The Biden administration inherited a set of foreign policy and national security institutions in serious need of repair. An overreliance on the military combined with emerging challenges that the existing infrastructure is ill-suited to address has showcased the need to shift away from an approach that defines American national interests primarily as security from foreign threats. The need for rebalancing the U.S. approach to national security was made even more clear by the January 6 insurrection, in which pro-Trump extremists violently stormed the U.S. Capitol. Consistent with CAP’s recommendations, the Biden administration has taken a number of steps to repair trust in these institutions and recalibrate the U.S. approach to national security, including:
U.S. gov t this week to begin reuniting migrant families separated at border
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Don Johnson
Separated migrant families embrace in the Rio Grande between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on October 26, 2019. File Photo by Justin Hamel/UPI | License Photo
Activists rally durng a Families Belong Together march in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 21, 2018, to protest the Trump administration s family separations policies at the southern border. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
A family separated by border fence speaks to one another along the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, Calif., on April 4, 2019. File Photo by Ariana Drehsler/UPI | License Photo