How do Biden's first 100 days in office compare to Trump's?


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  • Thursday, 29 Apr 2021

The new president's energy has focused relentlessly on four priorities – the pandemic, the economy, climate change and race relations. — Reuters

A president's first 100 days are an arbitrary benchmark, a point of measurement journalists are fond of because it allows us to draw comparisons between the current officeholder and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the last chief executive whose first three months were truly momentous.

But in recent times, the 100-day trope has also been taken seriously by presidents – including both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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