“We’ve got to get back to establishing basic democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the White House East Room on Sunday. “I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. I’m hopeful that we are beyond that.”

Biden to the press after signing the Social Security Fairness Act.

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President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White House on Jan. 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)

“The bill that I report today considers an undeniable proposal. Americans who have worked hard all their lives to earn a fair life can retire with financial security and dignity,” he said. “This is the overall goal of the social security formula designed through Franklin Delano Roosevelt nearly 90 years ago. “

The president said the signing “is that of a four-year fight. “

“As the first president in more than 20 years to obtain greater benefits of Social Security, this victory is the culmination of a 4 -year struggle for the protection of personnel who dedicates their lives to their communities, and I am proud to have played a small shot Part in this fight, “Biden said.

President Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White House on January 5, 2025 (Chris Kleponis / AFP Getty Images)

The bill ends a pair of provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision created in 1983 and the Government Pension Offset devised in 1977 — that curtail the social security benefits of some U.S. retirees receiving retirement benefits from another source, such as a local government or state-funded pension.

In the House of Representatives, 327 members and 76 senators voted in favor of supporting some 3 million firefighters, police, teachers and other retired public sector members who also receive retirement payments, said Mick Mchale, president of the National Association of Police organizations, to Fox News Digital.  

“For over 40 years, the men and women, especially in the area of public safety… have been penalized as a result of the pension system that they belong to,” McHale said. 

EMS police and cars respond to a massive incident of victims reported in Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 1, 2025. (WVUE)

Biden also discussed his plans to stop in New Orleans on Monday to mourn with relatives of relatives of the sick and meet with officials after the city’s New Year’s Day terror attack.

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“I went there. ” You just have to hold on to others and he will come a day when you will think of your beloved, and smile before a tear reaches your eyes. “

A monument for patients of the New Year’s attack on January 1, 2025. (Audrey Conklin / Fox News Digital)

It comes after another 14 people died and dozens wounded after the police said that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, hit a truck rented in pedestrians in Bourbon Street at dawn on Wednesday. Police killed jabbar fatally after opening fireplace to the police.

“We have established beyond a moderate doubt that New Orleans a single guy who acted alone. Everyone communicates them with conspiracies with other people, without evidence of that, zero,” said Biden.

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“He had real problems in terms of his own, I think, mental health, going on. And he acted alone in the same way as what went on in Las Vegas,” Biden said. “But there is no evidence, zero evidence of the idea that these are foreigners coming across the border, but they worked here, they remained here.”

Louis Casiano Jr. de Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a U.S. writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. 

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