Joe Biden hosted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House on Thursday . Biden welcomed Meloni during an Oval Office meeting thanking her for her support for Ukraine . The initial wariness toward Meloni fueled by fierce rhetoric related to migration the European Union and gay rights appears to have subsided . The White House has viewed the prime minister as a strong partner in the effort to aid Ukraine . Meloni has also signaled a willingness to pull Italy out of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative . US officials have been somewhat surprised by the turnabout and suggest privately the changes amount to the moderating force of being in power where the responsibilities of governing supplant the invective of campaigning . The two leaders do find themselves at odds on some domestic issues including LGBTQ rights . The president is focused on asserting human rights around the world but the Italian people get to decide who their government is. Its a democracy and the president respects that its a democracy, according to the National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said . Biden and Meloni have met on several occasions at international summits in the last year . But the two leaders get along quite well particularly on issues of foreign policy, he said. They get along well particularly in the middle of their respective respective issues . The meeting is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. They will discuss shared challenges and the ongoing war as well as developments in North Africa and Italys President Emmanuel Macron. The meeting will also be discussed. Italys. The two presidents are scheduled to meet in the midterms. It is scheduled to discuss the midway between the midways and midways to the midnights and midnighs and midtundundunds. The latenunds and the midtintunds
Biden hosts Italian prime minister he once viewed with skeptical eye . Biden hosts Italy’s prime
