President Joe Biden has landed in Rome as part of a 5-day foreign trip for meetings on the pandemic, Iran and climate change. Biden arrived in Italy after a fitful day of talks over his major legislative packages.
, whose votes are essential in a Senate evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Biden aides have hoped for, among other things, a more than $500 billion investment to combat climate change in the United States, which would help efforts to persuade China and other nations to make investments of their own in renewable energy.But as talks slogged on, administration officials began to play down the significance of Biden’s spending plan still hovering in limbo.
Reaching for a deal that has had a perilous journey thus far, the president is beginning his trip abroad with an expert in the power of prayer. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, will meet Friday with Pope Francis at the Vatican in a visit that is part personal for the intensely religious commander in chief and part policy, particularly around matters of climate and confronting autocracies.
In those and other meetings, Biden is expected to address the Iranian nuclear threat, and Iran’s announcement that it could return to talks next month in Vienna.share COVID-19 vaccines
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