Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Increase federal policing accountability standardsTracked as in progress because the administration backed reform efforts and took some executive and agency steps, but no durable federal legislative settlement was completed.
Promise Tracker
Browse tracked promise records across presidents. The default view prioritizes promises with direct or meaningful downstream Black-community impact, with an option to show all records.
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Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Increase federal policing accountability standardsTracked as in progress because the administration backed reform efforts and took some executive and agency steps, but no durable federal legislative settlement was completed.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Advance racial equity across federal agenciesTracked as partial because the administration established a government-wide equity framework, but implementation depended on uneven agency follow-through and remained vulnerable to reversal.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Deliver 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots in the first 100 daysBiden met the 100 million shots goal and later doubled it to 200 million within the same 100-day period.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Make HBCUs and under-resourced MSIs more affordableBiden increased federal support for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions and paired that with student-relief measures, but the full tuition-grant vision was not enacted as proposed.
Tracked as failed because the public promise language was not matched by a durable fair-housing or anti-redlining policy framework, while key housing guardrails were weakened instead.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Strengthen federal labor protectionsBiden shifted labor policy through appointments and executive support, but large statutory reforms such as the PRO Act did not pass.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Advance racial equity across the federal governmentBiden created a government-wide racial-equity framework, but implementation varied across agencies and did not produce a single durable statutory result.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Eliminate cash bailBiden endorsed ending cash bail, but no national federal policy matching that promise was enacted during his presidency.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Expand the Child Tax Credit and make it fully refundableBiden enacted a large temporary Child Tax Credit expansion through the American Rescue Plan, but the broader refundable expansion was not made permanent.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Increase access to affordable housingBiden took administrative and legislative steps to expand housing assistance and supply, but the larger affordable-housing agenda was narrowed by congressional gridlock.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Offer a public option health insurance planBiden proposed a public option, but no such national plan was enacted during his presidency.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Direct 40 percent of key clean-energy benefits to disadvantaged communitiesBiden created the Justice40 framework and tied it to major federal investment programs, but implementation was uneven and the full benefit standard remained difficult to verify in practice.