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President Biden has reached the 100-day mark of his presidency.

It's a metric that has over the years become something of a campaign cliche.

Candidates make these big promises about what their administrations can accomplish in those first few months.

They do it to signal their priorities and to make clear their very big ambitions.

What will you do in your first 100 days?

Well, there's six everything I think, Sprite, that's what you're going to do.

Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws.

And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.

Look at our website, Amyclobacher.com. I have over 130 things that you can do in the first 100 days.

The first 100 days of my administration, no one, no one will be deported at all.

On the campaign trail, and as President-elect, Biden made a lot of promises about what he'd be able to achieve in his early days.

He made promises around mask mandates and vaccinations, around repealing Trump's tax cuts and rejoining global alliances,

and around guns and policing.

And 100 days in, the president says he's come through on many of his promises.

In his first address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Good to be back.

Biden took major credit for his coronavirus pandemic response,

and for the $1.9 trillion relief package.

We will have provided over 220 million COVID shots in those 100 days.

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