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Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2024 Q4–January 2025)

The following is a timeline of the presidency of Joe Biden during the fourth and last quarter of 2024 from October 1 to December 31, 2024 and the first 20 days of 2025 from January 1 to 20, 2025, when Biden is scheduled to leave office and will be succeeded by Donald Trump. To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency.

Timeline

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October 2024

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Week 194

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Tuesday, October 1
Wednesday, October 2
  • President Biden and Democratic presidential nominee vice president Kamala Harris visit two Carolinas, the states hit by hurricane Helene. Biden flies by helicopter over the worst-hit areas in the city of Asheville, North Carolina.[1][2]
Thursday, October 3
Friday, October 4
Saturday, October 5
Sunday, October 6

Week 195

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Monday, October 7
 
Tuesday, October 8
Wednesday, October 9
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach of Ireland Simon Harris at the White House.[6]
  • President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak by phone amid the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. The 30-minute conversation is the first between Biden and Netanyahu since August 2024.[7]
 
President Biden Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris
Thursday, October 10
Friday, October 11
Saturday, October 12
Sunday, October 13
  • Axios reports the relationship between Kamala Harris's team and Joe Biden's White House has been increasingly fraught and filled with rising tensions in the final weeks before Election Day, according to 10 people familiar with the situation.[8]
  • The United States Department of Defense announces that its country will send American military personnel and a high-altitude missile defense system, THAAD, to Israel.[9]

Week 196

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Monday, October 14
Tuesday, October 15
Wednesday, October 16
Thursday, October 17
  • President Biden lands late in Berlin, Germany on this day and meets French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a meeting in the same city on the next day to discuss further assistance to Ukraine and President Zelenskyy's Victory Plan.[10][11]
 
President Biden visit to Berlin
Friday, October 18
  • U.S. Representative Mike Turner the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence sends Biden a letter demanding that his administration immediately give the House Intelligence Committee a classified briefing concerning the possible engagement of North Korean troops in a potentially escalating and broadening Ukrainian conflict. Turner also states in the letter to Biden his view that the use of North Korean troops against Ukraine must be a red line for the United States and NATO.[12]
Saturday, October 19
  • President Biden approves the State of North Carolina disaster declaration and orders Federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight from September 16 to September 20, 2024.[13]
Sunday, October 20

Week 197

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Monday, October 21
Tuesday, October 22
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob at the White House.[14]
 
President Biden and Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob
Wednesday, October 23
Thursday, October 24
Friday, October 25
  • President Biden formally apologizes to Native Americans for abusive government-funded boarding schools that abused indigenous children and forced them to assimilate over a 150-year period.[15]
Saturday, October 26
Sunday, October 27

Week 198

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Monday, October 28
  • President Biden goes to an early voting location in his home state of Delaware, where he helps an elderly woman in a wheelchair and waits in line for his turn at the booth.[16]
Tuesday, October 29
Wednesday, October 30
  • In a telecall with Latino voters, President Biden states that “the only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump’s] supporters”. His statement is made in a response to a joke made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Donald Trump’s rally on 27 October. A controversial statement by President Biden is having repercussions on the campaigns of the two presidential nominees for the White House.[17]
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides at the White House.[18]
  • President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden participate in the 2024 White House Halloween event.[19]
 
President Biden and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides
Thursday, October 31
  • The Associated Press reports the White House altered the record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns.[20][21]

November 2024

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Week 198

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Friday, November 1
Saturday, November 2
Sunday, November 3

Week 199

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Monday, November 4
Tuesday, November 5
Wednesday, November 6
Thursday, November 7
  • At the White House, President Biden delivers his statement following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.[26]
  • A Texas federal judge rules President Biden's program favoring undocumented immigrants married to American citizens is illegal.[27]
President Biden delivers a statement following Trump's election victory
Friday, November 8
Saturday, November 9
Sunday, November 10

Week 200

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Monday, November 11
 
President Biden, Vice President Harris and Secretary McDonough at Arlington National Cemetery
Tuesday, November 12
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House.[30][31]
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the White House.[32][33]
  • U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, who was the first sitting Democrat in Congress to openly call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 United States presidential election after the first presidential debate, states after Trump's win, “I only regret I didn’t do it earlier ... I believe that the only person in our caucus who doesn’t share some responsibility for the outcome is Dean Phillips, who came out early.”[34]
 
President Biden and Israeli President Isaac Herzog
 
President Biden and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
Wednesday, November 13
 
President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump
Thursday, November 14
Friday, November 15
 
President Biden with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte
 
President Biden with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
Saturday, November 16
  • In the afternoon, President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru. This is the third official meeting between the leaders of the United States and China and the last time Biden had a meeting with Xi as president. The US president attends the closing of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru. During his visit, President Biden and Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, inaugurate a mega port in the city of Chancay, 80 kilometers from Lima.[37][38]
  • At a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru, President Biden condemns the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops in Russia and express deep concern over China's continued support for Russia's defence industrial base.[39]
 
President Biden at the APEC Summit
 
President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping
Sunday, November 17
  • In the early afternoon, President Biden arrives in Brazil ahead of the G20 summit and lands in Manaus for a historic visit to the Amazon region. He flies over the forest and visits a museum one day before the opening of the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. This is the first time a sitting president of the United States has visited the Brazilian Amazon region, according to the White House.[40] He becomes the first sitting president of the United States to set foot in the Brazilian Amazon region in the 200-year history of relations between the two nations.[41]
  • President Biden authorizes Ukraine to use American-supplied long-range missiles in the war against Russia. The change in the US government's stance is due to the sending of North Korean troops to fight in the war in Ukraine alongside the Russians.[42]
 
President Biden visits the Amazon region

Week 201

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Monday, November 18
  • President Biden attends the G20 summit hosted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[43]
  • President Biden meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, when President Biden along with prime ministers Trudeau and Meloni miss in time for the official photo of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty.[44]
 
President Biden participates in the G20 summit
Tuesday, November 19
  • President Biden approves providing anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine.[45]
  • President Biden meets with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the margins of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the U.S.-Brazil strategic relationship.[46]
Wednesday, November 20
  • President Biden celebrates his 82nd birthday, marking an age milestone never before reached by an acting commander of the country.[47][48]
  • President Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards.[citation needed]
  • The United States vetoes a ceasefire resolution in the war in the Gaza Strip at the United Nations Security Council. This is the fourth time that the Americans have rejected a proposal for a truce between Israel and Hamas since the conflict began in October 2023.[49]
 
Thursday, November 21
Friday, November 22
  • At the White House, President Biden receives the Boston Celtics team, NBA champions in the 2023/2024 season. Star Jayson Tatum gives the Democrat president a team shirt, with Biden's name on the back.[52]
Saturday, November 23
Sunday, November 24

Week 202

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Monday, November 25
 
President Biden delivers remarks at the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation
Tuesday, November 26
Wednesday, November 27
Thursday, November 28
Friday, November 29
Saturday, November 30

December 2024

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Week 202

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Date Events Photos/Videos
Sunday, December 1

See also

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Notes

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References

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  21. ^ "Casa Branca alterou registro da fala de Biden que sugere que eleitores de Trump são 'lixo', diz agência". G1 (in Portuguese). November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
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