Biden says the Justice Department is 'focused heavily' on the 'rise of white supremacy'

President Biden.
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White supremacists are the greatest domestic terrorism threat in the U.S., President Biden said Tuesday night during a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, and the Justice Department and its civil rights Division are "focused heavily on those very folks."

Biden said he takes the rise of white supremacy seriously, and the Justice Department is focusing on how to deal with the problem while also looking at the impact it is having on groups like the military and former law enforcement personnel.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.