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Additional pardons, measures to prevent domestic political extremism and more military aid to Israel are among the plans Biden and his administration have in the final days before handing over to President-elect Donald Trump and his team.
Biden will end his presidency with one more international trip, during which will travel to Italy and the Vatican City to meet with Pope Francis, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella. Biden’s trip to the Vatican aims to discuss ways to advance peace around the world with Pope Francis, and his time with Italy’s heads of state will serve to highlight the strength of alliance between the USA and Italy. the white house he said Biden also plans to thank Meloni for his leadership of the G7 over the past year and discuss future challenges facing the world’s leading nations.
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President Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni deliver prepared remarks during a meeting in the Oval Office on March 1, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
When Biden returns from overseas, the president will address the nation two more times before Trump’s inauguration, Biden administration sources told NBC News. The first speech will focus on foreign policy, while the second will serve as Biden’s farewell address during his final days in the Oval Office. Neither speech has been fully drafted, sources said Saturday.
Sources familiar with the matter also indicated that Biden is considering additional pardons for people deemed to have received unusually harsh sentences, measures to combat domestic violent extremism in the US and additional military funding (roughly $8 billion, the Department of Defense said ‘State) in Israel in the midst of its ongoing course. war with Hamas
The pardons come after Biden set a record for the largest single-day clemency when he commuted the sentences of about 1,500 people in mid-December. Sources told NBC News that Biden was also considering preemptive pardons for those who could face political retribution from Trump.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice indicated Monday that he was still weighing whether to do so process an additional 200 cases on January 6 in the final days before Trump’s inauguration, during which he is expected to grant pardons to many of those convicted of crimes related to their involvement in that day’s events.
Scene from the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
In addition to the action plans Biden and his administration plan to take before Trump takes office, it’s also worth noting that Biden won’t act under pressure to strengthen protections for transgender student athletes or cancel any additional debt from student loans, according to Associated. press
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Biden’s actions after Trump’s election victory in November have drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle.
“This is one of the lamest ducks we’ve seen with a Democratic administration,” a spokesman for the nonprofit Justice Democrats said last month. “There is no leadership coming from the White House,” a Democrat close to top lawmakers also said. “There is a total void.”
Some Democratic lawmakers, including Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, were angered by Biden’s lack of resistance to many of Trump’s cabinet picks.
President Biden and President-elect Trump (Getty Images/File)
Republicans, on the other hand, have challenged Biden’s actions in the final weeks of his presidency as an affront to the American public that voted for Trump.
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“On my way out the door, President Biden he’s governing as he’s always wanted, as a far-left ideologue determined to push the country in a direction disconnected from the will of the voters,” said GOP campaign strategist Colin Reed.
“While Trump can undo whatever Biden does, Biden is trying to create litigation traps for Trump that will discourage investors from projects on public lands,” added Steve Milloy, a fellow at the American Energy Institute, after Monday’s learned that Biden moved again. restrict domestic energy production in certain areas. The move is part of a series of actions Biden has taken in recent weeks to bolster the country’s defenses against Trump’s plans to roll back many of his green energy initiatives.
Trump attacked Biden’s last-minute policy decisions in an interview Monday, calling out the lame-duck president for making a “smooth transition” more difficult.
“I see it just came out that Biden has banned all oil and gas drilling on 625 million acres of US coastal territory. It’s ridiculous. I will unban it immediately. I have the right to rescind it immediately. What is it? does it? why does it do it?” Trump said during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “You know we have something that no one else has. No one has it to the extent that we have it, and it will be more when we’re done, because I’ll be able to expand.”
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