The following is a timeline of the presidency of Joe Biden during the fourth and last quarter of 2021, from October 1 to December 31, 2021. For a complete itinerary of his travels, see List of presidential trips made by Joe Biden (2021). To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency.
Timeline October 2021
Date Events Photos/videos Friday, October 1President Biden travels to Capitol Hill where a divided Democratic Party is struggling to pass a Senate-approved infrastructure bill. Questioned on the deadline, Biden said "It doesn't matter when. It doesn't whether it's in six minutes, six days, or six weeks -- we're going to get it done." Saturday, October 2President Biden works to pass the infrastructure bill and says frustration is part of government before leaving for the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware. Sunday, October 3 Monday, October 4President Biden returns to the White House to announce that the government could breach its $28.4 trillion debt limit in a historic default unless both parties join to vote on the infrastructure bill in the coming weeks. Tuesday, October 5President Biden travels to Michigan where he delivers remarks about his spending proposals, calling opponents of the proposals as being "complicit in America's decline". The U.S. Senate confirms Biden appointee Damian Williams as Attorney for the Southern District of New York, making him the first African American to lead the office. Wednesday, October 6Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offer a short-term suspension on the U.S. debt celling to avert an economical crisis until Democrats are able to pass a permanent solution. President Biden meets with multiple CEOs of several major banks to talk about the debt ceiling. Thursday, October 7President Biden says that more U.S. businesses need vaccine mandates. NASA posts a video called Get Curious with Vice President Harris on YouTube. Friday, October 8President Biden signs a bill called the HAVANA Act authorizing additional support for diplomats and government officials who are suffering from Havana syndrome. President Biden signs a proclamation restoring the Bear Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments. President Biden delivers remarks on the economy and job creation figures for September. President Biden issues a proclamation to make Indigenous Peoples' Day a federal holiday, making him the first president to do so. President Biden rejects the attempt by former president Donald Trump to assert the executive privilege over records relating to the 2021 Capitol attack. Saturday, October 9 Sunday, October 10 Monday, October 11President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden attend his nephew's wedding, Cuffe Owens, who is the son of President Biden's sister Valerie Biden Owens, to reality TV star Meghan O'Toole King. Tuesday, October 12President Biden extends the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to next year. Vice President Harris meets with Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid. The Biden administration announced that they would no longer carry out mass arrests of unauthorized immigrants at worksites, instead focusing on, in Antony Blinken's words, illegal acts committed by unscrupulous employers. Wednesday, October 13President Biden signs two acts into law, H.R. 2278, which links the September 11th National Memorial Trail with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, and the Flight 93 National Memorial. The second act is S. 848, known as "Consider Teachers Act of 2021", which modifies the service obligation verification process for TEACH Grant recipients and to extend the service obligation window due to the pandemic. The Biden administration announces the expansion of offshore wind energy for a clean energy revolution, potentially holding as many as seven new offshore lease sales by 2025. President Biden delivers remarks about easing supply chain bottlenecks. The carriers of these goods, Walmart, FedEx, and UPS, will work around the clock. Vice President Harris holds a meeting with Barbadian prime minister Mia Mottley. Thursday, October 14President Biden delivers remarks about vaccine mandates. President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House. The Biden administration plans to restart the Remain in Mexico policy starting in mid-November. Friday, October 15President Biden calls Bill Clinton after the former president was hospitalized with an infection. President Biden visits the Capitol Child Development Center in Hartford, Connecticut, to promote his Build Back Better Agenda. Crowds gathered around the street in support and protest of Biden. President Biden visits the University of Connecticut to pitch his infrastructure bill and rededicate The Dodd Center for Human Rights. First Lady Jill Biden campaigns for gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Henrico County, Virginia, and Governor Phil Murphy at the New Jersey college Middlesex. Saturday, October 16President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden honor fallen law enforcement officers at the United States Capitol for the 40th National Peace Officers' Memorial Service. Sunday, October 17 Monday, October 18 President Biden releases a statement on the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell. President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden host a White House ceremony to celebrate the National Teachers of the Year from 2020 and 2021. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Envoy to Afghanistan, steps down from his position, less than two months after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Tuesday, October 19President Biden extends the deadline to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act for the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking to February 2022. President Biden signs an executive order that hopes to eliminate racial problems in the U.S. education system among African-Americans, and improve their education and financial outcomes. Jen Psaki and an analysis from the New York Post confirms that the government is flying illegal underage Haitian immigrants from the Florida border to New York early in the morning. Wednesday, October 20President Biden delivers remarks about his bipartisan infrastructure bill and his childhood in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Staff members of The White House celebrates Vice President Harris' birthday, including Biden and her husband Emhoff. Thursday, October 21President Biden attends a CNN Town Hall located in Baltimore, Maryland, hosted by Anderson Cooper. He blamed OPEC for the increasing gas prices. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia's minister of energy, Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, said that they have a limited role in oil and that he is upset that gas oil is overshadowing actual real problems. President Biden and Vice President Harris celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Biden compared his priorities on voting rights, police reform, and climate change to that of King Jr. in the civil rights movement. He mainly remarked about the infrastructure bill debate and the COVID-19 pandemic. Harris said that King was a prophet and said that the monument is "dedicated to a man who lived among us". Vice President Harris campaigns with former Virginia governor and gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Dumfries ahead of the gubernatorial election. Friday, October 22 President Biden delays release of documents of the JFK assassination, citing pandemic related issues. The documents will release on December 15 of 2021 out of respect, while the remaining ones will be reviewed and will release the same day next year. Saturday, October 23 Former president Barack Obama campaigns with former Virginia governor and gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Richmond ahead of the gubernatorial election. Sunday, October 24 Monday, October 25President Biden goes to New Jersey to promote his economic agenda, saying that the infrastructure bill is for "rebuilding the arteries of America" and speaking in length about the Portal Bridge at a maintenance facility in Kearny, New Jersey. He also spoke in an elementary school in Plainfield about a fundamental shift in learning. President Biden rejects the latest executive privilege request by former president Donald Trump to keep the documents of the January 6 Capitol attack out of Congress' hands. Tuesday, October 26President Biden briefly participates in the virtual US-ASEAN meeting with 10 leaders from Southeast Asian countries, hosted by Brunei. This is the first time since the beginning of the Trump administration in 2017 when a US president has attended the meeting. President Biden campaigns with former Virginia governor and gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Arlington ahead of the gubernatorial election. Wednesday, October 27President Biden honors the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on the third anniversary of it. Thursday, October 28Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sues President Biden over his vaccine mandates, alleging that the president doesn't have the authority and that it violates procurement law. After months of negotiations, President Biden announces the framework for his infrastructure bill ahead of his trip to Rome. House Speaker Pelosi appeared at an afternoon news conference announcing the proposal, but did not vote on it. Senator Bernie Sanders encouraged progressive colleagues to vote out of the package, saying that it needed to be improved and that it had some gaps. Friday, October 29President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden meet with Pope Francis at Vatican City. President Biden holds bilateral meetings with Italian president Sergio Mattarella and Italian prime minister Mario Draghi. President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron. Vice President Harris campaigns with former Virginia governor and gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Norfolk ahead of the gubernatorial election. Saturday, October 30President Biden attends the G20 summit hosted by Italian prime minister Mario Draghi. Sunday, October 31President Biden convenes with world leaders during the G20 summit to address supply chain changes and other interruptions in the global economy. President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. President Biden and the leader of the European Union Ursula von der Leyen announce a deal that will crack down on "dirty steel" from China that cause climate change. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that she tested positive for COVID-19.
November 2021
Date Events Photos/videos Monday, November 1President Biden attends the COP26 conference in Glasgow and mainly remarks about climate change. President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Indonesian president Joko Widodo to share concerns over the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état and agreed that the Burmese military must cease violence, release political prisoners, and return to democracy. Tuesday, November 2President Biden announces a plan at the COP26 conference that reduces methane emissions, as well as a plan to end and reverse deforestation, joining other world leaders. Wednesday, November 3President Biden returns to the White House early in the morning, in which he declined a question about the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election. President Biden nominates Judge Christina Silva and law professor Anne Rachel Traum for federal district judges in Nevada. The Department of Labor announced that the administration's business vaccine mandate, which was developed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, would be published soon. President Biden remarks about the CDC's authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine for five to eleven years old. The Biden administration puts the NSO Group, the developer of the controversial spyware Pegasus, on the United States entity list, banning business deals with them. Thursday, November 4The Biden administration publishes details of vaccine mandates for workers.