President Joe Biden

President Joe Biden sent a $5.8 trillion budget request to Congress for a billionaire tax and boosting funding for national security.

“Because those discussions with Congress are ongoing, the budget does not include specific line items for the investments associated with that future legislation. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of photos and graphics. “In addition, I’m calling for continued investment to forcefully respond to Putin’s aggression against Ukraine with U.S. support for Ukraine’s economic, humanitarian and security needs.” Biden sought to highlight that increased spending in his fiscal 2023 request wouldn’t mean boosting the annual deficit. The rest of the funding would go toward mandatory spending on programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. “Mental health is essential to overall health, and the United States faces a mental health crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” the budget states. The budget request also calls on lawmakers to require private health insurance plans to cover mental health and substance use disorder benefits, as well as ensuring the plans have “an adequate network of behavioral health providers.” Biden’s budget proposal asks lawmakers to end “special treatment for the types of income that wealthy people enjoy” by creating a minimum tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires that would ensure those people pay at least 20% of their total income in federal income taxes. He also proposed $9.9 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to “expand public health infrastructure in states and territories, strengthen the public health workforce” and study long COVID-19 to establish diagnosis and treatment options. White House Budget Director Shalanda Young said Monday that even though there’s no specific “Build Back Better” proposal in the budget request, Biden is still “committed to working with Congress to pass legislation that reduces the deficit; cuts health care, energy, childcare and other costs for families; and reforms the tax system.” “Overall, the Budget reduces deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and deficits under the Budget policies would fall to less than one-third of the 2020 level the President inherited.” the budget says, referring to the Trump administration. “I’m calling for one of the largest investments in our national security in history, with the funds needed to ensure that our military remains the best-prepared, best-trained, best equipped military in the world,” Biden said in a statement.

President Joe Biden is continuing to clarify his seemingly unscripted suggestion Saturday in Poland that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in ...

At least twice in the last month, he has called the Russian president a "war criminal," adding he thinks Putin "will meet the legal definition." We want to stop the war that Russia launched in Ukraine, without waging war and without escalation." In this case, as in any case, it's up to the people of the country in question. "The last part of the speech was talking to the Russian people, telling them what we thought. And the idea that he is going to do something outrageous because I called him for what he was and what he's doing, I think is just not rational," Biden said. "Given his behavior, people should understand that he is going to do what he thinks he should do, period.

President Joe Biden said his statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" did not reflect a policy shift by the United States.

"That doesn't mean we have a fundamental policy to do anything to take Putin down in any way." - "I was expressing the moral outrage I felt" after having visited with Ukrainian refugees. Despite the uproar, Biden stood by his original statement.

During a speech in Warsaw, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” with White House aids jumping in to clear up the incident. When ...

Zelensky says his country is “ready to go” when it comes to “security guarantees and neutrality” as well as a “non-nuclear status”. As the threat of nuclear warfare lingers, the UN Secretary General says there are steps being taken to guarantee the security of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities. As Ukraine and Russia peace talks get set to resume this week in Turkey, it appears Russian President Vladimir Putin is unwilling to compromise.

President Joe Biden referred to a printed cheat sheet sheet as he doubled down on his unscripted weekend claim that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power.”

“I was talking to the Russian people. The fact is they do, but it doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it.” There’s no — I mean, people like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do.

Biden said Monday that he is not walking anything back after his weekend comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power," although ...

We want to stop the war that Russia launched in Ukraine, without waging war and without escalation.” “I wasn’t articulating a policy change.” But they do,” he said. Speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem, Blinken said Biden meant that “Putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone else.” “Nobody believes … I was talking about taking down Putin,” Biden said, adding that “the last thing I want to do is engage in a land war or a nuclear war with Russia.” The president’s jarring remark about Putin, which came at the end of a Saturday speech in Warsaw that was intended to rally democracies for a long global struggle against autocracy, drew criticism in the United States and rattled some allies in Western Europe.