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
Date Events Photos/videos Monday, January 1 Tuesday, January 2 Wednesday, January 3 Thursday, January 4 Friday, January 5 President Biden delivers remarks at a campaign event at Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, near the Revolutionary War battle site of Valley Forge. First Lady Jill Biden is in attendance. 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. Sunday, January 7 Monday, January 8 President Biden speaks at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and compares Trump's election denialism to the Confederates who refused to accept they had lost the American Civil War. 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. 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. 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. 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. Sunday, January 14 Monday, January 15 Tuesday, January 16 Wednesday, January 17 A non-binding resolution denouncing the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the U.S. southern border passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 225-187, with 211 Republicans and 14 Democrats supporting it. In a letter sent to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the same day, President Biden says that Brazil and the United States will "stand side by side to ensure that democracy continues to triumph." Biden calls Lula a friend and says there is much to be done by both leaders. The American president expressed agreement with Lula's speech on the anniversary of the 2023 January 8 coup attacks in Brasília. Thursday, January 18 The United States House of Representatives approves a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through early March and avert a partial government shutdown. Friday, January 19 President Biden signs the Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act into law. The United States Department of Education approves the cancellation of $4.9 billion in federal student loan debt for close to 74,000 borrowers. 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." Sunday, January 21 Monday, January 22 Tuesday, January 23 President Biden wins the non-binding New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary through write-in votes, winning over 60% of the vote. U.S. Representative Dean Phillips also wins a significant number of votes in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, winning over 19% of the vote. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris join forces at a rally to campaign for abortion rights in Virginia. Wednesday, January 24 Thursday, January 25 Friday, January 26 Saturday, January 27 President Biden and his opponent in the primary, U.S. Representative Dean Phillips, spoke at the South Carolina Democratic Party's First-in-the-Nation Celebration dinner in Columbia, South Carolina. 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. 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. Wednesday, January 31
February 2024
Date Events Photos/videos Thursday, February 1 Friday, February 2 President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden attend a dignified transfer of fallen troops at the Dover Air Force Base for the 3 reservists killed in the Tower 22 drone attack. Saturday, February 3 President Biden wins the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary. Sunday, February 4 President Biden speaks at a campaign event, in a predominantly Black section of Las Vegas, Nevada. Monday, February 5 Tuesday, February 6 The House of Representatives fails to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a vote of 214–216.Note: 214 Republicans voted yea while 212 Democrats and 4 Republicans voted nay with 1 Republican not voting. President Biden signs the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act into law. President Biden wins the Nevada Democratic presidential primary. 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. 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. President Biden responds by speaking against the report's description of his faculties. President Biden confuses the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Friday, February 9 President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House. President Biden signs the Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act into law. 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. Monday, February 12 President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House. Tuesday, February 13 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is impeached by the House of Representatives on the charge of "failure to enforce immigration laws" in a vote of 214–213.Note: 214 Republicans voted yea while 210 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted nay with 2 Republicans and 2 Democrats not voting. Wednesday, February 14 Thursday, February 15 Friday, February 16 Saturday, February 17 Sunday, February 18 Monday, February 19 Tuesday, February 20 The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the ongoing Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. Wednesday, February 21 Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília, Brazil. Thursday, February 22 Friday, February 23 Saturday, February 24 Sunday, February 25 Monday, February 26 President Biden is interviewed on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Tuesday, February 27 President Biden wins the Michigan Democratic presidential primary. Wednesday, February 28 Thursday, February 29 President Biden travels to Brownsville, Texas, to visit the U.S.–Mexico border.
March 2024
Date Events Photos/videos Friday, March 1 President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House. President Biden signs the Extension of Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act into law. President Biden says that the United States will use planes to drop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in the coming days. His announcement is made a day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed during a supply delivery. Saturday, March 2 In response to the flour massacre, the U.S. military begins airdropping food aid into Gaza. Sunday, March 3 Monday, March 4 Tuesday, March 5 President Biden wins fifteen of sixteen states in the Super Tuesday contests: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. Businessman Jason Palmer wins the American Samoa Democratic caucus. Wednesday, March 6US Representative Dean Phillips suspends his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President and endorses Biden. Biden calls Phillips on the phone. 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. Thursday, March 7 President Biden delivers his third official State of the Union Address. During his speech, President Biden criticizes Donald Trump, without mentioning the former president by name, and states that freedom is at risk. This is the final speech of Biden's term as president of the United States. President Biden congratulated Sweden on becoming the 32nd member of NATO. Friday, March 8 President Biden signs the Airport and Airway Extension Act into law. Saturday, March 9 President Biden signs the Consolidated Appropriations Act into law. 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. Sunday, March 10 Monday, March 11 Marcia Fudge announces her resignation from her position as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, effective March 22. Tuesday, March 12 President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House. 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.