President Joe Biden’s trip on Tuesday to Fort Worth, Texas, is personal
FILE - President Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office of the White House, on March 4, 2022, in Washington. Biden’s trip on Tuesday to Fort Worth, Texas, is personal. It's a chance to talk with veterans and their caregivers and push for more help for members of the military who face health problems after exposure to burn pits.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that Biden will be traveling with Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough to Texas. They'll visit the VA clinic in Fort Worth, with remarks to follow at the Tarrant County Resource Connection on “expanding access to health care and benefits for veterans affected by exposure to harmful substances, toxins and other environmental hazards, including those from burn pits.
Biden's son, Beau, was a major in an Army National Guard unit that deployed to Iraq in 2008. The two-term Delaware attorney general was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2013 and died two years later.