Biden says U.S. ‘all in’ on spending $55 billion in Africa

Joe Biden has promised African leaders at a summit in Washington that the U.S. is “all in” on the continent’s future, including plans to spend some $55 billion on Biden’s agenda there.

It is the Daily Mail that reported Biden this week also apologized for America’s role in slavery.

He called it the nation’s “original sin.”

And he offered to spend $55 billion in the programs he wants for the continent.

“The United States is all in on Africa’s future,” he said. “Our people lie at the heart of the deep and profound connection that forever binds Africa and the United States together.”

While millions of Africans were brought to the U.S. in slave chains, many of them were put in those chains by other Africans who raided neighboring communities to profit from the slave trade. And the U.S. fought the Civil War, at a cost of millions of lives, to eradicate the practice from its shores.

The White House said Biden’s $55 billion spending would be directed to health projects, climate change ideology, trade and women’s initiatives.

Biden’s overtures, however, drew skeptical responses…