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The pledge will come at the start of a virtual summit aimed at boosting commitments from other nations and the private sector. The goal: vaccinate 70% of the world’s population within a year.

Biden made the pledge during his presidential campaign. But the withdrawal of ground troops from Afghanistan isn’t the end of all U.S. military operations.

Attorney General William Barr would recommend the White House veto the legislation, which the House is set to vote on Wednesday, according to the DOJ. He had helped draft an earlier version.

Officials also repeatedly refused to go into detail about why the U.S. was absent from a meeting in which the world’s leaders made commitments to that fight.