first Lady jill biden Arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, for a tour of Intel’s Ocotillo campus, the three-day, three-state tour began Monday afternoon.
The First Lady is using the visit to highlight some of the areas that President Joe Biden Last week’s State of the Union noted that could see bipartisan support, such as job training and ending cancer – kicks off Monday and Tuesday in the swing states of Arizona and Nevada.
She will then head to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on Wednesday to spend time with the families of soldiers who are supporting. Then Among allies in Europe, the Russian president Vladimir Putininvasion of Ukraine.
First Lady Jill Biden embarks on a three-day, three-state tour Monday afternoon to arrive in Phoenix, Arizona to tour Intel’s Ocotillo campus
Biden’s visit comes after a whirlwind weekend of travel—when she attended memorial services in Boston and San Francisco on Friday, attended a San Francisco fundraiser on Saturday morning, and then visited her husband for the remainder of the weekend. Went to meet Fly to Wilmington, Delaware to join.
The Bidens arrived at the White House on Sunday night.
The first lady will also participate in the Democratic National Committee fundraiser in this trip.
The Intel stop comes as the first lady seated Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger in her box at State of the Union Tuesday night.
Gelsinger previously visited the White House to announce a new Columbus, Ohio semiconductor plant that would create more than 7,000 construction jobs and another 3,000 jobs running the high-tech facility.
During State of the Union, President Biden said that Gelsinger was prepared to increase Intel’s US investment from $20 billion to $100 billion.
“This will be one of the largest investments in manufacturing in American history,” the president said.
The First Lady is also highlighting Intel as the company is working with community colleges to train employees.
Dr. Biden has continued to teach English at Northern Virginia Community College since becoming the first woman.
She is traveling with Angela Hanks, assistant secretary of the Employment and Training Administration at the US Department of Labor.
On Tuesday, Biden will be joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Becerra in Tucson, where he will learn about the Tohono O’odham Nation’s cancer program as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
President Biden first announced Cancer Moon when he was serving as vice president and after son Beau’s death from brain cancer in 2015.
Bidens recently revived the initiative, with the president highlighting it in his State of the Union speech – referring to the military’s use of burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq, which he suggested to Biden. May be in the case of cancer.
That part of the speech received extra attention as the president was interrupted by a shouting Republican Representative Laurent Boebert, who was incensed by Democrats and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham for her outburst.
Continuing our reach to Native Americans, First Lady and Becerra San Javier del Bac will also visit the mission and will be treated to a dance performance by the members of Tohono O’Odham.
Since becoming First Lady, Dr. Biden has visited Aboriginal lands several times.
Her husband made history by naming New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior, the first Native American to hold a cabinet position.
And then on Wednesday, Dr. Biden and Hanks will travel to Reno, Nevada to visit Truckee Meadows Community College, where they’ll hear about the school’s job training programs.
Later, the first lady will visit Fort Campbell to meet families of the 101st Airborne Division as part of the ‘Joining Forces’ initiative, which she first launched with First Lady Michelle Obama when her husband was vice president.