[ti:Joe Biden’s First 100 Days: Where He Stands on Key Promises]
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[00:00.04]President Joe Biden is nearing his 100th day in office
[00:04.72]as president of the United States.
[00:08.20]During his campaign, Biden promised to reach several goals
[00:13.28]in his first 100 days as leader.
[00:17.72]So far, his administration has centered its efforts
[00:21.88]on gaining control of the COVID-19 crisis.
[00:26.80]And Biden has honored most of his campaign promises
[00:31.24]connected to that issue.
[00:34.76]The president also met a number of promised actions
[00:38.60]on climate change and the economy.
[00:42.84]But other issues have proved to be more difficult for the administration,
[00:47.84]including immigration.
[00:51.36]Biden is struggling with how to enact promised reforms
[00:55.80]in the face of a sharp increase in the number of foreign children
[01:00.12]seeking to cross the border.
[01:03.52]On some of his promises, Biden is waiting for Congress to act.
[01:10.00]Here is Biden's current position on major campaign promises:
[01:16.64]Biden has completed seven of the seventeen promises he made for immigration.
[01:23.68]He sent Congress a bill that would offer an eight-year path
[01:27.84]to citizenship for people without documentation.
[01:32.88]He ordered immigration agents to deport people
[01:36.52]who entered the US illegally only if they also have violated other laws.
[01:43.88]He has taken steps to reunite immigrant families separated at the Mexican border.
[01:51.08]He protected children who arrived in the US illegally from deportation.
[01:57.68]He has also ended the travel ban for some Muslim-majority countries.
[02:04.64]Finally, he has ended work on a border wall that began with the Trump administration.
[02:12.64]Nine of his other immigration promises are still in progress.
[02:18.20]He was unable to keep one of his promises.
[02:22.08]A federal judge in Texas did not permit Biden to freeze deportations for 100 days.
[02:31.44]Biden fully honored his promise to permit transgender individuals to join the military.
[02:39.20]He decided against meeting his promise to create a police oversight board.
[02:45.60]After meeting with several rights groups and police representatives,
[02:50.48]Biden said such a board would not be productive.
[02:55.44]He also has not yet met his promise to restructure the Bureau of Alcohol,
[03:00.72]Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
[03:03.92]and other Justice Department agencies to better enforce gun laws.
[03:10.60]Biden has successfully completed all of his COVID-19 promises.
[03:16.28]The US rejoined the World Health Organization.
[03:21.12]He met his goal to administer 100 million vaccines,
[03:24.80]which was increased to a goal of 200 million.
[03:29.84]He pushed for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 assistance bill which was passed by Congress.
[03:38.44]Biden canceled the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
[03:44.16]He protected the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.
[03:49.28]He rejoined the Paris climate agreement.
[03:52.96]Finally, he accepted the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol
[03:58.16]to reduce a harmful chemical called hydrofluorocarbons.
[04:03.32]He also created a world climate meeting for top officials
[04:07.84]where he persuaded nations to set lower emissions targets.
[04:13.76]Biden will not permit new oil and gas structures
[04:17.80]on federal lands and offshore waters.
[04:22.16]He is also working to change back 100 public health
[04:26.16]and environmental rules set by Trump.
[04:30.72]Biden is working to cancel Trump's 2017 cuts to corporate tax rates.
[04:38.16]He has completed his goals to provide $2,000
[04:42.00]in direct payments as part of COVID-19 aid.
[04:46.92]He also completed his goals to pause federal student debt payments
[04:52.32]and to order a review of where the US gets its supplies.
[04:59.44]Biden has had mixed success with completing his goals for foreign policy.
[05:06.44]The one goal he fully met was recognizing the events
[05:10.52]that happened to Armenians during WWI as genocide.
[05:16.76]His other foreign policy goals are either in progress or are hard to measure.
[05:23.96]For example, he has moved toward putting human rights
[05:27.92]at the center of his foreign policy, but he is not consistent with US allies.
[05:36.00]He did not hold Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman,
[05:40.44]responsible for the killing of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
[05:47.04]He is working to end the US involvement in the wars in the Middle East.
[05:53.40]He is also working to improve relations with allies
[05:57.60]which suffered under the former Trump administration.
[06:01.88]He has completed actions to reduce the support shown
[06:05.48]to dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
[06:10.60]Finally, he is working to rejoin the nuclear deal with Iran,
[06:15.96]but Iran is resisting.
[06:19.28]I'm Jonathan Evans. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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