Andrew HarnikGetty Images Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week By The Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian) I knew that, sooner or later, the president would screw something up. (They all do.) But I didn’t anticipate that he would do so in a fashion that would make him look both mendacious and cruel. From the Biden plans to keep the refugee cap at 15,000, according to the official. That figure is a historic low set by then-President Donald Trump last fall. Earlier this year, Biden had proposed to Congress lifting the cap to 62,500. He has pledged to raise it to 125,000 for the following fiscal year, which begins in October.