From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is post reports, I'm routine powers.

It's Wednesday, April 28th.

The promises that Biden kept and did not keep during his first 100 days, plus the art of renegotiating a deal.

So we are about to come up to this big milestone for a new president, which is the 100 days milestone for President Biden.

Tell me, why do we care about the first 100 days of a presidency?

Biden has set this 100 days as a marker for when he's begun to make significant progress on any number of the largest issues that face him.

Cleve Woodson is a White House correspondent for the post.

He has been thinking about what these last three months could mean for the future of the Biden presidency.

For generations of President, it's always served as the moment where they say we should begin to see the effects of their presidency, not just kind of hold over effects from previous Presidencies.

And so as we're reaching this marker, we are expecting Biden to give a pretty significant speech to Congress, correct?

Yeah, he gives a joint address to Congress on Wednesday night, and that's where he's going to tell Congress and tell the nation everything that he's accomplished, but also sort of lay the groundwork and a framework for what's going to follow.

So when we think back to the promises that Biden made on the campaign trail, the reason why he was elected.

What are the things that he was able to achieve and the positives that he's going to be talking about in this first 100 days speech?

So what Biden promised to do and what he made good on in those first couple of weeks is he massively scaled up the vaccine rollout.

But I'm absolutely convinced that in 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in America for the better.

At first it was 100 million and then it was 150 million and then he announced it would be 200 million in his first 100 days.

He also worked to increase economic relief. He put $1,400 into the bank accounts of most Americans.

This is money directly in people's pockets. They needed. We need to target that money.

Making good on a campaign promise to get I think a total of $2,000 in economic relief. There were also efforts to increase unemployment benefits or to surge money to state and local governments in order to further increase the economy.

It gets needed resources to state local governments to prevent layoffs of a central personnel, firefighters, nurses,

the folks are school teachers, sanitation workers. He's going to tell Congress he's going to tell the nation, look I told you I would surge the amount of coronavirus vaccine doses and look I've done it.

And more importantly, he said that the United States would be in a better place regarding the pandemic 100 days after he was inaugurated than when he started.

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