:quality(85)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/BHZMUH3NYCBSQOKPXE7FE6J5PM.jpg "The Biden family will take an end-of-year vacation in the Caribbean")
The US president and his wife will celebrate New Year’s Eve and the New Year with the rest of his family in the Virgin Islands and will return to the White House on January 2
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill left the cold of Washington on Tuesday for the warm US Virgin Islands, where they will celebrate the arrival of the new year with the rest of their family.
Biden and his wife left the White House after 6:30 p.m. local time and boarded the Marine One presidential helicopter, in which they will travel to the Andrews military base, in the state of Maryland and on the outskirts of Washington.
From there, they will travel directly to Saint Croix, the largest territory of the US Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean.
According to the White House, the Bidens plan to celebrate New Year’s Eve and the New Year with the rest of their family in the Virgin Islands and will return to the White House on January 2.
The Bidens have gone to the Virgin Islands for vacations during the Christmas holidays almost every year since 2008, including the period in which the current president served as vice president with Barack Obama (2009-2017).
Despite the fact that traveling to the Virgin Islands is customary in the family, the president and the first lady broke with that tradition last year and spent their vacations in Delaware, the state in which Biden grew up and which he represented in the United States Senate. for 36 years.
Both last year and this year, the Bidens have gone on vacation after Christmas Eve and Christmas, holidays that have happened in the White House.
Biden was criticized by Fox News hosts for being “ready to have a good time” as Americans brave the blizzard.
Emergency in New York
Before leaving on vacation, the US president approved the declaration of emergency for the state of New York, the state most affected by Storm Elliot, to facilitate the federal aid necessary to alleviate its effects and care for those affected, the White House reported in a statement.
With this declaration, the Biden Administration approves federal aid to the state and local governments to deal with the consequences of this severe storm that has caused the death of at least fifty people throughout the country, 31 of them in the state of NY.
The president thus authorized the Department of the Interior and the Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate the actions that are necessary to face this situation and “alleviate the adversity and suffering” caused by the storm.
The United States tries to recover from the ravages caused by the arctic front that has taken the lives of more than 50 people, half in the Buffalo area, in the state of New York.
Storm Elliot, described as “once in a generation” by the National Weather Service (NWS), has caused freezing temperatures from the Great Lakes, near Canada, to the Rio Grande (also called the Rio Grande), in the border with Mexico.
Storm Elliot, described as “once in a generation” by the National Weather Service (NWS), has caused freezing temperatures from the Great Lakes, near Canada, to the Rio Grande (also called the Rio Grande), in the border with Mexico. (Reuters)
Heavy snowfall and hurricane-force winds have left thousands of people trapped in their homes and on the roads, thousands of passengers stranded on Christmas Eve due to flight cancellations, and thousands of homes without power due to the collapse of electrical infrastructure.