The meeting in Peru is Biden and Xi’s last chance to signal the value of ongoing high-level U.S.-China communication — dialogues it isn’t clear a Trump administration will continue.
The outgoing president is expected to cement his legacy and reassure allies – but his lame duck status is clear.
Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to preserve at least some of the outgoing president’s legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
“Breakfast Club” host Charlamagne Tha God on Thursday knocked President Joe Biden for abandoning his warnings about President-elect Donald Trump during a transition meeting at the White House.
“Biden/Harris don’t bear primary blame for the inflation,” said Jeffrey Frankel, a Harvard University economist. “Primary blame, rather, goes to supply constraints as the economy came out of Covid and the acceleration of commodity prices that came with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
When President Joe Biden’s aides were planning his visit to South America this week for a pair of leaders’ summits, two vastly different scenarios were in play.
Biden will travel to Peru and Brazil for leader summits as he looks to define his legacy and assure allies of America's role on the world stage.
Capitol Hill Democrats are pressing the White House to pull out all the stops to gird the executive branch against President-elect’s Trump’s promised efforts to tear down federal agencies and restructure them to his liking.
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Japan and South Korea's leaders on Friday as they seek to preserve their diplomatic progress ahead of a new Trump administration that many fear could upend alliances worldwide.
At a campaign event in Georgia in July 2024, Jill Biden referred to Trump as "evil" as she spoke about comments the president-elect is said to have made about the military in private. "Does Donald Trump know anything about military? N o, he disparages those who sacrifice for our country," Biden said.
President Joe Biden heads to South America on Thursday for a curtain call with global leaders after over 50 years in U.S. politics, but the man he tried and failed to keep from returning to power is likely to be the focus of many meetings: incoming President Donald Trump.