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class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a chronological guide, see <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency">Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s tenure as the <a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of presidents of the United States">44th president of the United States</a> began with <a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" title="First inauguration of Barack Obama">his first inauguration</a> on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> from <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, took office following his victory over <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> nominee <a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 presidential election</a>. Four years later, in the <a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election">2012 presidential election</a>, he defeated Republican nominee <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>, to win re-election. Obama is the first <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African American</a> president, the first <a href="/wiki/Multiracial" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiracial">multiracial</a> president, the first non-white president,<a href="#cite_note-2">[a]</a> and the first president born in Hawaii. Obama was succeeded by Republican <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, who won the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election">2016 presidential election</a>. Historians and political scientists rank him among the upper tier in <a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#Scholar_survey_summary" title="Historical rankings of presidents of the United States">historical rankings of American presidents</a>. <table class="infobox" style="padding-bottom:2px; padding-top:2px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom:0; padding-bottom:1px;"><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama"><img alt="Barack Obama" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"> Obama's accomplishments during <a href="/wiki/First_100_days_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency" title="First 100 days of the Barack Obama presidency">the first 100 days of his presidency</a> included signing the <a href="/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_of_2009" title="Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009">Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009</a> relaxing the <a href="/wiki/Statute_of_limitations" title="Statute of limitations">statute of limitations</a> for equal-pay lawsuits;<a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a> signing into law the <a href="/wiki/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program#2009_reauthorisation" class="mw-redirect" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program">expanded</a> <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" title="Children's Health Insurance Program">Children's Health Insurance Program</a> (S-CHIP); winning approval of a congressional budget resolution that put Congress on record as dedicated to dealing with major <a href="/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care reform in the United States">health care reform</a> legislation in 2009; implementing new ethics guidelines designed to significantly curtail the influence of lobbyists on the executive branch; breaking from the Bush administration on a number of policy fronts, except for Iraq, in which he followed through on Bush's Iraq withdrawal of US troops;<a href="#cite_note-CNNJK2-4">[3]</a> supporting the <a href="/wiki/UN_declaration_on_sexual_orientation_and_gender_identity" class="mw-redirect" title="UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity">UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity</a>; and lifting the 7½-year ban on federal funding for <a href="/wiki/Embryonic_stem_cell_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Embryonic stem cell research">embryonic stem cell research</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5">[4]</a> Obama also <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13492" title="Executive Order 13492">ordered the closure</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, though it remains open. He lifted some travel and money restrictions to the island.<a href="#cite_note-CNNJK2-4">[3]</a> Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his first two years in office. The main reforms include: the <a href="/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act" title="Affordable Care Act">Affordable Care Act</a>, sometimes referred to as "the ACA" or "Obamacare", the <a href="/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act">Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_Repeal_Act_of_2010" title="Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010">Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010</a>. The <a href="/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insurance_Reauthorization,_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2010" title="Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010">Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act</a> served as economic stimuli amidst the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession_in_the_United_States" title="Great Recession in the United States">Great Recession</a>. After a <a href="/wiki/2011_United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis" title="2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis">lengthy debate over the national debt limit</a>, he signed the <a href="/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011" title="Budget Control Act of 2011">Budget Control Act of 2011</a> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_2012" title="American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012">American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012</a>. In foreign policy, he increased US troop levels in <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Afghanistan</a>, reduced nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia <a href="/wiki/New_START" title="New START">New START</a> treaty, and <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">ended military involvement</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>. He gained widespread praise for ordering <a href="/wiki/Operation_Neptune_Spear" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Neptune Spear">Operation Neptune Spear</a>, the raid that killed <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>, who was responsible for the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>. In 2011, Obama ordered the drone-strike killing in Yemen of <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> operative <a href="/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki" title="Anwar al-Awlaki">Anwar al-Awlaki</a>, who was an American citizen. He ordered <a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">military involvement in Libya</a> in order to implement <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973">UN Security Council Resolution 1973</a>, contributing to the overthrow of <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a>. After winning re-election by defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney, Obama was <a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" title="Second inauguration of Barack Obama">sworn in for a second term</a> on January 20, 2013. During this term, he condemned the <a href="/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)">2013 Snowden leaks</a> as unpatriotic, but called for more restrictions on the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> (NSA) to address privacy issues. Obama also promoted inclusion for <a href="/wiki/LGBT_American" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT American">LGBT Americans</a>. His administration filed briefs that urged the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> to strike down <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage in the United States">same-sex marriage</a> bans as unconstitutional (<a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor" title="United States v. Windsor">United States v. Windsor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges">Obergefell v. Hodges</a>); same-sex marriage was <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage in the United States">legalized</a> nationwide in 2015 after the Court ruled so in Obergefell. He advocated for <a href="/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States" title="Gun politics in the United States">gun control</a> in response to the <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting">Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting</a>, indicating support for a ban on <a href="/wiki/Assault_weapon" title="Assault weapon">assault weapons</a>, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> and immigration. In foreign policy, he ordered <a href="/wiki/US-led_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%932021)" title="US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)">military interventions in Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/US_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="US intervention in the Syrian civil war">Syria</a> in response to gains made by <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">ISIL</a> after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, promoted discussions that led to the 2015 <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a> on global climate change, drew down <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2011%E2%80%932016)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)">US troops in Afghanistan</a> in 2016, initiated <a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis">sanctions against Russia</a> following its <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">annexation of Crimea</a> and again after <a href="/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections">interference in the 2016 US elections</a>, brokered the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action" title="Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a> nuclear deal with Iran, and <a href="/wiki/Cuban_thaw" title="Cuban thaw">normalized US relations with Cuba</a>. Obama nominated <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates">three justices to the Supreme Court</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor">Sonia Sotomayor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan" title="Elena Kagan">Elena Kagan</a> were confirmed as justices, while <a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland" title="Merrick Garland">Merrick Garland</a> was <a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination">denied hearings or a vote</a> from the Republican-majority <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Major_acts_and_legislation">1 Major acts and legislation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#2008_election">2 2008 election</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Transition_period,_inauguration,_and_first_100_days">3 Transition period, inauguration, and first 100 days</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Inaugural_address">3.1 Inaugural address</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#First_100_days">3.2 First 100 days</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Administration">4 Administration</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Cabinet">4.1 Cabinet</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Notable_non-Cabinet_positions">4.2 Notable non-Cabinet positions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Judicial_appointments">5 Judicial appointments</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#United_States_Supreme_Court_nominations">5.1 United States Supreme Court nominations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Other_courts">5.2 Other courts</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Domestic_affairs">6 Domestic affairs</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Health_care_reform">6.1 Health care reform</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Wall_Street_reform">6.2 Wall Street reform</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Climate_change_and_the_environment">6.3 Climate change and the environment</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Economy">6.4 Economy</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Taxation">6.5 Taxation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Budget_and_debt_ceiling">6.6 Budget and debt ceiling</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#LGBT_rights">6.7 LGBT rights</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Education">6.8 Education</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Immigration">6.9 Immigration</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Energy">6.10 Energy</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Drug_policy_and_criminal_justice_reform">6.11 Drug policy and criminal justice reform</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="#Gun_control">6.12 Gun control</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Cybersecurity">6.13 Cybersecurity</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Racial_issues">6.14 Racial issues</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#NASA_space_policy">6.15 NASA space policy</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#High_tech_initiatives">6.16 High tech initiatives</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="#Foreign_affairs">7 Foreign affairs</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="#Iraq_and_Afghanistan">7.1 Iraq and Afghanistan</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31"><a href="#East_Asia">7.2 East Asia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="#Russia">7.3 Russia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33"><a href="#Israel">7.4 Israel</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34"><a href="#Trade_agreements">7.5 Trade agreements</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp">7.6 Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-36"><a href="#Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden">7.7 Killing of Osama bin Laden</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-37"><a href="#Drone_warfare">7.8 Drone warfare</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-38"><a href="#Cuban_thaw">7.9 Cuban thaw</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-39"><a href="#Iranian_nuclear_negotiations">7.10 Iranian nuclear negotiations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-40"><a href="#Arab_Spring_and_its_aftermath">7.11 Arab Spring and its aftermath</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-41"><a href="#Libya">7.11.1 Libya</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-42"><a href="#Syrian_civil_war">7.11.2 Syrian civil war</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-43"><a href="#Foreign_and_domestic_surveillance">7.12 Foreign and domestic surveillance</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-44"><a href="#Ethics">8 Ethics</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-45"><a href="#Lobbying_reform">8.1 Lobbying reform</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-46"><a href="#Transparency">8.2 Transparency</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-47"><a href="#Elections_during_the_Obama_presidency">9 Elections during the Obama presidency</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-48"><a href="#2010_mid-term_elections">9.1 2010 mid-term elections</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-49"><a href="#2012_re-election_campaign">9.2 2012 re-election campaign</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-50"><a href="#2014_mid-term_elections">9.3 2014 mid-term elections</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-51"><a href="#2016_elections_and_transition_period">9.4 2016 elections and transition period</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-52"><a href="#Approval_ratings_and_other_opinions">10 Approval ratings and other opinions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-53"><a href="#See_also">11 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-54"><a href="#Notes">12 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-55"><a href="#References">13 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-56"><a href="#Further_reading">14 Further reading</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-57"><a href="#Foreign_and_military_policy">14.1 Foreign and military policy</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-58"><a href="#External_links">15 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 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col-break-2"> Economic policy actions <ul><li>Responding to the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Effects_of_the_2008%E2%80%9310_automotive_industry_crisis_on_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Effects of the 2008–10 automotive industry crisis on the United States">Automotive industry bailout</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a> reform <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Credit_CARD_Act_of_2009" title="Credit CARD Act of 2009">Credit CARD Act of 2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act">Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</a></li></ul></li> <li>Taxation and spending <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insurance_Reauthorization,_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2010" title="Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010">Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011" title="Budget Control Act of 2011">Budget Control Act of 2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_2012" title="American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012">American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_federal_budget#Budget_agreement" title="2016 United States federal budget">Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015</a></li></ul></li> <li>2013 <a href="/wiki/2013_United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis" title="2013 United States debt-ceiling crisis">debt ceiling crisis</a> and <a href="/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_government_shutdown" title="2013 United States federal government shutdown">government shutdown</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Continuing_Appropriations_Act,_2014" title="Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014">Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bipartisan_Budget_Act_of_2013" title="Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013">Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013</a></li></ul></li></ul> Other domestic policy actions <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care reform in the United States">Healthcare reform</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act" title="Affordable Care Act">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reconciliation_Act_of_2010" title="Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010">Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States" title="Education in the United States">Education</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Race_to_the_Top" title="Race to the Top">Race to the Top</a> competitive grant program</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Every_Student_Succeeds_Act" title="Every Student Succeeds Act">Every Student Succeeds Act</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">Climate change</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clean_Power_Plan" title="Clean Power Plan">Clean Power Plan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Immigration policy">Immigration policy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" title="Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Parents_of_Americans" title="Deferred Action for Parents of Americans">Deferred Action for Parents of Americans</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Texas_(2016)" title="United States v. Texas (2016)">blocked</a> by Supreme Court)</li></ul></li> <li>Social policy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act">Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Shepard_and_James_Byrd_Jr._Hate_Crimes_Prevention_Act" title="Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act">Matthew Shepard Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_Repeal_Act_of_2010" title="Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010">Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community" title="United States Intelligence Community">Intelligence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States" title="Mass surveillance in the United States">surveillance</a> policy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patriot_Act" title="Patriot Act">Patriot Act</a> extension (2011–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act" title="USA Freedom Act">USA Freedom Act</a></li></ul></li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; text-align:center"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency">Timeline</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Congress </th> <th>Year </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress" title="111th United States Congress">111th</a><a href="#cite_note-Congress3-6">[b]</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2009)" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2009)">2009</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2010)" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2010)">2010</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/112th_United_States_Congress" title="112th United States Congress">112th</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2011)" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2011)">2011</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2012)" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2012)">2012</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/113th_United_States_Congress" title="113th United States Congress">113th</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2013)" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2013)">2013</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2014)" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2014)">2014</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress" title="114th United States Congress">114th</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2015)" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2015)">2015</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2016)" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2016)">2016</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress" title="115th United States Congress">115th</a><a href="#cite_note-Congress3-6">[b]</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2016%E2%80%932017)#January_2017" title="Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2016–2017)">2017</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> Foreign policy actions <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Free_trade_agreement" title="Free trade agreement">Free trade agreements</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement">United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93United_States_Trade_Promotion_Agreement" title="Panama–United States Trade Promotion Agreement">Panama–United States Trade Promotion Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_Free_Trade_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="South Korea–United States Free Trade Agreement">South Korea–United States Free Trade Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership" title="Trans-Pacific Partnership">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> (signed but not ratified)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arms_control" title="Arms control">Arms control</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_START" title="New START">New START</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">Climate change</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/US-led_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%932021)" title="US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)">American-led intervention in Iraq</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2011%E2%80%932016)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)">Partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan</a></li></ul></li> <li>Rapprochement with <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cuban_thaw" title="Cuban thaw">Cuban thaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action" title="Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a> with Iran</li></ul></li> <li>Other military operations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">Drone strikes in Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">2011 military intervention in Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Killing of Osama bin Laden">Killing of Osama bin Laden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_against_the_Islamic_State" title="War against the Islamic State">Military intervention against ISIL</a></li></ul></li></ul> Supreme Court nominations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor">Sonia Sotomayor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination">confirmed</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan" title="Elena Kagan">Elena Kagan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination">confirmed</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland" title="Merrick Garland">Merrick Garland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination">not confirmed</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="2008_election">2008 election</h2></div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_2008_presidential_campaign" title="Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign">Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign</a> and <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 United States presidential election</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_elections" title="2008 United States elections">2008 United States elections</a>, <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries">2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2008 Democratic National Convention">2008 Democratic National Convention</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2008.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/ElectoralCollege2008.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege2008.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="192" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 330px;height: 192px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/ElectoralCollege2008.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege2008.svg.png" data-width="330" data-height="192" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/ElectoralCollege2008.svg/495px-ElectoralCollege2008.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/ElectoralCollege2008.svg/660px-ElectoralCollege2008.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>2008 Electoral College vote results</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> announced <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_2008_presidential_campaign" title="Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign">his candidacy</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries">Democratic nomination</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 presidential election</a> on February 10, 2007.<a href="#cite_note-ChicagoTribune_Pearson_20070210-7">[5]</a> Obama faced senator and former <a href="/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States" title="First Lady of the United States">first lady</a> <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> in the Democratic primary. Several other candidates, including Senator <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> of <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a> and former senator <a href="/wiki/John_Edwards" title="John Edwards">John Edwards</a> of <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, also ran for the nomination, but these candidates dropped out after the initial primaries. In June, on the day of the final primaries, Obama clinched the nomination by winning a majority of the delegates, including both pledged delegates and <a href="/wiki/Superdelegate" title="Superdelegate">superdelegates</a>.<a href="#cite_note-8">[6]</a> Obama <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_vice_presidential_candidate_selection" title="2008 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection">selected</a> Biden as his running mate, and they were officially nominated as the Democratic ticket at the <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2008 Democratic National Convention">2008 Democratic National Convention</a>. With Republican president <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> term-limited, the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republicans</a> nominated Senator <a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> of Arizona for president and Governor <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a> of Alaska for vice president. Obama won the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">presidential election</a> with 365 of the total 538 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College" title="United States Electoral College">electoral votes</a> and 52.9% of the popular vote. In the concurrent <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_elections" title="2008 United States elections">congressional elections</a>, Democrats added to their majorities in both the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Party leaders of the United States Senate">Senate Majority Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> both remained in their posts. Republicans <a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a> continued to serve as House Minority Leader and Senate Minority Leader, respectively. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Transition_period,_inauguration,_and_first_100_days">Transition period, inauguration, and first 100 days</h2></div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Barack_Obama" title="Presidential transition of Barack Obama">Presidential transition of Barack Obama</a> and <a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" title="First inauguration of Barack Obama">First inauguration of Barack Obama</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Bush,_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg/220px-President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="303"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 130px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg/220px-President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="130" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg/330px-President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg/440px-President_Bush%2C_Barack_Obama_walking.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Outgoing president <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and President-elect Barack Obama on November 10, 2008</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg/220px-US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1500"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 157px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg/220px-US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="157" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg/330px-US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg/440px-US_President_Barack_Obama_taking_his_Oath_of_Office_-_2009Jan20.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">John Roberts</a> administers the <a href="/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Oath of office of the President of the United States">presidential oath of office</a> to Obama at <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol" title="United States Capitol">the Capitol</a>, January 20, 2009.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Barack_Obama" title="Presidential transition of Barack Obama">presidential transition period</a> began following Obama's victory in the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 U.S. presidential election</a>, though Obama had chosen <a href="/wiki/Chris_Lu" title="Chris Lu">Chris Lu</a> to begin planning for the transition in May 2008.<a href="#cite_note-bermantransition-9">[7]</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Podesta" title="John Podesta">John Podesta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett" title="Valerie Jarrett">Valerie Jarrett</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pete_Rouse" title="Pete Rouse">Pete Rouse</a> co-chaired the Obama-Biden Transition Project. During the transition period, Obama announced nominations for his <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Barack_Obama" title="Cabinet of Barack Obama">cabinet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Executive Office of the President of the United States">administration</a>. In November 2008, Congressman <a href="/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a> accepted Obama's offer to serve as <a href="/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Chief of Staff">White House Chief of Staff</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NYT_Baker_20081106-10">[8]</a> Obama was <a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" title="First inauguration of Barack Obama">inaugurated</a> on January 20, 2009, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>. Obama officially assumed the presidency at 12:00 pm, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">EST</a>,<a href="#cite_note-11">[9]</a> and completed the <a href="/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_president_of_the_united_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Oath of office of the president of the united states">oath of office</a> at 12:05 pm, EST. He delivered his <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_inauguration#Inaugural_address" title="United States presidential inauguration">inaugural address</a> immediately following his oath.<a href="#cite_note-12">[10]</a> Obama's transition team was highly complimentary of the Bush administration's outgoing transition team, particularly with regards to national security, and some elements of the Bush-Obama transition were later codified into law.<a href="#cite_note-bermantransition-9">[7]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inaugural_address">Inaugural address</h3></div> <a href="/wiki/File:Wikisource-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/15px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 15px;height: 16px;" 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Vice President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> stands behind him.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="129" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="535" data-file-height="314"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 129px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg" data-alt="" data-width="220" data-height="129" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama_addresses_joint_session_of_Congress_2009-02-24.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div><div class="thumbcaption">President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">House Speaker</a> <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a>, February 24, 2009.</div></div></div></div></div> Within minutes of Obama's taking office, his chief of staff, <a href="/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a>, issued an order suspending last-minute regulations and <a href="/wiki/Executive_order" title="Executive order">executive orders</a> signed by his predecessor <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a> Some of the first actions of Obama's presidency focused on reversing measures taken by the Bush administration following the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-shearlegacy-14">[12]</a> In his first week in office, Obama signed <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13492" title="Executive Order 13492">Executive Order 13492</a> suspending all ongoing proceedings of the <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_military_commission" title="Guantanamo military commission">Guantanamo military commissions</a> and ordering the Guantanamo detention facility to be shut down within the year.<a href="#cite_note-15">[13]</a> Another order, <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13491" title="Executive Order 13491">Executive Order 13491</a>, banned torture and other coercive techniques, such as <a href="/wiki/Waterboarding" title="Waterboarding">waterboarding</a>.<a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a> Obama also issued an executive order placing tighter restrictions on lobbying in the White House,<a href="#cite_note-EthicsOrder-17">[15]</a> and rescinded the <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City_Policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Mexico City Policy">Mexico City Policy</a>, which banned federal grants to international groups that provide abortion services or counseling.<a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a> On January 29, Obama signed a bill for the first time in his presidency; the <a href="/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_of_2009" title="Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009">Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009</a> revised the <a href="/wiki/Statute_of_limitations" title="Statute of limitations">statute of limitations</a> for filing <a href="/wiki/Gender_pay_gap" title="Gender pay gap">pay discrimination</a> lawsuits.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> On February 3, he signed the <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program_Reauthorization_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act">Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act</a> (CHIP), expanding CHIP's health care coverage from 7 million children to 11 million children.<a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> On March 9, 2009, Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding of <a href="/wiki/Embryonic_stem_cell" title="Embryonic stem cell">embryonic stem cell research</a>.<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> Obama stated that, like Bush, he would employ <a href="/wiki/Signing_statement" title="Signing statement">signing statements</a> if he deems a portion of a bill to be unconstitutional,<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a> and he subsequently issued several signing statements.<a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a> Obama also signed the <a href="/wiki/Omnibus_Public_Land_Management_Act_of_2009" title="Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009">Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009</a>, which added 2 million acres (8,100 km2) of land to the <a href="/wiki/National_Wilderness_Preservation_System" title="National Wilderness Preservation System">National Wilderness Preservation System</a>,<a href="#cite_note-landmanagement-24">[22]</a> as well as a law raising the cigarette pack tax by 62 cents (equivalent to $0.88 in 2023).<a href="#cite_note-tobacco-25">[23]</a> On February 17, 2009, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</a> (ARRA) to address the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>. The ARRA had been passed, after much debate, by both the House and Senate four days earlier. While it was originally intended to be a <a href="/wiki/Bipartisan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bipartisan">bipartisan</a> bill, Congressional passage of the bill relied largely on Democratic votes, though three Republican senators voted for it.<a href="#cite_note-grchad-26">[24]</a> The lack of Republican support for the bill, and the inability of Democrats to win that support, foreshadowed the gridlock and partisanship that continued throughout Obama's presidency.<a href="#cite_note-grchad-26">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-mgrunstim-27">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-obamamemos-28">[26]</a> The $787 billion bill combined tax breaks with spending on infrastructure projects, extension of welfare benefits, and education.<a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2></div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <table class="infobox" style="width:auto;text-align:left;line-height:1.2em;margin-left:1em; margin-right:0; float:right; clear:right;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Cabinet_official_group_photo_July_26,_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/US_Cabinet_official_group_photo_July_26%2C_2012.jpg/220px-US_Cabinet_official_group_photo_July_26%2C_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2722"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 146px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/US_Cabinet_official_group_photo_July_26%2C_2012.jpg/220px-US_Cabinet_official_group_photo_July_26%2C_2012.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="146" 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United States">Vice President</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a></th><td>2009–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">Secretary of State</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury">Secretary of the Treasury</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Geithner" title="Timothy Geithner">Timothy Geithner</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Lew" title="Jack Lew">Jack Lew</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gates" title="Robert Gates">Robert Gates</a>*</th><td>2006–2011</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Leon_Panetta" title="Leon Panetta">Leon Panetta</a></th><td>2011–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Hagel" title="Chuck Hagel">Chuck Hagel</a></th><td>2013–2015</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Ash_Carter" title="Ash Carter">Ash Carter</a></th><td>2015–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">Attorney General</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Holder" title="Eric Holder">Eric Holder</a></th><td>2009–2015</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Loretta_Lynch" title="Loretta Lynch">Loretta Lynch</a></th><td>2015–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">Secretary of the Interior</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Salazar" title="Ken Salazar">Ken Salazar</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Sally_Jewell" title="Sally Jewell">Sally Jewell</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Agriculture" title="United States Secretary of Agriculture">Secretary of Agriculture</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Vilsack" title="Tom Vilsack">Tom Vilsack</a></th><td>2009–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Commerce" title="United States Secretary of Commerce">Secretary of Commerce</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Gary_Locke" title="Gary Locke">Gary Locke</a></th><td>2009–2011</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Bryson" title="John Bryson">John Bryson</a></th><td>2011–2012</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Penny_Pritzker" title="Penny Pritzker">Penny Pritzker</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Labor" title="United States Secretary of Labor">Secretary of Labor</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Hilda_Solis" title="Hilda Solis">Hilda Solis</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Perez" title="Tom Perez">Tom Perez</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="United States Secretary of Health and Human Services">Secretary of Health and Human Services</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Sebelius" title="Kathleen Sebelius">Kathleen Sebelius</a></th><td>2009–2014</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Mathews_Burwell" title="Sylvia Mathews Burwell">Sylvia Mathews Burwell</a></th><td>2014–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development">Secretary of Housing and Urban Development</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Shaun_Donovan" title="Shaun Donovan">Shaun Donovan</a></th><td>2009–2014</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Julian_Castro" title="Julian Castro">Julian Castro</a></th><td>2014–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Transportation" title="United States Secretary of Transportation">Secretary of Transportation</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Ray_LaHood" title="Ray LaHood">Ray LaHood</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Foxx" title="Anthony Foxx">Anthony Foxx</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Energy" title="United States Secretary of Energy">Secretary of Energy</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Chu" title="Steven Chu">Steven Chu</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Moniz" title="Ernest Moniz">Ernest Moniz</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Education" title="United States Secretary of Education">Secretary of Education</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Arne_Duncan" title="Arne Duncan">Arne Duncan</a></th><td>2009–2016</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/John_King_Jr." title="John King Jr.">John King Jr.</a></th><td>2016–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Veterans_Affairs" title="United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs">Secretary of Veterans Affairs</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Shinseki" title="Eric Shinseki">Eric Shinseki</a></th><td>2009–2014</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Bob_McDonald_(businessman)" title="Bob McDonald (businessman)">Bob McDonald</a></th><td>2014–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Secretary of Homeland Security">Secretary of Homeland Security</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Janet_Napolitano" title="Janet Napolitano">Janet Napolitano</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Jeh_Johnson" title="Jeh Johnson">Jeh Johnson</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency">Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Lisa_P._Jackson" title="Lisa P. Jackson">Lisa Jackson</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Gina_McCarthy" title="Gina McCarthy">Gina McCarthy</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget">Director of the Office of Management and Budget</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Peter_R._Orszag" title="Peter R. Orszag">Peter Orszag</a></th><td>2009–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Lew" title="Jack Lew">Jack Lew</a></th><td>2010–2012</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Mathews_Burwell" title="Sylvia Mathews Burwell">Sylvia Mathews Burwell</a></th><td>2013–2014</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Shaun_Donovan" title="Shaun Donovan">Shaun Donovan</a></th><td>2014–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative" title="Office of the United States Trade Representative">United States Trade Representative</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Ron_Kirk" title="Ron Kirk">Ron Kirk</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Froman" title="Michael Froman">Michael Froman</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_the_United_Nations" title="List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations">Ambassador to the United Nations</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Susan_Rice" title="Susan Rice">Susan Rice</a></th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Samantha_Power" title="Samantha Power">Samantha Power</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers" title="Council of Economic Advisers">Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Christina_Romer" title="Christina Romer">Christina Romer</a></th><td>2009–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Austan_Goolsbee" title="Austan Goolsbee">Austan Goolsbee</a></th><td>2010–2011</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Krueger" title="Alan Krueger">Alan Krueger</a></th><td>2011–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Jason_Furman" title="Jason Furman">Jason Furman</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Small_Business_Administration" title="Administrator of the Small Business Administration">Administrator of the Small Business Administration</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Karen_Mills" title="Karen Mills">Karen Mills</a>**</th><td>2009–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Maria_Contreras-Sweet" title="Maria Contreras-Sweet">Maria Contreras-Sweet</a></th><td>2014–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Chief of Staff">Chief of Staff</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a></th><td>2009–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/William_M._Daley" title="William M. Daley">William M. Daley</a></th><td>2011–2012</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Lew" title="Jack Lew">Jack Lew</a></th><td>2012–2013</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Denis_McDonough" title="Denis McDonough">Denis McDonough</a></th><td>2013–2017</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:#D1D1D1 2px solid">*Retained from previous administration **Elevated to cabinet-level in January 2012</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cabinet">Cabinet</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Barack_Obama" title="Cabinet of Barack Obama">Cabinet of Barack Obama</a></div> Following his inauguration, Obama and the Senate worked to confirm his nominees to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Cabinet">United States Cabinet</a>. Three Cabinet-level officers did not require confirmation: Vice President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>, whom Obama had <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_vice_presidential_candidate_selection" title="2008 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection">chosen</a> as his running mate at the <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2008 Democratic National Convention">2008 Democratic National Convention</a>, Chief of Staff <a href="/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a>, and Defense Secretary <a href="/wiki/Robert_Gates" title="Robert Gates">Robert Gates</a>, whom Obama chose to retain from the previous administration.<a href="#cite_note-TheCaucus-31">[29]</a> An early list of suggestions came from <a href="/wiki/Michael_Froman" title="Michael Froman">Michael Froman</a>, then an executive at <a href="/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a> Obama described his Cabinet choices as a "<a href="/wiki/Team_of_rivals" class="mw-redirect" title="Team of rivals">team of rivals</a>", and Obama chose several prominent public officials for Cabinet positions, including defeated rival Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.<a href="#cite_note-syoungman-33">[31]</a> Obama nominated several former Clinton administration officials to the Cabinet and to other positions.<a href="#cite_note-bsmith-34">[32]</a> On April 28, 2009, the Senate confirmed former Kansas governor <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Sebelius" title="Kathleen Sebelius">Kathleen Sebelius</a> as Secretary of Health and Human Services, completing Obama's initial Cabinet.<a href="#cite_note-kamen_sebelius-35">[33]</a> During Obama's presidency, four Republicans <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_political_appointments_across_party_lines" title="List of United States political appointments across party lines">served</a> in Obama's Cabinet: <a href="/wiki/Ray_LaHood" title="Ray LaHood">Ray LaHood</a> as Secretary of Transportation, <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._McDonald" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert A. McDonald">Robert McDonald</a> as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Gates and <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Hagel" title="Chuck Hagel">Chuck Hagel</a> as Secretaries of Defense. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_non-Cabinet_positions">Notable non-Cabinet positions</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government" title="Independent agencies of the United States government">Independent agencies of the United States government</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_House_Office" title="White House Office">White House Office</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Counselor_to_the_President" title="Counselor to the President">Counselor to the President</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Rouse" title="Pete Rouse">Pete Rouse</a> (2011–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Podesta" title="John Podesta">John Podesta</a> (2014–2015)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senior_Advisor_to_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Senior Advisor to the President of the United States">Senior Advisor to the President</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett" title="Valerie Jarrett">Valerie Jarrett</a> (2009–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Rouse" title="Pete Rouse">Pete Rouse</a> (2009–2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Axelrod_(political_consultant)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Axelrod (political consultant)">David Axelrod</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Plouffe" title="David Plouffe">David Plouffe</a> (2011–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pfeiffer" title="Daniel Pfeiffer">Daniel Pfeiffer</a> (2013–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Deese" title="Brian Deese">Brian Deese</a> (2015–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shailagh_Murray" title="Shailagh Murray">Shailagh Murray</a> (2015–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_House_Deputy_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Deputy Chief of Staff">White House Deputy Chief of Staff</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Messina_(political_staffer)" title="Jim Messina (political staffer)">Jim Messina</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mona_Sutphen" title="Mona Sutphen">Mona Sutphen</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy-Ann_DeParle" title="Nancy-Ann DeParle">Nancy-Ann DeParle</a> (2011–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alyssa_Mastromonaco" title="Alyssa Mastromonaco">Alyssa Mastromonaco</a> (2011–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_B._Childress" title="Mark B. Childress">Mark B. Childress</a> (2012–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Nabors" title="Rob Nabors">Rob Nabors</a> (2013–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_Decker_Breckenridge" title="Anita Decker Breckenridge">Anita Decker Breckenridge</a> (2014–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kristie_Canegallo" title="Kristie Canegallo">Kristie Canegallo</a> (2014–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_House_Press_Secretary" title="White House Press Secretary">White House Press Secretary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gibbs" title="Robert Gibbs">Robert Gibbs</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Carney" title="Jay Carney">Jay Carney</a> (2011–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Earnest" title="Josh Earnest">Josh Earnest</a> (2014–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director" title="White House Communications Director">White House Communications Director</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Moran" title="Ellen Moran">Ellen Moran</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_Dunn" title="Anita Dunn">Anita Dunn</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pfeiffer" title="Daniel Pfeiffer">Daniel Pfeiffer</a> (2009–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Palmieri" title="Jennifer Palmieri">Jennifer Palmieri</a> (2013–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jen_Psaki" title="Jen Psaki">Jen Psaki</a> (2015–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel">White House Counsel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Craig" class="mw-redirect" title="Greg Craig">Greg Craig</a> (2009–2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bauer" title="Robert Bauer">Bob Bauer</a> (2010–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Ruemmler" title="Kathryn Ruemmler">Kathryn Ruemmler</a> (2011–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Eggleston" title="Neil Eggleston">Neil Eggleston</a> (2014–2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1216972533"><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break"> Security and international affairs <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Security_Advisor_(United_States)" title="National Security Advisor (United States)">Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_L._Jones" title="James L. Jones">James L. Jones</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Donilon" title="Thomas E. Donilon">Thomas E. Donilon</a> (2011–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Rice" title="Susan Rice">Susan Rice</a> (2013–2017)</li></ul></li> <li>Special envoy for <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Holbrooke" title="Richard Holbrooke">Richard Holbrooke</a> (2009–2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Grossman" title="Marc Grossman">Marc Grossman</a> (2011–2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Dobbins_(diplomat)" title="James Dobbins (diplomat)">James Dobbins</a> (2013–2014)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Daniel_F._Feldman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel F. Feldman (page does not exist)">Daniel F. Feldman</a> (2014–2017)</li></ul></li> <li>Special envoy to the Middle East <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_J._Mitchell" title="George J. Mitchell">George J. Mitchell</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hale_(diplomat)" title="David Hale (diplomat)">David Hale</a> (2011–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Indyk" title="Martin Indyk">Martin Indyk</a> (2013–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Lowenstein" title="Frank Lowenstein">Frank Lowenstein</a> (2014–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Director of National Intelligence">Director of National Intelligence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_C._Blair" title="Dennis C. Blair">Dennis C. Blair</a> (2009–2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Gompert" title="David Gompert">David Gompert</a> (acting, 2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Clapper" title="James Clapper">James Clapper</a> (2010–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation">Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mueller" title="Robert Mueller">Robert Mueller</a> (2001–2013)†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Comey" title="James Comey">James Comey</a> (2013–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Director_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Director of the Central Intelligence Agency">Director of the Central Intelligence Agency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Panetta" title="Leon Panetta">Leon Panetta</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Morell" title="Michael Morell">Michael Morell</a> (acting, 2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Petraeus" title="David Petraeus">David Petraeus</a> (2011–2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Morell" title="Michael Morell">Michael Morell</a> (acting, 2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Brennan_(CIA_officer)" title="John Brennan (CIA officer)">John Brennan</a> (2013–2017)</li></ul></li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> Economic affairs <ul><li>Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Economic_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="United States National Economic Council">National Economic Council</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Summers" title="Lawrence Summers">Lawrence Summers</a> (2009–2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Sperling" title="Gene Sperling">Gene Sperling</a> (2011–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Zients" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeffrey Zients">Jeffrey Zients</a> (2014–2017)</li></ul></li> <li>Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Economic_Recovery_Advisory_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic Recovery Advisory Board">Economic Recovery Advisory Board</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Volcker" title="Paul Volcker">Paul Volcker</a> (2009–2011)</li> <li>Replaced by <a href="/wiki/President%27s_Economic_Recovery_Advisory_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board">Council on Jobs and Competitiveness</a> in 2011</li></ul></li> <li>Chairperson of the <a href="/wiki/President%27s_Economic_Recovery_Advisory_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board">Council on Jobs and Competitiveness</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_R._Immelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeffrey R. Immelt">Jeffrey R. Immelt</a> (2011–2017)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Board_of_Governors" title="Federal Reserve Board of Governors">Federal Reserve Board of Governors</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Bernanke" title="Ben Bernanke">Ben Bernanke</a>, Chair (2006–2014)‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Tarullo" title="Daniel Tarullo">Daniel Tarullo</a> (2009–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Yellen" title="Janet Yellen">Janet Yellen</a> (2010–2018), Chair (2014–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Bloom_Raskin" title="Sarah Bloom Raskin">Sarah Bloom Raskin</a> (2010–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Powell" title="Jerome Powell">Jerome Powell</a> (2012–present), Chair (2018–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_C._Stein" title="Jeremy C. Stein">Jeremy C. Stein</a> (2012–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Fischer" title="Stanley Fischer">Stanley Fischer</a> (2014–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lael_Brainard" title="Lael Brainard">Lael Brainard</a> (2014–2023)</li></ul></li> <li>Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corporation" title="Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation">Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sheila_Bair" title="Sheila Bair">Sheila Bair</a> (2006–2011)†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_J._Gruenberg" title="Martin J. Gruenberg">Martin J. Gruenberg</a> (2011–2018)</li></ul></li> <li>Chair of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">Securities and Exchange Commission</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Schapiro" title="Mary Schapiro">Mary Schapiro</a> (2009–2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisse_B._Walter" title="Elisse B. Walter">Elisse B. Walter</a> (2012–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Jo_White" title="Mary Jo White">Mary Jo White</a> (2013–2017)</li></ul></li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> †Appointed by President Bush ‡Originally appointed by President Bush, reappointed by President Obama </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Judicial_appointments">Judicial appointments</h2></div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States_Supreme_Court_nominations">United States Supreme Court nominations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates">Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg/220px-Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2279"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 143px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg/220px-Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="143" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg/330px-Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg/440px-Obama_and_Sotomayor.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Obama and Supreme Court nominee <a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor">Sonia Sotomayor</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg/220px-Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2731"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg/220px-Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg/330px-Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg/440px-Obama_signing_Kagan%27s_commission.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Obama signs the commission of <a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan" title="Elena Kagan">Elena Kagan</a></figcaption></figure> There were three vacancies on the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> during Obama's tenure, but Obama made only two successful appointments. During the <a href="/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress" title="111th United States Congress">111th Congress</a>, when Democrats held a majority in the Senate, Obama successfully nominated two Supreme Court Justices: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor">Sonia Sotomayor</a>, replacing <a href="/wiki/David_Souter" title="David Souter">David Souter</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan" title="Elena Kagan">Elena Kagan</a>, replacing <a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Stevens" title="John Paul Stevens">John Paul Stevens</a> – <a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination">2010</a></li></ul> Justice <a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Antonin Scalia</a> died in February 2016, during the <a href="/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress" title="114th United States Congress">114th Congress</a>, which had a Republican majority in the Senate. In March 2016, Obama <a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination">nominated</a> Chief Judge <a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland" title="Merrick Garland">Merrick Garland</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">D.C. Circuit</a> to fill Scalia's seat.<a href="#cite_note-kamita-36">[34]</a> However, Senate Majority Leader <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Judiciary Committee</a> Chair <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Grassley" title="Chuck Grassley">Chuck Grassley</a>, and other Senate Republicans argued that Supreme Court nominations should not be made during a presidential election year, and that the winner of the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election">2016 presidential election</a> should instead appoint Scalia's replacement.<a href="#cite_note-kamita-36">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-mshearsca-37">[35]</a> Garland's nomination remained before the Senate for longer than any other Supreme Court nomination in history,<a href="#cite_note-lhurley-38">[36]</a> and the nomination expired with the end of the 114th Congress.<a href="#cite_note-jbravin1-39">[37]</a> President Donald Trump later nominated <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch" title="Neil Gorsuch">Neil Gorsuch</a> to Scalia's former seat on the Supreme Court, and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination">Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate</a> in April 2017. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_courts">Other courts</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Barack_Obama" title="List of federal judges appointed by Barack Obama">List of federal judges appointed by Barack Obama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_judicial_appointment_controversies" title="Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies">Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies</a></div> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; text-align:center"> <caption><a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge">Article III</a> judicial appointments<a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Clinton </th> <th>Bush </th> <th>Obama </th></tr> <tr> <th>Supreme Court </th> <td>2 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals" title="United States courts of appeals">Appellate courts</a> </th> <td>62 </td> <td>61 </td> <td>49 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/United_States_district_court" title="United States district court">District courts</a> </th> <td>306 </td> <td>263 </td> <td>270 </td></tr> <tr> <th>Other courts </th> <td>9 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>10 </td></tr></tbody></table> Obama's presidency saw the continuation of battles between both parties over the confirmation of <a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge">judicial</a> nominees. Democrats continually accused Republicans of stalling nominees throughout Obama's tenure.<a href="#cite_note-toobin1-41">[39]</a> After several nomination battles, Senate Democrats in 2013 reformed the use of the <a href="/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate" title="Filibuster in the United States Senate">filibuster</a> so that it could no longer be used on executive or judicial nominations (excluding the Supreme Court).<a href="#cite_note-tmccarthy-42">[40]</a> Republicans took over the Senate after the <a href="/wiki/2014_United_States_elections" title="2014 United States elections">2014 elections</a>, giving them the power to block any judicial nominee,<a href="#cite_note-everett1-43">[41]</a> and the 114th Congress confirmed just 20 judicial nominees, the lowest number of confirmations since the <a href="/wiki/82nd_United_States_Congress" title="82nd United States Congress">82nd Congress</a>.<a href="#cite_note-minkimjudges-44">[42]</a> Obama's judicial nominees were significantly more diverse than those of previous administrations, with more appointments going to women and minorities.<a href="#cite_note-toobin1-41">[39]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Domestic_affairs">Domestic affairs</h2></div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Social_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration" title="Social policy of the Barack Obama administration">Social policy of the Barack Obama administration</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_care_reform">Health care reform</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care reform in the United States">Health care reform in the United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Health_care_reforms_proposed_during_the_Obama_administration" title="Health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration">Health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration</a></div> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"> <caption>Major votes in the <a href="/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress" title="111th United States Congress">111th Congress</a><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-45">[43]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th colspan="2">Senate </th> <th colspan="2">House </th></tr> <tr> <th>Bill/Treaty </th> <th style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Dem. </th> <th style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Rep. </th> <th style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Dem. </th> <th style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Rep. </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#66F500"><a href="/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009">ARRA</a> </th> <td>58–0 </td> <td>3–37 </td> <td>244–11 </td> <td>0–177 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#66F500"><a href="/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act">ACA</a> </th> <td>60–0 </td> <td>0–39 </td> <td>219–34 </td> <td>0–178 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#66F500"><a href="/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act">Dodd-Frank</a> </th> <td>57–1 </td> <td>3–35 </td> <td>234–19 </td> <td>3–173 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/American_Clean_Energy_and_Security_Act" title="American Clean Energy and Security Act">ACES</a> </th> <td colspan="2">No vote </td> <td>211–44 </td> <td>8–168 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#66F500"><a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_Repeal_Act_of_2010" title="Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010">DADTRA</a> </th> <td>57–0 </td> <td>8–31 </td> <td>235–15 </td> <td>15–160 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/DREAM_Act#2010" title="DREAM Act">DREAM</a> </th> <td>52–5 </td> <td>3–36 </td> <td>208–38 </td> <td>8–160 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#66F500"><a href="/wiki/New_START" title="New START">New START</a> </th> <td>58–0 </td> <td>13–26 </td> <td colspan="2">No vote (<a href="/wiki/Treaty_Clause" title="Treaty Clause">treaty</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#66F500"><a href="/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insurance_Reauthorization,_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2010" title="Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010">2010 TRA</a> </th> <td>44–14 </td> <td>37–5 </td> <td>139–112 </td> <td>138–36 </td></tr></tbody></table> Once the stimulus bill was enacted in February 2009, health care reform became Obama's top domestic priority, and the 111th Congress passed a major bill that eventually became widely known as "<a href="/wiki/Obamacare" class="mw-redirect" title="Obamacare">Obamacare</a>". <a href="/wiki/Health_care_reform_debate_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care reform debate in the United States">Health care reform</a> had long been a top priority of the Democratic Party, and Democrats were eager to implement a new plan that would lower costs and increase coverage.<a href="#cite_note-sack-46">[44]</a> In contrast to <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993" title="Clinton health care plan of 1993">1993 plan</a> to reform health care, Obama adopted a strategy of letting Congress drive the process, with the House and Senate writing their own bills.<a href="#cite_note-nornstein-47">[45]</a> In the Senate, a bipartisan group of senators on the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Finance" title="United States Senate Committee on Finance">Finance Committee</a> known as the <a href="/wiki/Gang_of_Six#Health_care,_2009" title="Gang of Six">Gang of Six</a> began meeting with the hope of creating a bipartisan healthcare reform bill,<a href="#cite_note-herzhc-48">[46]</a> even though the Republican senators involved with the crafting of the bill ultimately came to oppose it.<a href="#cite_note-nornstein-47">[45]</a> In November 2009, the House passed the <a href="/wiki/Affordable_Health_Care_for_America_Act" title="Affordable Health Care for America Act">Affordable Health Care for America Act</a> on a 220–215 vote, with only one Republican voting for the bill.<a href="#cite_note-reuterstimeline-49">[47]</a> In December 2009, the Senate passed its own health care reform bill, the <a href="/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act" title="Affordable Care Act">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a> (PPACA or ACA), on a party-line, 60–39 vote.<a href="#cite_note-Murray2-50">[48]</a> Both bills expanded <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a> and provided health care subsidies; they also established an <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_mandate#History" title="Health insurance mandate">individual mandate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Health insurance exchange">health insurance exchanges</a>, and a ban on denying coverage based on <a href="/wiki/Pre-existing_condition" title="Pre-existing condition">pre-existing conditions</a>.<a href="#cite_note-pgrier-51">[49]</a> However, the House bill included a tax increase on families making more than $1 million per year and a <a href="/wiki/Public_health_insurance_option" title="Public health insurance option">public health insurance option</a>, while the Senate plan included an <a href="/wiki/Excise_tax" class="mw-redirect" title="Excise tax">excise tax</a> on <a href="/wiki/Cadillac_insurance_plan" title="Cadillac insurance plan">high-cost health plans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-pgrier-51">[49]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Massachusetts" title="2010 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts">2010 Massachusetts Senate special election</a> victory of <a href="/wiki/Scott_Brown_(politician)" title="Scott Brown (politician)">Scott Brown</a> seriously imperiled the prospects of a health care reform bill, as Democrats lost their <a href="/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate" title="Filibuster in the United States Senate">60-seat Senate super-majority</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> The White House and House Speaker <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> engaged in an extensive campaign to convince both centrists and liberals in the House to pass the Senate's health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.<a href="#cite_note-bcusack-54">[52]</a> In March 2010, after Obama announced an <a href="/wiki/Executive_order" title="Executive order">executive order</a> reinforcing the current law against spending federal funds for elective abortion services,<a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a> the House passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.<a href="#cite_note-housepassesaca-56">[54]</a> The bill, which had passed the Senate in December 2009, did not receive a single Republican vote in either house.<a href="#cite_note-housepassesaca-56">[54]</a> On March 23, 2010, Obama signed the PPACA into law.<a href="#cite_note-sgstolberg-57">[55]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> described the PPACA as "the most expansive social legislation enacted in decades,"<a href="#cite_note-sgstolberg-57">[55]</a> while the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a> noted that it was the biggest expansion of health insurance coverage since the creation of <a href="/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)" title="Medicare (United States)">Medicare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a> in 1965.<a href="#cite_note-housepassesaca-56">[54]</a> Both houses of Congress also passed a <a href="/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reconciliation_Act_of_2010" title="Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010">reconciliation measure</a> to make significant changes and corrections to the PPACA; this second bill was signed into law on March 30, 2010.<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a> The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became widely known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or "Obamacare".<a href="#cite_note-Obamacare-60">[58]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance,_1963-2015.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png/220px-Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="949" data-file-height="693"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 161px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png/220px-Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png" data-width="220" data-height="161" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png/330px-Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png/440px-Percentage_of_Individuals_in_the_United_States_Without_Health_Insurance%2C_1963-2015.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Percentage of Individuals in the United States without Health Insurance, 1963–2015 (Source: <a href="/wiki/JAMA_(journal)" class="mw-redirect" title="JAMA (journal)">JAMA</a>)<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a></figcaption></figure> The Affordable Care Act faced considerable challenges and opposition after its passage, and Republicans continually attempted to repeal the law.<a href="#cite_note-raju-62">[60]</a> The law also survived two major challenges that went to the Supreme Court.<a href="#cite_note-eilroberts-63">[61]</a> In <a href="/wiki/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business_v._Sebelius" title="National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius">National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius</a>, a 5–4 majority upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, even though it made state <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a> expansion voluntary. In <a href="/wiki/King_v._Burwell" title="King v. Burwell">King v. Burwell</a>, a 6–3 majority allowed the use of <a href="/wiki/Tax_credit" title="Tax credit">tax credits</a> in state-operated exchanges. The October 2013 launch of <a href="/wiki/HealthCare.gov" title="HealthCare.gov">HealthCare.gov</a>, a health insurance exchange website created under the provisions of the ACA, was widely criticized,<a href="#cite_note-mo'brien-64">[62]</a> even though many of the problems were fixed by the end of the year.<a href="#cite_note-eilperin6-65">[63]</a> The number of <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_coverage_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance coverage in the United States">uninsured</a> Americans dropped from 20.2% of the population in 2010 to 13.3% of the population in 2015,<a href="#cite_note-ungar-66">[64]</a> though Republicans continued to oppose Obamacare as an unwelcome expansion of government.<a href="#cite_note-rpear-67">[65]</a> Many liberals continued to push for a <a href="/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare" title="Single-payer healthcare">single-payer healthcare</a> system or a public option,<a href="#cite_note-bcusack-54">[52]</a> and Obama endorsed the latter proposal, as well as an expansion of health insurance tax credits, in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-mrhodan2-68">[66]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wall_Street_reform">Wall Street reform</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Banking_in_the_United_States" title="Banking in the United States">Banking in the United States</a></div> Risky practices among the major financial institutions on <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a> were widely seen as contributing to the <a href="/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis" title="Subprime mortgage crisis">subprime mortgage crisis</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial crisis of 2007–08">financial crisis of 2007–08</a>, and the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>, so Obama made <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_reform" title="Wall Street reform">Wall Street reform</a> a priority in his first term.<a href="#cite_note-sorkin-69">[67]</a> On July 21, 2010, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act">Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</a>, the largest financial regulatory overhaul since the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-doddfrank-70">[68]</a> The act increased regulation and reporting requirements on <a href="/wiki/Derivative_(finance)" title="Derivative (finance)">derivatives</a> (particularly <a href="/wiki/Credit_default_swap" title="Credit default swap">credit default swaps</a>), and took steps to limit <a href="/wiki/Systemic_risk" title="Systemic risk">systemic risks</a> to the US economy with policies such as higher <a href="/wiki/Capital_requirement" title="Capital requirement">capital requirements</a>, the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Orderly_Liquidation_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Orderly Liquidation Authority">Orderly Liquidation Authority</a> to help wind down large, failing financial institutions, and the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Financial_Stability_Oversight_Council" title="Financial Stability Oversight Council">Financial Stability Oversight Council</a> to monitor systemic risks.<a href="#cite_note-konczal-71">[69]</a> Dodd-Frank also established the <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau" title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a>, which was charged with protecting consumers against abusive financial practices.<a href="#cite_note-jcalmes15112015-72">[70]</a> On signing the bill, Obama stated that the bill would "empower consumers and investors," "bring the shadowy deals that caused the crisis to the light of day," and "put a stop to taxpayer bailouts once and for all."<a href="#cite_note-bdennis-73">[71]</a> Some liberals were disappointed that the law did not break up the country's largest banks or reinstate the <a href="/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Glass-Steagall Act">Glass-Steagall Act</a>, while many conservatives criticized the bill as a government overreach that could make the country less competitive.<a href="#cite_note-bdennis-73">[71]</a> Under the bill, the Federal Reserve and other regulatory agencies were required to propose and implement several new <a href="/wiki/Rulemaking" title="Rulemaking">regulatory rules</a>, and battles over these rules continued throughout Obama's presidency.<a href="#cite_note-bintelligence-74">[72]</a> Obama called for further Wall Street reform after the passage of Dodd-Frank, saying that banks should have a smaller role in the economy and less incentive to make risky trades.<a href="#cite_note-goldfarb1-75">[73]</a> Obama also signed the <a href="/wiki/Credit_CARD_Act_of_2009" title="Credit CARD Act of 2009">Credit CARD Act of 2009</a>, which created new rules for credit card companies.<a href="#cite_note-cardact-76">[74]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate_change_and_the_environment">Climate change and the environment</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Environmental policy of the United States">Environmental policy of the United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marine_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration" title="Marine policy of the Barack Obama administration">Marine policy of the Barack Obama administration</a></div> During his presidency, Obama described <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> as the greatest <a href="/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk" title="Global catastrophic risk">long-term threat</a> facing the world.<a href="#cite_note-trendsareterrifying-77">[75]</a> Obama took several steps to combat global warming, but was unable to pass a major bill addressing the issue, in part because many Republicans and some Democrats <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial">questioned</a> whether global warming is occurring and whether human activity contributes to it.<a href="#cite_note-rglobalwarming-78">[76]</a> Following his inauguration, Obama asked that Congress pass a bill to put a <a href="/wiki/Emissions_trading" title="Emissions trading">cap</a> on domestic carbon emissions.<a href="#cite_note-lizza1-79">[77]</a> After the House passed the <a href="/wiki/American_Clean_Energy_and_Security_Act" title="American Clean Energy and Security Act">American Clean Energy and Security Act</a> in 2009, Obama sought to convince the Senate to pass the bill as well.<a href="#cite_note-ACES1-80">[78]</a> The legislation would have required the US to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and by 83 percent by the middle of the 21st century.<a href="#cite_note-ACES1-80">[78]</a> However, the bill was strongly opposed by Republicans and neither it nor a separate proposed bipartisan compromise<a href="#cite_note-lizza1-79">[77]</a> ever came up for a vote in the Senate.<a href="#cite_note-walsh-81">[79]</a> In 2013, Obama announced that he would bypass Congress by ordering the <a href="/wiki/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency">EPA</a> to implement new carbon emissions limits.<a href="#cite_note-eilperin2-82">[80]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Clean_Power_Plan" title="Clean Power Plan">Clean Power Plan</a>, unveiled in 2015, seeks to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent by 2025.<a href="#cite_note-davenport-83">[81]</a> Obama also imposed regulations on soot, sulfur, and mercury that encouraged a transition away from <a href="/wiki/Coal" title="Coal">coal</a> as an energy source, but the falling price of wind, solar, and <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a> energy sources also contributed to coal's decline.<a href="#cite_note-mgrunwald-84">[82]</a> Obama encouraged this successful transition away from coal in large part due to the fact that coal emits more carbon than other sources of power, including natural gas.<a href="#cite_note-mgrunwald-84">[82]</a> Obama's campaign to fight global warming found more success at the international level than in Congress. Obama attended the <a href="/wiki/2009_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference">2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference</a>, which drafted the non-binding <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen_Accord" title="Copenhagen Accord">Copenhagen Accord</a> as a successor to the <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol">Kyoto Protocol</a>. The deal provided for the <a href="/wiki/Carbon_emissions_reporting" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon emissions reporting">monitoring</a> of <a href="/wiki/Carbon_emissions" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon emissions">carbon emissions</a> among <a href="/wiki/Developing_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Developing countries">developing countries</a>, but it did not include Obama's proposal to commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050.<a href="#cite_note-eilperin1-85">[83]</a> In 2014, Obama reached an agreement with China in which China pledged to reach peak carbon emission levels by 2030, while the US pledged to cut its emissions by 26–28 percent compared to its 2005 levels.<a href="#cite_note-mlandler2-86">[84]</a> The deal provided momentum for a potential multilateral global warming agreement among the world's largest carbon emitters.<a href="#cite_note-cdavenport2-87">[85]</a> Many Republicans criticized Obama's climate goals as a potential drain on the economy.<a href="#cite_note-cdavenport2-87">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-arestuccia-88">[86]</a> At the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference">2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference</a>, nearly every country in the world agreed to a landmark climate deal in which each nation committed lowering their greenhouse gas emissions.<a href="#cite_note-parisdeal-89">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-smufson-90">[88]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a> created a universal accounting system for emissions, required each country to monitor its emissions, and required each country to create a plan to reduce its emissions.<a href="#cite_note-parisdeal-89">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-91">[89]</a> Several climate negotiators noted that the US-China climate deal and the EPA's emission limits helped make the deal possible.<a href="#cite_note-parisdeal-89">[87]</a> In 2016, the international community agreed to the Kigali accord, an amendment to the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Protocol" title="Montreal Protocol">Montreal Protocol</a> which sought to reduce the use of <a href="/wiki/Hydrofluorocarbons" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydrofluorocarbons">HFCs</a>, organic compounds that contribute to global warming.<a href="#cite_note-kigali-92">[90]</a> From the beginning of his presidency, Obama took several actions to raise <a href="/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_automobiles" title="Fuel economy in automobiles">vehicle fuel efficiency</a> in the United States. In 2009, Obama announced a plan to increase the <a href="/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporate Average Fuel Economy">Corporate Average Fuel Economy</a> to 35 miles per US gallon (6.7 L/100 km)], a 40 percent increase from 2009 levels.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-93">[91]</a> Both environmentalists and auto industry officials largely welcomed the move, as the plan raised national emission standards but provided the single national efficiency standard that auto industry officials group had long desired.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-93">[91]</a> In 2012, Obama set even higher standards, mandating an average fuel efficiency of 54.5 miles per US gallon (4.32 L/100 km).<a href="#cite_note-2012CAFE-94">[92]</a> Obama also signed the <a href="/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System" title="Car Allowance Rebate System">"cash-for-clunkers"</a> bill, which provided incentives to consumers to trade in older, less fuel-efficient cars for more efficient cars. The <a href="/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</a> provided $54 billion in funds to encourage domestic <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy</a> production, make federal buildings more energy-efficient, improve the <a href="/wiki/Electricity_grid" class="mw-redirect" title="Electricity grid">electricity grid</a>, repair public housing, and weatherize modest-income homes.<a href="#cite_note-95">[93]</a> Obama also promoted the use of <a href="/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle" title="Plug-in electric vehicle">plug-in electric vehicles</a>, and 400,000 electric cars had been sold by the end of 2015.<a href="#cite_note-dshepardson-96">[94]</a> According to a report by The American Lung Association, there was a "major improvement" in air quality under Obama.<a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economy">Economy</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration" title="Economic policy of the Barack Obama administration">Economic policy of the Barack Obama administration</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a> and <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">Economy of the United States</a></div> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; text-align:center"> <caption>Economic indicators and federal finances under the Bush and Obama administrations $ represent US trillions of <a href="/wiki/Real_versus_nominal_value_(economics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Real versus nominal value (economics)">unadjusted</a> dollars </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Year </th> <th rowspan="2">Unemploy- ment<a href="#cite_note-blsunemployment-98">[96]</a> </th> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Real_gross_domestic_product" title="Real gross domestic product">Real GDP Growth</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[97]</a> </th> <td colspan="4" style="background:honeydew">US Government<a href="#cite_note-100">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-101">[99]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Receipts</th> <th>Outlays</th> <th>Deficit</th> <th>Debt </th></tr> <tr style="background:papayawhip"> <td>ending</td> <td colspan="2">Dec 31 (Calendar Year)</td> <td colspan="4">Sep 30 (Fiscal Year)<a href="#cite_note-fiscalyear-102">[c]</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background:mistyrose"> <th>2007* </th> <td>4.6% </td> <td>2.0% </td> <td>$2.568 </td> <td>$2.729 </td> <td>− $0.161 </td> <td>$5.0 </td></tr> <tr style="background:mistyrose"> <th>2008* </th> <td>5.8% </td> <td>0.1% </td> <td>$2.524 </td> <td>$2.983 </td> <td>− $0.459 </td> <td>$5.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2009 </th> <td>9.3% </td> <td>−2.6% </td> <td>$2.105 </td> <td>$3.518 </td> <td>− $1.413 </td> <td>$7.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2010 </th> <td>9.6% </td> <td>2.7% </td> <td>$2.163 </td> <td>$3.457 </td> <td>− $1.294 </td> <td>$9.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2011 </th> <td>8.9% </td> <td>1.5% </td> <td>$2.303 </td> <td>$3.603 </td> <td>− $1.300 </td> <td>$10.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2012 </th> <td>8.1% </td> <td>2.3% </td> <td>$2.450 </td> <td>$3.527 </td> <td>− $1.077 </td> <td>$11.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2013 </th> <td>7.4% </td> <td>1.8% </td> <td>$2.775 </td> <td>$3.455 </td> <td>− $0.680 </td> <td>$12.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2014 </th> <td>6.2% </td> <td>2.3% </td> <td>$3.021 </td> <td>$3.506 </td> <td>− $0.485 </td> <td>$12.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2015 </th> <td>5.3% </td> <td>2.7% </td> <td>$3.250 </td> <td>$3.692 </td> <td>− $0.442 </td> <td>$13.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th>2016 </th> <td>4.9% </td> <td>1.7% </td> <td>$3.268 </td> <td>$3.853 </td> <td>− $0.585 </td> <td>$14.2 </td></tr></tbody></table> Upon entering office, Obama focused on handling the <a href="/wiki/Global_financial_crisis_of_2008%E2%80%932009" class="mw-redirect" title="Global financial crisis of 2008–2009">global financial crisis</a> and the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a> that had begun before his election,<a href="#cite_note-103">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-104">[101]</a> which was generally regarded as the worst economic downturn since the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>.<a href="#cite_note-jpuzzanghera-105">[102]</a> On February 17, 2009, Obama signed into law a $787 billion <a href="/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009">economic stimulus bill</a> that included spending for health care, infrastructure, education, various tax breaks and <a href="/wiki/Tax_incentive" title="Tax incentive">incentives</a>, and direct assistance to individuals. The tax provisions of the law, including a $116 billion income tax cut, temporarily reduced taxes for 98% of taxpayers, bringing tax rates to their lowest levels in 60 years.<a href="#cite_note-106">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[104]</a> The Obama administration would later argue that the stimulus saved the United States from a "double-dip" recession.<a href="#cite_note-mgrunwald2-108">[105]</a> Obama asked for a second major stimulus package in December 2009,<a href="#cite_note-mscherer-109">[106]</a> but no major second stimulus bill passed. Obama also launched a <a href="/wiki/Automotive_industry_crisis_of_2008%E2%80%9310" class="mw-redirect" title="Automotive industry crisis of 2008–10">second bailout</a> of US automakers, possibly saving <a href="/wiki/General_Motors" title="General Motors">General Motors</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chrysler" title="Chrysler">Chrysler</a> from bankruptcy at the cost of $9.3 billion.<a href="#cite_note-110">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-snavely-111">[108]</a> For homeowners in danger of defaulting on their <a href="/wiki/Mortgage" title="Mortgage">mortgage</a> due to the <a href="/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis" title="Subprime mortgage crisis">subprime mortgage crisis</a>, Obama launched several programs, including <a href="/wiki/Home_Affordable_Refinance_Program" title="Home Affordable Refinance Program">HARP</a> and <a href="/wiki/Home_Affordable_Modification_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Affordable Modification Program">HAMP</a>.<a href="#cite_note-hscorecard-112">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-korton-113">[110]</a> Obama re-appointed <a href="/wiki/Ben_Bernanke" title="Ben Bernanke">Ben Bernanke</a> as Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Reserve Board">Federal Reserve Board</a> in 2009,<a href="#cite_note-nirwin-114">[111]</a> and appointed <a href="/wiki/Janet_Yellen" title="Janet Yellen">Janet Yellen</a> to succeed Bernanke in 2013.<a href="#cite_note-yellen-115">[112]</a> Short-term <a href="/wiki/Interest_rate" title="Interest rate">interest rates</a> remained <a href="/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy" title="Zero interest-rate policy">near zero</a> for much of Obama's presidency, and the Federal Reserve did not raise interest rates during Obama's presidency until December 2015.<a href="#cite_note-2015interestrates-116">[113]</a> There was a <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_unemployment_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. states by unemployment rate">sustained increase of the US unemployment rate</a> during the early months of the administration,<a href="#cite_note-117">[114]</a> as multi-year economic stimulus efforts continued.<a href="#cite_note-118">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[116]</a> The unemployment rate reached a peak in October 2009 at 10.0%.<a href="#cite_note-120">[117]</a> However, the economy added non-farm jobs for a record 75 straight months between October 2010 and December 2016, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7% in December 2016.<a href="#cite_note-mudland1-121">[118]</a> The recovery from the Great Recession was marked by a lower labor force participation rate, some economists attributing the lower participation rate partially to an aging population and people staying in school longer, as well as long-term structural demographic changes.<a href="#cite_note-asoergel-122">[119]</a> The recovery also laid bare the growing <a href="/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">income inequality in the United States</a>,<a href="#cite_note-dleonhardt-123">[120]</a> which the Obama administration highlighted as a major problem.<a href="#cite_note-jharwood-124">[121]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States" title="Minimum wage in the United States">federal minimum wage</a> <a href="/wiki/Fair_Minimum_Wage_Act_of_2007" title="Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007">increased</a> during Obama's presidency to $7.25 per hour;<a href="#cite_note-minwage1-125">[122]</a> in his second term, Obama advocated for another increase to $12 per hour.<a href="#cite_note-minwage2-126">[123]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg/220px-Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2731"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg/220px-Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg/330px-Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg/440px-Obama_and_Bill_Clinton.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Obama speaking with former president <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and Senior Advisor <a href="/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett" title="Valerie Jarrett">Valerie Jarrett</a> about job creation in July 2010</figcaption></figure> GDP growth returned in the third quarter of 2009, expanding at a 1.6% pace, followed by a 5.0% increase in the fourth quarter.<a href="#cite_note-BEA1-127">[124]</a> Growth continued in 2010, posting an increase of 3.7% in the first quarter, with lesser gains throughout the rest of the year.<a href="#cite_note-BEA1-127">[124]</a> The country's real GDP grew by about 2% in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014, peaking at 2.9% in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-cnnmoneycharts-128">[125]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[126]</a> In the aftermath of the recession, median household income (adjusted for inflation) declined during Obama's first term, before recovering to a new record high in his final year.<a href="#cite_note-130">[127]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">poverty rate</a> peaked at 15.1% in 2010 but declined to 12.7% in 2016, which was still higher than the 12.5% pre-recession figure of 2007.<a href="#cite_note-131">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[129]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[130]</a> The relatively small GDP growth rates in the United States and other <a href="/wiki/Developed_country" title="Developed country">developed countries</a> following the Great Recession left economists and others wondering whether US growth rates would ever return to the levels seen in the second half of the twentieth century.<a href="#cite_note-leepuzzle-134">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-lowgrowthworld-135">[132]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taxation">Taxation</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="Taxation in the United States">Taxation in the United States</a></div> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; text-align:center"> <caption>Federal <a href="/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States" title="Income tax in the United States">income tax</a> rates under Clinton, Bush, and Obama<a href="#cite_note-taxfoundation-136">[133]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Income bracket </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Presidency of Bill Clinton">Clinton</a><a href="#cite_note-Clintontaxes-137">[d]</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">Bush</a><a href="#cite_note-Bushtaxes-138">[e]</a> </th> <th>Obama<a href="#cite_note-Obamataxes-139">[f]</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Bottom </td> <td>15% </td> <td>10% </td> <td>10% </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd </td> <td>28% </td> <td>15% </td> <td>15% </td></tr> <tr> <td>3rd </td> <td>31% </td> <td>25% </td> <td>25% </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th </td> <td>36% </td> <td>28% </td> <td>28% </td></tr> <tr> <td>5th </td> <td>– </td> <td>33% </td> <td>33% </td></tr> <tr> <td>6th </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>35% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Top </td> <td>39.6% </td> <td>35% </td> <td>39.6% </td></tr></tbody></table> Obama's presidency saw an extended battle over taxes that ultimately led to the permanent extension of most of the <a href="/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts" title="Bush tax cuts">Bush tax cuts</a>, which had been enacted between 2001 and 2003. Those tax cuts were set to expire during Obama's presidency since they were originally passed using a Congressional maneuver known as <a href="/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)" title="Reconciliation (United States Congress)">reconciliation</a>, and had to fulfill the long-term deficit requirements of the "Byrd rule". During the <a href="/wiki/Lame_duck_(politics)" title="Lame duck (politics)">lame duck</a> session of the <a href="/wiki/111th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="111th Congress">111th Congress</a>, Obama and Republicans wrangled over the ultimate fate of the cuts. Obama wanted to extend the tax cuts for taxpayers making less than $250,000 a year, while Congressional Republicans wanted a total extension of the tax cuts, and refused to support any bill that did not extend tax cuts for top earners.<a href="#cite_note-140">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[135]</a> Obama and the Republican Congressional leadership reached a deal that included a two-year extension of all the tax cuts, a 13-month extension of <a href="/wiki/Unemployment_insurance" class="mw-redirect" title="Unemployment insurance">unemployment insurance</a>, a one-year reduction in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Insurance_Contributions_Act_tax" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax">FICA payroll tax</a>, and other measures.<a href="#cite_note-2013deal-142">[136]</a> Obama ultimately persuaded many wary Democrats to support the bill, though many liberals such as <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> continued to oppose it.<a href="#cite_note-cnn-signs-143">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[138]</a> The $858 billion <a href="/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insurance_Reauthorization,_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2010" title="Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010">Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010</a> passed with bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress and was signed into law by Obama on December 17, 2010.<a href="#cite_note-cnn-signs-143">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-wapo-deal-145">[139]</a> Shortly after Obama's 2012 re-election, Congressional Republicans and Obama again <a href="/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff" title="United States fiscal cliff">faced off</a> over the final fate of the Bush tax cuts. Republicans sought to make all tax cuts permanent, while Obama sought to extend the tax cuts only for those making under $250,000.<a href="#cite_note-steinhauer1-146">[140]</a> Obama and Congressional Republicans came to an agreement on the <a href="/wiki/American_Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_2012" title="American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012">American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012</a>, which made permanent the tax cuts for individuals making less than $400,000 a year (or less than $450,000 for couples).<a href="#cite_note-steinhauer1-146">[140]</a> For earnings greater than that amount, the income tax increased from 35% to 39.6%, which was the top rate before the passage of the Bush tax cuts.<a href="#cite_note-jyellin-147">[141]</a> The deal also permanently indexed the <a href="/wiki/Alternative_minimum_tax" title="Alternative minimum tax">alternative minimum tax</a> for inflation, limited <a href="/wiki/Tax_deduction" title="Tax deduction">deductions</a> for individuals making more than $250,000 ($300,000 for couples), permanently set the <a href="/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States" title="Estate tax in the United States">estate tax</a> exemption at $5.12 million (indexed to inflation), and increased the top estate tax rate from 35% to 40%.<a href="#cite_note-jyellin-147">[141]</a> Though many Republicans did not like the deal, the bill passed the Republican House in large part due to the fact that the failure to pass any bill would have resulted in the total expiration of the Bush tax cuts.<a href="#cite_note-steinhauer1-146">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-lizza2-148">[142]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Budget_and_debt_ceiling">Budget and debt ceiling</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_budget" title="United States federal budget">United States federal budget</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg/200px-John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="250" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1280"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 200px;height: 250px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg/200px-John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg" data-width="200" data-height="250" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg/300px-John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg/400px-John_Boehner_official_portrait.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption> Republican <a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a> of Ohio was the powerful <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> in 2011–2015.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States" title="National debt of the United States">US government debt</a> grew substantially during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>, as government revenues fell. Obama largely rejected the austerity policies followed by many European countries.<a href="#cite_note-jcalmes17062013-149">[143]</a> US government debt grew from 52% of GDP when Obama took office in 2009 to 74% in 2014, with most of the growth in debt coming between 2009 and 2012.<a href="#cite_note-cnnmoneycharts-128">[125]</a> In 2010, Obama ordered the creation of the <a href="/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform" title="National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform">National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform</a> (also known as the "Simpson-Bowles Commission") in order to find ways to reduce the country's debt.<a href="#cite_note-oksb-150">[144]</a> The commission ultimately released a report that called for a mix of spending cuts and tax increases.<a href="#cite_note-oksb-150">[144]</a> Notable recommendations of the report include a cut in <a href="/wiki/United_States_military_spending" class="mw-redirect" title="United States military spending">military spending</a>, a scaling back of tax deductions for <a href="/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deduction" title="Home mortgage interest deduction">mortgages</a> and employer-provided health insurance, a raise of the <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)" title="Social Security (United States)">Social Security</a> retirement age, and reduced spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and federal employees.<a href="#cite_note-oksb-150">[144]</a> The proposal never received a vote in Congress, but it served as a template for future plans to reduce the national debt.<a href="#cite_note-bfaler-151">[145]</a> After taking control of the House in the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_elections" title="2010 United States elections">2010 elections</a>, Congressional Republicans <a href="/wiki/Cut,_Cap_and_Balance_Act" title="Cut, Cap and Balance Act">demanded spending cuts</a> in return for raising the <a href="/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling" title="United States debt ceiling">United States debt ceiling</a>, the statutory limit on the total amount of debt that the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Department of the Treasury">Treasury Department</a> can issue. The <a href="/wiki/2011_United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis" title="2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis">2011 debt-ceiling crisis</a> developed as Obama and Congressional Democrats demanded a "clean" debt-ceiling increase that did not include spending cuts.<a href="#cite_note-152">[146]</a> Though some Democrats argued that Obama could unilaterally raise the debt ceiling under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fourteenth Amendment</a>,<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated5-153">[147]</a> Obama chose to negotiate with Congressional Republicans. Obama and Speaker of the House <a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a> attempted to negotiate a "grand bargain" to cut the deficit, reform <a href="/wiki/Entitlement_program" title="Entitlement program">entitlement programs</a>, and re-write the tax code, but the negotiations eventually collapsed due to ideological differences between the Democratic and Republican leaders.<a href="#cite_note-wallsten-154">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-mbai-155">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-gthrush-156">[150]</a> Congress instead passed the <a href="/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011" title="Budget Control Act of 2011">Budget Control Act of 2011</a>, which raised the debt ceiling, provided for domestic and military spending cuts, and established the bipartisan <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress_Joint_Select_Committee_on_Deficit_Reduction" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction">Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction</a> to propose further spending cuts.<a href="#cite_note-bmontopoli1-157">[151]</a> As the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction failed to reach an agreement on further cuts, domestic and military spending cuts known as the <a href="/wiki/United_States_budget_sequestration_in_2013" class="mw-redirect" title="United States budget sequestration in 2013">"sequester"</a> took effect starting in 2013.<a href="#cite_note-sequester1-158">[152]</a> In October 2013, the government <a href="/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_government_shutdown" title="2013 United States federal government shutdown">shut down for two weeks</a> as Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a budget. House Republicans passed a <a href="/wiki/Continuing_Appropriations_Resolution,_2014_(H.J.Res_59)" class="mw-redirect" title="Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 (H.J.Res 59)">budget</a> that would defund <a href="/wiki/Obamacare" class="mw-redirect" title="Obamacare">Obamacare</a>, but Senate Democrats refused to pass any budget that defunded Obamacare.<a href="#cite_note-159">[153]</a> Meanwhile, the country faced another <a href="/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis_of_2013" class="mw-redirect" title="United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013">debt ceiling crisis</a>. Ultimately the two sides agreed to a <a href="/wiki/Continuing_Appropriations_Act,_2014" title="Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014">continuing resolution</a> that re-opened the government and suspended the debt ceiling.<a href="#cite_note-jweisman1-160">[154]</a> Months after passing the continuing resolution, Congress passed the <a href="/wiki/Bipartisan_Budget_Act_of_2013" title="Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013">Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act,_2014" title="Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014">omnibus spending bill</a> to fund the government through 2014.<a href="#cite_note-lmontgomery2-161">[155]</a> In 2015, after John Boehner announced that he would <a href="/wiki/October_2015_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election" title="October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election">resign</a> as Speaker of the House, Congress passed a bill that set government spending targets and suspended the <a href="/wiki/Debt_limit" title="Debt limit">debt limit</a> until after Obama left office.<a href="#cite_note-Hers3-162">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LGBT_rights">LGBT rights</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the United States">LGBT rights in the United States</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg/220px-White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2698" data-file-height="1855"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 151px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg/220px-White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="151" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg/330px-White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg/440px-White_House_rainbow_for_SCOTUS_ruling_on_same-sex_marriage.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> lit with the LGBT rainbow flag celebrating the Supreme Court's decision in <a href="/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges">Obergefell v. Hodges</a>, legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States, June 26, 2015</figcaption></figure> During his presidency, Obama, Congress, and the Supreme Court all contributed to a major expansion of <a href="/wiki/LGBT" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT">LGBT</a> rights. In 2009, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Shepard_and_James_Byrd_Jr._Hate_Crimes_Prevention_Act" title="Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act">Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act</a>, which expanded <a href="/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States" title="Hate crime laws in the United States">hate crime laws</a> to cover crimes committed because of the victim's sexual orientation.<a href="#cite_note-hatecrimes-163">[157]</a> In December 2010, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_Repeal_Act_of_2010" title="Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010">Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010</a>, which ended the military's <a href="/wiki/Don%27t_ask,_don%27t_tell" title="Don't ask, don't tell">policy</a> of disallowing openly gay and lesbian people from openly serving in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">United States Armed Forces</a>.<a href="#cite_note-164">[158]</a> Obama also supported the passage of <a href="/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act" title="Employment Non-Discrimination Act">ENDA</a>, which would ban discrimination against employees on the basis of gender or sexual identity for all companies with 15 or more employees,<a href="#cite_note-jsink-165">[159]</a> and the similar but more comprehensive <a href="/wiki/Equality_Act_of_2015" class="mw-redirect" title="Equality Act of 2015">Equality Act</a>.<a href="#cite_note-benen-166">[160]</a> Neither bill passed Congress. In May 2012, Obama became the first sitting president to support <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a>, shortly after Vice President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> had also expressed support for the institution.<a href="#cite_note-gast-167">[161]</a> The following year, Obama appointed <a href="/wiki/Todd_M._Hughes" title="Todd M. Hughes">Todd M. Hughes</a> to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Federal_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit">Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit</a>, making Hughes the first openly gay federal judge in US history.<a href="#cite_note-168">[162]</a> In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry in the case of <a href="/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges">Obergefell v. Hodges</a>. The Obama Administration filed an amicus brief in support of gay marriage and Obama personally congratulated the plaintiff.<a href="#cite_note-escott-169">[163]</a> Obama also issued dozens of executive orders intended to help LGBT Americans,<a href="#cite_note-onceskeptical-170">[164]</a> including a 2010 order that extended full benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.<a href="#cite_note-jdiamond-171">[165]</a> A <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13672" title="Executive Order 13672">2014 order</a> prohibited discrimination against employees of federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.<a href="#cite_note-jdiamond-171">[165]</a> In 2015, Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Ash_Carter" title="Ash Carter">Ash Carter</a> ended the ban on <a href="/wiki/Women_in_combat" title="Women in combat">women in combat</a> roles,<a href="#cite_note-womenincombat1-172">[166]</a> and in 2016, he ended the ban on <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> individuals openly serving in the military.<a href="#cite_note-transmilitary-173">[167]</a> On the international stage, Obama advocated for gay rights, particularly in Africa.<a href="#cite_note-onishi-174">[168]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act#Obama_reforms_2010" title="No Child Left Behind Act">No Child Left Behind Act § Obama reforms 2010</a></div> The Great Recession of 2008–09 caused a sharp decline in tax revenues in all cities and states. The response was to cut education budgets. Obama's $800 billion stimulus package included $100 billion for public schools, which every state used to protect its educational budget. However, in terms of sponsoring innovation, Obama and his Education Secretary <a href="/wiki/Arne_Duncan" title="Arne Duncan">Arne Duncan</a> pursued K-12 education reform through the <a href="/wiki/Race_to_the_Top" title="Race to the Top">Race to the Top</a> grant program. With over $15 billion of grants at stake, 34 states quickly revised their education laws according to the proposals of advanced educational reformers. In the competition points were awarded for allowing charter schools to multiply, for compensating teachers on a merit basis including student test scores, and for adopting higher educational standards. There were incentives for states to establish college and career-ready standards, which in practice meant adopting the <a href="/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Common Core State Standards Initiative">Common Core State Standards Initiative</a> that had been developed on a bipartisan basis by the <a href="/wiki/National_Governors_Association" title="National Governors Association">National Governors Association</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Chief_State_School_Officers" title="Council of Chief State School Officers">Council of Chief State School Officers</a>. The criteria were not mandatory, they were incentives to improve opportunities to get a grant. Most states revised their laws accordingly, even though they realized it was unlikely they would when a highly competitive new grant. Race to the Top had strong bipartisan support, with centrist elements from both parties. It was opposed by the left wing of the Democratic Party, and by the right wing of the Republican Party, and criticized for centralizing too much power in Washington. Complaints also came from middle-class families, who were annoyed at the increasing emphasis on teaching to the test, rather than encouraging teachers to show creativity and stimulating students' imagination.<a href="#cite_note-175">[169]</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-177">[171]</a> Obama also advocated for universal <a href="/wiki/Pre-kindergarten" title="Pre-kindergarten">pre-kindergarten</a> programs,<a href="#cite_note-ebadger2-178">[172]</a> and two free years of community college for everyone.<a href="#cite_note-jhdavis-179">[173]</a> Through her <a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Move" class="mw-redirect" title="Let's Move">Let's Move</a> program and advocacy of healthier school lunches, First Lady Michelle Obama focused attention on <a href="/wiki/Childhood_obesity" title="Childhood obesity">childhood obesity</a>, which was three times higher in 2008 than it had been in 1974.<a href="#cite_note-kliptak2-180">[174]</a> In December 2015, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Every_Student_Succeeds_Act" title="Every Student Succeeds Act">Every Student Succeeds Act</a>, a bipartisan bill that reauthorized federally mandated testing but shrank the federal government's role in education, especially with regard to troubled schools.<a href="#cite_note-ESSA-181">[175]</a> The law also ended the use of waivers by the Education Secretary.<a href="#cite_note-ESSA-181">[175]</a> In post-secondary education, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reconciliation_Act_of_2010" title="Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010">Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010</a>, which ended the role of private banks in lending out federally insured <a href="/wiki/Student_loan" title="Student loan">student loans</a>,<a href="#cite_note-182">[176]</a> created a new income-based loan repayment plan known as <a href="/wiki/Pay_as_You_Earn_(PAYE)_-_Federal_Student_Loan_Relief_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="Pay as You Earn (PAYE) - Federal Student Loan Relief Program">Pay as You Earn</a>, and increased the amount of <a href="/wiki/Pell_Grant" title="Pell Grant">Pell Grant</a> awards given each year.<a href="#cite_note-CBSNews-183">[177]</a> He also instituted new regulations on <a href="/wiki/For-profit_college" class="mw-redirect" title="For-profit college">for-profit colleges</a>, including a "gainful employment" rule that restricted federal funding from colleges that failed to adequately prepare graduates for careers.<a href="#cite_note-agrasgreen-184">[178]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Immigration">Immigration</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">Immigration to the United States</a></div> From the beginning of his presidency, Obama supported comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for many immigrants illegally residing in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-thompson1-185">[179]</a> However, Congress did not pass a comprehensive immigration bill during Obama's tenure, and Obama turned to executive actions. In the 2010 lame-duck session, Obama supported passage of the <a href="/wiki/DREAM_Act" title="DREAM Act">DREAM Act</a>, which passed the House but failed to overcome a Senate filibuster in a 55–41 vote in favor of the bill.<a href="#cite_note-herszenhorn1-186">[180]</a> In 2013, the Senate passed <a href="/wiki/Border_Security,_Economic_Opportunity,_and_Immigration_Modernization_Act_of_2013" title="Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013">an immigration bill</a> with a path to citizenship, but the House did not vote on the bill.<a href="#cite_note-lizzaimm-187">[181]</a><a href="#cite_note-ggibson-188">[182]</a> In 2012, Obama implemented the <a href="/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" title="Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals">DACA</a> policy, which protected roughly 700,000 illegal immigrants from deportation; the policy applies only to those who were brought to the United States before their 16th birthday.<a href="#cite_note-markon-189">[183]</a> In 2014, Obama announced a <a href="/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Parents_of_Americans" title="Deferred Action for Parents of Americans">new executive order</a> that would have protected another four million illegal immigrants from deportation,<a href="#cite_note-ehrenfreund-190">[184]</a> but the order was blocked by the Supreme Court in a <a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Texas_(2016)" title="United States v. Texas (2016)">4–4 tie vote</a> that upheld a lower court's ruling.<a href="#cite_note-mshear1-191">[185]</a> Despite executive actions to protect some individuals, deportations of illegal immigrants continued under Obama. A record high of 400,000 deportations occurred in 2012, though the number of deportations fell during Obama's second term.<a href="#cite_note-nakamuraimm-192">[186]</a> In continuation of a trend that began with the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965" title="Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965">Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965</a>, the percentage of foreign-born people living in the United States reached 13.7% in 2015, higher than at any point since the early 20th century.<a href="#cite_note-agomez1-193">[187]</a><a href="#cite_note-pewimmigration1-194">[188]</a> After having risen since 1990, the number of illegal immigrants living in the United States stabilized at around 11.5 million individuals during Obama's presidency, down from a peak of 12.2 million in 2007.<a href="#cite_note-nytjan2017charts1-195">[189]</a><a href="#cite_note-krogstad1-196">[190]</a> The nation's <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">immigrant population</a> hit a record 42.2 million in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-197">[191]</a> In November 2015, Obama announced a plan to resettle at least 10,000 <a href="/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Refugees of the Syrian Civil War">Syrian refugees</a> in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-198">[192]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Energy">Energy</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_Obama_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy policy of the Obama administration">Energy policy of the Obama administration</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg/170px-President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="256" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2642" data-file-height="3984"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 256px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg/170px-President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg" data-width="170" data-height="256" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg/255px-President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg/340px-President_Speaks_to_Crew_on_Space_Station.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Obama makes a call to the crew of the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>.</figcaption></figure> Energy production boomed during the Obama administration.<a href="#cite_note-cisidore-199">[193]</a> An increase in oil production was driven largely by a <a href="/wiki/Fracking" title="Fracking">fracking</a> boom spurred by private investment on private land, and the Obama administration played only a small role in this development.<a href="#cite_note-cisidore-199">[193]</a> The Obama administration promoted the growth of <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy</a>,<a href="#cite_note-tgardner-200">[194]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solar_power" title="Solar power">solar power</a> generation tripled during Obama's presidency.<a href="#cite_note-tcama1-201">[195]</a> Obama also issued numerous energy efficiency standards, contributing to a flattening of growth of the total US energy demand.<a href="#cite_note-mooneyee1-202">[196]</a> In May 2010, Obama extended a moratorium on offshore drilling permits after the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill" title="Deepwater Horizon oil spill">Deepwater Horizon oil spill</a>, which was the worst oil spill in US history.<a href="#cite_note-extmorat-203">[197]</a><a href="#cite_note-largest_in_US_hist-204">[198]</a> In December 2016, President Obama invoked the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to ban offshore oil and gas exploration in large parts of the <a href="/wiki/Arctic_Ocean" title="Arctic Ocean">Arctic</a> and Atlantic Oceans.<a href="#cite_note-dfears1-205">[199]</a> During Obama's tenure, the battle over the <a href="/wiki/Keystone_XL_Pipeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Keystone XL Pipeline">Keystone XL Pipeline</a> became a major issue, with advocates arguing that it would contribute to economic growth and environmentalists arguing that its approval would contribute to global warming.<a href="#cite_note-ovkp-206">[200]</a> The proposed 1,000-mile (1,600 km) pipeline would have connected Canada's <a href="/wiki/Oil_sand" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil sand">oil sands</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ovkp-206">[200]</a> Because the pipeline crossed international boundaries, its construction required the approval of the US federal government, and the US State Department engaged in a lengthy review process.<a href="#cite_note-ovkp-206">[200]</a> President Obama vetoed a bill to construct the <a href="/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline" title="Keystone Pipeline">Keystone Pipeline</a> in February 2015, arguing that the decision of approval should rest with the executive branch.<a href="#cite_note-207">[201]</a> It was the first major veto of his presidency, and Congress was unable to override it.<a href="#cite_note-208">[202]</a> In November 2015, Obama announced that he would not approve of the construction of the pipeline.<a href="#cite_note-ovkp-206">[200]</a> On vetoing the bill, he stated that the pipeline played an "overinflated role" in US political discourse and would have had relatively little impact on job creation or climate change.<a href="#cite_note-ovkp-206">[200]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drug_policy_and_criminal_justice_reform">Drug policy and criminal justice reform</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Criminal_justice_reform_in_the_United_States" title="Criminal justice reform in the United States">Criminal justice reform in the United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Federal_drug_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Federal drug policy of the United States">Federal drug policy of the United States</a></div> The Obama administration took a few steps to reform the criminal justice system at a time when many in both parties felt that the US had gone too far in incarcerating drug offenders,<a href="#cite_note-bkeller-209">[203]</a> and Obama was the first president since the 1960s to preside over a reduction in the federal prison population.<a href="#cite_note-apuzzoprisonpop-210">[204]</a> Obama's tenure also saw a continued decline of the <a href="/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States" title="Crime in the United States">national violent crime rate</a> from its peak in 1991, though there was an uptick in the violent crime rate in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-gersteincrimerate1-211">[205]</a><a href="#cite_note-cbsvc-212">[206]</a> In October 2009, the US Department of Justice issued a directive to federal prosecutors in states with <a href="/wiki/Medical_marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical marijuana">medical marijuana</a> laws not to investigate or prosecute cases of marijuana use or production done in compliance with those laws.<a href="#cite_note-213">[207]</a> In 2009, President Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act,_2010" title="Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010">Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010</a>, which repealed a 21-year-old ban on federal funding of <a href="/wiki/Needle-exchange_programme" class="mw-redirect" title="Needle-exchange programme">needle exchange programs</a>.<a href="#cite_note-214">[208]</a> In August 2010, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act" title="Fair Sentencing Act">Fair Sentencing Act</a>, which reduced the sentencing disparity between <a href="/wiki/Crack_cocaine" title="Crack cocaine">crack cocaine</a> and powder <a href="/wiki/Cocaine" title="Cocaine">cocaine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-fsa-215">[209]</a> In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_in_the_United_States#State" title="Cannabis in the United States">legalize</a> non-medical <a href="/wiki/Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Marijuana">marijuana</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Ng-216">[210]</a> and six more states legalized recreational marijuana by the time Obama left office.<a href="#cite_note-watkinskenny1-217">[211]</a> Though any use of marijuana <a href="/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States" title="Legal history of cannabis in the United States">remained illegal</a> under <a href="/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act" title="Controlled Substances Act">federal law</a>, the Obama administration generally chose not to prosecute those who used marijuana in states that chose to legalize it.<a href="#cite_note-richey-218">[212]</a> In 2016, Obama announced that the federal government would phase out the use of <a href="/wiki/Private_prison" title="Private prison">private prisons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-privateprisons1-219">[213]</a> Obama <a href="/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon">commuted</a> the sentences of over 1,000 individuals, a higher number of commutations than any other president, and most of Obama's commutations went to nonviolent drug offenders.<a href="#cite_note-ledermanpardons-220">[214]</a><a href="#cite_note-shorwitz1-221">[215]</a> During Obama's presidency, there was a <a href="/wiki/Opioid_epidemic" title="Opioid epidemic">sharp rise in opioid mortality</a>. Many of the deaths – then and now – result from <a href="/wiki/Fentanyl" title="Fentanyl">fentanyl</a> consumption where an overdose is more likely than with <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> consumption. And many people died because they were not aware of this difference or thought that they would administer themselves heroin or a drug mixture but actually used pure fentanyl.<a href="#cite_note-222">[216]</a> Health experts criticized the government's response as slow and weak.<a href="#cite_note-223">[217]</a><a href="#cite_note-224">[218]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gun_control">Gun control</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States" title="Gun politics in the United States">Gun politics in the United States</a></div> Upon taking office in 2009, Obama expressed support for reinstating the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban" title="Federal Assault Weapons Ban">Federal Assault Weapons Ban</a>; but did not make a strong push to pass it-or any new gun control legislation early on in his presidency.<a href="#cite_note-eplanin1-225">[219]</a> During his first year in office, Obama signed into law two bills containing amendments reducing restrictions on gun owners, one which permitted guns to be transported in checked baggage on Amtrak trains<a href="#cite_note-226">[220]</a> and another allowing the concealed carry of loaded firearms in <a href="/wiki/List_of_areas_in_the_United_States_National_Park_System" title="List of areas in the United States National Park System">National Parks</a>, located in states where <a href="/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States" title="Concealed carry in the United States">concealed carry</a> was permitted.<a href="#cite_note-NYT20100224-227">[221]</a><a href="#cite_note-WaTimes20100222-228">[222]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_2" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/President_Obama_Makes_a_Statement_on_the_Shooting_in_Newtown.ogv/220px--President_Obama_Makes_a_Statement_on_the_Shooting_in_Newtown.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="238" data-mwtitle="President_Obama_Makes_a_Statement_on_the_Shooting_in_Newtown.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:President_Obama_Makes_a_Statement_on_the_Shooting_in_Newtown.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/87/President_Obama_Makes_a_Statement_on_the_Shooting_in_Newtown.ogv/President_Obama_Makes_a_Statement_on_the_Shooting_in_Newtown.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; 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Senators <a href="/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin">Joe Manchin</a> (D-WV) and <a href="/wiki/Pat_Toomey" title="Pat Toomey">Pat Toomey</a> (R-PA) attempted to pass a more limited gun control measure that would have expanded background checks, but the bill was blocked in the Senate.<a href="#cite_note-itkowitz-230">[224]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cybersecurity">Cybersecurity</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyberwarfare in the United States">Cyberwarfare in the United States</a></div> <a href="/wiki/Cybersecurity" class="mw-redirect" title="Cybersecurity">Cybersecurity</a> emerged as an important issue during Obama's presidency. In 2009, the Obama administration established <a href="/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command" title="United States Cyber Command">United States Cyber Command</a>, an armed forces sub-unified command charged with defending the military against cyber attacks.<a href="#cite_note-jgould-231">[225]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony Pictures Entertainment">Sony Pictures</a> suffered a <a href="/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_hack" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony Pictures Entertainment hack">major hack</a> in 2014, which the US government alleges originated from <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> in retaliation for the release of the film <a href="/wiki/The_Interview" title="The Interview">The Interview</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cbennett-232">[226]</a> China also developed sophisticated cyber-warfare forces.<a href="#cite_note-sharris-233">[227]</a> In 2015, Obama declared cyber-attacks on the US a national emergency.<a href="#cite_note-cbennett-232">[226]</a> Later that year, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/Cybersecurity_Information_Sharing_Act" title="Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act">Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act</a> into law.<a href="#cite_note-trisen-234">[228]</a> In 2016, the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee">Democratic National Committee</a> and other US organizations were <a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_cyber_attacks" title="Democratic National Committee cyber attacks">hacked</a>,<a href="#cite_note-rothpriest1-235">[229]</a> and the FBI and CIA concluded that Russia sponsored the hacking in hopes of helping Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election.<a href="#cite_note-gmilleraentous1-236">[230]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Email" title="Email">email</a> accounts of other prominent individuals, including former secretary of state <a href="/wiki/Colin_Powell" title="Colin Powell">Colin Powell</a> and CIA director <a href="/wiki/John_O._Brennan" class="mw-redirect" title="John O. Brennan">John O. Brennan</a>, were also hacked, leading to new fears about the confidentiality of emails.<a href="#cite_note-shearhacking1-237">[231]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Racial_issues">Racial issues</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States" title="Race and ethnicity in the United States">Race and ethnicity in the United States</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beer_summit_cheers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Beer_summit_cheers.jpg/220px-Beer_summit_cheers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="87" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1827" data-file-height="719"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 87px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Beer_summit_cheers.jpg/220px-Beer_summit_cheers.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="87" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Beer_summit_cheers.jpg/330px-Beer_summit_cheers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Beer_summit_cheers.jpg/440px-Beer_summit_cheers.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>"Beer Summit" at the White House, July 30, 2009</figcaption></figure> In his speeches as president, Obama did not make more overt references to race relations than his predecessors,<a href="#cite_note-238">[232]</a><a href="#cite_note-239">[233]</a> but according to one study, he implemented stronger policy action on behalf of African-Americans than any president since the Nixon era.<a href="#cite_note-240">[234]</a> Following Obama's election, many pondered the existence of a "postracial America".<a href="#cite_note-wrodgers-241">[235]</a><a href="#cite_note-shearalcindor1-242">[236]</a> However, lingering racial tensions quickly became apparent,<a href="#cite_note-wrodgers-241">[235]</a><a href="#cite_note-ccil2-243">[237]</a> and many African-Americans expressed outrage over what they saw as "racial venom" directed at Obama's presidency.<a href="#cite_note-jblake-244">[238]</a> In July 2009, prominent African-American <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard</a> professor <a href="/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Louis Gates, Jr.">Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</a>, was arrested at his <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a> home by a local police officer, sparking a <a href="/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy" title="Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy">controversy</a> after Obama stated that the police acted "stupidly" in handling the incident. To reduce tensions, Obama invited Gates and the police officer to the White House in what became known as the "Beer Summit".<a href="#cite_note-245">[239]</a> Several other incidents during Obama's presidency sparked outrage in the <a href="/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American">African-American</a> community or the law enforcement community, and Obama sought to build trust between law enforcement officials and civil rights activists.<a href="#cite_note-bridgethedivide-246">[240]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Trial_of_George_Zimmerman" title="Trial of George Zimmerman">acquittal</a> of <a href="/wiki/George_Zimmerman" title="George Zimmerman">George Zimmerman</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Trayvon_Martin" title="Killing of Trayvon Martin">killing of Trayvon Martin</a> sparked national outrage, leading to Obama giving a speech in which he noted that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."<a href="#cite_note-ccilliza-247">[241]</a> The shooting of <a href="/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Shooting of Michael Brown">Michael Brown</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ferguson,_Missouri" title="Ferguson, Missouri">Ferguson, Missouri</a> <a href="/wiki/Ferguson_unrest" title="Ferguson unrest">sparked a wave of protests</a>.<a href="#cite_note-capeheart2-248">[242]</a> These and other events led to the birth of the <a href="/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a> movement, which campaigns against violence and <a href="/wiki/Institutional_racism" title="Institutional racism">systemic racism</a> toward <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black people</a>.<a href="#cite_note-capeheart2-248">[242]</a> Some in the law enforcement community criticized Obama's condemnation of racial bias after incidents in which police action led to the death of African-American men, while some racial justice activists criticized Obama's expressions of empathy for the police.<a href="#cite_note-bridgethedivide-246">[240]</a> Though Obama entered office reluctant to talk about race, by 2014 he began openly discussing the disadvantages faced by many members of minority groups.<a href="#cite_note-pbacon-249">[243]</a> In a March 2016 Gallup poll, nearly one third of Americans said they worried "a great deal" about race relations, a higher figure than in any previous <a href="/wiki/Gallup_poll" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallup poll">Gallup poll</a> since 2001.<a href="#cite_note-250">[244]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="NASA_space_policy">NASA space policy</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Space_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration" title="Space policy of the Barack Obama administration">Space policy of the Barack Obama administration</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg/220px-President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2008"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg/220px-President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg/330px-President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg/440px-President_Obama_speaks_at_Kennedy_Space_Center.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>President Obama speaks at <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Center</a>, April 15, 2010.</figcaption></figure> In July 2009, Obama appointed <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bolden" title="Charles Bolden">Charles Bolden</a>, a former astronaut, as <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> Administrator.<a href="#cite_note-251">[245]</a> That same year, Obama set up the <a href="/wiki/Augustine_panel" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustine panel">Augustine panel</a> to review the <a href="/wiki/Constellation_program" title="Constellation program">Constellation program</a>. In February 2010, Obama announced that he was cutting the program from the <a href="/wiki/2011_United_States_federal_budget" title="2011 United States federal budget">2011 United States federal budget</a>, describing it as "over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation."<a href="#cite_note-BBC_cancels_Moon_return-252">[246]</a><a href="#cite_note-WashPost_eliminates_funds-253">[247]</a> After the decision drew criticism in the United States, a new "Flexible path to <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>" plan was unveiled at a space conference in April 2010.<a href="#cite_note-misswi-254">[248]</a><a href="#cite_note-255">[249]</a> It included new technology programs, increased R&D spending, an increase in NASA's 2011 budget from $18.3 billion to $19 billion, a focus on the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>, and plans to contract future transportation to <a href="/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit" title="Low Earth orbit">Low Earth orbit</a> to private companies.<a href="#cite_note-misswi-254">[248]</a> During Obama's presidency, NASA designed the <a href="/wiki/Space_Launch_System" title="Space Launch System">Space Launch System</a> and developed the <a href="/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Commercial Crew Development">Commercial Crew Development</a> and <a href="/wiki/Commercial_Orbital_Transportation_Services" title="Commercial Orbital Transportation Services">Commercial Orbital Transportation Services</a> to cooperate with private space flight companies.<a href="#cite_note-achspace-256">[250]</a><a href="#cite_note-mwall-257">[251]</a> These private companies, including <a href="/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Galactic" title="Virgin Galactic">Virgin Galactic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blue_Origin" title="Blue Origin">Blue Origin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boeing" title="Boeing">Boeing</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bigelow_Aerospace" title="Bigelow Aerospace">Bigelow Aerospace</a>, became increasingly active during Obama's presidency.<a href="#cite_note-cdavenport1-258">[252]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program" title="Space Shuttle program">Space Shuttle program</a> ended in 2011, and NASA relied on the <a href="/wiki/Russian_space_program" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian space program">Russian space program</a> to launch its astronauts into orbit for the remainder of the Obama administration.<a href="#cite_note-achspace-256">[250]</a><a href="#cite_note-dmosher1-259">[253]</a> Obama's presidency also saw the launch of the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory" title="Mars Science Laboratory">Mars Science Laboratory</a>. In 2016, Obama called on the United States to <a href="/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars" title="Human mission to Mars">land a human</a> on <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> by the 2030s.<a href="#cite_note-cdavenport1-258">[252]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="High_tech_initiatives">High tech initiatives</h3></div> Obama promoted various technologies and the technological prowess of the United States. The number of American adults using the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">internet</a> grew from 74% in 2008 to 84% in 2013,<a href="#cite_note-aperrin-260">[254]</a> and Obama pushed programs to extend <a href="/wiki/Broadband_internet" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadband internet">broadband internet</a> to lower income Americans.<a href="#cite_note-kzez-261">[255]</a> Over the opposition of many Republicans, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> began regulating <a href="/wiki/Internet_provider" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet provider">internet providers</a> as <a href="/wiki/Public_utility" title="Public utility">public utilities</a>, with the goal of protecting "<a href="/wiki/Net_neutrality" title="Net neutrality">net neutrality</a>".<a href="#cite_note-ruizneut-262">[256]</a> Obama launched <a href="/wiki/18F" title="18F">18F</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service" title="United States Digital Service">United States Digital Service</a>, two organizations devoted to modernizing government <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">information technology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bnaylor-263">[257]</a><a href="#cite_note-apete-264">[258]</a> The stimulus package included money to build <a href="/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_United_States" title="High-speed rail in the United States">high-speed rail</a> networks such as the proposed <a href="/wiki/Florida_High_Speed_Corridor" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida High Speed Corridor">Florida High Speed Corridor</a>, but political resistance and funding problems stymied those efforts.<a href="#cite_note-laing-265">[259]</a> In January 2016, Obama announced a plan to invest $4 billion in the development of <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_car" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous car">self-driving cars</a>, as well as an initiative by the <a href="/wiki/National_Highway_Traffic_Safety_Administration" title="National Highway Traffic Safety Administration">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</a> to develop regulations for self-driving cars.<a href="#cite_note-trisensdc-266">[260]</a> That same month, Obama called for a national effort led by Vice President Biden to develop a <a href="/wiki/Cancer_research" title="Cancer research">cure</a> for <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ferrisca-267">[261]</a> On October 19, 2016, Biden spoke at the <a href="/wiki/Edward_M._Kennedy_Institute_for_the_United_States_Senate" title="Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate">Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Boston" title="University of Massachusetts Boston">University of Massachusetts Boston</a> to speak about the administration's cancer initiative.<a href="#cite_note-268">[262]</a> A 2020 study in the <a href="/wiki/The_American_Economic_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="The American Economic Review">American Economic Review</a> found that the decision by the Obama administration to issue press releases that named and shamed facilities that violated OSHA safety and health regulations led other facilities to increase their compliance and to experience fewer workplace injuries. The study estimated that each press release had the same effect on compliance as 210 inspections.<a href="#cite_note-269">[263]</a><a href="#cite_note-270">[264]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Foreign_affairs">Foreign affairs</h2></div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration" title="Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration">Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png/310px-Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png" decoding="async" width="310" height="159" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1104" data-file-height="566"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 310px;height: 159px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png/310px-Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png" data-width="310" data-height="159" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png/465px-Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png/620px-Barack_Obama_foreign_trips.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/List_of_international_presidential_trips_made_by_Barack_Obama" title="List of international presidential trips made by Barack Obama">Obama made 52 international trips</a> to 58 different countries during his presidency.<a href="#cite_note-271">[265]</a></figcaption></figure> The Obama administration inherited a <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">war in Afghanistan</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">war in Iraq</a>, and a global "<a href="/wiki/War_on_Terror" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terror">War on Terror</a>", all launched by Congress during the term of President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">Bush</a> in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>. Upon taking office, Obama called for a "<a href="/wiki/A_New_Beginning_(speech)" title="A New Beginning (speech)">new beginning</a>" in relations between the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim world</a> and the United States,<a href="#cite_note-272">[266]</a><a href="#cite_note-273">[267]</a> and he discontinued the use of the term "War on Terror" in favor of the term "Overseas Contingency Operation".<a href="#cite_note-274">[268]</a> Obama pursued a "light footprint" military strategy in the Middle East that emphasized <a href="/wiki/Special_forces" title="Special forces">special forces</a>, drone strikes, and diplomacy over large <a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">ground troop</a> occupations.<a href="#cite_note-lightfoot-275">[269]</a> However, American forces continued to clash with Islamic militant organizations such as <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="ISIL">ISIL</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" title="Al-Shabaab (militant group)">al-Shabaab</a><a href="#cite_note-eilperin5-276">[270]</a> under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists" class="mw-redirect" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists">AUMF</a> passed by Congress in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-swong-277">[271]</a> Though the Middle East remained important to American foreign policy, Obama pursued a "<a href="/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration" title="East Asian foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration">pivot</a>" to <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FP_Pacific_Century-278">[272]</a><a href="#cite_note-bbcpivot-279">[273]</a> Obama also emphasized closer relations with <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, and was the first president to visit the country twice.<a href="#cite_note-kumar-280">[274]</a> An advocate for <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_non-proliferation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear non-proliferation">nuclear non-proliferation</a>, Obama successfully negotiated arms-reduction deals with Iran and Russia.<a href="#cite_note-cparsons-281">[275]</a> In 2015, Obama described the <a href="/wiki/Obama_Doctrine" title="Obama Doctrine">Obama Doctrine</a>, saying "we will <a href="/wiki/Engagement_(diplomacy)" title="Engagement (diplomacy)">engage</a>, but we preserve all our capabilities."<a href="#cite_note-tfriedman-282">[276]</a> Obama also described himself as an <a href="/wiki/Internationalism_(politics)" title="Internationalism (politics)">internationalist</a> who rejected <a href="/wiki/Isolationism" title="Isolationism">isolationism</a> and was influenced by <a href="/wiki/Realism_(international_relations)" title="Realism (international relations)">realism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Liberal_internationalism" title="Liberal internationalism">liberal interventionism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-goldbergdoctrine-283">[277]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iraq_and_Afghanistan">Iraq and Afghanistan</h3></div> <table class="wikitable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"> <caption>Troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan<a href="#cite_note-284">[278]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Afghanistan</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>2007* </th> <td>137,000<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td> <td>26,000<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2008* </th> <td>154,000<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td> <td>27,500<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2009 </th> <td>139,500<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td> <td>34,400<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2010 </th> <td>107,100<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td> <td>71,700<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2011 </th> <td>47,000<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td> <td>97,000<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2012 </th> <td>150<a href="#cite_note-jlogan-286">[280]</a> </td> <td>91,000<a href="#cite_note-afgh2012-287">[281]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2013 </th> <td>≈150 </td> <td>66,000<a href="#cite_note-bratu-288">[282]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2014 </th> <td>≈150 </td> <td>38,000<a href="#cite_note-afgh104-289">[283]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2015 </th> <td>2,100<a href="#cite_note-mtan-290">[284]</a> </td> <td>12,000<a href="#cite_note-dphillips-291">[285]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2016 </th> <td>4,450<a href="#cite_note-youssef-292">[286]</a> </td> <td>9,800<a href="#cite_note-Jaffe1-293">[287]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2017 </th> <td>5,300<a href="#cite_note-iraq2017-294">[288]</a> </td> <td>8,400<a href="#cite_note-atilghman1-295">[289]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>, <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/AfPak" title="AfPak">AfPak</a></div> During the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 presidential election</a>, Obama strongly criticized the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>,<a href="#cite_note-broder-296">[290]</a> and Obama withdrew the vast majority of US soldiers in Iraq by late 2011. On taking office, Obama announced that US combat forces would <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">leave Iraq</a> by August 2010, with 35,000–50,000 American soldiers remaining in Iraq as advisers and trainers,<a href="#cite_note-deyoung-297">[291]</a> down from the roughly 150,000 American soldiers in Iraq in early 2009.<a href="#cite_note-infigures-298">[292]</a> In 2008, President Bush had signed the <a href="/wiki/US%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="US–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement">US–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement</a>, in which the United States committed to withdrawing all forces by late 2011.<a href="#cite_note-afordhamiraq1-299">[293]</a><a href="#cite_note-lcarrollwars1-300">[294]</a> Obama attempted to convince Iraqi prime minister <a href="/wiki/Nouri_al-Maliki" title="Nouri al-Maliki">Nouri al-Maliki</a> to allow US soldiers to stay past 2011, but the large presence of American soldiers was unpopular with most Iraqis.<a href="#cite_note-afordhamiraq1-299">[293]</a> By late-December 2011, only 150 American soldiers remained to serve at the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Baghdad" title="Embassy of the United States, Baghdad">US embassy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-jlogan-286">[280]</a> However, in 2014, the US began a <a href="/wiki/US-led_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%932021)" title="US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)">campaign</a> against <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">ISIL</a>, an Islamic extremist terrorist group operating in Iraq and Syria that grew dramatically after the withdrawal of US soldiers from Iraq and the start of the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian Civil War">Syrian Civil War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-abc7Aug14-301">[295]</a><a href="#cite_note-Isis1-302">[296]</a> By June 2015, there were about 3500 American soldiers in Iraq serving as advisers to anti-ISIL forces in the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%932017)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)">Iraqi Civil War</a>,<a href="#cite_note-bender-303">[297]</a> and Obama left office with roughly 5,262 US soldiers in Iraq and 503 of them in Syria.<a href="#cite_note-parsonshennigan1-304">[298]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">It is unacceptable that almost seven years after nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on our soil, the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are still at large. Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahari are recording messages to their followers and plotting more terror. The Taliban controls parts of Afghanistan. Al Qaeda has an expanding base in Pakistan that is probably no farther from their old Afghan sanctuary than a train ride from Washington to Philadelphia. If another attack on our homeland comes, it will likely come from the same region where 9/11 was planned. And yet today, we have five times more troops in Iraq than Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-305">[299]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign speech</cite></div></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG/220px-Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1333"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG/220px-Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG/330px-Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG/440px-Barack_Obama_speaks_to_US_troops_at_Camp_Victory_4-7-09_1.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>President Obama speaks with US troops at <a href="/wiki/Camp_Victory" title="Camp Victory">Camp Victory</a>, Iraq, April 2009</figcaption></figure> Obama increased the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan during his first term before withdrawing most military personnel in his second term. On taking office, Obama announced that the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">US military presence in Afghanistan</a> would be bolstered by 17,000 new troops by Summer 2009,<a href="#cite_note-306">[300]</a> on top of the roughly 30,000 soldiers already in Afghanistan at the start of 2009.<a href="#cite_note-tyson-307">[301]</a> Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Robert_Gates" title="Robert Gates">Robert Gates</a>, Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair <a href="/wiki/Michael_Mullen" title="Michael Mullen">Michael Mullen</a> all argued for further troops, and Obama dispatched additional soldiers after a lengthy review process.<a href="#cite_note-308">[302]</a><a href="#cite_note-pbaker-309">[303]</a> During this time, his administration had used the neologism <a href="/wiki/AfPak" title="AfPak">AfPak</a> to denote Afghanistan and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> as a single theater of operations in the war on terror.<a href="#cite_note-fpif-310">[304]</a> The number of American soldiers in Afghanistan would peak at 100,000 in 2010.<a href="#cite_note-nyttrooplevels-285">[279]</a> In 2012, the US and Afghanistan signed a <a href="/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Afghanistan_Strategic_Partnership_Agreement" title="U.S.–Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement">strategic partnership agreement</a> in which the US agreed to hand over major combat operation to Afghan forces.<a href="#cite_note-landler1-311">[305]</a> That same year, the Obama administration designated Afghanistan as a <a href="/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally" title="Major non-NATO ally">major non-NATO ally</a>.<a href="#cite_note-312">[306]</a> In 2014, Obama announced that most troops would <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2011%E2%80%932016)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)">leave Afghanistan</a> by late 2016, with a small force remaining at the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Kabul" title="Embassy of the United States, Kabul">US embassy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-landler2-313">[307]</a> In September 2014, <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Ashraf_Ghani" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Ashraf Ghani">Ashraf Ghani</a> succeeded <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> as the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Afghanistan" title="President of Afghanistan">President of Afghanistan</a> after the US helped negotiate a power-sharing agreement between Ghani and <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Abdullah" title="Abdullah Abdullah">Abdullah Abdullah</a>.<a href="#cite_note-rnordland-314">[308]</a> On January 1, 2015, the US military ended <a href="/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom" title="Operation Enduring Freedom">Operation Enduring Freedom</a> and began <a href="/wiki/Resolute_Support_Mission" title="Resolute Support Mission">Resolute Support Mission</a>, in which the US shifted to more of a training role, although some combat operations continued.<a href="#cite_note-tbowman-315">[309]</a> In October 2015, Obama announced that US soldiers would remain in Afghanistan indefinitely in order support the Afghan government in the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">civil war</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>, al-Qaeda, and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant_%E2%80%93_Khorasan_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province">ISIL</a>.<a href="#cite_note-rosenberg-316">[310]</a> Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair <a href="/wiki/Martin_Dempsey" title="Martin Dempsey">Martin Dempsey</a> framed the decision to keep soldiers in Afghanistan as part of a long-term <a href="/wiki/Counter-terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-terrorism">counter-terrorism</a> operation stretching across <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-landlerafghanwar1-317">[311]</a> Obama left office with roughly 8,400 US soldiers remaining in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-atilghman1-295">[289]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="East_Asia">East Asia</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration" title="East Asian foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration">East Asian foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration</a></div> Though other areas of the world remained important to American foreign policy, Obama pursued a "pivot" to <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a>, focusing the US's diplomacy and trade in the region.<a href="#cite_note-FP_Pacific_Century-278">[272]</a><a href="#cite_note-bbcpivot-279">[273]</a> China's continued <a href="/wiki/China_as_an_emerging_superpower" class="mw-redirect" title="China as an emerging superpower">emergence</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Great_power" title="Great power">major power</a> was a major issue of Obama's presidency; while the two countries worked together on issues such as climate change, the <a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="China–United States relations">China-United States relationship</a> also experienced tensions regarding <a href="/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea" title="Territorial disputes in the South China Sea">territorial claims</a> in the <a href="/wiki/South_China_Sea" title="South China Sea">South China Sea</a> and the <a href="/wiki/East_China_Sea" title="East China Sea">East China Sea</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nakamurascs-318">[312]</a> In 2016, the United States hosted a summit with the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Association of Southeast Asian Nations">Association of Southeast Asian Nations</a> (ASEAN) for the first time, reflecting the Obama administration's pursuit of closer relations with ASEAN and other Asian countries.<a href="#cite_note-jmakinen-319">[313]</a> After helping to encourage openly contested <a href="/wiki/2015_Myanmar_general_election" title="2015 Myanmar general election">elections</a> in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>, Obama lifted many US sanctions on Myanmar.<a href="#cite_note-agowen-320">[314]</a><a href="#cite_note-davismyanmar-321">[315]</a> Obama also increased US military ties with <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>,<a href="#cite_note-ap1-322">[316]</a> <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, increased aid to <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>, and contributed to a warming of relations between <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nakamura9816-323">[317]</a> Obama designed the <a href="/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership" title="Trans-Pacific Partnership">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> as the key economic pillar of the Asian pivot, though the agreement remains unratified.<a href="#cite_note-nakamura9816-323">[317]</a> Obama made little progress with <a href="/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="North Korea–United States relations">relations</a> with <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>, a long-time adversary of the United States, and North Korea continued to develop its <a href="/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="North Korea and weapons of mass destruction">WMD program</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NK9916-324">[318]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia">Russia</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/NATO%E2%80%93Russia_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO–Russia relations">NATO–Russia relations</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg/220px-Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="334"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg/220px-Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg/330px-Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg/440px-Dmitry_Medvedev_1_April_2009-1.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The first meeting between <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" title="Dmitry Medvedev">Dmitry Medvedev</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> before the <a href="/wiki/2009_G-20_London_summit" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 G-20 London summit">G20 summit</a> in London on April 1, 2009</figcaption></figure> On taking office, Obama called for a "<a href="/wiki/Russian_reset" title="Russian reset">reset</a>" in <a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Russia–United States relations">relations</a> with <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, which had declined following the 2008 <a href="/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War" title="Russo-Georgian War">Russo-Georgian War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Dorning-325">[319]</a> While President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">Bush</a> had successfully pushed for <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> <a href="/wiki/Expansion_of_NATO" class="mw-redirect" title="Expansion of NATO">expansion</a> into former <a href="/wiki/Eastern_bloc" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern bloc">Eastern bloc</a> states, the early Obama era saw NATO put more of an emphasis on creating a long-term partnership with Russia.<a href="#cite_note-mjohn-326">[320]</a> Obama and <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">Russian President</a> <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" title="Dmitry Medvedev">Dmitry Medvedev</a> worked together on a new treaty to reduce and monitor nuclear weapons, Russian accession to the <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Organization" title="World Trade Organization">World Trade Organization</a>, and counterterrorism.<a href="#cite_note-Dorning-325">[319]</a> On April 8, 2010, Obama and Medvedev signed the <a href="/wiki/New_START" title="New START">New START</a> treaty, a major <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament" title="Nuclear disarmament">nuclear arms control</a> agreement that reduced the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a> stockpiles of both countries and provided for a monitoring regime.<a href="#cite_note-327">[321]</a> In December 2010, the Senate ratified New START in a 71–26 vote, with 13 Republicans and all Democrats voting in favor of the treaty.<a href="#cite_note-sheridan-328">[322]</a> In 2012, Russia joined the <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Organization" title="World Trade Organization">World Trade Organization</a> and Obama <a href="/wiki/Permanent_normal_trade_relations" title="Permanent normal trade relations">normalized</a> trade relations with Russia.<a href="#cite_note-dpalmer-329">[323]</a> US–Russia relations declined after <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> returned to the presidency in 2012.<a href="#cite_note-Dorning-325">[319]</a> Russia's <a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">invasion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">annexation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a> in response to the <a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a> movement led to a strong <a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="International reactions to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">condemnation</a> by Obama and other Western leaders, who imposed <a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis">sanctions</a> on Russian leaders.<a href="#cite_note-Dorning-325">[319]</a><a href="#cite_note-torbati-330">[324]</a> The sanctions contributed to a <a href="/wiki/Russian_financial_crisis_(2014%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian financial crisis (2014–present)">Russian financial crisis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-russiafincrisis-331">[325]</a> Some members of Congress from both parties also called for the US to arm Ukrainian forces, but Obama resisted becoming closely involved in the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Donbas (2014–2022)">War in Donbass</a>.<a href="#cite_note-steinhauer3-332">[326]</a> In 2016, following several <a href="/wiki/Computer_security" title="Computer security">cybersecurity</a> incidents, the Obama administration formally accused <a href="/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyberwarfare in Russia">Russia</a> of engaging in a <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_election_interference_by_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 United States election interference by Russia">campaign to undermine the 2016 election</a>, and the administration imposed sanctions on some Russian-linked people and organizations.<a href="#cite_note-sangerrussiasanctions1-333">[327]</a><a href="#cite_note-secretstruggle-334">[328]</a> In 2017, after Obama left office, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Mueller" title="Robert Mueller">Robert Mueller</a> was appointed as <a href="/wiki/Special_prosecutor" class="mw-redirect" title="Special prosecutor">special counsel</a> to investigate Russian's involvement in the 2016 election, including <a href="/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials" title="Links between Trump associates and Russian officials">allegations of conspiracy or coordination</a> between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.<a href="#cite_note-335">[329]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Mueller_Report" class="mw-redirect" title="Mueller Report">Mueller Report</a>, released in 2019, concludes that Russia undertook a sustained social media campaign and cyberhacking operation to bolster the Trump campaign.<a href="#cite_note-336">[330]</a> The report did not reach a conclusion on allegations that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia, but, according to Mueller, his investigation did not find evidence "sufficient to charge any member of the [Trump] campaign with taking part in a criminal conspiracy."<a href="#cite_note-337">[331]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3></div> The relationship between Obama and <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> (who held office for all but two months of Obama's presidency) was notably icy, with many commenting on their mutual distaste for each other.<a href="#cite_note-jgoldberg-338">[332]</a><a href="#cite_note-scollinson-339">[333]</a> On taking office, Obama appointed <a href="/wiki/George_J._Mitchell" title="George J. Mitchell">George J. Mitchell</a> as a special envoy to the Middle East to work towards a settlement of the <a href="/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Israeli–Palestinian conflict">Israeli–Palestinian conflict</a>, but Mitchell made little progress before stepping down in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-mitchell-340">[334]</a> In March 2010, Secretary of State Clinton criticized the Israeli government for approving expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem.<a href="#cite_note-341">[335]</a> Netanyahu strongly opposed Obama's efforts to negotiate with Iran and was seen as favoring <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election">2012 US presidential election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-jgoldberg-338">[332]</a> However, Obama continued the US policy of vetoing <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a> resolutions calling for a <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian people">Palestinian</a> state, and the administration continued to advocate for a negotiated <a href="/wiki/Two-state_solution" title="Two-state solution">two-state solution</a>.<a href="#cite_note-jbresnahan-342">[336]</a> Obama also increased aid to Israel, including a $225 million emergency aid package for the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Dome" title="Iron Dome">Iron Dome</a> air defense program.<a href="#cite_note-343">[337]</a> During Obama's last months in office, his administration chose not to veto <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2334" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334">United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334</a>, which urged the end of <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlement" title="Israeli settlement">Israeli settlement</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories" title="Israeli-occupied territories">territories that Israel captured</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a> of 1967. The Obama administration argued that the abstention was consistent with long-standing American opposition to the expansion of settlements, while critics of the abstention argued that it abandoned a close US ally.<a href="#cite_note-israelabstention1-344">[338]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trade_agreements">Trade agreements</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/United_States_free_trade_agreements" class="mw-redirect" title="United States free trade agreements">United States free trade agreements</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg/330px-FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="169" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1104" data-file-height="566"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 330px;height: 169px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg/330px-FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg.png" data-width="330" data-height="169" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg/495px-FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg/660px-FTAs_with_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The Obama administration maintained existing trade agreements and concluded new ones with <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a></figcaption></figure> Like his predecessor, Obama pursued <a href="/wiki/Free_trade_agreement" title="Free trade agreement">free trade agreements</a>, in part due to the lack of progress at the <a href="/wiki/Doha_Development_Round" title="Doha Development Round">Doha negotiations</a> in lowering <a href="/wiki/Trade_barrier" title="Trade barrier">trade barriers</a> worldwide.<a href="#cite_note-kgranville-345">[339]</a> In October 2011, the United States entered into free trade agreements with <a href="/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement">Colombia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93United_States_Trade_Promotion_Agreement" title="Panama–United States Trade Promotion Agreement">Panama</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_Korea-United_States_Free_Trade_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="South Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement">South Korea</a>. Congressional Republicans overwhelmingly supported the agreements, while Congressional Democrats cast a mix of votes.<a href="#cite_note-applebaum-346">[340]</a> The three agreements had originally been negotiated by the Bush administration, but Obama re-opened negotiations with each country and changed some terms of each deal.<a href="#cite_note-applebaum-346">[340]</a> Obama promoted two significantly larger, multilateral free trade agreements: the <a href="/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership" title="Trans-Pacific Partnership">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> (TPP) with eleven Pacific Rim countries, including Japan, Mexico, and Canada, and the proposed <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership" title="Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership">Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership</a> (TTIP) with the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.<a href="#cite_note-kanter-347">[341]</a> <a href="/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership_negotiations" title="Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations">TPP negotiations</a> began under President Bush, and Obama continued them as part of a long-term strategy that sought to refocus on rapidly growing economies in East Asia.<a href="#cite_note-lafranchi-348">[342]</a> The chief administration goals in the TPP, included: (1) establishing free market capitalism as the main normative platform for economic integration in the region; (2) guaranteeing standards for intellectual property rights, especially regarding copyright, software, and technology; (3) underscore American leadership in shaping the rules and norms of the emerging global order; (4) and blocking China from establishing a rival network.<a href="#cite_note-349">[343]</a> After years of negotiations, the 12 countries reached a final agreement on the content of the TPP in October 2015,<a href="#cite_note-nakamura-350">[344]</a> and the full text of the treaty was made public in November 2015.<a href="#cite_note-tppmadepublic-351">[345]</a> The Obama administration was criticized from the left for a lack of transparency in the negotiations, as well as the presence of corporate representatives who assisted in the drafting process.<a href="#cite_note-352">[346]</a><a href="#cite_note-353">[347]</a><a href="#cite_note-354">[348]</a> In July 2015, Congress passed a bill giving <a href="/wiki/Trade_promotion_authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade promotion authority">trade promotion authority</a> to the president until 2021; trade promotion authority requires Congress to vote up or down on trade agreements signed by the president, with no possibility of amendments or filibusters.<a href="#cite_note-weisman-355">[349]</a> The TPP became a major campaign issue in the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 United States presidential elections">2016 elections</a>, with both major party presidential nominees opposing its ratification.<a href="#cite_note-tppclintontrump-356">[350]</a> After Obama left office, President Trump pulled the United States out of the TPP negotiations, and the remaining TPP signatories later concluded a separate free trade agreement known as the <a href="/wiki/Comprehensive_and_Progressive_Agreement_for_Trans-Pacific_Partnership" title="Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership">Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership</a>.<a href="#cite_note-357">[351]</a> In June 2011, it was reported that the US Embassy aided Levi's, Hanes contractors in their fight against an increase in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>'s minimum wage.<a href="#cite_note-358">[352]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</h3></div> In 2002, the Bush administration established the <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a> to hold alleged "<a href="/wiki/Enemy_combatant" title="Enemy combatant">enemy combatants</a>" in a manner that did not treat the detainees as conventional <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">prisoners of war</a>.<a href="#cite_note-kliptakgb-359">[353]</a> Obama repeatedly stated his desire to close the detention camp, arguing that the camp's extrajudicial nature provided a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations.<a href="#cite_note-kliptakgb-359">[353]</a> On his first day in office, Obama instructed all military prosecutors to suspend proceedings so that the incoming administration could review the <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_military_commission" title="Guantanamo military commission">military commission</a> process.<a href="#cite_note-360">[354]</a> On January 22, 2009, Obama signed an executive order restricting interrogators to methods listed and authorized by an <a href="/wiki/Army_Field_Manual" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Field Manual">Army Field Manual</a>,<a href="#cite_note-361">[355]</a> ending the use of "<a href="/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques" title="Enhanced interrogation techniques">enhanced interrogation techniques</a>".<a href="#cite_note-362">[356]</a> In March 2009, the administration announced that it would no longer refer to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as <a href="/wiki/Enemy_combatants" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemy combatants">enemy combatants</a>, but it also asserted that the president had the authority to detain terrorism suspects there without criminal charges.<a href="#cite_note-363">[357]</a> The prisoner population of the detention camp fell from 242 in January 2009 to 91 in January 2016, in part due to the <a href="/wiki/Periodic_Review_Board" title="Periodic Review Board">Periodic Review Boards</a> that Obama established in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-schwartzguan-364">[358]</a> Many members of Congress strongly opposed plans to transfer Guantanamo 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Meeting with his national security advisers over the course of the next six weeks, Obama rejected a plan to bomb the compound, and authorized a "surgical raid" to be conducted by United States <a href="/wiki/Navy_SEALs" class="mw-redirect" title="Navy SEALs">Navy SEALs</a>. The operation took place on May 1, 2011, resulting in the <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Killing of Osama bin Laden">death of bin Laden</a> and the seizure of papers and computer drives and disks from the compound.<a href="#cite_note-WP-binLaden-370">[364]</a> Bin Laden's body was identified through DNA testing, and buried at sea several hours later.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-ObamaAnnounce-371">[365]</a> <a href="/wiki/Reactions_to_the_death_of_Osama_bin_Laden" class="mw-redirect" title="Reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden">Reaction to the announcement</a> was positive across party lines, including from his two predecessors <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Bloom-binLaden-372">[366]</a> and from many countries around the world.<a href="#cite_note-NPR-worldreaction-373">[367]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drone_warfare">Drone warfare</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Drone attacks in Pakistan">Drone attacks in Pakistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)">Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)</a></div> Obama expanded the <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">drone</a> strike program begun by the Bush administration, and the Obama administration conducted drone strikes against targets in <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>, and, most prominently, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-scoll-374">[368]</a> Though the drone strikes killed high-ranking terrorists, they were also criticized for resulting in <a href="/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_US_drone_strikes" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilian casualties from US drone strikes">civilian casualties</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sshane-375">[369]</a> A 2013 Pew research poll showed that the strikes were broadly unpopular in Pakistan,<a href="#cite_note-Pew_Research-376">[370]</a> and some former members of the Obama administration have criticized the strikes for causing a backlash against the United States.<a href="#cite_note-sshane-375">[369]</a> However, based on 147 interviews conducted in 2015, professor Aqil Shah argued that the strikes were popular in <a href="/wiki/North_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="North Waziristan">North Waziristan</a>, the area in which most of the strikes take place, and that little <a href="/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)" title="Blowback (intelligence)">blowback</a> occurred.<a href="#cite_note-ashah-377">[371]</a> In 2009, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a> special investigator on <a href="/wiki/Extrajudicial_killing" title="Extrajudicial killing">extrajudicial</a>, <a href="/wiki/Extrajudicial_punishment" title="Extrajudicial punishment">summary, or arbitrary executions</a> called the United States' reliance on drones "increasingly common" and "deeply troubling", and called on the US to justify its use of targeted assassinations rather than attempting to capture al Qaeda or Taliban suspects.<a href="#cite_note-cnn_un_probe-378">[372]</a><a href="#cite_note-379">[373]</a> Starting in 2011, in response to Obama's attempts to avoid civilian casualties, the <a href="/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire#Hellfire_R9X" title="AGM-114 Hellfire">Hellfire R9X</a> "flying Ginsu" missile was developed. It is usually fired from drones. It does not have an explosive warhead that causes a large area of destruction but kills by using six rotating blades that cut the target into shreds. On July 31, 2022, <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri" title="Ayman al-Zawahiri">Ayman al-Zawahiri</a> was killed by an R9X missile.<a href="#cite_note-Weber_8/6/2022-380">[374]</a> In 2013, Obama appointed <a href="/wiki/John_O._Brennan" class="mw-redirect" title="John O. Brennan">John Brennan</a> as the new CIA Director and announced a new policy that required CIA operatives to determine with a "near-certainty" that no civilians would be hurt in a drone strike.<a href="#cite_note-scoll-374">[368]</a> The number of drone strikes fell substantially after the announcement of the new policy.<a href="#cite_note-scoll-374">[368]</a><a href="#cite_note-sshane-375">[369]</a> As of 2015, US drone strikes had killed eight American citizens, one of whom, <a href="/wiki/Anwar_al-Aulaqi" class="mw-redirect" title="Anwar al-Aulaqi">Anwar al-Aulaqi</a>, was targeted.<a href="#cite_note-sshane-375">[369]</a> The targeted killing of a United States citizen raised Constitutional issues, as it is the first known instance of a sitting US president ordering the <a href="/wiki/Extrajudicial_killing" title="Extrajudicial killing">extrajudicial killing</a> of a US citizen.<a href="#cite_note-381">[375]</a><a href="#cite_note-382">[376]</a> Obama had ordered the targeted killing of al-Aulaqi, a Muslim cleric with ties to <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula</a>, after al-Aulaqi allegedly shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them.<a href="#cite_note-shaneala-383">[377]</a><a href="#cite_note-384">[378]</a> The Obama administration continually sought to keep classified the legal opinions justifying drone strikes, but it said that it conducted special legal reviews before targeting Americans in order to purportedly satisfy the <a href="/wiki/Due_Process_Clause" title="Due Process Clause">due process</a> requirements of the Constitution.<a href="#cite_note-sshane-375">[369]</a><a href="#cite_note-NYTBeckerShane-385">[379]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuban_thaw">Cuban thaw</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cuban_thaw" title="Cuban thaw">Cuban thaw</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cuba%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Cuba–United States relations">Cuba–United States relations</a></div> The Obama presidency saw a major thaw in relations with Cuba, which the United States <a href="/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba" title="United States embargo against Cuba">embargoed</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" title="Cuban Revolution">Cuban Revolution</a> and the 1962 <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>. Starting in the spring of 2013 secret meetings were conducted between the United States and <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, with the meetings taking place in the neutral locations of Canada and <a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican City</a>.<a href="#cite_note-386">[380]</a> The Vatican was consulted initially in 2013 as <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> advised the US and Cuba to <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_swap" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoner swap">exchange prisoners</a> as a gesture of goodwill.<a href="#cite_note-The_Washington_Post-387">[381]</a> On December 10, 2013, Cuban President <a href="/wiki/Raul_Castro" class="mw-redirect" title="Raul Castro">Raúl Castro</a>, in a significant public moment, shook hands with and greeted Obama at <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Nelson_Mandela" title="Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela's memorial service</a> in <a href="/wiki/Johannesburg" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In December 2014, Cuba released <a href="/wiki/Alan_Gross" title="Alan Gross">Alan Gross</a> in exchange for the remaining members of the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Five" title="Cuban Five">Cuban Five</a>.<a href="#cite_note-The_Washington_Post-387">[381]</a> That same month, President Obama ordered the restoration of diplomatic ties with Cuba.<a href="#cite_note-bakercuba-388">[382]</a> Obama stated that he was normalizing relationships because the economic embargo had been ineffective in persuading Cuba to develop a democratic society.<a href="#cite_note-389">[383]</a> In May 2015, Cuba was taken off the United States's list of <a href="/wiki/State_Sponsors_of_Terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="State Sponsors of Terrorism">State Sponsors of Terrorism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-us-officially-390">[384]</a> In August 2015, following the restoration of official diplomatic relations, the United States and Cuba reopened their respective embassies.<a href="#cite_note-oppman-391">[385]</a> In March 2016, Obama visited Cuba, making him the first American president to set foot on the island since <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>.<a href="#cite_note-jpace-392">[386]</a> In 2017, Obama ended the "<a href="/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy" title="Wet feet, dry feet policy">wet feet, dry feet policy</a>", which had given special rights to Cuban immigrants to the United States.<a href="#cite_note-lastbigcubamove1-393">[387]</a> The restored ties between Cuba and the US were seen as a boon to broader <a href="/wiki/Latin_America%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Latin America–United States relations">Latin America–United States relations</a>, as Latin American leaders unanimously approved of the move.<a href="#cite_note-shorsley-394">[388]</a><a href="#cite_note-welsh-395">[389]</a> Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to reverse the Obama policies and return to a hard line on Cuba.<a href="#cite_note-396">[390]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iranian_nuclear_negotiations">Iranian nuclear negotiations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action" title="Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_5" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm/220px--The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="859" data-mwtitle="The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' data-width="1280" data-height="720"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm/The_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm.360p.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AThe_President_Announces_a_Historic_Nuclear_Deal_with_Iran.webm&lang=en&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr"></track></video><figcaption>President Obama announces an agreement on the Iran nuclear deal, 14 July 2015</figcaption></figure> Iran and the United States have had a poor <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Iran–United States relations">relationship</a> since the <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian Revolution">Iranian Revolution</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis">Iran hostage crisis</a>, and tensions continued during the Obama administration due to issues such as the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran" title="Nuclear program of Iran">Iranian nuclear program</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism" title="Iran and state-sponsored terrorism">Iran's alleged sponsorship of terrorism</a>. On taking office, Obama focused on <a href="/wiki/Negotiations_leading_to_the_Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action" title="Negotiations leading to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action">negotiations</a> with Iran over the status of its nuclear program, working with the other <a href="/wiki/P5%2B1" title="P5+1">P5+1</a> powers to adopt a multilateral agreement.<a href="#cite_note-coheniran-397">[391]</a> Obama's stance differed dramatically from the more hawkish position of his predecessor, <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>,<a href="#cite_note-fromero-398">[392]</a> as well as the stated positions of most of Obama's rivals in the 2008 presidential campaign.<a href="#cite_note-399">[393]</a> In June 2013, <a href="/wiki/Hasan_Rouhani" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasan Rouhani">Hasan Rouhani</a> won <a href="/wiki/2013_Iranian_presidential_election" title="2013 Iranian presidential election">election</a> as the new <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iran" title="President of Iran">President of Iran</a>, and Rouhani called for a continuation of talks on Iran's nuclear program.<a href="#cite_note-irannatimeline-400">[394]</a> In November 2013, Iran and the P5 announced an interim agreement,<a href="#cite_note-irannatimeline-400">[394]</a> and in April 2015, negotiators announced that a framework agreement had been reached.<a href="#cite_note-401">[395]</a> Congressional Republicans, who along with Israeli prime minister <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> had strongly opposed the negotiations,<a href="#cite_note-402">[396]</a> attempted but failed to pass a Congressional resolution rejecting the six-nation accord.<a href="#cite_note-steinhauer2-403">[397]</a> Under the agreement, Iran promised to limit its nuclear program and to provide access to <a href="/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_Agency" title="International Atomic Energy Agency">International Atomic Energy Agency</a> inspectors, while the US and other countries agreed to reduce sanctions on Iran.<a href="#cite_note-wbroad-404">[398]</a> The partisan fight over the Iran nuclear deal exemplified a broader ideological disagreement regarding American foreign policy in the Middle East and how to handle adversarial regimes, as many opponents of the deal considered Iran to be an implacably hostile adversary who would inevitably break any agreement.<a href="#cite_note-mfisher-405">[399]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arab_Spring_and_its_aftermath">Arab Spring and its aftermath</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg/300px-Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="152" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="477"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 300px;height: 152px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg/300px-Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg.png" data-width="300" data-height="152" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg/450px-Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg/600px-Arab_Spring_and_Regional_Conflict_Map.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Most <a href="/wiki/Arab_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab states">Arab states</a> experienced turmoil during the <a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a>. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style> Civil war <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"> Government overthrown multiple times <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"> Government overthrown <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"> Protests and governmental changes <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"> Major protests <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"> Minor protests</figcaption></figure> After a sudden revolution in Tunisia in 2011,<a href="#cite_note-406">[400]</a> protests occurred in almost every <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> state. The wave of demonstrations became known as the <a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a>, and the handling of the Arab Spring played a major role in Obama's foreign policy.<a href="#cite_note-ianblack-407">[401]</a> After three weeks of <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Revolution of 2011">unrest</a>, Egyptian president <a href="/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak" title="Hosni Mubarak">Hosni Mubarak</a> resigned at the urging of President Obama.<a href="#cite_note-hcooper-408">[402]</a> General <a href="/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi" title="Abdel Fattah el-Sisi">Abdel Fattah el-Sisi</a> eventually took power from Egyptian president <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Morsi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Morsi">Mohammed Morsi</a> in a <a href="/wiki/2013_Egyptian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2013 Egyptian coup d'état">2013 coup d'état</a>, prompting the US to cut off arms shipments to its long-time ally.<a href="#cite_note-kliptak-409">[403]</a> However, Obama resumed the shipments in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-kliptak-409">[403]</a> Yemen experienced a <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Revolution">revolution</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)">civil war</a>, leading to a <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen">Saudi military campaign</a> that received logistical and intelligence assistance from the United States.<a href="#cite_note-hnaylor-410">[404]</a> The Obama administration announced its intention to review US military assistance to <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> after Saudi warplanes <a href="/wiki/2016_Sana%27a_funeral_airstrike" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Sana'a funeral airstrike">targeted a funeral</a> in Yemen's capital Sanaa, killing more than 140 people.<a href="#cite_note-411">[405]</a> The UN accused the Saudi-led coalition of "complete disregard for human life".<a href="#cite_note-412">[406]</a><a href="#cite_note-413">[407]</a><a href="#cite_note-414">[408]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Libya">Libya</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/First_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Libyan Civil War">First Libyan Civil War</a></div> Libya was strongly affected by the Arab Spring. Anti-government protests broke out in <a href="/wiki/Benghazi" title="Benghazi">Benghazi</a>, Libya, in February 2011,<a href="#cite_note-415">[409]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Gaddafi</a> government responded with military force.<a href="#cite_note-416">[410]</a> The Obama administration initially resisted calls to take strong action<a href="#cite_note-417">[411]</a> but relented after the Arab League requested Western intervention in Libya.<a href="#cite_note-418">[412]</a> In March 2011, international reaction to Gaddafi's military crackdown culminated in a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973">United Nations resolution</a> to enforce a <a href="/wiki/No_fly_zone" class="mw-redirect" title="No fly zone">no fly zone</a> in Libya. Obama authorized US forces to participate in <a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">international air attacks</a> on Libyan air defenses using <a href="/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile_family)" title="Tomahawk (missile family)">Tomahawk cruise missiles</a> to establish the protective zone.<a href="#cite_note-419">[413]</a><a href="#cite_note-420">[414]</a> The intervention was led by <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>, but <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> and three <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> nations also participated in the mission.<a href="#cite_note-421">[415]</a> With coalition support, the rebels took Tripoli the following August.<a href="#cite_note-422">[416]</a> The Libyan campaign culminated in the toppling of the Gaddafi regime, but Libya experienced <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Civil War (2014–present)">turmoil</a> in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/First_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Libyan Civil War">civil war</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bbclibya-423">[417]</a> Obama's intervention in Libya <a href="/wiki/US_domestic_reactions_to_the_2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="US domestic reactions to the 2011 military intervention in Libya">provoked criticism</a> from members of Congress and ignited a debate over the applicability of the <a href="/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution" title="War Powers Resolution">War Powers Resolution</a>.<a href="#cite_note-csavage-424">[418]</a> In September 2012, Islamic militants <a href="/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack" title="2012 Benghazi attack">attacked</a> the American consulate in Benghazi, killing <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Libya" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Libya">Ambassador</a> <a href="/wiki/J._Christopher_Stevens" title="J. Christopher Stevens">J. Christopher Stevens</a> and three other Americans.<a href="#cite_note-reuters1-425">[419]</a> Republicans strongly criticized the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attack, and established a <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Benghazi" title="United States House Select Committee on Benghazi">select committee</a> in the House to investigate the attack.<a href="#cite_note-wheaton-426">[420]</a> After his presidency, Obama acknowledged his "worst mistake" of his presidency was being unable to anticipate the aftermath of ousting Gaddafi.<a href="#cite_note-427">[421]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Syrian_civil_war">Syrian civil war</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> and <a href="/wiki/US_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="US intervention in the Syrian civil war">US intervention in the Syrian civil war</a></div> Syria was one of the states most heavily affected by the Arab Spring, and by the second half of March 2011, major anti-government protests were being held in Syria.<a href="#cite_note-428">[422]</a> Though Syria had long been an adversary of the United States, Obama argued that unilateral military action to topple the <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a> regime would be a mistake.<a href="#cite_note-429">[423]</a> As the protests continued, Syria fell into a protracted <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">civil war</a>,<a href="#cite_note-430">[424]</a> and the United States supported the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_opposition" title="Syrian opposition">Syrian opposition</a> against the Assad regime.<a href="#cite_note-jpace2-431">[425]</a> US criticism of Assad intensified after the <a href="/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack" title="Ghouta chemical attack">Ghouta chemical attack</a>, eventually resulting in a Russian-backed deal that saw the Syrian government relinquish its chemical weapons.<a href="#cite_note-zbeauchamp-432">[426]</a> In the chaos of the Syrian Civil War, an Islamist group known as <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a> (ISIL) took control of large portions of Syria and Iraq.<a href="#cite_note-kshaeen-433">[427]</a> ISIL, which had originated as <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq" title="Al-Qaeda in Iraq">al-Qaeda in Iraq</a> under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi" title="Abu Musab al-Zarqawi">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Isis1-302">[296]</a> eventually challenged <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> as the most prominent global <a href="/wiki/Terrorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist">terrorist</a> group during Obama's second term.<a href="#cite_note-elabottisil-434">[428]</a> Starting in 2014, the Obama administration launched <a href="/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="American-led intervention in Syria">air strikes</a> against ISIL and trained anti-ISIL soldiers, while continuing to oppose Assad's regime.<a href="#cite_note-jpace2-431">[425]</a><a href="#cite_note-zbeauchamp-432">[426]</a> The Obama administration also cooperated with <a href="/wiki/Kurds_in_Syria" title="Kurds in Syria">Syrian Kurds</a> in opposing the ISIL, straining relations with <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, which accused the Syrian Kurds of working with the <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurdish</a> terrorist groups <a href="/wiki/Kurds_in_Turkey" title="Kurds in Turkey">inside Turkey</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cunninghamkurds1-435">[429]</a> Russia launched its own <a href="/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War">military intervention</a> to aid Assad's regime, creating a complicated multi-party <a href="/wiki/Proxy_war" title="Proxy war">proxy war</a>, though the United States and Russia sometimes cooperated to fight ISIL.<a href="#cite_note-syriaproxywar-436">[430]</a> In November 2015, Obama announced a plan to resettle at least 10,000 <a href="/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Refugees of the Syrian Civil War">Syrian refugees</a> in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-198">[192]</a> Obama's "light-footprint" approach to the Syrian conflict was criticized by many as the Syrian Civil War became a major humanitarian catastrophe, but supporters of Obama argued that he deserved credit for keeping the United States out of another costly ground war in the Middle East.<a href="#cite_note-mspetalnick1-437">[431]</a><a href="#cite_note-usher1-438">[432]</a><a href="#cite_note-parsonshennigan1-304">[298]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_and_domestic_surveillance">Foreign and domestic surveillance</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveillance" title="Barack Obama on mass surveillance">Barack Obama on mass surveillance</a></div> The Obama administration inherited several government surveillance programs from the Bush administration, and Obama attempted to strike a balance between protecting civil liberties and tracking terrorist threats, but Obama's continuation of many programs disappointed many civil libertarians.<a href="#cite_note-mshear2-439">[433]</a> The New York Times reported in 2009 that the NSA had been intercepting communications of American citizens including a congressman, although the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a> believed that the NSA had corrected its errors.<a href="#cite_note-440">[434]</a> In 2011, Obama signed a four-year extension of some provisions of the <a href="/wiki/Patriot_Act" title="Patriot Act">Patriot Act</a>.<a href="#cite_note-tcohen-441">[435]</a> In June 2013 the existence of <a href="/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)" class="mw-redirect" title="PRISM (surveillance program)">PRISM</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Clandestine_operation" title="Clandestine operation">clandestine</a> <a href="/wiki/Mass_surveillance" title="Mass surveillance">mass</a> <a href="/wiki/Computer_surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer surveillance">electronic surveillance</a> <a href="/wiki/Data_mining" title="Data mining">data mining</a> program operated by the United States <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> (NSA) since 2007, was <a href="/wiki/News_leak" title="News leak">leaked</a> by NSA contractor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a>, who warned that the extent of mass data collection was far greater than the public knew.<a href="#cite_note-ibtimes_17_june-442">[436]</a> In the face of international outrage, US government officials defended the PRISM surveillance program by asserting it could not be used on domestic targets without a <a href="/wiki/Search_warrant" title="Search warrant">warrant</a>, that it helped to prevent acts of terrorism, and that it received independent oversight from the federal government's <a href="/wiki/U.S._Executive_Branch#Executive_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Executive Branch">executive</a>, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Executive_Branch#Judicial_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Executive Branch">judicial</a> and <a href="/wiki/U.S._Executive_Branch#Legislative_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Executive Branch">legislative</a> branches.<a href="#cite_note-443">[437]</a> In June 2013, Obama stated that the NSA's data gathering practices constitute "a circumscribed, narrow system directed at us being able to protect our people."<a href="#cite_note-cbsberlin-444">[438]</a> In 2015, Obama signed the <a href="/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act" title="USA Freedom Act">USA Freedom Act</a>, which extended several provisions of the Patriot Act but ended the collection of bulk telephone records by the NSA.<a href="#cite_note-mshear2-439">[433]</a><a href="#cite_note-fthorp-445">[439]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Ethics">Ethics</h2></div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lobbying_reform">Lobbying reform</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States" title="Lobbying in the United States">Lobbying in the United States</a></div> Early in <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_2008_presidential_campaign" title="Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign">his presidential campaign</a>, Obama stated that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House", but softened his stance after taking office.<a href="#cite_note-lobbyists1-446">[440]</a> On January 21, 2009, Obama issued an executive order for all future appointees to his administration, which ordered that no appointee who was a registered lobbyist within the two years before his appointment could participate on matters in which he lobbied for a period of two years after the date of appointment.<a href="#cite_note-EthicsOrder-17">[15]</a> Three formal waivers were initially issued in early 2009, out of 800 executive appointments:<a href="#cite_note-ABCWaivers-447">[441]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> criticized the administration, claiming that Obama retreated from his own ethics rules barring lobbyists from working on the issues about which they lobbied during the previous two years by issuing waivers.<a href="#cite_note-USATodayLobbyists-448">[442]</a> A 2015 Politico investigation found that, while Obama had instituted incremental reforms and the number of lobbyists fell during Obama's presidency, Obama had failed to close the "revolving door" of officials moving between government and business.<a href="#cite_note-gersteinlobbying-449">[443]</a> However, the Obama administration avoided "conflict of interest" scandals that previous administrations had experienced, in part due to the administration's lobbyist rules.<a href="#cite_note-eilperinlobbyists-450">[444]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transparency">Transparency</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_6" 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administration in US history, with mixed results.<a href="#cite_note-jrarnold-451">[445]</a> On taking office, the Obama administration said that all executive orders, non-emergency legislation, and proclamations would be posted to the official <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> website, <a href="/wiki/Whitehouse.gov" title="Whitehouse.gov">whitehouse.gov</a>, allowing the public to review and comment for five days before the president signs the legislation,<a href="#cite_note-452">[446]</a> but this pledge was twice broken during Obama's first month in office.<a href="#cite_note-453">[447]</a><a href="#cite_note-454">[448]</a> On January 21, 2009, by executive order, Obama revoked <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13233" title="Executive Order 13233">Executive Order 13233</a>, which had limited access to the records of former United States presidents.<a href="#cite_note-455">[449]</a> Obama issued instructions to all agencies and departments in his administration to "adopt a presumption in favor" of <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)" title="Freedom of Information Act (United States)">Freedom of Information Act</a> requests.<a href="#cite_note-456">[450]</a> These actions helped the rate of classification fall to record lows during the Obama administration.<a href="#cite_note-jrarnold-451">[445]</a> In April 2009, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> released four legal memos from the Bush administration describing in detail <a href="/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques" title="Enhanced interrogation techniques">controversial interrogation methods</a> the CIA had used on prisoners suspected of terrorism.<a href="#cite_note-457">[451]</a><a href="#cite_note-458">[452]</a> The Obama administration also introduced the Open Government Directive, which encouraged government agencies to publish data and collaborate with the public, and the Open Government Partnership, which advocated open government norms.<a href="#cite_note-jrarnold-451">[445]</a> However, Obama continued to make use of secret memos and the <a href="/wiki/State_secrets_privilege" title="State secrets privilege">state secrets privilege</a>, and he continued to prosecute whistleblowers.<a href="#cite_note-jrarnold-451">[445]</a> The Obama administration was much more aggressive than the Bush and other previous administrations in their response to <a href="/wiki/Whistleblowing" title="Whistleblowing">whistleblowing</a> and leaks to the press,<a href="#cite_note-shane2-459">[453]</a> prompting critics to describe the Obama administration's crackdown as a "war on whistleblowers".<a href="#cite_note-WP-460">[454]</a><a href="#cite_note-nation-461">[455]</a> Several people were charged under the previously rarely used leak-related provisions of the <a href="/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917" title="Espionage Act of 1917">Espionage Act of 1917</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Andrews Drake">Thomas Andrews Drake</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> employee,<a href="#cite_note-naka2-462">[456]</a><a href="#cite_note-harri1-463">[457]</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Jin-Woo_Kim" title="Stephen Jin-Woo Kim">Stephen Jin-Woo Kim</a>, a <a href="/wiki/State_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="State Department">State Department</a> contractor,<a href="#cite_note-shane3-464">[458]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Alexander_Sterling" title="Jeffrey Alexander Sterling">Jeffrey Sterling</a>. Others prosecuted for leaking information include <a href="/wiki/Shamai_Leibowitz" title="Shamai Leibowitz">Shamai Leibowitz</a>, a contract linguist for the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>,<a href="#cite_note-WaPo1-465">[459]</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Kiriakou" title="John Kiriakou">John Kiriakou</a>, a former CIA analyst,<a href="#cite_note-Shane-Kiriakou-466">[460]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Manning" title="Chelsea Manning">Chelsea Manning</a>, an intelligence analyst for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">US Army</a> whose <a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Manning" title="United States v. Manning">trial</a> received wide coverage.<a href="#cite_note-467">[461]</a> Most notably, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a>, a technical contractor for the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">NSA</a>, was charged with theft and the unauthorized <a href="/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)">disclosure of classified information</a> to columnist <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald" title="Glenn Greenwald">Glenn Greenwald</a>.<a href="#cite_note-468">[462]</a> Snowden's disclosures provoked <a href="/wiki/Reactions_to_global_surveillance_disclosures" title="Reactions to global surveillance disclosures">wide array of reactions</a>; many called for Snowden to be pardoned, while others called him a traitor.<a href="#cite_note-afredrick-469">[463]</a><a href="#cite_note-liptaksnowden-470">[464]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="Elections_during_the_Obama_presidency">Elections during the Obama presidency</h2></div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <table class="wikitable" style="margin-left:1em"> <caption>Congressional party leaders </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2"> </th> <th colspan="2">Senate leaders </th> <th colspan="2">House leaders </th></tr> <tr> <th>Congress </th> <th>Year </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Party leaders of the United States Senate">Majority</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Party leaders of the United States Senate">Minority</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">Minority</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress" title="111th United States Congress">111th</a> </th> <th style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2009–2010 </th> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Reid</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Pelosi</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">Boehner</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/112th_United_States_Congress" title="112th United States Congress">112th</a> </th> <th>2011–2012 </th> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Reid</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">Boehner</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Pelosi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/113th_United_States_Congress" title="113th United States Congress">113th</a> </th> <th>2013–2014 </th> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Reid</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">Boehner</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Pelosi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress" title="114th United States Congress">114th</a> </th> <th style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2015 </th> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Reid</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">Boehner</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Pelosi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2015–2016 </th> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Reid</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Ryan</a><a href="#cite_note-Ryan2015-471">[g]</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Pelosi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress" title="115th United States Congress">115th</a><a href="#cite_note-Congress3-6">[b]</a> </th> <th style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2017 </th> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer">Schumer</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Ryan</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Pelosi</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="margin-left:1em"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses" title="Party divisions of United States Congresses">Democratic seats in Congress</a><a href="#cite_note-Congress-472">[h]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Congress </th> <th>Senate </th> <th>House </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress" title="111th United States Congress">111th</a><a href="#cite_note-Congress3-6">[b]</a> </th> <td>59<a href="#cite_note-Congress2-473">[i]</a> </td> <td>257 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/112th_United_States_Congress" title="112th United States Congress">112th</a> </th> <td>53 </td> <td>193 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/113th_United_States_Congress" title="113th United States Congress">113th</a> </th> <td>55 </td> <td>201 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress" title="114th United States Congress">114th</a> </th> <td>46 </td> <td>188 </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress" title="115th United States Congress">115th</a><a href="#cite_note-Congress3-6">[b]</a> </th> <td>48 </td> <td>194 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_mid-term_elections">2010 mid-term elections</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_elections" title="2010 United States elections">2010 United States elections</a></div> Attacking Obama relentlessly, emphasizing the stalled economy, and enjoying the anger of the <a href="/wiki/Tea_Party_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Tea Party Movement">Tea Party Movement</a>, Republicans scored a landslide in the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_elections" title="2010 United States elections">2010 midterm elections</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2010 United States House of Representatives elections">winning control of the House</a> and gaining seats in the Senate. After the election, John Boehner replaced Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, and Pelosi became the new House Minority Leader. Boehner pledged to repeal Obamacare and cut federal spending.<a href="#cite_note-pkane-474">[465]</a> Obama called the elections "humbling" and a "shellacking", arguing that the defeat came because not enough Americans had felt the effects of the economic recovery.<a href="#cite_note-475">[466]</a> The newly empowered House Republicans quickly confronted Obama on issues such as Obamacare and the debt ceiling.<a href="#cite_note-wallsten-154">[148]</a> The Republican victory in the election also gave Republicans the upper hand in the <a href="/wiki/Redistricting" title="Redistricting">redistricting</a> that occurred after the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010 United States census</a>.<a href="#cite_note-giroux-476">[467]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2012_re-election_campaign">2012 re-election campaign</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_2012_presidential_campaign" title="Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign">Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign</a> and <a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election">2012 United States presidential election</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_elections" title="2012 United States elections">2012 United States elections</a>, <a href="/wiki/2012_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries">2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2012_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2012 Democratic National Convention">2012 Democratic National Convention</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2012.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/ElectoralCollege2012.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege2012.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="192" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 330px;height: 192px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/ElectoralCollege2012.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege2012.svg.png" data-width="330" data-height="192" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/ElectoralCollege2012.svg/495px-ElectoralCollege2012.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/ElectoralCollege2012.svg/660px-ElectoralCollege2012.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>President Obama defeated Republican <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a> in the 2012 presidential election.</figcaption></figure> On April 4, 2011, Obama announced that he would seek <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_2012_presidential_campaign" title="Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign">re-election in 2012</a>. He did not face any significant rivals for the Democratic nomination. His Republican opponent was <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>, a former governor of Massachusetts. Romney called for lower taxes, spending cuts, an increase in defense spending, and a repeal of <a href="/wiki/Obamacare" class="mw-redirect" title="Obamacare">Obamacare</a> (even though it was based on a <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_reform" title="Massachusetts health care reform">Massachusetts healthcare plan</a> developed under Romney).<a href="#cite_note-romneyplatform-477">[468]</a> Obama's campaign was based in Chicago and run by many former members of the White House staff and members of the successful <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_2008_presidential_campaign" title="Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign">2008 campaign</a>.<a href="#cite_note-478">[469]</a> Obama won re-election with 332 (out of a total of 538) electoral votes and 51.1% of the popular vote, making him the first person since <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight Eisenhower">Dwight Eisenhower</a> to twice win 51 percent of the vote.<a href="#cite_note-giroux2-479">[470]</a> According to exit polls, Obama won a majority of the vote from women, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, people under 45, people making less than $50,000 per year, people inhabiting large or mid-sized cities, liberals, moderates, the unmarried, gays, and people with no college education, some college education, or graduate degrees.<a href="#cite_note-2012exitpolls-480">[471]</a> In the concurrent <a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_elections" title="2012 United States elections">congressional elections</a>, the Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of Congress, but Republicans retained control of the House. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014_mid-term_elections">2014 mid-term elections</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2014_United_States_elections" title="2014 United States elections">2014 United States elections</a></div> Obama's second mid-term election turned into another <a href="/wiki/Wave_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Wave election">wave election</a>, as Republicans <a href="/wiki/2014_United_States_Senate_elections" title="2014 United States Senate elections">won control of the Senate</a> and picked up several governorships.<a href="#cite_note-montanaro-481">[472]</a> Mitch McConnell replaced Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader, while Reid became the Senate Minority Leader. Republican control of the Senate gave the party the power to block Obama's executive and judicial nominees.<a href="#cite_note-everett1-43">[41]</a> The Republican waves in 2010 and 2014 defeated many young Democratic candidates, weakening the farm team of several state Democratic parties.<a href="#cite_note-stolberg-482">[473]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2016_elections_and_transition_period">2016 elections and transition period</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_elections" title="2016 United States elections">2016 United States elections</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_2016_presidential_campaign" title="Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign">Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_2016_presidential_campaign" title="Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign">Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign</a>, <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election">2016 United States presidential election</a>, and <a href="/wiki/First_presidential_transition_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidential transition of Donald Trump">First presidential transition of Donald Trump</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2016.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/ElectoralCollege2016.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="192" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 330px;height: 192px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/ElectoralCollege2016.svg/330px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg.png" data-width="330" data-height="192" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/ElectoralCollege2016.svg/495px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/ElectoralCollege2016.svg/660px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Republican <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> defeated Democrat <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> in the 2016 presidential election.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1311"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 180px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="180" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Donald_Trump_in_the_Oval_Office_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Outgoing president Barack Obama and President-elect <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Oval_Office" title="Oval Office">Oval Office</a> on November 10, 2016</figcaption></figure> The 2016 elections took place on November 8. Obama was term-limited in 2016 due to the <a href="/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution">22nd Amendment</a>, though Obama's approval ratings may have impacted his party's ability to win the race.<a href="#cite_note-kondik-483">[474]</a> In June 2016, with the <a href="/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries">Democratic primaries</a> nearly complete, Obama endorsed former secretary of state <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> as his successor.<a href="#cite_note-whyobamawaited-484">[475]</a> However, according to Glenn Thrush of <a href="/wiki/Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a>, Obama had long supported Clinton as his preferred successor, and Obama dissuaded Vice President Biden from running against Clinton.<a href="#cite_note-partyoftwo-485">[476]</a> Obama spoke in favor of Clinton at the <a href="/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2016 Democratic National Convention">2016 Democratic National Convention</a>, and he continued to campaign for Clinton and other Democrats in the months leading up to Election Day.<a href="#cite_note-mrhodan1-486">[477]</a> However, in the general election, Clinton was defeated by Republican nominee <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, who prominently <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories" title="Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories">questioned</a> Obama's place of birth during Obama's first term.<a href="#cite_note-asilverleib-487">[478]</a> In the concurrent <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_elections" title="2016 United States elections">congressional elections</a>, Republicans also retained control of their majorities in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>. During the eight years of Obama's presidency, the Democratic Party experienced a net loss of 1,041 governorships and state and federal legislative seats.<a href="#cite_note-488">[479]</a> Ronald Brownstein of <a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a> noted that these losses were similar to those of other post-World War II two-term presidents.<a href="#cite_note-brownsteain11217-489">[480]</a><a href="#cite_note-cmalone1-490">[481]</a> Trump and Obama frequently communicated during the <a href="/wiki/First_presidential_transition_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidential transition of Donald Trump">transition period</a>, and Trump stated that he sought Obama's advice regarding presidential appointments.<a href="#cite_note-tnaftali1-491">[482]</a> However, President-elect Trump also criticized some of Obama's actions, including Obama's refusal to veto a UN Resolution condemning Israel settlements.<a href="#cite_note-Wagnerroadblocks1-492">[483]</a> In his <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama%27s_farewell_address" title="Barack Obama's farewell address">farewell address</a>, Obama expressed concerns about a divisive political environment, economic inequality, and racism, but remained optimistic about the future.<a href="#cite_note-wpfarewell-493">[484]</a><a href="#cite_note-nytfarewell-494">[485]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="Approval_ratings_and_other_opinions">Approval ratings and other opinions</h2></div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="Historical rankings of presidents of the United States">Historical rankings of presidents of the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating" title="United States presidential approval rating">United States presidential approval rating</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Public_image_of_Barack_Obama" title="Public image of Barack Obama">Public image of Barack Obama</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Gallup_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallup (company)">Gallup</a> poll <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating" title="United States presidential approval rating">approval ratings</a><a href="#cite_note-Galluppolls-495">[486]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th class="unsortable">Date </th> <th>Approve </th> <th>Disapprove </th></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2009 </td> <td>67 </td> <td>13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 2009 </td> <td>58 </td> <td>34 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2010 </td> <td>51 </td> <td>43 </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 2010 </td> <td>46 </td> <td>47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2011 </td> <td>48 </td> <td>45 </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 2011 </td> <td>46 </td> <td>45 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2012 </td> <td>46 </td> <td>47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 2012 </td> <td>45 </td> <td>46 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2013 </td> <td>53 </td> <td>40 </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 2013 </td> <td>46 </td> <td>46 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2014 </td> <td>41 </td> <td>53 </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 2014 </td> <td>42 </td> <td>53 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2015 </td> <td>46 </td> <td>48 </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 2015 </td> <td>46 </td> <td>49 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2016 </td> <td>47 </td> <td>49 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jul 2016 </td> <td>51 </td> <td>45 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jan 2017 </td> <td>55 </td> <td>42 </td></tr></tbody></table> After his transition period, Obama entered office with an approval rating of 82% according to <a href="/wiki/Gallup_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallup (company)">Gallup</a>,<a href="#cite_note-latimesar-496">[487]</a> Obama's approval rating fell to 69% after he took office and announced his first policy decisions.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> Obama received the support of 90% of Democrats, 60% of independents, and 40% of Republicans in January 2009 polls.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> By December 2009, Obama's approval rating had fallen to 51%, with Obama receiving approval from roughly 85% of Democrats, 45% of independents, and just 18% of Republicans.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> In July 2010, after the passage of the Dodd-Frank and Obamacare, Obama's approval rating stood at 45%, with 47% disapproving.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> Obama's approval rating would remain stable until the 2010 elections,<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> when Republicans won major gains in both houses of Congress and took control of the House.<a href="#cite_note-pkane-474">[465]</a> Obama's approval ratings climbed back to 50% in January 2011, but fell to 40% in August 2011 following the <a href="/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis_of_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011">2011 debt-ceiling crisis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> Obama's approval ratings slowly increased during 2012, and they rose above 50% shortly before the 2012 election, in which Obama defeated <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> After his re-election, Obama's approval ratings reached 57%, but that number fell into the low 40s after the <a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013" class="mw-redirect" title="United States federal government shutdown of 2013">federal government shutdown</a> in October 2013.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> Obama's approval ratings remained in the mid-to-low 40s until the <a href="/wiki/2014_United_States_elections" title="2014 United States elections">2014 elections</a>, when Republicans won gains in both houses of Congress and took control of the Senate.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> In 2015, Obama's approval ratings climbed to the mid-to-high 40s, with his approval and disapproval ratings roughly matching each other.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> His approval ratings rose into the 50s during the 2016 presidential campaign, and Obama registered a 57% approval rating in November 2016.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> In a Gallup poll taken in the final week of his presidency, Obama registered a 95% approval rating with Democrats, a 61% approval rating with independents, and a 14% approval rating with Republicans.<a href="#cite_note-Galluppollsb-497">[488]</a> Obama's election also provoked a reaction to his race, birthplace, and religion. As president, Obama faced numerous taunts and racial innuendos, though most overt racist comments were limited to a small fringe.<a href="#cite_note-snetter-498">[489]</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> theorized that Obama had <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories" title="Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories">been born</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>; an April 2011 CNN poll taken shortly before Obama released his long-form birth certificate found that 40% of Republicans believed that Obama had been born in Kenya.<a href="#cite_note-asilverleib-487">[478]</a> Many of these "birthers" argued that because Obama was (allegedly) not a citizen, he was not eligible to serve as president under the <a href="/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause" title="Natural-born-citizen clause">natural-born-citizen</a> requirements of the Constitution. Despite Obama's release of his long-form birth certificate, which affirmed that Obama was born in Hawaii, a 2015 <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> poll found that 20% of Americans believed that Obama was born outside of the country.<a href="#cite_note-jagiesta-499">[490]</a> Many also <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspiracy_theories" title="Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories">claimed</a> that Obama practiced <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, and a 2015 CNN poll found that 29% of Americans and 43% of Republicans believed Obama to be a Muslim.<a href="#cite_note-jagiesta-499">[490]</a> Even prior to his election as president, Obama had clarified that he was a long-time member of a church affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">United Church of Christ</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Mainline_Protestant" title="Mainline Protestant">mainline Protestant</a> denomination.<a href="#cite_note-obamareligion-500">[491]</a> In a January 2010 survey by the <a href="/wiki/Siena_Research_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Siena Research Institute">Siena Research Institute</a> at <a href="/wiki/Siena_College" title="Siena College">Siena College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Loudonville,_New_York" title="Loudonville, New York">Loudonville, New York</a>—one year into the Obama presidency—238 US history and political science professors ranked Obama 15th of 43 US presidents.<a href="#cite_note-501">[492]</a> In a September 2010 survey by the United States Presidency Centre of the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_the_Study_of_the_Americas" title="Institute for the Study of the Americas">Institute for the Study of the Americas</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> <a href="/wiki/School_of_Advanced_Study" title="School of Advanced Study">School of Advanced Study</a>—one year and eight months into the Obama presidency—47 unnamed respondents who were UK academic specialists on American history and politics ranked 40 of 42 US presidents from 1789 to 2009, not including Obama; if Obama had been included he would have ranked 8th, behind Harry S. Truman but ahead of Ronald Reagan and all other post-World War II US presidents.<a href="#cite_note-502">[493]</a><a href="#cite_note-503">[494]</a><a href="#cite_note-504">[495]</a> In a June 2012 survey by <a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a> magazine—three years and five months into the Obama presidency—ten selected American historians and biographers ranked Obama 10th of 20 US presidents since 1900.<a href="#cite_note-505">[496]</a><a href="#cite_note-506">[497]</a> In an April 2013 survey by <a href="/wiki/History_News_Network" title="History News Network">History News Network</a> (HNN) website in Seattle—four years and three months into the Obama presidency—203 scholars from 69 top US colleges and universities gave Obama a B− grade on an A–F scale.<a href="#cite_note-507">[498]</a> A February 2015 <a href="/wiki/Brookings_Institution" title="Brookings Institution">Brookings Institution</a> survey of members of the <a href="/wiki/American_Political_Science_Association" title="American Political Science Association">American Political Science Association</a> put Obama in 18th place out of the 43 presidents.<a href="#cite_note-rottinghaus-508">[499]</a> Additionally, a 2011 Gallup poll found that 5% of Americans saw Obama as the country's greatest president.<a href="#cite_note-509">[500]</a> As Obama left office, historians expressed various opinions about his effectiveness as president, with many noting that subsequent events would determine his ultimate legacy.<a href="#cite_note-timehistorians1-510">[501]</a><a href="#cite_note-lewisdjupe1-511">[502]</a> There was universal agreement that Obama would long be remembered as the first African-American president.<a href="#cite_note-timehistorians1-510">[501]</a><a href="#cite_note-lewisdjupe1-511">[502]</a><a href="#cite_note-feldmann1-512">[503]</a> Many noted that Obama presided over an economic recovery and passed major domestic legislation, but 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ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> Obama is mixed race; his mother <a href="/wiki/Ann_Dunham" title="Ann Dunham">Ann Dunham</a> was white, though Obama considers himself African-American<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-Congress3-6">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Congress3_6-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Congress3_6-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Congress3_6-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Congress3_6-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Congress3_6-4">e</a> 17 days of the 111th Congress (January 3, 2009 – January 19, 2009) took place under President Bush, and 17 days of the 115th Congress (January 3, 2017 – January 19, 2017) took place during Obama's second term. </li> <li id="cite_note-fiscalyear-102"><a href="#cite_ref-fiscalyear_102-0">^</a> The income, outlay, and deficit numbers reflect <a href="/wiki/Fiscal_year" title="Fiscal year">fiscal years</a> which last from October to September; for example, the 2014 fiscal year lasted from October 2013 to September 2014. </li> <li id="cite_note-Clintontaxes-137"><a href="#cite_ref-Clintontaxes_137-0">^</a> Numbers reflect post-<a href="/wiki/Omnibus_Budget_Reconciliation_Act_of_1993" title="Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993">OBRA 93</a> tax brackets. </li> <li id="cite_note-Bushtaxes-138"><a href="#cite_ref-Bushtaxes_138-0">^</a> Numbers reflect post-<a href="/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts" title="Bush tax cuts">Bush tax cuts</a> tax brackets. </li> <li id="cite_note-Obamataxes-139"><a href="#cite_ref-Obamataxes_139-0">^</a> Numbers reflect post-<a href="/wiki/American_Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_2012" title="American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012">American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012</a> tax brackets. </li> <li id="cite_note-Ryan2015-471"><a href="#cite_ref-Ryan2015_471-0">^</a> John Boehner resigned as Speaker of the House on October 29, 2015. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Paul Ryan</a> was <a href="/wiki/October_2015_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election" title="October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election">elected</a> to replace Boehner as Speaker of the House on October 29, 2015. </li> <li id="cite_note-Congress-472"><a href="#cite_ref-Congress_472-0">^</a> Democratic seats at the start of each session of Congress. Independents caucusing with the Democratic Party (Senators <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman">Joe Lieberman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Angus_King" title="Angus King">Angus King</a>) are counted as Democrats for the purposes of this table. Throughout Obama's presidency, there were a total of 100 Senate seats in 435 House seats, so a Democratic majority in the Senate required 50 seats (since Democratic vice president <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> could provide the <a href="/wiki/List_of_tie-breaking_votes_cast_by_the_vice_president_of_the_United_States" title="List of tie-breaking votes cast by the vice president of the United States">tie-breaking vote</a>), and a Democratic majority in the House required 218 seats (assuming no vacancies). </li> <li id="cite_note-Congress2-473"><a href="#cite_ref-Congress2_473-0">^</a> In 2009, Democrats briefly gained a "<a href="/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate" title="Filibuster in the United States Senate">filibuster</a>-proof" 60 Senate seats after <a href="/wiki/Al_Franken" title="Al Franken">Al Franken</a> won an <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Minnesota,_2008" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008">extremely close election</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arlen_Specter" title="Arlen Specter">Arlen Specter</a> switched parties, but the number of Senate Democrats went down to 59 seats after <a href="/wiki/Scott_Brown_(politician)" title="Scott Brown (politician)">Scott Brown</a> won a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Massachusetts,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010">January 2010 special election</a> in Massachusetts. </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(13)"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div><section class="mf-section-13 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-13"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28216005">"Obama's true colors: Black, white ... 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Simon & Schuster. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4391-0119-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4391-0119-3"><bdi>978-1-4391-0119-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Promise%3A+President+Obama%2C+Year+One&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-4391-0119-3&rft.aulast=Alter&rft.aufirst=Jonathan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpromisepresident00alte&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Baker, Peter (2017). Obama: The Call of History. New York Times/Callaway. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-935112-90-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-935112-90-0"><bdi>978-0-935112-90-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Obama%3A+The+Call+of+History&rft.pub=New+York+Times%2FCallaway&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=978-0-935112-90-0&rft.aulast=Baker&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Bald, Dan, ed. Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the future of elections in America (2012) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Collision-2012-Election-Politics-Divided-ebook/dp/B00AEBEUHO/">excerpt</a></li> <li>Cobb, Jelani. The substance of hope: Barack Obama and the paradox of progress (Bloomsbury, 2020).</li> <li>Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 13: 2009–2012 (CQ Press, 2013) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781452270340/page/n5/mode/2up">online</a>, 1075 pp of highly detailed coverage of all major themes <ul><li>Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 14: 2012–2016 (CQ Press, 2017)</li></ul></li> <li>Conley, Richard S., and Kevin Baron. "Obama's 'Hidden-Hand' Presidency: Myth, Metaphor, or Misrepresentation?." White House Studies 13 (2015): 129–57.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Crotty, William, ed. (2012). The Obama Presidency: Promise and Performance. Lexington Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7391-7234-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7391-7234-6"><bdi>978-0-7391-7234-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Obama+Presidency%3A+Promise+and+Performance&rft.pub=Lexington+Books&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-7391-7234-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Dowdle, Andrew; Van Raemdonck, Dirk C.; Maranto, Robert (2011). The Obama Presidency: Change and Continuity. Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-415-88770-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-415-88770-0"><bdi>978-0-415-88770-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Obama+Presidency%3A+Change+and+Continuity&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-415-88770-0&rft.aulast=Dowdle&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft.au=Van+Raemdonck%2C+Dirk+C.&rft.au=Maranto%2C+Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Esposito, Luigi; Finley, Laura L. (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/grading44thpresi0000unse">Grading the 44th President: A Report Card on Barack Obama's First Term as a Progressive Leader</a>. Bloomsbury Academic. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-39843-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-39843-8"><bdi>978-0-313-39843-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Grading+the+44th+President%3A+A+Report+Card+on+Barack+Obama%27s+First+Term+as+a+Progressive+Leader&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Academic&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-313-39843-8&rft.aulast=Esposito&rft.aufirst=Luigi&rft.au=Finley%2C+Laura+L.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgrading44thpresi0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Gaman-Golutvina, Oxana. "Political elites in the USA under George W. Bush and Barack Obama: Structure and international politics." Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 43.4 (2018): 141–163. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/60770/ssoar-hsr-2018-4-gaman-golutvina-Political_Elites_in_the_USA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&lnkname=ssoar-hsr-2018-4-gaman-golutvina-Political_Elites_in_the_USA.pdf">online</a></li> <li>Gillespie, Andra. Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, symbols, and hope (Manchester University Press, 2019)</li> <li>Goolsbee, Austan D., and Alan B. Krueger. "A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler." Journal of Economic Perspectives 29.2 (2015): 3–24. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.2.3">online</a></li> <li>Grunwald, Michael. The new New Deal: the hidden story of change in the Obama era (2012), by TIME magazine editor. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Hidden-Story-Change/dp/1451642326/">excerpt</a></li> <li>Holzer, Harold. The Presidents Vs. the Press: The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media—from the Founding Fathers to Fake News (Dutton, 2020) pp. 377–401. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=siY6EAAAQBAJ&dq=HOLZER+PRESS+Harold&pg=PR15">online</a></li> <li>Kesler, Charles R. I am the change: Barack Obama and the crisis of liberalism (2012); comparing Obama to Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Am-Change-Barack-Future-Liberalism/dp/0062073028/">excerpt</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Keller, Morton (2015). Obama's Time: A History. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-938337-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-938337-5"><bdi>978-0-19-938337-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Obama%27s+Time%3A+A+History&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-0-19-938337-5&rft.aulast=Keller&rft.aufirst=Morton&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Lansford, Tom, et al. Leadership and Legacy: The Presidency of Barack Obama (SUNY 2021), 320pp <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Legacy-Presidency-Barack-Contemporary/dp/143848187X/">excerpt</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">McElya, Micki (2011). "To "Choose Our Better History": Assessing the Obama Presidency in Real Time". American Quarterly. 63: 179–189. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Faq.2011.0012">10.1353/aq.2011.0012</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145168784">145168784</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Quarterly&rft.atitle=To+%22Choose+Our+Better+History%22%3A+Assessing+the+Obama+Presidency+in+Real+Time&rft.volume=63&rft.pages=179-189&rft.date=2011&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Faq.2011.0012&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A145168784%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=McElya&rft.aufirst=Micki&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li>McGuinn, Patrick. "From no child left behind to the every student succeeds act: Federalism and the education legacy of the Obama administration." Publius 46.3 (2016): 392–415. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/download/46313792/Publius-2016-McGuinn-publius-pjw014.pdf">online</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">permanent dead link</a>‍]</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Pomante II, Michael J.; Schraufnagel, Scot (2018). Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration. 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Random House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-525-50935-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-525-50935-6"><bdi>978-0-525-50935-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+World+as+It+Is%3A+A+Memoir+of+the+Obama+White+House&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-0-525-50935-6&rft.aulast=Rhodes&rft.aufirst=Ben&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Rich, Wilbur C. Looking Back on President Barack Obama's Legacy: Hope and Change (2019)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Rockman, Bert A.; Rudalevige, Andrew; Campbell, Colin (July 26, 2011). The Obama Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects. SAGE Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-60871-685-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-60871-685-2"><bdi>978-1-60871-685-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Obama+Presidency%3A+Appraisals+and+Prospects&rft.pub=SAGE+Publications&rft.date=2011-07-26&rft.isbn=978-1-60871-685-2&rft.aulast=Rockman&rft.aufirst=Bert+A.&rft.au=Rudalevige%2C+Andrew&rft.au=Campbell%2C+Colin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Rosenberg, Jerry M. (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope0000rose">The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007–2012</a>. Scarecrow Press 2nd edition 708pp. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-8340-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-8340-6"><bdi>978-0-8108-8340-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Concise+Encyclopedia+of+The+Great+Recession+2007%E2%80%932012&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press+2nd+edition+708pp&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-8340-6&rft.aulast=Rosenberg&rft.aufirst=Jerry+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fconciseencyclope0000rose&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">Rudalevige, Andrew (2012). ""A Majority is the Best Repartee": Barack Obama and Congress, 2009-2012". Social Science Quarterly. 93 (5): 1272–1294. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1540-6237.2012.00910.x">10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00910.x</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Social+Science+Quarterly&rft.atitle=%22A+Majority+is+the+Best+Repartee%22%3A+Barack+Obama+and+Congress%2C+2009-2012&rft.volume=93&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=1272-1294&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1540-6237.2012.00910.x&rft.aulast=Rudalevige&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">Rudalevige, Andrew (2016). "The Contemporary Presidency: The Obama Administrative Presidency: Some Late-Term Patterns". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 46 (4): 868–890. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpsq.12323">10.1111/psq.12323</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Presidential+Studies+Quarterly&rft.atitle=The+Contemporary+Presidency%3A+The+Obama+Administrative+Presidency%3A+Some+Late-Term+Patterns&rft.volume=46&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=868-890&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fpsq.12323&rft.aulast=Rudalevige&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">Skocpol, Theda; Jacobs, Lawrence R. (2012). "Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama's Presidency". Political Science Quarterly. 127: 1–24. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fj.1538-165X.2012.tb00718.x">10.1002/j.1538-165X.2012.tb00718.x</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Political+Science+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Accomplished+and+Embattled%3A+Understanding+Obama%27s+Presidency&rft.volume=127&rft.pages=1-24&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1002%2Fj.1538-165X.2012.tb00718.x&rft.aulast=Skocpol&rft.aufirst=Theda&rft.au=Jacobs%2C+Lawrence+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Skocpol, Theda; Jacobs, Lawrence R. (2011). "Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama's First Two Years". Reaching for a New Deal. Russell Sage Foundation. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87154-855-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87154-855-9"><bdi>978-0-87154-855-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610447119">10.7758/9781610447119</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ambitious+Governance%2C+Economic+Meltdown%2C+and+Polarized+Politics+in+Obama%27s+First+Two+Years&rft.btitle=Reaching+for+a+New+Deal&rft.pub=Russell+Sage+Foundation&rft.date=2011&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.7758%2F9781610447119%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.isbn=978-0-87154-855-9&rft.aulast=Skocpol&rft.aufirst=Theda&rft.au=Jacobs%2C+Lawrence+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Tesler, Michael. Post-racial or most-racial? Race and politics in the Obama era (U of Chicago Press, 2020).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Thurber, James A. (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/obamainoffice0000unse">Obama in Office</a>. Paradigm Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59451-993-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59451-993-2"><bdi>978-1-59451-993-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Obama+in+Office&rft.pub=Paradigm+Publishers&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-59451-993-2&rft.aulast=Thurber&rft.aufirst=James+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fobamainoffice0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Watson, Robert P.; Covarrubias, Jack; Lansford, Tom; Brattebo, Douglas M. (July 2012). The Obama Presidency: A Preliminary Assessment. SUNY Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4384-4329-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4384-4329-4"><bdi>978-1-4384-4329-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Obama+Presidency%3A+A+Preliminary+Assessment&rft.pub=SUNY+Press&rft.date=2012-07&rft.isbn=978-1-4384-4329-4&rft.aulast=Watson&rft.aufirst=Robert+P.&rft.au=Covarrubias%2C+Jack&rft.au=Lansford%2C+Tom&rft.au=Brattebo%2C+Douglas+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li>White, John Kenneth. Barack Obama's America: how new conceptions of race, family, and religion ended the Reagan era (University of Michigan Press, 2009).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Wilson, John K. (2009). President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union. Paradigm. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59451-477-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59451-477-7"><bdi>978-1-59451-477-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=President+Barack+Obama%3A+A+More+Perfect+Union&rft.pub=Paradigm&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-59451-477-7&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=John+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Zelizer, Julian E. (2018). The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment. Princeton University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-16028-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-691-16028-3"><bdi>978-0-691-16028-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Presidency+of+Barack+Obama%3A+A+First+Historical+Assessment&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-0-691-16028-3&rft.aulast=Zelizer&rft.aufirst=Julian+E.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APresidency+of+Barack+Obama" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_and_military_policy">Foreign and military policy</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration#Further_reading" title="Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration">Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration § Further reading</a></div> <ul><li>Anderson, Jeffrey J. "Rancor and resilience in the Atlantic Political Order: the Obama years." Transatlantic Relations in Times of Uncertainty (Routledge, 2020). 114–129. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffrey-Anderson-20/publication/342298322_Rancor_and_resilience_in_the_Atlantic_Political_Order_the_Obama_years/links/60268c79299bf1cc26bf9311/Rancor-and-resilience-in-the-Atlantic-Political-Order-the-Obama-years.pdf">online</a></li> <li>Bentley, Michelle, and Jack Holland, eds. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bG3ADAAAQBAJ&q=%22The+Obama+Doctrine%3A+A+Legacy+of+Continuity+in+US+Foreign+Policy%3F%22">The Obama Doctrine: A Legacy of Continuity in US Foreign Policy?</a> (Routledge, 2016).</li> <li>Bentley, Michelle and Jack Holland, eds. Obama's Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror (Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy) (2013) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Obamas-Foreign-Policy-Routledge-Studies-ebook/dp/B00FQGQIAY/">excerpt and text search</a></li> <li>Bose, Meena. "Appraising the foreign policy legacy of the Obama presidency." in Wilbur C. Rich, ed., Looking Back on President Barack Obama's Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019) pp. 93–113.</li> <li>Ganguly, Šumit. "Obama, Trump and Indian foreign policy under Modi." International Politics 59.1 (2022): 9–23. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/s41311-021-00294-4.pdf">online</a></li> <li>Green, Michael J. By more than providence: grand strategy and American power in the Asia Pacific since 1783 (2017) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Providence-American-East-Relations/dp/0231180438/">excerpt</a> pp 518–40.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Indyk, Martin; Lieberthal, Kenneth; O'Hanlon, Michael E. (2012). Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy. 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