WASHINGTON – President Biden on Tuesday was headed for a spot very acquainted to him— the U.S. Virgin Islands — to take pleasure in some downtime and hotter climate and to ring in a brand new yr with household.
The White Home introduced late Monday that the president and his spouse, first woman Jill Biden, would depart Washington on Tuesday for St. Croix, one in all three islands that make up the U.S. territory within the Caribbean. St. John and St. Thomas are the opposite two islands.
St. Croix is a tropical getaway that Biden has been getting away to no less than since he was vice chairman, from 2009 to 2017. “We have missed him the final couple of years,” Beth Moss Mahar, a retired lawyer and island resident for almost three many years, mentioned in a phone interview.
Biden spent the vacations at his dwelling in Delaware in 2020 and 2021, largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This week’s go to to St. Croix shall be his first as president to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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“We’re tremendously honored,” Del. Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat who represents the Virgin Islands in Congress, mentioned Tuesday. “Prior to now, when he and his household have come, after all sightings of President Biden have been nearly a factor of legend,” she mentioned.
Biden and his spouse take pleasure in spending the week between Christmas and New 12 months’s Day in a hotter local weather, and Jill Biden likes a seaside, aides mentioned. Some members of the family have been anticipated to hitch them.