President Joe Biden stated Thursday that he would work with Congress to “attempt to eliminate assault weapons” after a current spate of shootings within the US.
“The thought (that) we nonetheless enable semiautomatic weapons to be bought is sick, it’s simply sick. It has no social redeeming worth, zero, none. Not a single, solitary rationale for it,” Biden instructed reporters throughout a short gaggle exterior the Nantucket Fireplace Division in Massachusetts, the place he greeted first responders.
Requested whether or not he would attempt to take motion on weapons, the president stated, “I’m going to attempt. I’m going to attempt to eliminate assault weapons.” When pressed on whether or not he would attempt to take action throughout the lame duck session, he stated, “I’m going to do it each time — I’ve received to make that evaluation as quickly as I get in and begin counting the votes.”
A current taking pictures at an LGBTQ membership in Colorado Springs, Colorado, concerned an assault-style weapon and a handgun, whereas officers stated the shooter at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, earlier this was week was armed with a handgun and a number of magazines.
Congress returns subsequent week with a jam-packed to-do record within the lame duck session, targeted totally on the must-pass authorities funding invoice, in addition to different priorities. However any motion on gun laws — notably the assault weapons ban Biden has repeatedly known as for — doesn't have the votes to cross. And the fact of a divided Congress in subsequent 12 months’s session makes it extremely unlikely that something will cross over the subsequent two years.
The president additionally stated he has “circuitously engaged” with stakeholders as railway and labor negotiators barrel towards a doable strike forward of a crucial December deadline.
“I can’t (remark) as a result of it’s the center of negotiations nonetheless. My staff has been in contact with all of the events… and I've — I've circuitously engaged but as a result of they’re nonetheless speaking,” Biden stated.
Biden doesn’t have the authority at this level within the course of to unilaterally order the railroad employees to remain on the job, as he did for a possible freight railroad strike in July, and he would wish to approve of any congressional motion for it to take impact.
And as Ukraine grapples with damages to its crucial infrastructure after Russian strikes, Biden stated it was “no time to stroll away from Ukraine” as he touted a current further $400 million drawdown introduced earlier this week. The White Home has additionally requested Congress for $37.7 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine.
“We had loads of discuss within the final election about whether or not the opposite staff goes to proceed to assist Ukraine. I nonetheless imagine there’s sufficient assist that we are able to proceed,” he stated.
He later added that oil value cap talks are “in play.”
Biden arrived on the Nantucket Fireplace Division on Thursday morning and greeted a bunch of firefighters and others assembled exterior, a go to that got here moments after he known as into the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and stated he was grateful for first responders this 12 months. Biden shook arms and posed for pictures and was bestowed with a black Nantucket Fireplace Division baseball cap, which he wore throughout his impromptu gaggle.
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