This Week in DC
President Joe Biden heads to Brussels for meetings this week with European Union for discussions likely to touch on ongoing trade disputes while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack heads to Capitol Hill to face questioning about his policy plans.
While Biden is in Europe, there are expected to be continued discussions between the White House and a bipartisan group of 10 senators over a massive infrastructure package. Last week, the group tentatively agreed on a deal worth about $1 trillion five years, still short of what Biden is seeking.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will join Biden in Brussels for meetings with EU counterparts and then for Tuesday’s U.S.-EU summit.
Briefing reporters on plans for the EU meeting, a senior administration official said, “We will be addressing the trade and technology and other challenges in the U.S.-EU relationship and also the opportunities those issues present so that we can focus on writing the rules of the road on these issues together as democracies, and not leave that work to the autocracies of the world,"
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While Biden is in Europe, there are expected to be continued discussions between the White House and a bipartisan group of 10 senators over a massive infrastructure package. Last week, the group tentatively agreed on a deal worth about $1 trillion five years, still short of what Biden is seeking.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will join Biden in Brussels for meetings with EU counterparts and then for Tuesday’s U.S.-EU summit.
Briefing reporters on plans for the EU meeting, a senior administration official said, “We will be addressing the trade and technology and other challenges in the U.S.-EU relationship and also the opportunities those issues present so that we can focus on writing the rules of the road on these issues together as democracies, and not leave that work to the autocracies of the world,"
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