The Obama Administration still expects to close the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before President Obama leaves office in January, the White House said Thursday. “We’re going to do our best to try to get this closed and it’s our expectation that that’s what we’ll do,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a briefing. Vice President Joe Biden had said earlier Thursday in Sweden that it is his “hope and expectation” that Guantanamo would be closed by the time he left office, according to pool reports. Since Obama took office in 2009, the White House has made attempts to close the prison, which houses suspected terrorists, but has faced opposition from Congress. One the first orders Obama signed after he was inaugurated required the prison to be closed within a year.