climate summit, Biden will be pressed to deliver concrete ideas for stopping a global pandemic, boosting economic growth and halting the acceleration of climate change. Headed first to a Group of 20 summit in Rome and then to Glasgow, Scotland, for a U.N.

As he prepares to push that message at a pair of global summits, his case could hinge on what’s happening in Washington, where he was struggling to finalize a major domestic legislative package.Īfter a fitful day of talks over the fate of twin infrastructure and social spending bills that he cast as a choice between “leading the world, or letting the world pass us by,” Biden landed in Rome aboard Air Force One in the dark early Friday with the answer still undetermined. ROME (AP) - President Joe Biden promised to show the world that democracies can work to meet the challenges of the 21st century.