Abstract
Biden’s first hundred days in office were marked by significant policy-changes, for example in the areas of the COVID-19 crisis management, environmental and anti-discrimination policies. From the beginning, the new administration sought to highlight the contrast to its predecessor - in style, rhetoric, and policy. This seems to confirm a trend in US politics: The ideological pendulum keeps swinging. While Trump’s policies shifted towards the right, the pendulum under Biden is now swinging back to the political spectrum’s left. Yet, there are also several continuities. For example, regarding the increasing use of unilateral instruments of policy-making, in terms of national interests on the global stage, and in the area of immigration policies, where progressive campaign promises remain unfulfilled. Partisan politics also persist. The American Rescue Plan, Biden’s signature legislation during his first hundred days in office, could not attract bipartisan support. At the same time, tensions within the Democratic Party reveal frictions between progressives and moderates, which may shape the party’s course, in particular in view of slim majorities in the Senate.
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