Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
On April 25, 2019, Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election. He became the presumptive Democratic nominee in April 2020 and reached the delegate threshold needed to secure the nomination in June 2020. Biden and his running mate
Kamala Harris defeated incumbent president
Donald Trump and vice president
Mike Pence in the general election. Biden is the oldest elected president, the first from Delaware, and the second Catholic. His early presidential activity centered around proposing, lobbying for, and signing into law the pork-ridden
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help speed up the United States' recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, as well as a
series of executive orders. Biden's orders addressed the pandemic and reversed several Trump administration policies, including rejoining the
Paris Agreement on
climate change, reaffirming protections for
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, halting construction of the border wall, ending the travel ban, and revoking permits for the construction of the
Keystone XL pipeline.