{"id":7506,"date":"2025-01-09T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/biden-cancels-scheduled-rome-trip-to-focus-on-federal-response-to-la-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:01:08","slug":"biden-cancels-scheduled-rome-trip-to-focus-on-federal-response-to-la-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/biden-cancels-scheduled-rome-trip-to-focus-on-federal-response-to-la-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden cancels scheduled Rome trip to focus on federal response to LA wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            President Joe Biden will no longer travel to Rome, Italy, this week as scheduled, the White House announced late Wednesday, canceling the trip in the final days of his presidency to monitor raging wildfires across the Los Angeles, California, area.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cAfter returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today he had met with police, fire and emergency personnel fighting the historic fires raging in the area and approved a Major Disaster declaration for California, President Biden made the decision to cancel his upcoming trip to Italy to remain focused on directing the full federal response in the days ahead,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Six wind-driven fires blazing across Los Angeles County remain mostly uncontained, with authorities issuing evacuation orders late Wednesday related to a brushfire in the Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cJust complete and utter devastation, and I\u2019ve been to a lot of these fires, a lot, going back to Paradise. This approximates Paradise,\u201d Newsom, a Democrat, said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Biden was scheduled to travel to Rome on Thursday, where the White House said earlier in the day that he\u2019d meet with Pope Francis, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Italian President Sergio Mattarella.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            It\u2019s not the first time domestic issues have forced Biden to upend foreign travel. In October, Biden postponed a scheduled trip to Germany and Angola as Hurricane Milton made landfall. Earlier this week, the White House canceled a scheduled event in Thermal, California, as the wildfires began to spread across the region.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will no longer travel to Rome, Italy, this week as scheduled, the White House announced late Wednesday, canceling the trip in the final days of his presidency to monitor raging wildfires across the Los Angeles, California, area. \u201cAfter returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today he had met with police, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}