Mr. Biden: We are cleaning up the fiscal mess I inherited…reducing the 'Trump deficits', and returning our fiscal house to order.

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Mr. Biden: My budget contains a billionaire minimum tax. [20%]

Mr. Biden: My budget raises to corporate tax rate to 28%.

Mr. Biden: America is more prosperous, more successful, and more just, when it's secure.

[border is wide-open due to Biden]

Reporter: Do you regret saying Putin can't remain in power?

Mr. Biden: I'm not walking anything back…[that was] my personal feelings.

Mr. Biden: NATO has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, been as strong as it is today. Never.

Mr. Biden: [Police] Need a psychology department as much as they need extra rifles.

Reporter: Are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start to doubt America is back, if some of the things you say on the world stage keep getting walked back?

Mr. Biden: What's getting walked back?

Reporter: It sounded like you told U.S. troops they were going to Ukraine, it sounded like you said it was possible the U.S. would use a chemical weapon, and it sounded like you were calling for regime change in Russia.

Mr. Biden; None of the three occurred. You interpreted the language that way.

Mr. Biden: Nobody believes we are talking about taking down Putin…I was expressing my outrage at the behavior of this man.

Bates [Deputy Press Secretary]: …the multitude of 'fact checks' from the press, from retired judges, and from former prosecutors, have dismantled attacks brought by a small group of GOP Senators.

[attempt to defend Jackson's low sentencing for child pornographers]

Young [Office of Management and Budget]: We also believe we should take the individual [tax] rate to 39.6%.

Rouse [Council Economic Advisers]: Farmers respond to price signals, so with the price of food rising, they will be responding by making additional plantings, and trying to take advantage of increased price signals.

White House Press Conference was short and ended abruptly; Jake Sullivan failed to appear as scheduled.