“Where’s Jackie?” asked the 79-year-old Democrat during a speech dedicated to the fight once morest obesity and food insecurity.
“I want to thank everyone who is here,” said Joe Biden, mentioning two other parliamentarians particularly involved in these subjects, a Republican and a Democrat.
In the process, he seemed to look in the room for former member of the House of Representatives Jackie Walorski, an elected Republican from Indiana who died in early August in a car accident, who was very committed to the fight once morest malnutrition.
The elected official had actively contributed to the preparation of a major summit devoted to this problem, during which Joe Biden spoke on Wednesday.
The White House had published a press release following his death in which the American president said he was “shocked and saddened”.
Bombarded with questions regarding this on Wednesday to find out if Joe Biden had forgotten that the parliamentarian was dead, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre did not really answer.
“He thought very strongly of her” during this event to which she had actively contributed, only said the spokesperson.
“I don’t find it disturbing,” she said once more to the journalists who insisted.
Karine Jean-Pierre added that Joe Biden had already planned to meet the family of the deceased parliamentarian on Friday, on the occasion of the signing of a law, to pay tribute to his “remarkable” fight once morest malnutrition. .
