On Monday, at an
event at the White House with director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, to present the
2023 budget proposals, Biden said of his remarks in Poland: “I’m not walking anything back.”
He was adamant that he was not calling for regime change in Russia, and instead was expressing only his personal “moral outrage” at the “brutality” of Putin’s assault on
Ukraine, having visited some of the millions of refugees who have fled the war in the last month.
“I was expressing the moral outrage I felt … I had just come from being with those families. But I want to be clear that I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change,” he said.
“I make no apologies for it,” he added, of his remarks on Saturday.