Biden Rejects Trump’s Foreign Policy Moves From Yemen to Germany
- ‘Diplomacy is back,’ Biden says in visit to State Department
- Biden wants new envoy to help end Saudi-led war in Yemen
President Joe Biden speaks at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 4.
Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg
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President Joe Biden announced he’s halting and reversing Trump administration foreign policy initiatives -- including troop drawdowns in Germany and support for a Saudi-led offensive in Yemen that turned into a humanitarian disaster -- as he sought to boost morale at the State Department.
Biden said Thursday that he’s ordering a full Pentagon review of the U.S. military posture worldwide. That includes freezing former President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw about 9,500 soldiers from Germany -- a move that stunned European allies and generated bipartisan protest in Congress.