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The President of the United States, Joe Biden, He said goodbye with a kiss from the first lady, Jill Biden, Before addressing the Marina One at the White House to Visit Wounded Soldiers in Maryland
In the south garden of the White House, Biden spoke for a moment with Jill and then lowered his mouthpiece to say goodbye from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to Bethesda, which was his first trip since taking office.
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Biden spoke to reporters who were in the White House and recalled that he spent a lot of time at this medical center as a patient and also when his son Beau was hospitalized for brain cancer.
In 1988, when he was a Delaware senator, Biden underwent surgery at this hospital for a cerebral aneurysm, which kept him hospitalized for several months.
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Also, when he was vice president in the Barack Obama administration, he and Jill Biden frequently visited the hospital for Christmas to see the wounded soldiers.
at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Biden toured a coronavirus vaccination site and thanked hospital officials for the care they provided to their son Beau during the final days of his battle with brain cancer in 2015.
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Jill Biden will participate in a reunion event for migrant families
The first lady of the United States will take part in her husband’s government efforts to reunite the families of migrants separated by the Donald Trump administration, the White House announced.
According to one of his campaign promises, Democratic President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday “the launch of a working group to reunite migrant families and children,” the White House spokeswoman announced. Jen Psaki, during a press conference.
“His wife, Dr. Biden, will be personally committed and dedicated” to this team brought together under the leadership of Aleiandro Mayorkas, who is due to be confirmed as secretary of home security by the Senate on Monday, he added.
Jill Biden, 69, holds a PhD in Education Sciences and plans to continue teaching at a university near Washington, despite her husband’s arrival at the White House.
(…)In December, the future first lady visited a migrant camp in Mexico, near the border with Texas. “We are a welcoming nation, but that is not the message we send”, He lamented then.
Its tone contrasts with that of Melania Trump, Wife of former President Trump, who visited migrant children in 2018 with a jacket adorned with a print that read: “I don’t really care, do I?” (I don’t really care, do you?).
That year, the Trump administration enacted a policy of “zero tolerance” on the border with Mexico, which involved the separation of hundreds of families. The dramas experienced by the children raised a cry to the Republican ranks and the tycoon ordered an end to them in June, at the same time as a judge ordered the reunification of divided families.
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