President Biden took a departing jab at Trump, saying that what the president-elect did was a “real menace to democracy.”
Forward of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol, Biden was requested if he nonetheless thought Trump was a menace to democracy.
“We have got to get again to establishing primary democratic norms,” Biden advised reporters within the White Home East Room on Sunday. “I feel what he did was a real menace to democracy. I am hopeful that we’re past that.”
Biden made the feedback to the press after signing the Social Safety Equity Act.
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President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Safety Equity Act on the White Home on Jan. 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
“The invoice I’m signing at the moment is a couple of easy proposition. People who’ve labored onerous all of their lives to earn an trustworthy dwelling ought to be capable to retire with financial safety and dignity,” he mentioned. “That’s the whole function of the Social Safety system crafted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt practically 90 years in the past.”
The president mentioned that the signing “is the end result of a four-year combat.”
“As the primary president in additional than 20 years to develop social safety advantages, this victory is the end result of a four-year combat to supply safety for staff who dedicate their lives to their communities, and I’m proud to have performed a small half on this combat,” Biden mentioned.
President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Safety Equity Act on the White Home on Jan. 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
The invoice ends a pair of provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision created in 1983 and the Authorities Pension Offset devised in 1977 — that curtail the social safety advantages of some U.S. retirees receiving retirement advantages from one other supply, similar to a neighborhood authorities or state-funded pension.
Within the Home, 327 members and 76 Senators voted to face with round 3 million retired firefighters, law enforcement officials, academics, and different public sector staff who additionally obtain pension funds, Mick McHale, president of the Nationwide Affiliation of Police Organizations, advised Fox Information Digital.
“For over 40 years, the women and men, particularly within the space of public security… have been penalized on account of the pension system that they belong to,” McHale mentioned.
Police and EMS automobiles reply to a mass casualty incident reported on Bourbon Road in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025. (WVUE)
Biden additionally mentioned his plans to go to New Orleans on Monday to grieve with members of the family of victims and meet with officers after the terrorist assault within the metropolis on New Yr’s Day.
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“I have been there. There’s nothing you may actually say to someone who has had such a tragic loss. And my message goes to be private to them,” he mentioned. “They only have to hold on to one another and there’ll come a day after they consider their beloved one, and so they’ll smile earlier than a tear involves their eye.”
A memorial for the victims of the New Orleans New Years’ assault on Jan. 1, 2025. (Audrey Conklin/Fox Information Digital)
The go to comes after 14 individuals had been killed and dozens injured after police mentioned 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a rented pickup truck into pedestrians on bustling Bourbon Road early Wednesday morning. Police fatally shot Jabbar after he opened fireplace on officers.
“We established past any cheap doubt that New Orleans was a single man who acted alone. All of the speak about conspiracies with different individuals, no proof of that, zero,” Biden mentioned.
“He had actual issues by way of his personal, I feel, psychological well being, occurring. And he acted alone in the identical manner as what went on in Las Vegas,” Biden mentioned. “However there isn’t a proof, zero proof of the concept these are foreigners coming throughout the border, however they labored right here, they remained right here.”
Fox Information Digital’s Louis Casiano Jr. contributed to this report.
