[Global Web Reporter Zhang Xiaoya] According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, U.S. President Biden said in a statement on the 7th local time that before the mid-term elections this fall, he will extend the nationwide implementation to deal with "foreign interference in U.S. elections". state of emergency.
On the 7th, the official website of the White House released a letter signed by US President Biden entitled "Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Speaker of the Senate on the Continuation (Implementation) of the National Emergency on Foreign Interference or Undermining of Public Confidence in US Elections".
Biden said in the letter that, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the U.S. National Emergency Act, "I have sent an accompanying notice to the Federal Register in response to threats posed by foreign interference or undermining public confidence in U.S. elections. , the state of national emergency declared by Executive Order 13848 on September 12, 2018, will remain in effect after September 12, 2022.”
The letter also claimed, "Although there is no evidence that foreign powers have altered the results or ballots of U.S. elections, foreign powers have historically sought to take advantage of America's free and open political system." The national emergency declared by Executive Order 13848," Biden said at the end of the letter.