Biden added that the U.S. has “performed loads” to verify Ukraine has the “capability to coordinate militarily.”
Biden on Saturday additionally conveyed a hopeful outlook on U.S.-China relations forward of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s journey to Beijing this weekend.
Blinken had been set to go to China in February however the journey was canceled after a U.S. fighter jet downed a Chinese language spy balloon off the coast of the Carolinas.
Biden indicated to reporters that the balloon could not have been an intentional spying effort by the Chinese language authorities.
“I don’t assume the management knew the place it was, and knew what was in it, and knew what was occurring,” Biden mentioned. “I believe it was extra embarrassing than it was intentional.”
Along with Blinken’s go to, Biden indicated that he would meet with China’s President Xi Jinping once more “over the following a number of months” to debate “get alongside” regardless of “legit variations.”
Upon arrival in Philadelphia, the place Biden is scheduled to headline a rally with labor unions and overfly the location of the I-95 bridge collapse, the president was greeted by adviser Anita Dunn, Sen. Bob Casey, Rep. Brendan Boyle, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. John Fetterman.
At a press briefing with the Pennsylvania officers following the aerial tour of the I-95, Biden mentioned “there’s no extra vital challenge proper now within the nation, so far as I’m involved,” and mentioned he was directing his staff “not figuratively, however actually, to maneuver heaven and earth to get this performed as quickly as humanly doable.”
Biden additionally dedicated that the federal authorities would “reimburse 100%” of the primary part of I-95 reconstruction, after which “90 %” of the bills thereafter.
Requested earlier whether or not he anticipated a contentious presidential marketing campaign, Biden quipped: “It is dependent upon who the nominee is.”
