President Biden took over In a sharp criticism of Trump, he said that what the president-elect did was “a real threat to democracy.”
Ahead of the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, Biden was asked if he still believed Trump was a threat to democracy.
“We have to get back to establishing basic democratic standards,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House on Sunday. He added, “I think what he did was a real threat to democracy. I hope we have moved beyond that.”
Biden made these statements to the press after signing the agreement Social Security Fairness Act.
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President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White House on January 5, 2025. (Chris Kleponis/AFP via Getty Images)
“The bill I'm signing today is about a simple proposal. Americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn a decent living should be able to retire with economic security and dignity,” he said. “That is the whole purpose of the Social Security system that Franklin Delano Roosevelt put in place nearly 90 years ago.”
The president said that the signing “is the culmination of a four-year battle.”
“As the first president in more than 20 years to expand Social Security benefits, this victory is the culmination of a four-year fight to provide security for workers who dedicate their lives to their communities, and I am proud to have played a small role.” “We are in this fight,” Biden said.
President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White House on January 5, 2025. (Chris Kleponis/AFP via Getty Images)
The bill ends a pair of provisions — the windfall elimination requirement created in 1983 and the state pension offset requirement created in 1977 — that limit Social Security benefits for certain U.S. retirees who receive retirement benefits from another source, such as a local government. Or funding from the state. pension.
In the House, 327 members and 76 senators voted to stand with about 3 million retired firefighters, police officers, teachers and other public sector workers who also receive pensions, Mick McHale, president of the National Association of Police Organizations, told the network. Fox News. digital.
“For more than 40 years, men and women, especially in public safety, have been penalized as a result of the retirement system they belong to,” McHale said.
Police and EMS vehicles respond to a reported mass casualty incident on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 1, 2025. (View)
Biden also discussed his plans to visit New Orleans on Monday to condole with family members of the victims and meet with officials after the terrorist attack in the city on New Year's Day.
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“I was there. There's nothing you can really say to someone who has suffered such a tragic loss. My message will be personal to them,” he said. “They just have to stick together, and there will come a day when they think of their loved ones, and they will smile before the tears come out of their eyes.”
A memorial to the victims of the New Orleans attack on New Year's Day on January 1, 2025. (Audrey Conklin/Fox News Digital)
The visit comes after 14 people were killed and dozens injured after police said 42-year-old Shams al-Din Jabbar plowed into pedestrians with a rented pickup truck on bustling Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning. Jabbar was shot dead by police after he opened fire on officers.
“We have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that New Orleans was a single man who acted alone,” Biden said. “All the talk of conspiracies with other people, and there is no evidence of that, zero.”
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“I think he had real issues with his mental health,” Biden said. “And he acted alone in the same way that what happened in Las Vegas did.” “But there is no evidence, there is no evidence of the idea that these are foreigners coming across the border, but they worked here and stayed here.”
Fox News Digital's Luis Casiano Jr. contributed to this report.
