Biden is trying to close a rift with France created when the U.S. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, will meet Friday with Pope Francis at the Vatican in a visit that is part personal for the intensely religious commander in chief and part policy, particularly around matters of climate and confronting autocracies.īiden will also pay a visit to the Italian hosts of the G-20 summit before he sits down with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Reaching for a deal that has had a perilous journey thus far, the president is beginning his trip abroad with an expert in the power of prayer. “They don’t look at it through the prism of whether there is a vote in one body of the legislative body before he gets on an airplane,” Psaki said. lawmakers in order to judge Biden’s commitment. White House press secretary Jen Psaki stressed that the president can still work the phones from Rome, the city that gave birth to the word “Senate.” She suggested on Wednesday that foreign leaders can see beyond ongoing back-room talks with U.S. “It’d be very, very positive to get it done before the trip,” Biden said Monday.īut as talks slogged on, administration officials began to play down the significance of Biden’s spending plan still hovering in limbo rather than being locked down. Biden aides have hoped for, among other things, a more than $500 billion investment to combat climate change in the United States, which would help efforts to persuade China and other nations to make investments of their own in renewable energy. Kyrsten Sinema, whose votes are essential in a Senate evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. One consequence of Biden’s decision to so closely link up his domestic and foreign policies is that both are now at the mercy of West Virginia Sen. Only about a third of Americans say the country is headed in the right direction, also a significant decline since earlier this year when about half said so.
According to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, just 41% of Americans now approve of Biden’s economic stewardship, down from 49% in August and a sharp reversal since March, when 60% approved.Īmericans are split on Biden overall, with 48% approving and 51% disapproving of his handling of his job as president. It could be harder to get the world to commit to his stated goals if Americans refuse to fully embrace them, one of the risks of Biden’s choice to knit together his domestic and foreign policies.īiden’s trip abroad comes as he faces an increasingly pessimistic nation at home, and souring views of his handling of the nation’s economy. This has tied any success abroad to his efforts to get Congress to advance his environmental, tax, infrastructure and social policies. diplomacy with the interests of the middle class. But it’s written right into the slogan for the Group of 20 meeting in Rome: “People, Planet, Prosperity.”īiden, who planned to deliver East Room remarks before leaving Washington on Thursday, has promised to align U.S. Those stakes might seem a bit high for a pair of two-day gatherings attended by the global elite and their entourages. Headed first to Rome and then to Glasgow, Scotland, Biden will be pressed to deliver concrete ideas for stopping a global pandemic, boosting economic growth and halting the acceleration of climate change. As he prepares to push that message at a pair of global summits, his case could hinge on what’s happening in Washington, where he is rushing to finalize a major domestic legislative package.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden promised to show the world that democracies can work to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
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