Pres. Biden will embark on his first overseas trip Wednesday morning, seeking to reaffirm the United States’ standing on the world stage with familiar allies, and portray himself as the leader of the free world.
Meanwhile, Republicans are negotiating over President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure package.President Joe Biden headed out on his first overseas trip since taking office Wednesday, seeking to reaffirm the United States' standing on the world stage with familiar allies, and portraying himself as the leader of the free world, including in his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Biden also jokingly warned reporters,"Watch out for cicadas," saying he had to brush one off his neck."I just got one, it got me." MORE: Biden to make first overseas trip to UK, Belgium in June Along the way, Biden will try to frame it all in a way that appeals to Americans at home. He’ll address a gamut of issues with world leaders, from climate change to taxes, from defense to trade, and work to convince Americans that it’s all in service of his Build Back Better agenda; the push to recover equitably from the economic downturn of the pandemic.
"We don't think in terms of US-Russia summits as being about deliverables because if you're going to wait for really significant deliverables, you could be waiting a long time, conceivably,” White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters Monday.Looming over all of Biden’s trip will be the COVID-19 virus -- altering both the subject matter and the proceedings of the events.
During the last G-7 virtual meeting in April, leaders were unwilling to commit to sharing a specific number of doses, nor would they offer a timeline. On Monday, a group of think tanks and public health experts called for G-7 leaders to commit to sharing 1 billion to 2 billion doses by the end of 2021, in order to facilitate widespread global vaccination by the end of 2022.
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