President Joe Biden took questions from the media along with Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young as he introduced his budget request for fiscal year 2023.
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President Joe Biden took questions from the media along with Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young as he introduced his budget request for fiscal year 2023.
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President Biden has defended his controversial remarks in which he appeared to call for regime change in Russia over the weekend – Comment out of script already quickly walked back by his manager.
“I’m not commuting anything,” he told reporters Monday after making Monday’s remarks. about freeing his budget. “I’m expressing the moral outrage I feel and I’m not apologizing for it.”
On Saturday, Biden, introducing his trip to NATO, said: “For God’s sake, this man cannot continue to be in power.”
His administration was quick to downplay it, telling reporters the president’s comments did not signal a change of policy.
A White House official said “Biden’s position is that Putin should not be allowed to exercise power over neighboring countries or the region. He did not discuss Putin’s power in Russia or regime change. .”
Asked if he was ready to meet his Russian counterpart, Biden said on Monday: “It depends on what he wants to say.”
The two last met face-to-face in Geneva in June 2021.
