[474] While there, he promised more military aid to Ukraine and denounced the war.[475] The trip was unannounced, and involved major security coordination to ensure safety.[476]

Political positions
Main article: Political positions of Joe Biden
Mikhail Gorbachev (right) being introduced to President Obama by Joe Biden, March 2009. U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, is pictured in the background.
Biden is considered a moderate Democrat[477] and a centrist.[478][479] Throughout his long career, his positions have been aligned with the center of the Democratic Party.[480] In 2022, journalist Sasha Issenberg wrote that Biden's "most valuable political skill" was "an innate compass for the ever-shifting mainstream of the Democratic party."[481]
Biden has proposed partially reversing the corporate tax cuts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, saying that doing so would not hurt businesses' ability to hire.[482][483] He voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)[484] and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.[485] Biden is a staunch supporter of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[486][487] He has promoted a plan to expand and build upon it, paid for by revenue gained from reversing some Trump administration tax cuts.