Biden scraps Pennsylvania trip after testing positive for COVID-19
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Washington — After testing positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, President Biden canceled a planned trip to Pennsylvania, where he was set to outline a $37 billion plan aimed at making U.S. communities safer and fighting crime amid a nationwide surge in violence.
Mr. Biden was scheduled to travel to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to outline his "Safe America Plan," funding for which would use money included in his fiscal year 2023 budget request to Congress.
Instead, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president "will participate in his planned meetings at the White House this morning via phone and Zoom from the residence" and "will continue to work in isolation until he tests negative." Mr. Biden was set to travel to Philadelphia after his stop in Wilkes-Barre before heading to Delaware later Thursday.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.