https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/reversing-trump-foreign-policy-biden-end-u-s-support-offensive-n1256738
Feb. 4, 2021, 12:52 PM EST / Updated Feb. 4, 2021, 4:17 PM EST
By Lauren Egan and Abigail Williams
President Joe Biden criticized Russia in his first visit to the State Department on Thursday, part of the new leader's effort to reverse the foreign policy posture of his predecessor.
"I made it clear to President Putin in a manor very different from my predecessor that the days of the United States rolling over in the face of Russia's aggressive actions — interfering with our elections, cyber attacks, poisoning its citizens — are over. We will not hesitate to the raise the cost on Russia and defend our vital interest and our people," Biden said.
Former President Donald Trump was reluctant throughout his term to publicly speak out against Vladimir Putin. Trump suggested in 2018 that he believed Putin over American intelligence when the Russian president denied that he meddled in the 2016 election, he refused to condemn the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and was quiet on Russia's hacking of U.S. government agencies last year. Trump's ties to Russia were also the subject of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
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