The following is atimeline of thepresidency of Joe Biden during the fourth and last quarter of 2024 from October 1 to December 31, 2024 and the first 20 days of 2025 from January 1 to 20, 2025, when Biden left office and was succeeded byDonald Trump. For a complete itinerary of his travels, seeList of presidential trips made by Joe Biden (2024–25). To navigate between quarters, seetimeline of the Joe Biden presidency.

Date	Events	Photos/videos
Tuesday, October 1
Wednesday, October 2	President Biden visitsNorth andSouth Carolina to survey the damage caused byHurricane Helene. Biden tours by helicopter over the worst-hit areas in the city ofAsheville, North Carolina.[1][2]
Thursday, October 3	President Biden visitsFlorida andGeorgia to survey the damage caused byHurricane Helene. Biden tours by helicopter over the worst-hit areas in the city ofPerry, Florida.[3]
Friday, October 4
Saturday, October 5
Sunday, October 6
Monday, October 7	President Biden attends a memorial service for the victims of theOctober 7 attacks. Biden lights a candle during a remembrance ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House with First LadyJill Biden and Rabbi Aaron Alexander of Adas Israel Congregation, marking the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.[4][5] Vice PresidentKamala Harris and Second GentlemanDoug Emhoff mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel by planting a memorial pomegranate tree, symbolizing good wishes for the new year in Judaism, at the Naval Observatory, their official residence.[5]
Tuesday, October 8	President Biden cancels a trip toAsia andGermany due to the approach ofHurricane Milton to the Florida coast.[6][7]
Wednesday, October 9	President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with theTaoiseach of IrelandSimon Harris at the White House.[8] President Biden and Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu speak by phone amid the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. The 30-minute conversation is the first between Biden and Netanyahu since August 2024.[9]
Thursday, October 10
Friday, October 11
Saturday, October 12
Sunday, October 13	President Biden visitsFlorida to survey the damage caused byHurricane Milton. Biden tours by helicopter over the worst-hit areas in the city ofSt. Petersburg, Florida.[10] Axios reports the relationship between Kamala Harris's team and Joe Biden's White House has been increasingly fraught and filled with rising tensions in the final weeks before Election Day, according to 10 people familiar with the situation.[11] TheUnited States Department of Defense announces that its country will send American military personnel and a high-altitude missile defense system,THAAD, toIsrael.[12]
Monday, October 14
Tuesday, October 15
Wednesday, October 16
Thursday, October 17	President Biden lands late inBerlin,Germany on this day and meets French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a meeting in the same city on the next day to discuss further assistance to Ukraine and President Zelenskyy's Victory Plan.[13][14]
Friday, October 18	U.S. RepresentativeMike Turner the chairman of theUnited States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence sends Biden a letter demanding that his administration immediately give the House Intelligence Committee a classified briefing concerning the possible engagement of North Korean troops in a potentially escalating and broadening Russo-Ukrainian war. Turner also states in the letter to Biden his view that the use of North Korean troops against Ukraine must be a red line for the United States and NATO.[15]
Saturday, October 19	President Biden approves the State of North Carolina disaster declaration and orders Federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight from September 16 to September 20, 2024.[16]
Sunday, October 20
Monday, October 21	First Lady Jill Biden unveils an enhanced and educational tour of the White House for public visitors.[17][18] At the White House, President Biden honors the prestigiousNational Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 39 recipients, including film directorsSteven Spielberg andSpike Lee, singersQueen Latifah, and posthumously,Selena Quintanilla.[19][20]
Tuesday, October 22	President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Slovenian Prime MinisterRobert Golob at the White House.[21]
Wednesday, October 23
Thursday, October 24
Friday, October 25	President Biden formally apologizes to Native Americans for abusive government-funded boarding schools that abused indigenous children and forced them to assimilate over a 150-year period.[22]
Saturday, October 26
Sunday, October 27
Monday, October 28	President Biden goes to an early voting location in his home state of Delaware, where he helps an elderly woman in a wheelchair and waits in line for his turn at the booth.[23]
Tuesday, October 29
Wednesday, October 30	In a telecall with Latino voters, President Biden states that “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American.” Biden's statement is made in a response to an anti-Puerto Rican joke made by comedianTony Hinchcliffe at Donald Trump's rally on October 27.[24] President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Cypriot PresidentNikos Christodoulides at the White House.[25] President Biden and First LadyJill Biden participate in the 2024 White HouseHalloween event.[26]
Thursday, October 31	TheAssociated Press reports the White House altered the record of Biden's 'garbage' remarks despite stenographer concerns.[27][28]

Date	Events	Photos/videos
Friday, November 1
Saturday, November 2
Sunday, November 3
Monday, November 4	President Biden congratulatesMaia Sandu on her historic reelection as thepresident of Moldova.[29]
Tuesday, November 5	The2024 United States presidential election takes place. TheRepublican Party retains their majority in theHouse of Representatives and gains control of theSenate.[30][31]
Wednesday, November 6	Republican Party nominee former presidentDonald Trump becomespresident-elect after he secures the projected total to 276 electoral votes.Democratic Party nominee vice presidentKamala Harris concedes defeat and congratulates Trump on his victory.[32][33] President Biden calls President-elect Donald Trump in the early morning to congratulate him on his victory.[34] President Biden announces the expedited granting of over US$6 billion inmilitary aid to Ukraine.[35]
Thursday, November 7	At the White House, President Biden delivers his statement following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.[36] A Texas federal judge rules President Biden's program favoring undocumented immigrants married to American citizens is illegal.[37]
Friday, November 8
Saturday, November 9
Sunday, November 10
Monday, November 11	President Biden performs a wreath-laying ceremony at theTomb of the Unknown Soldier at theArlington National Cemetery and delivers theVeterans Day address at theMemorial Amphitheater. Vice PresidentKamala Harris attends the wreath-laying ceremony.[38]
Tuesday, November 12	President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Israeli PresidentIsaac Herzog at the White House.[39][40] President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Indonesian PresidentPrabowo Subianto at the White House.[41][42]
Wednesday, November 13	President Biden meets with President-electDonald Trump in theOval Office to discuss thetransition of power between thepresidents. It was the first time for Trump to visit the White House since leaving office at the end of hisfirst presidency in January 2021.[43][44]
Thursday, November 14
Friday, November 15	President Biden attends the2024 APEC summit hosted by Peruvian PresidentDina Boluarte.[45] President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Peruvian PresidentDina Boluarte.[45] President Biden holds a trilateral meeting with Japanese Prime MinisterShigeru Ishiba and South Korean PresidentYoon Suk Yeol.[46]
Saturday, November 16	In the afternoon, President Biden holds a bilateral meeting withChinese leaderXi Jinping in Lima, Peru. This is the third official meeting between the leaders of the United States and China and the last time Biden had a meeting with Xi as president. The U.S. president attends the closing of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru. During his visit, President Biden and Peruvian president,Dina Boluarte, inaugurate a mega port in the city of Chancay, 80 kilometers from Lima.[47][48] At a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru, President Biden condemns the deployment of thousands of North Korean troops in Russia and expresses deep concern over China's continued support for Russia's defense industrial base.[49]
Sunday, November 17	In the early afternoon, President Biden arrives inBrazil ahead of theG20 summit and lands in Manaus for a historic visit to theAmazon region. He flies over the forest and visits a museum one day before the opening of the G20 in Rio de Janeiro. This is the first time a sitting president of the United States has visited the Brazilian Amazon region, according to the White House.[50] He becomes the first sitting president of the United States to set foot in the Brazilian Amazon region in the 200-year history of relations between the two nations.[51] President Biden authorizes Ukraine to use American-supplied long-range missiles in the war against Russia. The change in the U.S. government's stance is due to the sending of North Korean troops to fight in the war in Ukraine alongside the Russians.[52]
Monday, November 18	President Biden attends theG20 summit hosted by Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[53] President Biden meets with Canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau and Italian Prime MinisterGiorgia Meloni, when President Biden along with prime ministers Trudeau and Meloni miss in time for the official photo of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty.[54]
Tuesday, November 19	President Biden approves providing anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine.[55] President Biden meets with Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the margins of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the U.S.-Brazil strategic relationship.[56]
Wednesday, November 20	President Biden celebrates his 82nd birthday, marking an age milestone never before reached by an acting commander of the country.[57][58] President Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards.[59] The United States vetoes a ceasefire resolution in the war in the Gaza Strip at the United Nations Security Council. This is the fourth time that the Americans have rejected a proposal for a truce between Israel and Hamas since the conflict began in October 2023.[60]
Thursday, November 21	Treasury SecretaryJanet Yellen announces sanctions againstGazprombank, the third-largestRussia bank, along with its subsidiaries.[61] Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ChairGary Gensler announces he will resign on January 20 ahead ofTrump's second inauguration.[62]
Friday, November 22	At the White House, President Biden receives theBoston Celtics team,NBA champions in the 2023–24 season. StarJayson Tatum gives the president a team shirt, with Biden's name on the back.[63]
Saturday, November 23	President Biden delivers his statement onHolodomor Remembrance Day, in which he pledges further support from Washington for Ukraine.[64]
Sunday, November 24	OutgoingNational Security AdvisorJake Sullivan meets with incoming National Security AdvisorMichael Waltz as part ofthe transition from Biden to Trump.[65]
Monday, November 25	President Biden participates in his fourth and finalNational Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation.[66] First LadyJill Biden welcomes the arrival of the 2024White House Christmas Tree at theWhite House.[67] President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travel toStaten Island, New York, to celebrate a "Friendsgiving" with members of the United States Coast Guard and families.[68] U.S. federal judgeTanya Chutkan of theDistrict Court for the District of Columbia dismisses without prejudice the two criminal cases byJack Smith againstU.S. President-elect Trump, including theclassified documents case andthe case involvinghis efforts to overturn his defeat toPresident Joe Biden in the2020 United States presidential election.[69][70] The White House confirms that President Biden will attend theinauguration of President-elect Trump on January 20, 2025.[71]
Tuesday, November 26	U.S. Secretary of StateAntony Blinken says thatceasefire talks are reaching the final stages and that a deal could happen soon.[72] In Washington, President Biden announces that Israel and Lebanon have accepted the U.S. ceasefire proposal.[73]
Wednesday, November 27
Thursday, November 28	President Biden celebratesThanksgiving with his family's traditional trip toNantucket,Massachusetts.[74]
Friday, November 29
Saturday, November 30	The United States condemns the excessive use of force by police against Georgian protesters and suspends its strategic partnership with Georgia following the Georgian Dream party's decision to suspend the country's European Union accession process.[75]

Date	Events	Photos/videos
Sunday, December 1	U.S National Security AdvisorJake Sullivan says that theUnited States will not return toUkraine thenuclear weapons they dismantled.[76] President Biden pardons his sonHunter Biden of tax and firearms charges.[77]
Monday, December 2	First Lady Dr. Jill Biden unveils the White House holiday decor for the fourth and final time.[78][79] On the first day of his visit to the African country, President Biden arrives for his long-awaited first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa to the cheers of thousands inAngola.[80][81]
Tuesday, December 3	On the second day of his visit to Angola, in the capital Luanda, President Biden meets Angolan PresidentJoão Lourenço and says that Angola wants to work with the United States to attract foreign investment and improve defense and security ties, including joint military exercises and cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea and the South Atlantic.[82] The Democrat delivers remarks at the National Museum of Slavery.[83]
Wednesday, December 4	On the third and the last day of his visit to Angola, President Biden arrives on Air Force One in Lobito, an Angolan port city, to see up close the renovation of the railway.[82] He participates in a meeting with African leaders.[84]
Thursday, December 5	President Biden participates in the 102nd annualNational Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.[85]
Friday, December 6
Saturday, December 7
Sunday, December 8	President Biden delivers remarks on his first public speech since the end of theAssad regime. He speaks about the takeover of Damascus by the rebel group HTS, led byAbu Mohammed al-Golani.[86]
Monday, December 9	President Biden announces the designation ofCarlisle Indian Industrial School as anational monument at his last White House Tribal Nations Summit.[87] Vice President Harris swears inAdam Schiff andAndy Kim to theUnited States Senate.[88]
Tuesday, December 10
Wednesday, December 11	President Biden approves a new classified national security memorandum on growing cooperation betweenRussia,North Korea,Iran andChina.[89] Lauren McFerran, the chairwoman of theNational Labor Relations Board, loses a Senate renomination vote for a new term at 50–49. Outgoing independent SenatorsJoe Manchin andKyrsten Sinema joined Republicans in rejecting her nomination.[90]
Thursday, December 12	President Biden reduces the sentences of approximately 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during thecoronavirus pandemic and pardons 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes in the largest single-day act ofclemency in the history of the United States.[91][92] The United States Department of Justice reports FBI errors in the invasion of the Capitol, which occurred on January 6, 2021.[93]
Friday, December 13
Saturday, December 14
Sunday, December 15	President Biden and Vice PresidentKamala Harris deliver remarks at theDemocratic National Committee's holiday reception in Washington, D.C.[94]
Monday, December 16
Tuesday, December 17	All 538 electors for the electoral college met to cast their votes and finalize the2024 presidential election results. Both candidates received their projected counts of 312 for President-elect Trump and 226 for Vice President Harris without any faithless electors.[95] During a briefing at the Washington Foreign Press Center, U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Matthew Miller says that the Biden administration and Donald Trump's team communicate on foreign policy issues, including Russia's war against Ukraine.[96]
Wednesday, December 18
Thursday, December 19
Friday, December 20
Saturday, December 21	President Biden signs the law approved by Congress to fund the government until March 14 and thus prevent a shutdown of services in the country.[97]
Sunday, December 22
Monday, December 23	President Biden commutes the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, excludingRobert Bowers,Dylann Roof, andDzhokhar Tsarnaev.[98]
Tuesday, December 24	President Biden signs 50 bills including a bill to prohibit former members of Congress who have been convicted of corruption from receiving pensions, the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, and a bill making thebald eagle the officialnational bird of theUnited States.[99][100]
Wednesday, December 25	President Biden celebrates the fourth and finalChristmas Day of his administration.[101]
Thursday, December 26	President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travel to theU.S. Virgin Islands to vacation there until after the new year despite his term only having three weeks left.[102]
Friday, December 27
Saturday, December 28
Sunday, December 29	President Biden releases a statement on thedeath of former PresidentJimmy Carter and declares January 9, 2025, as a national day of mourning.[103][104]
Monday, December 30
Tuesday, December 31	Joe Biden celebrates the fourth and finalNew Year's Day countdown of his administration inWilmington, Delaware.[105]

Date	Events	Photos/videos
Wednesday, January 1	President Biden reports that the suspect in anattack inNew Orleans published videos on social media hours before the crime, in which he indicated he was inspired by the armed groupIslamic State.[106]
Thursday, January 2	President Biden awardsLiz Cheney and 19 other people with thePresidential Citizens Medal.[107]
Friday, January 3	The119th United States Congress convenes with theRepublican Party is retaining their majority in theHouse of Representatives and controlling theSenate.[108] Mike Johnson isre-elected asSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives.[109] President Biden awards theMedal of Honor to seven U.S. Army veterans for heroism during theKorean War andVietnam War.[110] President Biden blocks the proposedacquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel.[111]
Saturday, January 4	During the ceremony in theEast Room of the White House, President Biden awards thePresidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, science, and civil rights and LGBTQIA+ community advocates. The exception is Argentine playerLionel Messi, who is absent from the ceremony.[112]
Sunday, January 5
Monday, January 6	Congress holds ajoint session, where the 2024electoral college results are counted. In her role asPresident of the Senate, Vice PresidentKamala Harris reads the results and declares President-electDonald Trump as the winner after Congress certifies the electoral votes.[113]
Tuesday, January 7
Wednesday, January 8	President Biden signs an executive order recognizing thefires in the Los Angeles region as a major disaster.[114]
Thursday, January 9	President Biden cancels a trip toItaly andVatican City due to theLos Angeles wildfires.[115] President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden attend thefuneral of late former PresidentJimmy Carter atWashington National Cathedral.[116]
Friday, January 10
Saturday, January 11	President Biden awards thePresidential Medal of Freedom toPope Francis with a distinction. This is the first time that President Biden has awarded the Medal of Freedom at its highest level.[117] Jack Smith resigns as special counsel of theUnited States Department of Justice.[118]
Sunday, January 12	Rahm Emanuel steps down asUnited States Ambassador to Japan ahead of January 20th.[119]
Monday, January 13
Tuesday, January 14	President Biden removesCuba from thelist of countries that sponsor terrorism.[120]
Wednesday, January 15	Aceasefire deal is reached during theGaza war.[121][122] President Biden delivers hisfarewell address to the nation in theOval Office in which he warns of an emergingoligarchy andtech–industrial complex.[123][124]
Thursday, January 16	President Biden gives his farewell address to the armed forces atJoint Base Myer–Henderson Hall inArlington, Virginia.[125]
Friday, January 17	TheSupreme Court of the United Statesupholds the provisions of theProtecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act banning social media platformTikTok unless it is sold byByteDance.[126][127]
Saturday, January 18	Antony Blinken and UAE Foreign MinisterAbdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discusses bilateral relations in a phone call.[128]
Sunday, January 19	President Biden issues pardons on his final full day as president.[129] President Biden is made aMaster Mason by thePrince Hall Grand Lodge of South Carolina.[130]
Monday, January 20	On his last day in theWhite House, President Biden grants a preemptive pardon to GeneralMark Milley, Dr.Anthony Fauci and members of thecongressional committee and witnesses to theJanuary 6 attack on the Capitol, saying they "do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions".[131][132] President Biden receives and greets President-electDonald Trump, who arrived at the White House, for the formal transition of power in theUnited States. He is accompanied by First LadyJill Biden.[133][134] Vice PresidentKamala Harris receives and greets Vice President-electJD Vance, who arrived at the White House. During the ceremony, she is accompanied by the second gentlemanDoug Emhoff.[133] President Biden issues preemptive pardons for several members of his family, citing the possibility of "baseless and politically motivated investigations" affecting their lives in his post-presidency.[135][136] President Biden completes his full term in office and leaves the White House for the final time as Commander-in-chief.[137] Donald Trump isinaugurated as the 47th president of the United States, at noon EST.[138] After the inauguration, Biden, now the former president, flew directly fromAndrews Air Force Base in Maryland toVandenberg Space Force Base in California for a vacation in theSanta Ynez Valley where he begins his post-presidency.[139]

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