White House walks back Biden comments on payments to immigrants

Published November 4, 2021 8:57pm ET



The White House appeared to walk President Joe Biden’s Wednesday denial of reports that his administration was in talks to offer immigrant families separated under the Trump administration $450,000 per person as compensation.

But White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added some major qualifiers to Biden’s statement during a press briefing on Thursday, saying payments could in fact happen, just not in the mid-six-figure amounts originally reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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