# Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2022 Q3)

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The following is a timeline of the presidency of Joe Biden during the third quarter of 2022, from July 1 to September 30, 2022. For a complete itinerary of his travels, see List of presidential trips made by Joe Biden (2022). To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency. For the Q4 timeline see timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2022 Q4).

## Timeline
### July 2022

Week 76 :
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Friday, July 1 | President Biden announces 17 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. | |
| Saturday, July 2 | | |
| Sunday, July 3 | | |
| Week 77 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, July 4 | President Biden said that Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering offered full support for the federal government to investigate the perpetrator of the Highland Park parade shooting. He also remarked about gun control legislation. President Biden and his family celebrates Independence Day. | |
| Tuesday, July 5 | President Biden awards the Medal of Honor to four Vietnam War veterans. Dwight Birdwell (who fought an ambush in 1968 at the Tan Son Nhut Air Base), Major John J. Duffy (who was wounded at the Easter Offensive), Dennis Fujii, and a posthumous medal to Sargent Edward Kaneshiro, who died from an enemy gunshot. Kaneshiro's son accepted the award. | President Biden awards Mr. Duffy with the Medal of Honor |
| Wednesday, July 6 | | |
| Thursday, July 7 | President Biden awards 17 people, including Gabby Giffords, Simone Biles, and John McCain, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | President Biden hosting the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony |
| Friday, July 8 | President Biden pays condolences to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after he was assassinated. President Biden signs an executive order that restores access to abortion but does not limit trigger laws. | President Biden at the Japanese Embassy to pay condolences to Shinzo AbePresident Biden delivers remarks about abortion rights and signs an executive order to partially restore abortion access |
| Saturday, July 9 | | |
| Sunday, July 10 | | |
| Week 78 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, July 11 | First Lady Jill Biden addresses the Latino non-profit advocacy group UnidosUS in San Antonio, Texas. | |
| Tuesday, July 12 | President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the White House. First Lady Jill Biden is criticized by multiple Latino advocacy groups, including the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, for her remark about comparing the Latino community to the tacos in San Antonio. A White House spokesperson said she apologized. | President Biden and Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Wednesday, July 13 | President Biden arrives in Israel to restore relations with Arab nations and to talk about oil. President Biden talks to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu about relations with Iran. President Biden lays down a wreath at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. | Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid welcomes President Biden President Biden lays down a wreath at Yad Vashem in honor of those who lost their lives in the Holocaust |
| Thursday, July 14 | President Biden is awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor by Israel. President Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid signs a joint declaration between the U.S. and Israel. | President Biden receives the Presidential Medal of Honor from Israeli president Isaac Herzog President Biden and Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid |
| Friday, July 15 | President Biden visits Saudi Arabia and fist bumps Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite vowing to make him a "pariah". Judge Charles E. Atchley Jr. temporarily bars LGBTQ+ protection laws in 20 states, claiming they infringe on state rights. | |
| Saturday, July 16 | First Lady Jill Biden criticizes her own husband's tenure during a private DNC fundraiser in Nantucket, Massachusetts, saying that he puts the blame on foreign problems for his crises in office and that he had "so many hopes and plans". She also blamed congressional Republicans. | |
| Sunday, July 17 | President Biden participates in the GCC+3 special summit in Jeddah. | President Biden and GCC+3 leaders |
| Week 79 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, July 18 | | |
| Tuesday, July 19 | President Biden signs an executive order into law that supports citizens and families that are wrongfully detained or held hostage overseas. President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden meet with Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska in the Blue Room. | From left to right: Second Gentleman Emhoff, Vice President Harris, First Ukrainian lady Zelenska, President Biden, Dr. Jill Biden |
| Wednesday, July 20 | President Biden announces new executive steps to combat climate change, but did not declare it a national emergency. | |
| Thursday, July 21 | President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 for the first time and enters isolation. The Supreme Court decides that they will not block a lower court ruling that prevents the administration for setting new enforcements for immigration policies. They will take issue with the ruling in December. Notably, it was the first ruling that Ketanji Brown Jackson voted on. | President Biden announces his first positive COVID-19 test |
| Friday, July 22 | | |
| Saturday, July 23 | | |
| Sunday, July 24 | | |
| Week 80 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, July 25 | | |
| Tuesday, July 26 | | |
| Wednesday, July 27 | President Biden tests negative for COVID-19 for the first time, and he left isolation. | President Biden's negative COVID-19 test |
| Thursday, July 28 | President Biden speaks with China's leader Xi Jinping and discuss Taiwan, a possible face to face meeting in the future, and other things. Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota becomes the first incumbent Democratic member of Congress to say President Biden should not run for re-election and called for "generational change" pointing to Biden's age. | |
| Friday, July 29 | | |
| Saturday, July 30 | President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time and enters isolation. | President Biden announces his second positive COVID-19 test |
| Sunday, July 31 | | |

### August 2022

Week 81 :
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, August 1 | President Biden confirms that Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed. | President Biden announces the death of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri |
| Tuesday, August 2 | | |
| Wednesday, August 3 | The United States Department of Health and Human Services calls for a new White House office that focuses on the research of long COVID. | |
| Thursday, August 4 | | |
| Friday, August 5 | | |
| Saturday, August 6 | President Biden tests negative for COVID-19 for the second time, and he left isolation. | |
| Sunday, August 7 | The United States Senate passes the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. | |
| Week 82 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, August 8 | President Biden travels to Kentucky to survey the flood damage and promises federal support. | President Biden surveys damage in Kentucky |
| Tuesday, August 9 | President Biden signs the bipartisan CHIPS Act into law that boosts manufacturing competitiveness with China. President Biden signs documents that approve Finland's and Sweden's accessions to NATO. | President Biden signs the CHIP Act President Biden signs the approval of Finland's and Sweden's accessions to NATO |
| Wednesday, August 10 | President Biden signs the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022, which expands health benefits to military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. | President Biden signs the PACT act |
| Thursday, August 11 | | |
| Friday, August 12 | | |
| Saturday, August 13 | | |
| Sunday, August 14 | | |
| Week 83 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, August 15 | | |
| Tuesday, August 16 | President Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law. First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19. | President Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act |
| Wednesday, August 17 | President Biden called congresswoman Liz Cheney after her loss to Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman in the Republican primary in Wyoming. The White House spokesperson declined to comment on the call. | |
| Thursday, August 18 | | |
| Friday, August 19 | | |
| Saturday, August 20 | | |
| Sunday, August 21 | | |
| Week 84 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, August 22 | | |
| Tuesday, August 23 | | |
| Wednesday, August 24 | | |
| Thursday, August 25 | President Biden returns from his vacation in Delaware to deliver remarks at a political rally in Rockville, Maryland at Richard Montgomery High School. | |
| Friday, August 26 | President Biden commemorates the 13 soldiers who died on the first anniversary of the 2021 Kabul airport attack. | |
| Saturday, August 27 | | |
| Sunday, August 28 | | |
| Week 85 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, August 29 | | |
| Tuesday, August 30 | President Biden condemns the National Rifle Association of America and Trump supporters in his Safer America Plan speech at Wilkes University. | President Biden delivers remarks on his safer America plan |
| Wednesday, August 31 | | |

### September 2022

Week 85 :
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Thursday, September 1 | President Biden delivers a primetime speech outside of the Independence Hall in Philadelphia. | President Biden gives a speech on the battle for the soul of the nation |
| Friday, September 2 | | |
| Saturday, September 3 | | |
| Sunday, September 4 | | |
| Week 86 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, September 5 | President Biden travels to Milwaukee and Pittsburgh to give speeches on Labor Day. | President Biden at Milwaukee Laborfest |
| Tuesday, September 6 | | |
| Wednesday, September 7 | President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden invite former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama back to the White House for the unveiling of the latter's official White House portraits. | President Biden and former president Obama with their spouses |
| Thursday, September 8 | President Biden pays tribute to Elizabeth II after her death on this day saying she was "more than a monarch" and that she "defined an era". He ordered all flags on U.S. public buildings, including the White House, to be flown at half-staff until sundown on the day her body is laid to rest. | |
| Friday, September 9 | | |
| Saturday, September 10 | | |
| Sunday, September 11 | President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden lay a wreath at the September 11 Memorial at the Pentagon commemorating the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and later pay tribute to the nearly three thousand Americans killed that day, pledging to continue to confront radical Islamic terrorism. | President Biden speaks at the Pentagon on 9/11 |
| Week 87 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, September 12 | | |
| Tuesday, September 13 | | |
| Wednesday, September 14 | President Biden speaks with King Charles III. | |
| Thursday, September 15 | | |
| Friday, September 16 | President Biden delivers remarks about the US economy. President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House. | President Biden and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa |
| Saturday, September 17 | | |
| Sunday, September 18 | President Biden arrives at Westminster Hall, England to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II on the eve of her state funeral. | |
| Week 88 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, September 19 | President Biden attends the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London, England. | |
| Tuesday, September 20 | | |
| Wednesday, September 21 | President Biden delivers a speech at the General debate of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly. President Biden meets with U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and British Prime Minister Liz Truss following his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. | President Biden addresses the United Nations General Assembly President Biden and British Prime Minister Liz Truss |
| Thursday, September 22 | President Biden meets with Philippine President Bongbong Marcos. | President Biden and Philippine President Bongbong Marcos |
| Friday, September 23 | President Biden awards Elton John the National Humanities Medal. | |
| Saturday, September 24 | | |
| Sunday, September 25 | Vice President Harris begins her trip to Japan and South Korea. | |
| Week 89 |||
| Date | Events | Photos/Videos |
| Monday, September 26 | Vice President Harris meets with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida. | Vice President Harris and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida |
| Tuesday, September 27 | Vice President Harris attends the state funeral of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo, Japan. | |
| Wednesday, September 28 | President Biden meets with Pacific Island leaders in the first ever U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit. | President Biden with Pacific Island leaders. |
| Thursday, September 29 | President Biden makes a disaster declaration for Hurricane Ian in Florida saying it could be "the deadliest hurricane in Florida's history" and orders federal assistance in response efforts. President Biden suffered a blunder during a speech where he asked if deceased congresswoman Jackie Walorski was in the audience. Vice President Harris visits the Korean Demilitarized Zone. | President Biden receives a briefing on Hurricane Ian at FEMA headquarters Vice President Harris at the Korean Demilitarized Zone |
| Friday, September 30 | In response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's annexation of four Ukrainian regions, President Biden states that the United States will "never, never, never" recognise the four regions as Russian territories. He also announced further sanctions on Russia. | |