Available reporting indicates that the Biden administration did not respond to the early‑2022 US trucker convoy by embracing the protesters or framing itself as on their side, nor did it clearly position any rollback of mandates as a concession to them.

Key points:

• The People’s Convoy (the main US offshoot inspired by Canada’s protests) departed California in late February 2022 and arrived near Washington, D.C. in early March 2022, circling the Beltway and staging protests in the region rather than entering the city proper. News coverage at the time emphasizes that the protesters opposed vaccine mandates and other Covid restrictions.
• The Biden White House and federal agencies did not publicly embrace the convoy’s framing or demands. Contemporary coverage describes the administration largely ignoring the convoy, maintaining security preparations, and not engaging with it as a partner or representative of “working men and women.” (No speeches or official statements aligning Biden with the convoy or overtly supporting their cause are documented in major outlets.)
• Some federal Covid measures were eased in 2022—for example, CDC mask‑guidance changes and the eventual end of certain mandates—but these were framed in terms of epidemiological data and broader policy shifts, not as a response to the trucker convoy’s pressure. I find no reputable source tying any major rollback explicitly to the convoy or describing Biden as having “embraced” the protesters.

Because Biden neither embraced the truckers nor clearly linked any rollback of Covid mandates to their protests, the prediction that he would “embrace them” and position himself on their side in 2022 did not come true.