The White House has issued a high-level clarification following President Biden’s remarks suggesting potential disunity within NATO over how to respond in the event of a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine. “Look, we’re also increasing testing. Should we have done more testing earlier? Yes. But we’re doing more now,” he said. Pandemic: The President admitted that more should have been done in terms of Covid-19 testing availability.
Inflation: Biden acknowledged Americans are struggling with the high cost of living and threw his weight behind the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight inflation.Russia and Ukraine: During his news conference, Biden suggested a “minor incursion” by Russia would elicit a lesser response than a full-scale invasion of the country.The Senate is scheduled to vote on procedures later tonight in an effort to clear a path to pass voting rights legislation, but those efforts are expected to fail. I make no bones about that, it’s going to be difficult, but we’re not there yet. We’ve not run out of options yet and we’ll see how this moves,” he said. He added that it will be “difficult” to have fair elections if voting rights laws aren’t passed. Voting rights: The President admitted that the current voting rights legislation will likely not pass.
The economic package was stalled last month, when a deal with Democratic Sen. “I think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, come back and fight for the rest later,” the President said.
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