As Joe Biden marks 100 days in office with his first address to Congress, here's a look at some of the policy issues that have defined the earliest days of his presidency.
The new administration was unprepared for the surge in people, many from Central America, that overwhelmed facilities with unaccompanied migrant children and fuelled critics with political ammunition. And the sense of disarray has only been fuelled by the Biden administration's back-and-forth on promises to greatly increase the cap on refugees allowed into the United States.
Last week, he went a step further and convened a 40-nation climate summit where he announced a doubling of US targets for greenhouse gas reductions.Australia's climate change action labelled 'insufficient' by Biden administration ahead of crucial summit In a bid to reverse what he deemed a retreat from the global stage, Mr Biden re-entered the Paris climate accord, reversed Mr Trump''s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organisation and has been seeking to revive the Iran nuclear deal.
"He has chosen to maintain this elevation and level of confrontation with China, but there is no evidence that this will be any more effective in placing pressure on them for him than it was for Trump," he said. Perhaps one of the Mr Biden's biggest moves in his first 100 days was to announce that US military forces will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 11 September.
"Biden has accepted that while the US did achieve the early goals in Afghanistan, stabilising the situation completely was just never going to happen," he said.While Mr Biden is enjoying solid approval ratings, Republicans have opposed his big ideas.
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