Biden quietly follows in Trump’s foreign policy footsteps

By Sarah Bedford

Published March 9, 2022 10:30am ET

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Biden quietly follows in Trump’s foreign policy footsteps — Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, beside Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, right, and renderings of a park in being constructed in Boston in honor of Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. | (Steven Senne/AP)

As President Joe Biden swept into office, he framed his foreign policy largely as an overarching departure from his predecessor — on matters ranging from immigration agreements to European energy to Chinese tariffs.

But as he faces the biggest foreign policy crisis of his presidency to date, Biden has continued a practice of quietly reverting to foreign policies established by former President Donald Trump or those pushed by congressional Republicans.

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