President Joe Biden represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate and served as the 47th Vice President of the United States for two terms under President Barback Obama from 2009 to 2017. After winning the 2020 presidential election, President Biden began his tenure as the 46th President of the United States with his inauguration on January 20, 2021 and ended January 20, 2025. President Biden restored America’s leadership worldwide and built our communities back better.
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Consequential legislation signed by President Joe Biden
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
To read the entire Act, please visit the Congressional Library here.
On Thursday, March 11, 2021, the President signed into law: H.R. 1319, the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,” which provides additional relief to address the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, public health, State and local governments, individuals, and businesses.
House and Senate Republicans turned their back on the American people and played games with the relief package families need — and not a
single one voted for the bill. This relief package is supported by a bipartisan majority of the public.
A CBS News-YouGov poll found that 75% of voters approve of Congress passing this COVID relief bill, including 77% of independents. A Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 75% of voters support the American Rescue Plan, including 71% of independents and 59% of Republican voters.
Learn more about how the American Rescue Plan helped:
- Ohioans
- Black Communities
- Latino Communities
- Women
- Native Communities
- AAPI Communities
- General details about the American Rescue Plan
Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) was signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. It was introduced in the House as the INVEST in America Act and nicknamed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.
The act was initially a $547–715 billion infrastructure package that included provisions related to federal highway aid, transit, highway safety, motor carrier, research, hazardous materials and rail programs of the Department of Transportation. After congressional negotiations, it was amended and renamed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to add funding for broadband access, clean water and electric grid renewal in addition to the transportation and road proposals of the original House bill. This amended version included approximately $1.2 trillion in spending, with $550 billion newly authorized spending on top of what Congress was planning to authorize regularly.
The amended bill was passed 69–30 by the Senate on August 10, 2021. On November 5, it was passed 228–206 by the House, and ten days later was signed into law by President Biden.
CHIPS and Science Act
The CHIPS and Science Act is a U.S. federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9, 2022. The act authorizes roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States, for which it appropriates $52.7 billion. The act includes $39 billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing on U.S. soil along with 25% investment tax credits for costs of manufacturing equipment, and $13 billion for semiconductor research and workforce training, with the dual aim of strengthening American supply chain resilience and countering China. It also invests $174 billion in the overall ecosystem of public sector research in science and technology, advancing human spaceflight, quantum computing, materials science, biotechnology, experimental physics, research security, social and ethical considerations, workforce development and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at NASA, NSF, DOE, EDA, and NIST.
Inflation Reduction Act
On August 16, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, marking one of the largest investments in the American economy, energy security, and climate that Congress has made in the nation’s history. The IRA is creating opportunities to build projects, hire workers, and manufacture equipment needed to strengthen domestic supply chains, lower household energy costs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and pay good wages for those efforts. In this all-of-government effort, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is responsible for implementing major elements of the law, including tax incentives that spur investment in clean energy and manufacturing and that lower healthcare costs, corporate tax code reforms that enhance economic fairness, and Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) efforts to dramatically improve customer service, modernize technology, and ensure the wealthy and large corporations pay the taxes they legally owe.