Republicans on Friday and Saturday criticized President Biden for spending his Labor Day weekend in Delaware amid the chaos unfolding after the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The president on Friday flew from Louisiana, where he surveyed devastation to New Orleans suburbs after Hurricane Ida, to his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. The president is expected to survey hurricane damage in New York and New Jersey on Tuesday.
“American citizens are still stranded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, and meanwhile Joe Biden is vacationing in Delaware,” Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said in a Saturday tweet.
“Roughly 100 Americans will be spending their weekend abandoned in Afghanistan,” the congressman tweeted on Friday.
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House deputy press secretary, told reporters during a Friday press gaggle that Biden was dealing with “different multiple crises.”
