Remarks by President Biden After Marine One Arrival
South Lawn
4:03 P.M. EST
Q Will the United States provide F-16s to Ukraine?
THE PRESIDENT: No.
Q Will you be going to Europe for the war’s anniversary?
Q Catholic bishops are demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortions.
THE PRESIDENT: No, they are not all doing that. Nor is —
Q Catholic bishops are —
THE PRESIDENT: Nor is —
Q — demanding that federal tax —
THE PRESIDENT: Nor is the Pope doing that.
Q What are you going to tell Speaker McCarthy? When he said he wants to negotiate, what do you say?
THE PRESIDENT: Show me your budget, I’ll show you mine.
Q Mr. President, what is your message — what is your message to Leader McCarthy — to Speaker McCarthy? Sorry, sir. What would be your message?
THE PRESIDENT: Show me your budget, I’ll show you mine.
Q Do you have any plans to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus on police reform? They’re asking for a meeting.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, yeah. No, of course, I will. Look, I haven’t set the time yet.
Q Do you still think the George Floyd Act is the most reasonable —
THE PRESIDENT: I do.
Q — legislation to get through a divided Congress?
THE PRESIDENT: I think we should do it right now. We should have done it before.
As you know, I did it by executive order for the federal side. But I can’t do it otherwise without the help of the rest of the Congress.
Q One other. If the — if the — if the Special Counsel, who’s starting this week, asks for your testimony, would you give testimony?
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I don’t even know about the Special Counsel.
Q Did you talk with the Dutch — thank you, sir. Dutch Prime Minister today — (inaudible). Did you speak with the Dutch Prime Minister?
THE PRESIDENT: I apologize, I —
Q Can you talk about the — you talked with the Dutch Prime Minister today, right? Dutch Prime Minister?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, the Dutch Prime Minister. Yes.
Q Did you talk about Japanese-Dutch-U.S. agreement about semiconductor issue, or what you talk about?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Yes, we talked about a lot of things, but a lot of it is private.
Q Mr. President, are you considering trip to Poland next month?
THE PRESIDENT: I’m going to be going to Poland. I don’t know when though.
Q And what about Ukraine? What about Ukraine?
Q Should you take a new approach to community policing? Are your views on policing changing —
THE PRESIDENT: No.
Q — being based on what’s happening — happened?
THE PRESIDENT: Everybody else’s views got — getting — getting towards mine. And we need community policing, where the police know the community, have a relationship with the community, know who lives where.
And they need additional help in terms of having psychologists and psychiatrists on their teams. They — they need a lot more.
Q Have you decided on the new NEC director, sir?
Q What was going through your mind when you saw the Tyre Nichols video?
Q Sir, for the war’s anniversary —
Q Have you decided to go to Europe, sir, for the anniversary?
THE PRESIDENT: I’m not sure.
4:06 P.M. EST
