This nation is asking for action and action now.

I'm rather pleased with what has been accomplished in the first hundred days.

In the first 100 days.

These first hundred days.

Let's start with a confession.

The first hundred days is a cliche.

And it's a cliche for an obvious reason.

Every president wants his term to begin with a bang,

to fill his first weeks in office with big achievements

and great press. To make the most of his power when his

mandate is greatest. In theory we could do a first hundred day show every four or

eight years and it would be boring and repetitive. The same predictable

staffing changes, the same big legislative pushes on Capitol Hill. And in

some ways this year is no different. After he swore his oath of office on Wednesday,

President Biden did a bunch of big things

we expected him to do.

He revoked President Trump's Muslim ban,

brought the United States back into the Paris Climate Accord, killed the Keystone

Excel pipeline, sent an immigration bill up to Capitol Hill. These are big deal

changes and after four years of Trump's destruction they come as a huge relief.

But this time those are just the table

stakes under different circumstances they would amount to a historic break from

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