President Joe Biden canceled his planned trip to Colorado on Monday in order to remain in Washington and concentrate on the escalating hostilities in the Middle East.
Biden had been traveling to Rep. Lauren Boebert’s district to visit CS Wind, the largest wind tower manufacturing factory in the world. However, the White House announced that the trip would be delayed just a few hours before Biden was slated to depart.
Rather, Biden is anticipated to convene many high-level conferences with aides to discuss Israel and the escalating humanitarian issues in Gaza.
The president of the Democratic Party is considering going to the area, which would be a dramatic show of support for Israel in the wake of the Hamas onslaught on October 7 that claimed the lives of over 1,400 Israelis.
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As a result of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, which is preparing for a ground invasion, almost 2,300 Palestinians have lost their lives. According to the State Department, at least 30 Americans were murdered, and 13 are still unaccounted for.
Presidential travel is carefully scheduled for security and logistical reasons, so last-minute cancellations are uncommon.
The struggle between managing the violent conflicts in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion is in its second year, and the Middle East, which is usually one of the most volatile places in the globe, is reflected in Biden’s choice.
There are worries that Israel’s north, which borders the southern region of Lebanon under Hezbollah control, may see the opening of a second front. There have already been reports of intermittent border clashes.
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Iran supports Hezbollah as well as Hamas. In an attempt to prevent the war from getting wider, two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups have been sent to the Eastern Mediterranean.
Biden’s priorities in domestic and foreign affairs have previously clashed.
After attending the Group of Seven conference in Japan earlier this year, he was supposed to travel to Papua New Guinea and Australia; however, due to the impasse over the debt ceiling in Washington, those two trips were canceled. Instead of strengthening relations with nations in the Indo-Pacific area, Biden returned home to work out a solution with Republicans in order to avert the first-ever default.
Biden planned to use Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert as a political prop when he unveiled the Inflation Reduction Act, his major piece of domestic legislation and the source of hundreds of billions of dollars for incentives related to clean energy.
Boebert stated that the law “needs to be repealed” and that it is “a massive failure.” However, Biden intended to show the opposite when he went to CS Wind in Pueblo. With the aid of the tax benefits under the law, the company is undergoing a $200 million expansion that is anticipated to produce 850 employment by 2026.
Pueblo is one of the main hubs of the 3rd Congressional District of Colorado, which is larger than Pennsylvania. Boebert narrowly avoided losing her seat in the 2022 midterm elections after winning it in 2020.
House Republicans, who have been unable to agree on a replacement for their ousted speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, voted Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a popular conservative and well-known Trump ally, ha the nomination.
Even with low unemployment and declining inflation, Biden has had trouble persuading people that his plans will benefit the US economy.
Only 36% of American adults, according to an August poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, think favorably of Biden’s economic management, which is about where his numbers have remained for the past six months.
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