President Obama will travel to San Bernardino, California on Friday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest says.
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Obama will stop in San Bernardino on the way to his annual Christmas vacation with his family in Hawaii.
Obama already has spoken about the San Bernardino shootings in a December 6 address from the Oval Office so it’s not surprising he will not hold any public events during the visit and will instead meet with the victims, Pitney said.
In his address to the nation, Obama noted the diversity of backgrounds of the San Bernardino victims and said, “Each of them served their fellow citizens and all of them were part of our American family”. The president said US intelligence and counter-terrorism professionals don’t have any specific, credible information suggesting a terrorist attack on the USA during the holidays.
The attack has made Americans increasingly nervous about their security. After three background investigations, Malik was cleared for entry into the United States on what is known as a “fiancee visa”, a document that required the couple to get married within 90 days of arriving in the country, which they did past year. The sprawling package will keep federal agencies funded via September 30 of next yr, staving off a authorities shutdown in that was to start next Tues.at midnight under the newest in a collection of short-term spending bills, this one passed by Congress & signed by President Barack Obama on Wednesday.
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The fight against the militant group in Syria and Iraq and preventing similar attacks at home will be at the top of his list for 2016, the officials said. The White House is considering acting to expand gun background checks without congressional approval.
