President Biden
Joe BidenHouse group advances defense bill 8B Democrats defeat Republican Party’s effort to declare “lost confidence” in Biden after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. and first lady Jill Biden
Jill BidenRice, McMaster, calls for help to remove orphans from Afghanistan: report The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by AT&T – US enters Afghanistan in last hours First lady press secretary asks Rachel Campos Duffy, Fox News apologizing for host comments MORE he made a previously unscheduled trip to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday evening to visit him with wounded service members.
Fifteen Marines who were injured in the suicide attack at Kabul airport in Afghanistan last week are recovering from Walter Reed. The White House did not specify which members of the service the Bidens met with.
“Tonight, the president and first lady visit wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,” the White House said Thursday after the president’s arrival arrived at the hospital outside Washington, DC
The trip was not on the White House’s initial calendar.
Biden paid his first visit to Walter Reed as president in late January, days after his inauguration. The president has a personal connection to the hospital because it is where his late son, Beau, received treatment for brain cancer before he died in 2015.
On Sunday, Biden witnessed the dignified transfer to Dover Air Force Base, during which the remains of the 13 service members who died in the Kabul explosion returned to the United States. Biden also met privately with some of the families of service members killed in the attack, perpetrated by an ISIS branch operating in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military mission to Afghanistan officially ended Monday evening after the final U.S. troops left the country, concluding America’s longest war.
“The men and women of the U.S. military, our diplomatic corps, and intelligence professionals did their job and did it well, risking their lives not for professional gain but to serve the others, not on a war mission, but on a mission of mercy, “Biden said in statements Tuesday, during which he defended his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. “Twenty members of the service were wounded in the service of this mission. Thirteen heroes gave their lives.”
“I was just at the base of the Dover Air Force for the decent transfer. We owe them and their families a debt of gratitude that we can never pay, but that we should never forget, ”he added.