Today, President Biden is wading back into the politically fraught politics of gun control, with plans to announce several actions in an event in the Rose Garden of the White House, including a continued crackdown on so-called “ghost guns” and the nomination of Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney in Ohio, to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The bureau has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since 2015.
Biden’s unilateral actions on gun control underscore how little that Congress — now in a two-week recess — has been able to do on the issue, even in the aftermath of repeated mass shootings across the country. Biden’s announcements also come amid a midterm election year in which Republicans are eager to brand his party as soft on crime and Democrats are seeking to push back.
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On our radar: Russia issue looms as Biden meets virtually with India’s Modi
Return to menuA virtual meeting between Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking place Monday at a time when India has remained neutral in the war between Russia and Ukraine and has been purchasing Russian crude oil at a greater clip than last year.
In a statement Sunday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden and Modi would “discuss cooperation on a range of issues,” including the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, as well as “Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine.”
As Biden has pressed other nations to hold Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine, India has maintained its neutrality. Last week, India abstained when the United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council. That move followed allegations that Russian soldiers engaged in war crimes.
Reuters also recently reported that India has bought at least 13 million barrels of Russian crude oil since the country invaded Ukraine in late February. That compares with about 16 million barrels for all of last year.
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