![]() ![]() Biden signed an executive order in February directing his officials to craft a strategy for migration, including refugees and asylum seekers. The largest number of unaccompanied children ever at the border created massive overcrowding at Customs and Border Protection facilities and set off a mad scramble for temporary space at convention centers, military bases and other large venues. He has yet to establish any new public-private partnerships. Yes, but is it enough? The Department of Homeland Security has deployed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help deal with the major increase of border arrivals, and Biden signed an executive order asking officials to prepare plans for using humanitarian resources there. Removing Obama administration obstacles to completing the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines Trump’s promises kept in the first 100 days included: While the two presidents embarked on distinctly different plans for the country in their first three-plus months, they shared one thing in common, a sharply polarized congress – and country. Trump made 38 specific promises in his 100-day pledge to the nation, according to the Associated Press, roughly a quarter of which he kept. So where does Biden, who now enjoys a 54% approval rating, compare to former President Donald Trump? On some of his promises, Biden is waiting for Congress to act. But some issues have proved to be tougher for the administration - including immigration, where Biden is grappling with how to enact promised reforms in the face of a steep increase in unaccompanied minors seeking to cross the border. Harrison, as it happens, was the scion of a wealthy coastal family who’d received an elite education and lived in luxury but was sold to supporters, during his campaign, as a rough-hewn straight-talker who emblemized the values of the rural common man.(NEXSTAR) – As he rounds out his first 100 days in office, President Joe Biden’s focus on reining in the coronavirus during the early months of his administration seems to have paid off: He can check off nearly all his campaign promises centered on the pandemic.īiden has delivered on a number of his biggest campaign pledges focused on climate change and the economy as well. Harrison did defend slavery, which is unforgivable on the other hand, Trump regularly retweets white supremacists and doesn’t seem to know who Frederick Douglass was. Harrison had a promising few weeks and then died, which is bad, but also precluded the possibility that he’d screw anything up as badly as Trump has screwed up the Obamacare repeal. Trump’s first three months have been marked by the failure of major initiatives, an embarrassing public obsession with indefensible allegations against Obama, and historically low approval ratings. Potential international thermonuclear war was averted as a North Korean missile test failed and Trump’s poll numbers improved. Devin Nunes, who’d claimed that a government whistleblower had given him information that supported Trump’s claim about Obama surveillance, had actually gotten that information from the White House. In a major abandonment of his campaign promises about repealing Obamacare, Trump agreed to pull the AHCA from legislative consideration when it became clear the bill did not have enough support from moderate swing-district Republicans or hardline Freedom Caucus conservatives to pass the House. Who had the better week? Trump, because big truck, neat! Vroom, vroom! Trump made a face like “Grrrrrrr!” while he pretended to drive a big truck that was parked outside the White House. News reports indicated that the AHCA was floundering in Congress. Who had the better week? Quite clearly Harrison.įBI Director James Comey testified before Congress that there is no evidence Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower. Harrison told Clay to back off and refused to carry out the mass firings.) Henry Clay was trying to exert influence over Harrison, a fellow Whig others wanted the new president to fire everyone in government who’d been appointed by his Democratic predecessors. Pushed back against efforts by members of his own party to influence his political appointments. Nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.Ĭalled for a special session of Congress to meet in May to address the depressed economy. Signed a ban on travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries. Who had the better week? By virtue of not having defended slavery, it’s Trump. In the speech, Harrison promised not to run for a second term, said he would exercise discretion in the use of executive power, and defended the rights of states to allow slavery. Harrison delivered a 8,445-word inaugural address, the longest in history, which lasted nearly two hours. ![]()
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