Biden announced the aid after a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to coordinate the delivery of the assistance, which he said included artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers, as well as helicopters.
Although the total price tag of the package was not finalized as of Tuesday night, it will reportedly be worth around $700 million.
Biden’s administration is intensifying efforts to lower prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war with Ukraine.
President Joe Biden announces new changes for so-called “ghost guns,” which have helped fuel the rise in gun violence across the nation. Some law enforcement groups saying “ghost guns” can easily be bought and assembled by minors and those who aren’t authorized to have a firearm. Now the administration is cracking down on the privately-made, untraceable weapons.
President Joe Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He’s also unveiling a formal rule to rein in ghost guns, which are privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scene.
Thursday, the Senate voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. Judge Jackson had to endure a long road of grueling hearings to get to this point, a road that was filled with partisan attacks on her record. Friday, President Joe Biden delivering remarks at the White House to mark this major moment in American history.
Daily COVID-19 cases are ticking up in the U.S. once again, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Devastating images are coming out of the war zone in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky makes a desperate plea to the UN’s most powerful body, as the Kremlin calls the images out of Bucha a “hoax.” The United States is now stepping in, with a new package of sanctions against Russia expected to be announced as early as Wednesday.
Horrifying scenes of death and destruction left behind in Wartorn cities outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, after Russian troops withdrew into other parts of the country. This prompted President Joe Biden to accuse Putin of war crimes once again Monday. The Kremlin called those accusations “unacceptable and disgraceful,” while calling the images a “hoax.” President Biden and NATO allies now vow to impose new sanctions against Russia.
The White House is taking action for the millions of Americans feeling the pain at the pump. President Joe Biden announced a plan to release a million barrels of oil a day from the country’s strategic oil reserves.
