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Joe Biden was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
Joe Biden was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
In 2020 Biden made his own successful run for the Presidency. His Vice President, Kamala Harris, was the first Black woman and first South Asian person to hold that office.
The priorities of the Biden administration included working with Congress to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law focused on rebuilding the nation’s roads and bridges, removing lead pipes, and expanding high-speed internet access; the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in history; and the CHIPS and Science Act, which was designed to boost American semiconductor research, development, and production. He also reignited the Cancer Moonshot program started when he was Vice President. On the world stage, Biden aligned the United States behind Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022 and supported the expansion of NATO.
Biden nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and appointed over 200 federal judges.
Biden declared his candidacy for a second term as President in 2023 and won the Democratic primaries in 2024. However, on July 20, 2024, he announced his withdrawal from the Presidential race.
