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It was unclear when Biden’s overseas trip might be rescheduled and the White House did not announce new travel dates. The president had been scheduled to depart Thursday for Germany, where he had planned to host a summit on the war in Ukraine with allied nations at a U.S. military base before continuing to Angola
President Joe Biden has postponed a planned trip to Germany and Angola to stay at the White House and monitor Hurricane Milton, which is spinning closer to Florida’s Gulf Coast. At this stage, he said that he could not leave the country.
He said people in the storm’s path should heed local orders to evacuate and leave now. Biden said Milton’s strength was such that it had the potential “to both enter Florida as a hurricane and leave Florida as a hurricane on the Atlantic Coast. This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century, further added.
It was unclear when Biden’s overseas trip might be rescheduled and the White House did not announce new travel dates. The president had been scheduled to depart Thursday for Germany, where he had planned to host a summit on the war in Ukraine with allied nations at a U.S. military base before continuing to Angola.
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Biden had promised to visit Africa during his term in office, which ends in January. He said Tuesday that he still intends to make the journey. Most of Florida’s west coast was under a hurricane or tropical storm warning as Milton and its 145 mph (230 kph) winds spun just off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, creeping toward the state.
