In his last day as president, Joe Biden pardoned five members of his extended family, including his two brothers, James Biden and Francis Biden, and his sister Valerie Biden Owens. He also issued pardons to former White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci, who helped coordinate the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

Just hours before leaving office Monday, Jan. 19, President Joe Biden pardoned potential targets of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, including Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino.

In a move fulfilling one of now-President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, the Trump administration shuttered the use of CBP One, a President Joe Biden-era app meant to help process migrants seeking to apply for asylum in the U.S.

It was just moments before Joe Biden's presidential term ended when he announced pardons for his siblings and their spouses.

"We’re leaving office, we’re not leaving the fight," Joe Biden told supporters Monday as the now former president prepared to leave Washington DC after one-term and the return of Donald Trump. As Biden spoke,

Biden said Republican-led states "really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to Dr Anthony Fauci, General Mark A Milley, and members of the January 6 Committee ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

The statement stressed that the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.

President Joe Biden's executive opinion on the Equal Rights Amendment comes in the final days of his presidency. Some local advocates wish he and Democrats had acted sooner.