Biden tells congressional leaders that Ukraine, COVID are priorities.
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that securing funding for Ukraine and COVID-19 are his priorities before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives early next year.
Biden held talks with Democratic and Republican leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate on what can be done in the remaining weeks when Democrats still control both chambers.
Republicans won a narrow majority in the House in the Nov. 8 midterm elections and will take over in January, complicating Biden's agenda for the next two years. Biden's Democrats retained control of the Senate.
Biden said as the leaders began their talks that he wanted to discuss "what we're going to do between now and Christmas in terms of legislation."
He said funding more military assistance for Ukraine, an objective that House Republicans have talked about stalling when they take over in January, is a priority as well as funding measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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Biden has a penchant for letting his mouth get him into areas of uncertainty and confusion, such as when he made the statement on 60 minutes in September that the “ pandemic is over”. Either in his mind it was over, and in his health advisor’s minds it was not? Funding for Ukraine while Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine cities and populations? What’s going on with that aid? Even the Europeans are alleging his administration is war profiteering. The man needs to be sent out via the 25th Amendment .
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@soar2newhighs Did your mouth get you into areas of uncertainty when you were chatting up that sissy dude, and asking if you could slide into his DMs? Because you deleted all your comments when I asked if you like sissies, so maybe it was an area of uncertainty..?
