By the numbers: President Biden at the two-year mark

By the numbers: President Biden at the two-year mark

WASHINGTON (AP) ” President Joe Biden notches place of set of two years inside office on Friday. That represents 730 days since his inauguration ” accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a whole a large amount of other numbers while well.

The tale of the earliest fifty per cent of of Biden™s term, at least by the numbers, is a mixed bag. It includes a long-sought USD1 trillion invoice to shore up the nation™s bridges, roads accompanied by every one one other accompanied by other infrastructure, nevertheless excessively the unwelcome milestone of famous inflation. There™s been a enormous number of COVID-19 vaccinations, nevertheless almost 680,000 people have died of the disease. Biden has visited trio dozen states accompanied by every one one other accompanied by spent all or small part of almost 200 days inside his place of residence condition of Delaware.

A look at some revealing facts points at the two-year mark for the 46th president:

6..5%: Annual inflation remains stubbornly high, nevertheless is slowly falling following reaching a four-decade high of 9.1% inside June.

10.46 million: The latest Labor Department figures show additional than 10 million position of position of employment vacancies inside the U.S., almost 1.8 jobs for every one one jobless person. Jobless percentage at 3.5%, matching a 53-year low. Zero recessions ” so far.

USD31.38 trillion: The confederate invoice stood at USD27.6 trillion when Biden took office.

USD24.2 billion: The amount of U.S. safety assistance committed to Ukraine since the Russian invasion almost 11 months ago.

38: The number of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known while HIMARS, committed to dispatch to Ukraine. A gamechanger, allowing Ukrainian forces to blaze at Russian targets from a lengthy way away, at that hour dated operate away earlier to artillery tin mark them.

2.38 million: For the 12 months extremity Sept. 30, 2022, Customs accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Border Protection reported stopping migrants at the U.S. border nearly 2.4 million times, a record surge driven by sharp increases inside Venezuelans, Cubans accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Nicaraguans. The foregoing high was 1.66 million inside 2021.

97: Confirmation of Biden™s picks to the confederate bench, including Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, outpacing the president™s place of set of two immediate predecessors.

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89: The president has granted nine pardons accompanied by every one one other accompanied by 80 commutations, a lengthy way additional than some of his recent predecessors at this point. Donald Trump had granted 11 by this time, George W. Bush seven. Barack Obama didn™t lay clasp of some clemency deed inside his earliest place of set of two years.

USD3.36: The signify cost per gallon that American motorists are paying at the pump has fallen since peaking at USD5.02 per gallon inside June. Motorists were paying a USD2.39 per gallon signify the week Biden took office.

666 million: The number of COVID-19 vaccines administered to Americans under Biden. T wenty million had received the jab earlier to Biden took office. The vaccine was not approved until late inside Trump™s presidency.

15.9%: The percentage of Americans 5 accompanied by every one one other accompanied by older who have gotten updated bivalent vaccine.

680,000: The recorded demise toll from the coronavirus pandemic all over Biden™s term. The worst pandemic inside additional than a century had by that hour dated taken additional than 400,000 American lives by Biden™s inauguration accompanied by every one one other accompanied by has taken 1.1 million total since March 2020.

36: Biden has spread his journey across the country to go forward his agenda, nevertheless still needs to cross off Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Wyoming.

197: There™s no indeed indeed place exist fond of home. The president spent all or small part of 197 days inside his place of residence condition of Delaware, traveling most weekends to either his place of residence near Wilmington or his vacation place of residence at Rehoboth Beach, according to an AP tally. Beyond the weekend visits, he™s excessively made fast trips for funerals, policy events accompanied by every one one other accompanied by to cast his ballot inside a Democratic primary.

6: Biden has spoken accompanied by Chinese President Xi Jinping a half-dozen times since the begin of his term. All nevertheless one of those were phone or video calls. They met inside anthropoid actuality on the sidelines of a summit inside Indonesia inside November.

22: The lowest flat number of times that Biden has publicly lapsed into a nostalgic recollection of an intimate discussion he had accompanied by Xi all over a pay someone a call to China when Biden was vice president. Biden said Xi asked him to define America accompanied by every one one other accompanied by he responded accompanied by one word: Possibilities. Biden flat managed to compress inside the anecdote all over a commemoration this week for the NBA champion Golden State Warriors.

21: Biden held fewer solo or fasten report conferences than his trio most recent predecessors at the same point inside their presidencies.

USD1 trillion: The amount allocated for roads, bridges, ports accompanied by every one one other accompanied by additional inside Biden™s bipartisan infrastructure legislation, arguably the most significant legislative attainment of his earliest place of set of two years inside office.

USD40 billion: The amount inside the infrastructure invoice dedicated to repair accompanied by every one one other accompanied by rebuild the nation™s bridges, the single largest dedicated investing inside bridges since the building of the Eisenhower-era interstate main main highway system.

43,000: The number of bridges inside the U.S. rated while poverty-stricken accompanied by every one one other accompanied by needing repair, according to the White House.

1: The president™s lone condition dinner to date honored French President Emmanuel Macron. Biden held spine on some of the the orthodox pomp ” accompanied by every one one other accompanied by partying ” at the White House inside the early going of his presidency since of COVID-19 concerns.

0: Not one of Biden™s earliest Cabinet appointees has left-hand the administration.

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Associated Press writers Kevin Vineys, Zeke Miller, Colleen Long, Chris Megerian, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Josh Boak contributed to this report.