“It is immoral and indefensible that the only agency with regulatory oversight over the gun industry has been permitted to persist for so many years without leadership, because of the outsized influence the gun industry has.” “It is hugely disappointing and unconscionable that 50 members of the US Senate as well as at least one senator who caucuses with the president’s party would deny President Biden his choice to lead the ATF,” Kris Brown, the Brady president, said in a statement. The collapse of the nomination also leaves the ATF, which has not had a Senate-confirmed director since 2015, in limbo. Ultimately not even the intervention of the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, was able to save the administration from today’s humiliating climbdown, which leaves questions over the direction of the president’s agenda for tackling the “international embarrassment” of gun violence.
All three would have been crucial in the divided 50-50 chamber. Two Democratic senators from moderate states, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Montana’s Jon Tester, refused to say if they would back him in a confirmation vote, while Angus King, an independent senator from Maine who caucuses with the Democrats, indicated that he was a “no”. “Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress have made clear that they intend to use gun crime as a political talking point instead of taking serious steps to address it.”Ī senior policy adviser at Giffords, an organisation that advocates for stricter gun laws, Chipman was always seen as a divisive choice.
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“He would have been an exemplary director of the ATF and would have redoubled its efforts to crack down on illegal firearms traffickers and help keep our communities safe from gun violence,” Biden’s statement said. The statement came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken completed a trip to Beijing, becoming the highest-level official to visit the country since Biden took office in January 2021.īoth sides reported tentative success at lowering tensions during the visit, which was expected to lay the groundwork for a possible official meeting between Biden and Xi.The Guardian reported in July that Chipman’s nomination, which Biden announced in April, was in trouble, stalled by opposition from pro-gun Republicans in the US Senate and targeted by the NRA and industry lobbyists. “That wasn’t supposed to be going where it was. When they didn’t know what happened,” Biden said at the fundraiser. “That’s a great embarrassment for dictators. At the event, Biden described the Chinese leader as being out of the loop during an incident involving a Chinese spy balloon drifting over the US. The “dictator” comment reportedly came at a campaign fundraiser in California earlier in the week. And I don’t think it’s had any real consequence,” he said. “I expect to be meeting with President Xi sometime in the future, near-term. United States President Joe Biden has defended calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator”, just days after their countries hailed modest progress in cooling tensions.ĭuring a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, Biden said his blunt statements about China are “just not something I’m going to change very much”.
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