President Joe Biden took off his mask to cough just before giving a speech.
Biden appeared on Tuesday to give a speech announcing his signing of the Inflation Reduction Act. He came out with his mask on, but he took it off to cough into his hand — just hours after it was revealed his wife, first lady Jill Biden, tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Joe Biden, who gave the speech in the White House State Dining Room after coming back from a week long vacation at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, was joined by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“With this law, the American people won, and the special interests lost,” the president said Tuesday. “This administration began amid a dark time in America … a once-in-a-century pandemic, devastating joblessness, clear and present threats to democracy and the rule of law, doubts about America’s future itself — and yet we’ve not wavered, we’ve not flinched, and we’ve not given in.”
Passed by the House last week, the legislation carries a price tag of $437 billion, with most of it being for energy and climate change. Schumer praised the bill as “one of the greatest legislative feats in decades.”
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Coughing is considered one of the main avenues of transmission for COVID-19, which is spread through airborne droplets and aerosols.
Though Jill Biden just tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time, Joe Biden continues to test negative, according to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The president recovered from his own case of COVID-19 earlier this month.
