It's the kind of trip the White House is calling 'far too familiar.'
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Maine Friday to grieve with a community reeling from a mass shooting that left 18 people dead and 13 others wounded.
"Too many times, the president and the first lady have traveled to communities completely torn apart by gun violence," Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday. "As the president said last week, this is not normal, and we can't accept it as normal."The Oct. 25 rampage unfolded when a gunman armed with a semi-automatic weapon entered a bowling alley where a children's league was taking place and a local bar.
Ahead of Biden's visit, a White House official highlighted what the administration says it has done on the ground in the days following the shooting, including the coordination of federal resources like expansive victim services provided by the FBI and Justice Department as well as the deployment of behavioral health and public health staff support from the Department of Health and Human Services.
"He will also continue to be relentless in doing everything in his power to stop the epidemic of gun violence tearing our communities apart and urging Congress to act on commonsense gun safety legislation," Feldman said.
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