Vice President Kamala Harris delivers the keynote address at the 7th Episcopal District AME Church Women’s Missionary Society annual retreat in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, marking the attacks on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.[3]
President Biden confirms that the United States and the United Kingdom, supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, launched an attack on areas controlled by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.[5]
Friday, January 12
During a trip to Pennsylvania, President Biden defends strikes on Iran-backed Houthi militants over their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and vows to respond again.[6]
Biden's primary opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, U.S. RepresentativeDean Phillips, tells Politico that he believes representatives of the Biden campaign were using access to pressure liberal media outlets into blackballing and not platforming him.[7]
Saturday, January 13
President Biden says that the United States does not support Taiwan's independence, after the victory of the Democratic Progressive Party candidate, who is opposed to unification with China.[8][9]
Sunday, January 14
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Tuesday, January 16
Wednesday, January 17
A non-binding resolution denouncing the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the U.S. southern border passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 225-187, with 211 Republicans and 14 Democrats supporting it.[10][11][12]
President Biden completes his third year in office.
Biden's primary opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, U.S. RepresentativeDean Phillips, tells Axios that he thinks it would be "impossible" for Biden to do the job for four more years. And even being so blunt as to say, "At that stage of life, it is impossible ultimately to conduct, to prosecute the office of the American presidency in the way that this country in the world needs right now. That is an absolute truth."[17]
President Joe Biden speaks about his religious faith during a church service at Saint John Baptist Church in West Columbia, South Carolina.[22]
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Monday, January 29
Tuesday, January 30
President Biden says that he has decided on response to the killing of three American service members on 28 January in a drone attack in Jordan and does not want to expand the war in the Middle East.[23]
At night, President Biden mistakenly refers to a conversation he had with Angela Merkel in 2021 as having taken place with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.[30]
Thursday, February 8
The Department of Justice decides not to charge President Biden relating to the Joe Biden classified documents incident, and he is described as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” with “diminished faculties in advancing age” in a report from Special Counsel Robert Hur.[31][32]
President Biden responds by speaking against the report's description of his faculties.[31]
President Biden confuses the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.[33]
Special Counsel's report on classified documents
Friday, February 9
President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House.[34]
President Biden signs the Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act into law.[35]
President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Saturday, February 10
Sunday, February 11
President Biden tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel should not proceed with a military operation in Rafah without a plan to ensure the safety of the estimated one million people sheltering there.[36]
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Monday, February 12
President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House.[37]
President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, King Abdullah II, Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan
President Biden says that the United States will use planes to drop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in the coming days. His announcement is made a day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed during a supply delivery.[48]
President Biden Holds a Bilateral Meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy
Saturday, March 2
In response to the flour massacre, the U.S. military begins airdropping food aid into Gaza.[49]
Biden calls Phillips on the phone.[52] Biden admits in the phone call that if he had been a younger lawmaker, he too would have challenged an aging commander-in-chief and promises Phillips a White House meeting.[53]
During his speech, President Biden criticizes Donald Trump, without mentioning the former president by name, and states that freedom is at risk. This is the final speech of Biden's term as president of the United States.[55]
President Biden delivers his third official State of the Union Address (transcript)
Friday, March 8
President Biden signs the Airport and Airway Extension Act into law.[56]
In an interview with the TV channel MSNBC, President Biden says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “harming more than helping” Israel with his stance in the Gaza Strip.[58]
President Biden says that he "sometimes gets confused about dates" during testimony he gave to US prosecutors as part of the investigation into classified government documents found in his home. Biden has come under scrutiny after his lawyers found classified documents in his garage that the president says he took by mistake when he was Barack Obama's vice president.[61]
President Biden and Polish leaders
Wednesday, March 13
Thursday, March 14
President Biden meets with supporters and volunteers during a campaign event in Saginaw, Michigan.[62]
Friday, March 15
President Biden celebrates Saint Patrick's Day, the national holiday of Ireland. As is tradition on this day in the White House, President Biden received a bowl of shamrock from the Taoiseach of Ireland Leo Varadkar and held a bilateral meeting with him. This was the second time since 2020 (and the Biden Presidency overall) that the shamrock bowl was received in person as the 2021 and 2022 ceremonies were virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[citation needed]
President Biden and Taoiseach of Ireland Leo Varadkar
Saturday, March 16
Sunday, March 17
President Biden hosts a St. Patrick's Day brunch with Catholic leadersin the East Room of the White House. The Taoiseach of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, attends the event with his partner, Matthew Barrett.[63][64]
President Biden giving remarks during a St. Patrick's Day brunch at the White House
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Monday, March 18
President Biden signs the End Fentanyl Act and the Disaster Assistance Deadlines Alignment Act into law.[65][66]
President Biden signing the Disaster Assistance Deadlines Alignment Act
The United States abstains on a resolution for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which is approved by the United Nations Security Council.[72]
Tuesday, March 26
President Biden says the federal government will pay for repairs to the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland following its collapse. He also announces plans to visit Baltimore in the near future.[73]
Wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge with the Dali underneath
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