WASHINGTON: Joe Biden will spend his first Christmas as president at the White House with family and is giving up his New Years tradition of sun and St. Croix for the chill of Delaware this year, his spokesperson said Wednesday.
The decision to spend Christmas at the White House was unexpected from a president who heads home to Delaware for the weekend as often as possible. During his first year in office, hes spent more than 25 weekends at his Wilmington home or his Rehoboth Beach house, where its easier for friends and family to stop by and for the Bidens to enjoy bike rides or outings to the beach.
Biden has suggested he’s uncomfortable with the trappings of life in the White House, at one point saying living there was like being in a gilded cage.
The president will also eschew his family tradition of traveling to the U.S. Virgin Islands for the New Years holiday, a trip hes made with his family nearly every year since 2008. His brother James owns property on Water Island, and Biden often has spent the week there or on St. Croix. Instead, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, hell spend some time between Christmas and New Years in Delaware.
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