United States President Joe Biden (L) and United States Vice President Kamala Harris get here throughout a finalizing event for H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on November 15, 2021.
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President Joe Biden moved power to Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday for the quick amount of time when he was under anesthesia for a regular colonoscopy, the White House stated.
The momentary delegation of power to Harris made her, for a time, the very first female acting president in U.S. history. Biden resumed his function as president prior to twelve noon, White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated.
Psaki had actually kept in mind in a press declaration that the exact same procedure was followed in 2002 and 2007, when then-President George W. Bush went through the exact same medical treatment.
“The Vice President will work from her office in the West Wing during this time,” Psaki stated Friday early morning.
Former President Donald Trump, 75, supposedly declined anesthesia for a medical treatment, specifically due to the fact that he did not wish to hand power to then-Vice President Mike Pence, according to a book from his 3rd press secretary, Stephanie Grisham.
The White House stated it will openly share a composed summary of the 78- year-old Biden’s physical later Friday afternoon. Biden, the earliest president to take workplace, turns 79 on Saturday.
Biden’s motorcade came to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center prior to 9 a.m. ET.
At 11: 35 a.m., Biden talked with Harris and White House chief of personnel Ron Klain “and at that time resumed his duties,” Psaki tweeted. Biden will remain at Walter Reed throughout of his physical, she stated.
In a letter to Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy, D-Vt– the second-highest ranking authorities in the Senate after Harris– Biden discussed, “Today I will undergo a routine medical procedure requiring sedation.”
“In view of present circumstances, I have determined to transfer temporarily the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States to the Vice President during the brief period of the procedure and recovery,” Biden stated in the letter, which was shared by the White House in the early afternoon Friday.
“In accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution, this letter shall constitute my written declaration that I am presently unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office of the President of the United States,” Biden composed.
“Pursuant to section 3, the Vice President shall discharge those powers and duties as Acting President until I transmit to you a written declaration that I am able to resume the discharge of those powers and duties,” the letter stated.
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