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We're taking a bit of a break from Infrastructure Summer to bring you two weeks of foreign policy.

On Wednesday, President Biden and the First Lady will be headed to the United Kingdom for

their first overseas trip.

At stake, it's the Biden administration's first chance to lay out some goals without

pleaking in Congress, where legislation on infrastructure and voting rights are taking a bit

of a detour in West Virginia.

Here's the itinerary.

He'll meet with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday

and then attend the three-day G7 meeting over the weekend in Cornwall. On Sunday, he'll also meet

the Queen and then leave for Brussels, where he'll attend the NATO summit and the US-EU summit.

And after this flurry of meetings meant to shore up the Transatlantic Alliance, the main event comes next Wednesday.

That's when Joe Biden will be in Geneva for a one-on-one with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Nahal Tusi, Politico's Foreign Affairs correspondent emails,

President Biden will be among friends for most of this upcoming trip, and that's by design. The idea is for him to

consult with allies before meeting with Putin in Geneva in a show of diplomatic force. We're being told

not to expect too many deliverables on the trip. Biden cast it as a rally for democracies in the

face of China and Russia and an op-ed in the Washington Post.

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