White House: Biden to visit storm-ravaged Calif. on Thursday

President Joe Biden is expected to make his first trip out to California following weeks of storms that have soaked the Golden State, flooded communities, and shaken-up communities between the holidays.

President Joe Biden is expected to make his first trip out to California following weeks of storms that have soaked the Golden State, flooded communities, and shaken-up communities between the holidays, the White House announced Monday.

Biden’s trip comes on the heels of a declaration of emergency and activation of FEMA relief for a host of counties on the coast and in inland California.

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Driving the news: California’s three-week ‘parade of storms’ has brought a hefty amount of rainfall, flooding and paralyzing communities in Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, and Merced counties, along with significant snowfall in the Sierra foothills.

  • Following pressure from a number of California lawmakers, FEMA has expanded public assistance to a number of
  • Biden’s Thursday visit will center on meeting with first responders and surveying damaged towns on the central Coast to “assess what additional federal support is needed,” per a report from Reuters.
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