Joe Biden (Porvenir)

Joseph Robintte Biden Jr. (November 20, 1942 - April 4, 2027) is an American politician who served as the 46th president of the United States from 2021-2025, 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009. Previously having unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008, he was the oldest and second Catholic President.

Presidency
Joe Biden was elected to the presidency as part of the Second Progressive Era (2017-2026), in what was viewed as one of the Era's greatest victories. The age had been kicked off by a new found, global attitude of antifacism in a knee-jerk reaction to the rise of Donald J. Trump, Marine Le Pen, and other ultraconservative anti-SJWs across the world. Trump himself furthered anger against his administration thanks to the 2019-2021 Financial Crisis. During his campaign, Biden enjoyed vast support from many demographics, particularly women, LGBTQIA voters, and ethnic minorities.

In Biden's first week in office, he repealed many of his predecessor's executive orders, including Executive Order 13767 which called for the construction of a wall along the U.S-Mexican border, and Order 13769 which initiated a travel ban on several Muslim nations. Later in the year, Congress passed a bill increasing taxes on the top one percent, which was then signed into law by Biden. The stagnated economy soared in mid-2022, as did Biden's popularity.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced legislation decriminalizing marijuana in all 51 states in 2021. The bill passed almost unanimously, and was signed by Biden.

One of Biden's primary campaign promises was immigration reform. In 2022, Congress finally agreed on a bill granting amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants which signed while surrounded by a group of immigrants and their children.

From 2022-2023, Biden's CIA overseen by Director Bill Burns orchestrated coups across Latin America to remove several socialist dictators in the Latin American Spring.

Biden did not seek reelection in the challenged for re-election in 2024, citing advanced age. Vice President Kamala Harris easily won the Democratic nomination with Biden's late endorsement, and faced former U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley. Haley was a hardcore conservative who claimed the economy had improved in spite of Biden's efforts, and claimed a financial crash was inevitable thanks to his supposedly left-wing policies. Many questioned the GOP's nomination of Fiorina due to his extreme views, and ideas that the Republicans were cynically pandering to women in an attempt to undermine support for the first female President. Harris was elected by a much larger margin than that of Biden's 2020 victory.

Biden also signed into law bills that granted statehood to Puerto Rico in 2023, making his presidency the first since Eisenhower which saw new states enter the Union.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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