WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ready to handle the nation Tuesday evening shortly after returning to the White Home from a five-day journey to Asia that was bookended by “horrific” mass tragedy.
Biden was on Air Pressure One Tuesday afternoon when officers mentioned a gunman appearing alone killed 18 students and three adults at a Texas elementary school. The president’s departure for Asia final week got here simply two days after he met with victims’ households after a hate-motivated shooter killed 10 Black folks at a grocery retailer in Buffalo, New York. The back-to-back tragedies served as sobering reminders of the frequency and brutality of an American epidemic of mass gun violence.
Biden entered the White Home showing somber, saying he would quickly converse to the American folks in regards to the capturing. He directed that American flags be flown at half-staff by way of sundown Saturday in honor of the victims.
Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned that individuals usually say in a second like this, “our hearts break — however our hearts hold getting damaged … and our damaged hearts are nothing in comparison with the damaged hearts of these households.”
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“Now we have to have the braveness to take motion … to make sure one thing like this by no means occurs once more,” she mentioned.
First Girl Jill Biden, herself a trainer, tweeted, “Lord, sufficient. Little kids and their trainer. Shocked. Indignant. Heartbroken.”
White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned Biden was briefed on the capturing by deputy chief of workers Jen O’Malley-Dillon and different members of his senior workforce aboard Air Pressure One.
Shortly earlier than touchdown in Washington, Biden spoke with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from the presidential aircraft “to supply any and all help he wants within the wake of the horrific capturing in Uvalde, TX,” White Home communications director Kate Bedingfield tweeted.
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