Biden news today: President hails Monterey Park’s ‘unbreakable spirit’ as he releases weapon control order

President Biden is jeopardising his environment tradition by approving a large oil job in Alaska, ecologists and members of his own celebration alerted.

Approval of the $8bn Willow Project, on Alaska‘s North Slope, was announced by the Biden administration on Monday.

Democratic officials, climate activists and Indigenous groups argue that the development flies in the face of Mr Biden’s guarantee to stop brand-new drilling on public lands, and cut the United States carbon footprint in half by 2030.

Two months after 11 individuals were killed and 9 others were hurt in a mass shooting that has actually rocked the city of Monterey Park, California, President Joe Biden acknowledged the primarily Asian American neighborhood’s “unbreakable spirits” as he revealed a sweeping executive order to “accelerate” his administration’s deal with weapon reform.

While Congress stays deadlocked, the president’s executive order means to “get as close to universal background checks as possible” without legislation.

President Biden closed his remarks from Monterey Park on Tuesday getting in touch with Congress to renew the federal attack weapons restriction and “eliminate gun manufacturer immunity from liability” following waves of mass shootings and day-to-day weapon violence.

“Let’s finish the job … Ban assault rifles. Do it again. Do something. Do something big,” he said.

Following cries of “enough” and “do something” in the wake of routine massacres and daily acts of gun violence across the US, President Biden said that “we remember and mourn today” in the community of Monterey Park, California, “but I’m with you here today to act.”

Following in 2015’s passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the “most significant gun safety law in almost 30 years,” the president is signing an extensive executive order to “accelerate and intensify this work to save more lives, more quickly.”

President Joe Biden is dealing with the neighborhood of Monterey Park in the wake of January’s mass shooting at Ballroom Dance Studio, where 11 individuals were killed and 9 others were hurt.

“This is a tight knit community with intergenerational households and deep reverence and respect for its elders,” he said, acknowledging the mostly Asian American neighborhood.

“Pushing forward together, healing together people from all faiths and backgrounds rallying to show their love and support,” he included.

“Proving that even with heavy hearts we have unbreakable spirits,” he said, keeping in mind that the neighborhood is comprised of immigrants from China, Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan.

President Joe Biden was informed on Tuesday following news that a set of Russian fighter jets required down an American security drone over the Black Sea.

The report was validated by United States authorities, declaring that the a jet hit the prop of the unmanned airplane after both jets discarded fuel on it.

National security consultant Jake Sullivan informed the president on the event, according to White House nationwide security council representative John Kirby.

“This one obviously is noteworthy because of how unsafe [and] indeed reckless that was in causing the downing of one of our aircraft,” he said on Tuesday.

Mr Kirby said that the Black Sea is “an enormous body of water” and United States airplane have actually been flying in worldwide airspace there “consistently” for a year.

“We’re going to continue to do that,” he included “And we don’t need to have some sort of check-in with the Russians before we fly in international airspace.”

More on the event from The Independent’s Josh Marcus:

Among individuals who welcomed President Joe Biden at his arrival at Los Angeles International Airport this afternoon were just recently chosen Mayor Karen Bass and Brandon Tsay, who deactivated the Monterey Park mass shooter at his family’s dance studio in January.

The 26-year-old likewise appeared at the president’s State of the Union address as a visitor of the president and First Lady Jill Biden.

Gun control advocacy groups have actually applauded President Joe Biden’s executive order to direct federal companies to much better implement background check steps and broaden the scope of bipartisan legislation focused on fighting the expansion of high-powered weapons in the United States.

“Today I want to give credit where it is due,” Guns Down America creator and executive director Igor Volsky said in a declaration. “Since he took office Guns Down America has urged the president to live up to his campaign promises by doing everything in his power to address our gun violence epidemic. With these executive actions, President Biden has taken an important step toward a safer future with fewer guns.”

The organisation likewise has actually prompted the White House to develop an Office of Gun Violence Prevention to “address the full scope of this crisis.”

There were at least 17 mass shootings in the United States within the very first days of March, bringing the overall variety of mass shootings this year to more than 100.

The Gun Violence Archive’s count reported 52 mass shootings in January and 40 in February.

By that point in 2015, there were 85 mass shootings.

The organisation likewise discovered that the variety of non-fatal shootings in the United States has actually reached 6,000 within the very first 2 and a half months of 2023.

At least 3,549 individuals were killed by shooting.