President Joe Biden delivers remarks astatine NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex to beforehand his "Build Back Better" agenda, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful Kearny, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden delivers remarks astatine NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex to beforehand his "Build Back Better" agenda, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, successful Kearny, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden connected Tuesday volition denote a $100 cardinal inaugural meant to beef up the U.S. narration with the enactment of Southeast Asian nations, according to the White House.

Biden is acceptable to enactment connected Tuesday greeting successful a virtual summit with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It marks the archetypal clip since 2017, erstwhile President Donald Trump participated successful the summit, that a U.S. president volition instrumentality portion successful a gathering of the bloc.

It comes arsenic Biden is looking to fortify the U.S. beingness successful the Pacific successful the look of China’s maturation arsenic a nationalist information and economical adversary.

The caller backing volition see wealth for wellness spending, a caller clime initiative, programs to assistance with the economical betterment caused by the coronavirus pandemic and acquisition programs.

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