Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2024 Q1)

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The following is a timeline of the presidency of Joe Biden during the first quarter of 2024, from January 1 to March 31, 2024. For a complete itinerary of his travels, see List of presidential trips made by Joe Biden (2024–25). To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency. For the Q2 timeline see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2024 Q2).

Timeline

January 2024

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Monday, January 1
Tuesday, January 2
Wednesday, January 3
Thursday, January 4
Friday, January 5
Saturday, January 6
  • Vice President Kamala Harris delivers the keynote address at the 7th Episcopal District AME Church Women’s Missionary Society annual retreat in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, marking the attacks on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.[3]
Sunday, January 7
Monday, January 8
Tuesday, January 9
Wednesday, January 10
Thursday, January 11
  • President Biden confirms that the United States and the United Kingdom, supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, launched an attack on areas controlled by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.[5]
Friday, January 12
  • During a trip to Pennsylvania, President Biden defends strikes on Iran-backed Houthi militants over their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and vows to respond again.[6]
  • Biden's primary opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, U.S. Representative Dean Phillips, tells Politico that he believes representatives of the Biden campaign were using access to pressure liberal media outlets into blackballing and not platforming him.[7]
Saturday, January 13
  • President Biden says that the United States does not support Taiwan's independence, after the victory of the Democratic Progressive Party candidate, who is opposed to unification with China.[8][9]
Sunday, January 14
Monday, January 15
Tuesday, January 16
Wednesday, January 17
Thursday, January 18
Friday, January 19
Saturday, January 20
  • President Biden completes his third year in office.
  • Biden's primary opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, U.S. Representative Dean Phillips, tells Axios that he thinks it would be "impossible" for Biden to do the job for four more years. And even being so blunt as to say, "At that stage of life, it is impossible ultimately to conduct, to prosecute the office of the American presidency in the way that this country in the world needs right now. That is an absolute truth."[17]
Sunday, January 21
Monday, January 22
Tuesday, January 23
Wednesday, January 24
Thursday, January 25
Friday, January 26
Saturday, January 27
Sunday, January 28
  • President Joe Biden speaks about his religious faith during a church service at Saint John Baptist Church in West Columbia, South Carolina.[22]
Monday, January 29
Tuesday, January 30
  • President Biden says that he has decided on response to the killing of three American service members on 28 January in a drone attack in Jordan and does not want to expand the war in the Middle East.[23]
Wednesday, January 31
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February 2024

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Thursday, February 1
Friday, February 2
Saturday, February 3
Sunday, February 4
  • President Biden speaks at a campaign event, in a predominantly Black section of Las Vegas, Nevada.[26]
Monday, February 5
Tuesday, February 6
Wednesday, February 7
  • At night, President Biden mistakenly refers to a conversation he had with Angela Merkel in 2021 as having taken place with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.[30]
Thursday, February 8
  • The Department of Justice decides not to charge President Biden relating to the Joe Biden classified documents incident, and he is described as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” with “diminished faculties in advancing age” in a report from Special Counsel Robert Hur.[31][32]
  • President Biden responds by speaking against the report's description of his faculties.[31]
  • President Biden confuses the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.[33]
Special Counsel's report on classified documents
Friday, February 9
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House.[34]
  • President Biden signs the Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act into law.[35]
President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Saturday, February 10
Sunday, February 11
  • President Biden tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel should not proceed with a military operation in Rafah without a plan to ensure the safety of the estimated one million people sheltering there.[36]
Monday, February 12
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House.[37]
President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, King Abdullah II, Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan
Tuesday, February 13
Wednesday, February 14
Thursday, February 15
Friday, February 16
Saturday, February 17
Sunday, February 18
Monday, February 19
Tuesday, February 20
President Biden at Joint Base Andrews with Colonel Paul Pawluk
Wednesday, February 21
Thursday, February 22
Friday, February 23
Saturday, February 24
Sunday, February 25
Monday, February 26
From left to right, Amy Poehler, President Biden and Seth Meyers during the taping of Late Night with Seth Meyers
Tuesday, February 27
Wednesday, February 28
Thursday, February 29
President Biden (left) with United States Border Patrol agents in Brownsville
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March 2024

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Friday, March 1
President Biden Holds a Bilateral Meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy
Saturday, March 2
  • In response to the flour massacre, the U.S. military begins airdropping food aid into Gaza.[49]
Sunday, March 3
Monday, March 4
Tuesday, March 5
Wednesday, March 6
  • US Representative Dean Phillips suspends his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President and endorses Biden.[51]
  • Biden calls Phillips on the phone.[52] Biden admits in the phone call that if he had been a younger lawmaker, he too would have challenged an aging commander-in-chief and promises Phillips a White House meeting.[53]
Thursday, March 7
President Biden delivers his third official State of the Union Address (transcript)
Friday, March 8
  • President Biden signs the Airport and Airway Extension Act into law.[57]
Saturday, March 9
  • President Biden signs the Consolidated Appropriations Act into law.[58]
  • In an interview with the TV channel MSNBC, President Biden says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “harming more than helping” Israel with his stance in the Gaza Strip.[59]
Sunday, March 10
Monday, March 11
Tuesday, March 12
  • President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House.[61]
  • President Biden wins the primaries in Georgia, Mississippi, Northern Mariana Islands, and Washington, clinching enough delegates to officially become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.[citation needed]
  • President Biden says that he "sometimes gets confused about dates" during testimony he gave to US prosecutors as part of the investigation into classified government documents found in his home. Biden has come under scrutiny after his lawyers found classified documents in his garage that the president says he took by mistake when he was Barack Obama's vice president.[62]
President Biden and Polish leaders
Wednesday, March 13
Thursday, March 14
  • President Biden meets with supporters and volunteers during a campaign event in Saginaw, Michigan.[63]
Friday, March 15
  • President Biden celebrates Saint Patrick's Day, the national holiday of Ireland. As is tradition on this day in the White House, President Biden received a bowl of shamrock from the Taoiseach of Ireland Leo Varadkar and held a bilateral meeting with him. This was the second time since 2020 (and the Biden Presidency overall) that the shamrock bowl was received in person as the 2021 and 2022 ceremonies were virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[citation needed]
President Biden and Taoiseach of Ireland Leo Varadkar
Saturday, March 16
Sunday, March 17
  • President Biden hosts a St. Patrick's Day brunch with Catholic leadersin the East Room of the White House. The Taoiseach of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, attends the event with his partner, Matthew Barrett.[64][65]
President Biden giving remarks during a St. Patrick's Day brunch at the White House
Monday, March 18
  • President Biden signs the End Fentanyl Act and the Disaster Assistance Deadlines Alignment Act into law.[66][67]
President Biden signing the Disaster Assistance Deadlines Alignment Act
Tuesday, March 19
Wednesday, March 20
Thursday, March 21
Friday, March 22
  • President Biden signs a bill that designates a federal building in Detroit as the Rosa Parks Federal Building.[69][70]
  • Secretary Fudge's resignation takes effect, as Adrianne Todman assumes the position of acting HUD secretary.[71]
Saturday, March 23
Sunday, March 24
Monday, March 25
  • The United States abstains on a resolution for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which is approved by the United Nations Security Council.[73]
Tuesday, March 26
Wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge with the Dali underneath
Wednesday, March 27
Thursday, March 28
Friday, March 29
Saturday, March 30
Sunday, March 31
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