Hours before former president Joe Biden gave his first public speech since leaving office, the White House mocked his schedule and said it was way past his bedtime. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said her first reaction to Biden's schedule was shock that "he is speaking at nighttime".

Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving office to criticise the Trump administration's welfare policies. The ex-US president told a conference in Chicago that the government had "taken a hatchet" to Social Security,