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Joe Biden Press Conference: Here Is Everything President Biden Said

Joe Biden press conference held today and here is everything he said.

NewsOne Nigeria reports that President Joe Biden held his first news conference since taking office more than two months ago. The high-profile event came as his administration grapples with the pandemic, a struggling economy, a border surge and new threats from North Korea.

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Biden says North Korea is top foreign policy issue facing U.S.

President Joe Biden said Thursday that North Korea is the top foreign policy issue facing the United States, echoing former President Barack Obama’s warning to ex-President Donald Trump before he took office.

The comments at Biden’s first formal press conference since he was inaugurated came after North Korea conducted short-range missile tests last weekend. On Thursday, North Korea also tested its first ballistic missiles since Biden took office.

Biden said that North Korea’s tests violated U.N. Resolution 1718 and that the U.S. is talking with allies and partners. He warned that there will be “responses” if North Korea escalates, but signaled he was open to diplomacy.

“We will respond accordingly,” Biden said Thursday. “But I’m also prepared for some form of diplomacy, but it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization.”

Biden wants Mexico to accept migrant families who enter the U.S.

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he’s in negotiations with Mexico and hopes to get it to accept back all migrant families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Biden said it is his administration’s goal to only allow unaccompanied minors arriving at the border to remain in the U.S.

Biden says he ‘can’t picture’ U.S. troops in Afghanistan next year

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he “can’t picture” having U.S. troops still in Afghanistan next year, but acknowledged that they may not all be out of the country by the May 1 deadline set by his predecessor.

“I can’t picture that being the case,” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question about whether troops will be there a year from now.

Biden: ‘My plan is to run for reelection’ in 2024

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he expects to run for reelection in 2024 with Vice President Kamala Harris on the ticket.

“The answer is yes, my plan is to run for reelection,” Biden said at his first presidential news conference. “That’s my expectation.”

When asked about the potential for another Biden-Harris ticket, Biden praised Harris for the work she’s done so far.

“I would fully expect that to be the case,” he said. “She’s doing a great job. She’s a great partner.”

Biden decries GOP’s ‘un-American’ onslaught on voting laws

President Joe Biden expressed outrage at the GOP-driven effort in many states to implement new constraints on voting access in the aftermath of the 2020 election.

“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is,” Biden said at his first formal news conference. “It’s sick. It’s sick.”

Biden dodges on eliminating the Senate filibuster

President Joe Biden declined to say Thursday that he would support ending the 60-vote threshold required for Senate passage of most bills, even as the arcane maneuver continues to imperil Democrats’ legislative agenda.

Biden’s remarks came during his first news conference as president, in response to a question about how many votes should be required to break a filibuster: 60, or a simple majority of 51. He had not previously addressed that central issue, even while suggesting senators should be forced to talk at greater length to sustain their objections to legislation.

“If we could end it with 51, we would have no problem,” Biden said, allowing that “it’s going to be hard to get a parliamentary ruling that allows 50 votes to end the filibuster, the existence of a filibuster.”

“But it’s not my expertise in what the parliamentary rules and how to get there are,” Biden continued. He spent nearly four decades as a Delaware Democratic senator before becoming vice president and now commander-in-chief.

Biden doubles vaccine goal for first 100 days

President Joe Biden said Thursday that his administration is aiming to distribute 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines in its first 100 days, doubling the original goal after easily surpassing it last week.

Biden framed the more ambitious target as the best and fastest way to contain the virus, which he said is his most important mission.

“I know it’s ambitious, twice our original goal, but no other country in the world has come close … to what we are doing,” Biden said in comments at the top of his first formal press conference.

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