President Barack Obama addresses a prime time press conference on his 100th day in office in the East Room of the White House on April 29, 2009. He has also signed the largest number of executive actions, which don't require passage through Congress, but are tenuous because they can be withdrawn by a future president. That compares to 76 for Roosevelt and 53 for Harry Truman.īimes' research with Casey Dominguez and Dan Grushkevich shows that Biden has signed more reversals of a previous administration's actions in the first 100 days than any president in history, she said. Bush signed seven and Bill Clinton signed 22 in their first 100 days.
According to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight, Barack Obama signed 14 laws, George W. Why does it matter?Īpart from being a date by which to judge the president, research suggests a president's first 100 days are also heavy in legislative action and executive actions.Īccording to GovTrack, seven laws have been enacted in the current Congress, which is low compared to the number of laws passed in past presidencies. as the administration prepared its strategy.īiden plans to travel to Georgia to mark his 100th day in office in the state that swung his way in the presidential election and elected two Democratic senators. Still, Biden's administration faced early challenges with the situation at the southern border, where a surge in migrants, including unaccompanied minors, forced Biden to tell potential migrants not to come to the U.S. Bush chats with members of Congress at a pre-lunch reception to mark his 100th day in office in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 30, 2001 Since then, administrations, political commentators and the media have looked at the amount of legislation a president has passed, the effectiveness of actions taken and public perception and compared it to the standard set by Roosevelt.Īnthony Badger, a historian of American politics and presidencies, writes in his 2009 book "FDR: The First Hundred Days" that even if the measure is arbitrary, presidents have still felt the need to hold themselves to it. In a radio address after his first 100 days passed, Roosevelt used the phrase "first 100 days." He passed 76 laws, according to FiveThirtyEight, rapidly pushed through legislation that gave the government the power to regulate the stock market, set the minimum wage and close American banks for a bank holiday. Roosevelt, whose swift action in the first months of his term to combat the Great Depression made his administration a standard by which presidents have since been held. Scholars trace the importance of the first 100 days back to the presidency of Franklin D. "Presidents feel compelled to stack up some points on the first 100-day scoreboard to show that they’re leaders of action, to set the agenda and what kind of leader they’re going to be," said Terri Bimes, associate teaching professor of political science at University of California–Berkeley. law stipulating what he must get done in that time, historically, presidents, Congress and the media have looked at the first 100 days of an administration as a benchmark of progress, to set the tone of the administration’s priorities and to judge its success so far. The spotlight has been on the president’s first 100 days since he was sworn in and vowed to use that time to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and reverse many policies of former President Donald Trump.īiden set a slew of goals to achieve within his first months in office, and while there is nothing in U.S. WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will cross the 100-day mark of his presidency on Friday, an arbitrary date on the calendar, but a decades-old standard used to judge presidents.
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