The White House is remaining mum regarding President Joe Biden’s plans to commemorate the first anniversary of the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“I don’t have anything else to share with you on any future statements that he will make,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. “I have nothing to share about anything on his schedule. As you know, he’s going to be traveling tomorrow,” she added before Biden’s trip to Pennsylvania on Tuesday. The United States’s presence in Afghanistan concluded on Aug. 31, 2021.
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Instead, Jean-Pierre alluded to the written note Biden shared last week concerning the first anniversary of the Islamic State–Khorasan Province Hamid Karzai International Airport terrorist attack. She underscored how Biden “named each of the 13 troops who were tragically killed that day.”
“The president feels deeply about the loss that was suffered one year ago,” she said. “He feels strongly that we owe their families support for the rest of their lives. We are never going to stop seeking justice for those who were involved in the planning of the attack.”
No president cares more about military personnel and their loved ones than Biden, according to Jean-Pierre.
Biden told reporters last week on the White House South Lawn that he is yet to speak with the family or friends of the 13 service members who were killed when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt near a checkpoint during the evacuation on Aug. 26, 2021. Almost 170 Afghan civilians also died in the attack.
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“Not today, but I have spoken in the past,” he said before departing on Marine One.
