We sat down with Professor Howell at the midpoint in Biden’s term to look back at what a President Biden has meant for the United States and what remains to be seen. Director of the Center for Effective Government, Howell is the author, most recently, of Presidents, Populism and the Crisis of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2020). William Howell, the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at Harris who has written extensively on American political institutions, has been watching with particular interest as the saga unfolds. It's been a tumultuous two years for the former vice president who, when he became president at 78 years old, was the oldest person in U.S. He led the country through the pandemic but has done little to resolve the immigration crisis. He’s also been dogged by historically high inflation while presiding over unemployment levels that reached a 50-year low last year. He pushed through three substantial pieces of legislation: the most comprehensive infrastructure package in 70 years a $394 billion investment in healthcare, clean energy, the environment and taxpayer compliance and $280 billion for scientific research and development in semiconductors and other tech. He presided over a calamitous exit from Afghanistan, yet rallied the Western World to support Ukraine’s fight against a Russian invasion. 9 this year, his approval rating stood at 43.5 percent.īiden’s predecessor - and 118 House Representatives - deny the election results that delivered Biden to the Oval Office.

20, 2021 for a four-year term.Īt the midpoint of President Joe Biden’s first term, the line tracking his job approval is a jagged, mostly downward path, from 56 percent in January of 2021 to a low of 37 percent in late July of last year. President Joe Biden took the oath of office on Jan.

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