Joe Biden

President Joe Biden on Monday said he believes there's a “realization” among “rational Republicans” that the nation “can't continue like this,” after a ...

“I don’t know, but I think there’s a realization on the part of rational Republicans — and I consider Sen. McConnell a rational Republican, and Cornyn is as well,” Biden said. We can’t do this.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tapped Texas Sen. John Cornyn to work with Democrats on the legislation.

President Biden set aside time from his Memorial Day schedule to visit​ the grave of his late son Beau Biden at a Delaware church cemetery.

Beau’s death was merely the latest family tragedy to befall the president’s family. He then added: “I lost him.” President Biden set aside time from his Memorial Day schedule Monday to visit the grave of his late son Beau Biden at a Delaware church cemetery on the seventh anniversary of his death.

President Biden told a local lawmaker while visiting Uvalde on Sunday that the federal government may provide resources to raze Robb Elementary School.

“I’m going to bring you resources,” Gutierrez said the president told him. Gutierrez said Biden also told him during a visit to the heartbroken city of Uvalde, “I’m not going away,” KSAT-TV reported. Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said the president told him Sunday that “we’re going to raze that school and build a new one.”

Later on Monday, the Bidens paid a visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where they participated in a wreath-laying ceremony and the president delivered ...

Later on Monday, the Bidens are scheduled to join surviving families of service members who have passed away in a tree planting ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, where they will plant a magnolia tree "in honor of those who have lost their lives and the families who carry on their legacies," the White House said. Later on Monday, the Bidens paid a visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where they participated in a wreath-laying ceremony and the president delivered remarks. According to a pool report, the Bidens attended a service at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware early Monday.

In Uvalde, Joe Biden visited a memorial of 21 white crosses and first lady Jill Biden added a bouquet of white flowers to those already placed in front of ...

“There are more Republicans interested in talking about finding a path forward this time than I have ever seen since Sandy Hook,” said Murphy who represented the Newtown area as a congressman at the time of the Sandy Hook shooting. “Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store in New York, to far too many places where innocents have died,” Biden said Saturday in a commencement address at the University of Delaware. “We have to stand stronger. He traveled to Buffalo, New York, on May 17 to meet with victims’ families and condemn white supremacy after a shooter espousing the racist “replacement theory” killed 10 Black people at a supermarket. “You have seen the news, you have witnessed the tears of your parents, friends,” he said, encouraging them not to be afraid of life. As president, Biden has tried to address gun violence through executive orders. He had just turned 18, permitting him to buy the weapons under federal law. Why do we keep letting this happen?” Officials revealed Friday that students and teachers repeatedly begged 911 operators for help as a police commander told more than a dozen officers to wait in a hallway. President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde on Sunday, mourning privately for three hours with anguished families of the 19 schoolchildren and two teachers killed by a gunman. We need to do something about it.” Officials said the commander believed the suspect was barricaded inside an adjoining classroom and that there was no longer an active attack. “But we need change.

The ceremony will take place from 12 noon ET at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, and Americans will be able to watch the event online.

But on Friday, the White House published "A Proclamation: Prayer for Peace" to mark the holiday. Despite all the pain, I know the pride you feel in the loved one you have lost." Discussing patriots who gave their lives for America, it read: "We are free because they were brave, and we live by the light of the flame of liberty they kept burning. Americans who want to watch Biden's speech live may view a webcast shared by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) here. Biden spoke of honoring the nation's sacrifices, as he remembered his late son Beau, a veteran who had died from brain cancer aged 46 some six years previously. Shortly afterwards, the observance program, hosted by the Department of Defense, will be held in the cemetery's Memorial Amphitheater.

President Joe Biden remembered his son Beau and called for legislation to help military personnel exposed to toxic burn pits during his Memorial Day address ...

They believed in honor," he added. In his remarks, the president said he suspects the cancer was a result of the toxic burn pits that the military used to burn waste products. "Above all, they believed in duty.

President Biden marked Memorial Day by visiting the gravesite of his son, Beau Biden, who died seven years ago Monday of brain cancer.

It’s suffocating,” the president said the night of the shooting. “And it’s never quite the same.” There’s a hollowness in your chest, and you feel like you’re being sucked into it and never going to be able to get out.

President Biden led commemorations of Memorial Day at a ceremony honoring fallen US service members at Arlington National Cemetery Monday.

The battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between the appetites and ambition of a few who forever seek to dominate [and] the lives and liberties of many.” “I see him down at the Delaware Memorial Bridge, hugging all the Goldstar families,” Biden said. “That’s when you know you’re going to make it.” “This is an obligation that unites America, brings us together to make sure that women and men who were willing to lay down their lives for us [have] the very best possible return.” It is a fight that so many of the patriots whose eternal rest is here in these hallowed grounds were part of. “But their fight is part of a larger fight that unites all people.

Pressed on potential avenues for gun control in the wake of the devastating Uvalde, Texas, shooting, President Joe Biden pointed to an assault weapons ban.

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President Joe Biden and his family attended a church service on Monday near the gravesite of his late son, Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015.

There's a hollowness in your chest, and you feel like you're being sucked into it and never going to be able to get out. He was diagnosed with brain cancer two years before his death, according to the Associated Press. They were accompanied by Biden's grandchildren and his sister, Valeria Biden Owens.

President Biden took aim Monday at one of the most common types of firearms owned by Americans in what appeared to be a gun-related technical flub.

I can’t change a background check. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body,” Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House. “The idea these high-caliber weapons — there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting … There’s only one reason for something that can fire 100 shots.” But I can’t outlaw a weapon. I can’t do that.” “I can’t dictate this stuff. Speaking about his past experience with congressional hearings on “rational gun laws” and a visit to a New York trauma hospital, Mr. Biden appeared to confuse the different types of bullets used by semiautomatic handguns vs.

President Biden spoke to reporters about his thoughts on 9mm handguns, calling them "high-caliber" and claiming that the Constitution is not "absolute."

"You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed," Biden said. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body," Biden said. "So, the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting," Biden added.

The president was joined by first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in a somber ceremony at the Virginia cemetery, which is dedicated to the ...

Arlington National CemeteryArlington, Virginia 12:54 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. They lie here in glory and honor -- in quiet rows in.

This is the mission of our time. It is a fight that so many of the patriots, whose eternal rest is here in these hallowed grounds, were part of. Our democracy is our greatest gift as a nation, made holy by those we’ve lost along the way. We don’t know how many Americans and service members may have died because of what they were exposed to on the battlefield. It was a remarkable experience again, an honor, looking out at those young men and women — newly commissioned officers — embarking on a life of service. And so a part of them is still with us no matter how long ago we lost them. Hearts broken by their absence, and lives that will never be the same. 7,054 American military members gave their lives over 20 years of our Iraq and Afghan conflicts. And today, as a nation, we undertake a sacred ritual: to reflect and to remember. They chose a life of purpose. They chose a life of purpose. Memorial Day is always a day where pain and pride are mixed together.

Americans have many obligations, President Joe Biden said. But one of them rises above all others: doing right by the service members who fight on behalf of ...

"It's up to us, the living, to ensure they did not die in vain," he said. "The heroes here are joined together — united not just by their final resting place, but by their devotion to the values that gave life to our democracy," Austin said. "We could never repay the sacrifice. We hold them in our hearts alongside the patriots across generations who gave their lives to defend us all." "In the year since we last gathered on this solemn day, America’s longest war has come to a close," he said. That's why we're working so hard to find out what the facts are."