If reelected, United States President Joe Biden will be 86 years old at the end of his second term. Read more at straitstimes.com.
United States President Joe Biden sought to downplay concerns about his age by saying he was the most experienced person to have ever run for the presidency.
Mr Biden, who will be 86 at the end of a second term should he win, has in recent days tried to reassure voters about his age,In the interview, he also said that Vice-President Kamala Harris “hasn’t gotten the credit she deserves,” and he promoted her past work as attorney-general of California and as a senator.
In the interview, Mr Biden said he was not yet prepared to invoke a clause in the 14th Amendment that would compel the federal government to continue issuing new debt should the government run out of cash and default on its loans, a date Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned this week could come as soon as June 1: “I haven’t gotten there yet,” he said.But Mr Biden has repeatedly said thatnoting that it was raised several times under former President Donald Trump without issue.
“This is a different, a different group. And I think that we have to make it clear to the American people that I am prepared to negotiate in detail with their budget. How much are you going to spend? How much are you going to tax? Where can we cut?”
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