; launched an outreach campaign to make veterans aware of their eligibility for benefits; announced a partnership with the American College of Preventative Medicine to create a five-month training program for environmental exposures; and launched VET-HOME, a call center and network of specialists to help veterans suffering from exposure find care. Signed the West Los Angeles VA Campus Improvement Act, building housing for hundreds of homeless vets in the city. Signed the Veterans Camera Reporting Act to ensure all cameras in VA facilities are in good working order and require the VA to report on them to Congress to prevent another tragedy like the serial killing of veterans in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Signed the Protecting Moms Who Served Act to identify coverage gaps, improve coordination, and eliminate disparities to address the veteran maternal health crisis. Forgave $1 billion in VA medical debt, streamlined the process to apply for such forgiveness, set a simple income threshold for medical relief, and stopped reporting almost all unfavorable debt to credit agencies. Signed the Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act to honor the famous World War II tactical deception unit. Signed the VA Podiatric Medicine Act to clarify the role of and promote doctors of podiatric medicine for veterans and their families.

157. A More Modern Military: Distributed new armor sizes to ensure adequate protection for female and small male soldiers. Revoked a policy banning soldiers from having sleeve tattoos.

158. Racial Justice For Veterans: Signed a law requiring the VA to study whether or not there are racial disparities in how veterans of color are treated, why these issues arise, and how they may be addressed. Signed the Veterans and Family Information Act requiring all VA fact sheets to be available in the dozen most common languages in the U.S. aside from English. Signed the Harlem Hellfighters Congressional Gold Medal Act, awarding gold medals to an active unit of black and brown troops that fought during World Wars I and II, and the 6888 Congressional Gold Medal Act, awarding the honor to the only black female unit to see action in World War II. Awarded the first Medal of Honor to a black man for post-9/11 acts of heroism. Appointed the first ever VA Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs. Mandated that the Department of Defense and DHS hire more HBCU and other MSI graduates, address algorithmic bias in AI development and usage, and ensure people of color are treated fairly at airports.

159. Ensuring A Dignified Burial For Veterans: Signed a memorandum of understanding with Tunisia to bring home World War II veterans interred at the only known American military cemetery in Africa.

160. Increasing Regulation Of Firearms: Published model "red flag" legislation for states. Issued a rule clarifying when a stabilizing brace turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the NFA. Finalized a rule clarifying firearms dealers’ statutory obligations to make available for purchase compatible secure gun storage or safety devices. Sued Missouri for a state law that sought to nullify federal gun regulations. Saw the families from Sandy Hook win $73 million from Remington and several million from Alex Jones in a pair of historic firsts, setting precedents that the 2005 PLCAA does not include advertising and other components of firearms sales and that people who spread conspiracy theories about mass shootings can be held accountable civilly. Settled all 40 lawsuits related to the 2018 Parkland shooting in Florida for a historic $127.5 million.

161. Combating Gun Crime: Enacted the NICS Denial Notification Act to help state law enforcement investigate and prosecute cases against individuals legally prohibited from purchasing firearms who try to do so. Launched Gun Violence Strike Forces in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. and instituted the first district-specific approach to develop strategies to combat the big drivers of violent crime specific to every region in the United States, making gun violence the number one priority of the DOJ. Saw the CDC declare gun violence a public health crisis and commissioned landmark studies by the NIJ that found gun violence had surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of trauma-related deaths and amassed details of half a century of mass shootings in the United States. Announced a new rule to stop the proliferation of "ghost guns" by expanding the definition of a firearm and launched a National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative to train prosecutors and investigators on stopping ghost guns. Published the first comprehensive report on firearms trafficking in the United States in two decades. Cracked down on the “Iron Pipeline” that funnels illegal firearms from Southern states with lax gun laws to states in the Northeast with strict gun laws. Instituted a "no tolerance" policy for federal firearms dealers that willfully break the law. Invested billions of dollars in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, 2022 and 2023 budgets, and other sources specifically to fund better prevention of and quicker response to individual instances of gun violence in states like Wisconsin and New Jersey.

162. Protecting The Right To Organize: Repealed Schedule F, thereby restoring collective bargaining rights to federal employees and contractors. Signed an executive order mandating that the federal construction and procurement projects that create hundreds of thousands of jobs be made with union labor through project labor agreements. Restored Democratic, pro-union majorities to the National Labor Relations Board and Federal Labor Relations Authority, forcing corporations like Starbucks, Apple, and Amazon to unionize tens of thousands of employees while eliminating the backlog of cases, and sued these companies for their union busting activities. Revoked rules allowing gag orders in labor agreements. Saw support for unions hit a level not seen in more than 50 years, nearly 70 percent, and millions of workers engage in thousands of strikes, a tenfold increase from 2020. 

163. Raising The Wage: Raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, eliminated the tipped minimum wage, and secured equality for disabled workers in the federal government.

164. Combating Labor Abuses: Updated America’s NAP on Human Trafficking to increase the focus on labor rights, as well as racial and gender disparities. Undid a Trump administration rule that gave companies the advantage in the settlement of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims. Launched a large-scale investigation into hundreds of warehouses to crack down on the commonplace industry practice of misclassifying workers to avoid paying minimum wage and overtime.

165. Expanding Workers' Rights: Saw Maryland, Colorado, and Oregon enact PFML and New Mexico enact paid sick leave.

166. Promoting Black Farmers And Landowners: Released $4 billion to farmers of color to make up for decades of systemic and systematic racism in the USDA's farm loan and debt relief programs, the most significant development for black farmers in modern history. Launched the Heirs' Property Relending Program to assist primarily black families in resolving ownership and succession issues on farms (60 percent of land owned by black Americans in the South is heirs' property without a deed or a will) and made it easier for people living on heirs' property to apply for FEMA relief. Launched a USDA Equity Commission to break down barriers to accessing USDA services and launched a $125 million program to help farmers of color enroll in USDA services.

167. Protecting Farmworkers: Reversed a two-year pay freeze and boosted the national average wage for farmworkers to $14 an hour. Launched an educational outreach initiative to farmworkers, established a NACOSH Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Working Group, and launched an enforcement initiative and National Emphasis Program to protect farmworkers from heat exposure. Expanded job training opportunities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

168. Supporting Family Farms: Unveiled a new USDA program expanding access to insurance for small farms. Made the application process for loans for small farms easier. Launched a $10 million grant program to study the benefits of bioproducts and open new market opportunities for farmers. Saw farm exports hit a historic high of $180 billion, 15 percent above the prior record set in 2014, including a 40 percent increase in exports to Mexico and a 25 percent increase in exports to China. Launched a pop-up site at the Port of Oakland designed to fill any and all empty cargo containers with agricultural exports, serving as a model to expand to other ports across the country.

169. Hiring More Teachers: Oversaw the hiring of nearly 600,000 education staffers, more than any president in the 70 years this metric has been counted. Saw 100kin10 reach and surpass their goal by hiring 110,000 STEM teachers and launching a new vision for hiring more STEAM teachers.

170. Canceling Student Loan Debt For Millions Of Americans: Revoked a Trump-era rule limiting oversight of possible fraudulent student loan service providers. Put 70 for-profit schools on notice that they could face millions of dollars in fines from the FTC if they do not stop falsely advertising to prospective students and updated the College Scorecard to make student loan data from the institutions accessible. Assigned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to investigate student loans for the first time in history. Saw Navient settle a $1.85 billion lawsuit and relieve debts for 66,000 students they defrauded. Canceled $3 billion in student loans for 207,000 students who were defrauded by student loan providers, including $415 million for 16,000 at DeVry University and $20 million for thousands of students at Berkeley College in New York. Extended the pause on student loan repayment by nearly 20 months and expunged defaults for millions of Americans who fell behind on student loan payments before the pandemic. Canceled $5.8 billion in student debt for 323,000 disabled borrowers and eliminated the three-year income monitoring requirement. Waived interest on student loan debt for more than 47,000 active-duty and retired vets, saving them more than $1.1 billion. Overhauled the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to expand eligibility to nearly 1.1 million Americans with more than $75 billion in debt. 

171. Making College More Affordable: Increased the maximum Pell Grant by $400, the largest increase in a decade. Saw New Mexico use American Rescue Plan Act funding to provide tuition-free college.