President Biden is on his way to the great Pacific Northwest, travel pool says

Joe Biden is inbound to the great Pacif­ic Northwest.

The 46th Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States is on his way to Ore­gon and Wash­ing­ton State for his first offi­cial vis­it as Com­man­der-in-Chief to both states, accom­pa­nied by a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of aides and advi­sors from the White House.

Biden depart­ed the White House at 10:29 AM East­ern on Marine One for Joint Base Andrews, accord­ing to the trav­el pool. He was accom­pa­nied by five aides on the helo, includ­ing Kate Bed­ing­field, the Direc­tor of Communications.

The flight end­ed eight min­utes lat­er and Biden emerged at 10:41 AM Eastern.

After arriv­ing at Joint Base Andrews, the Pres­i­dent was greet­ed by Colonel Matthew Jones, the Com­man­der of the 89th Air­lift Wing, and walked to the VC-25A trans­port that the Air Force usu­al­ly uses for cross coun­try and inter­na­tion­al pres­i­den­tial trips. After salut­ing and wav­ing, he embarked, begin­ning his trip to the Pacif­ic North­west. The cross coun­try flight is expect­ed to take under five hours. Air Force One is due into Port­land a lit­tle after half past noon.

(Note that Air Force One is a call­sign, not an air­craft; any Air Force bird car­ry­ing the Pres­i­dent is Air Force One, as opposed to a spe­cif­ic jet. For this trip, the Pres­i­dent will fly on a VC-25A, which is a famil­iar look­ing mod­i­fied Boe­ing 747.)

After arriv­ing in Port­land, Biden will make an appear­ance at the air­port with Gov­er­nor Kate Brown, Sen­a­tor Jeff Merkley, and Sen­a­tor Ron Wyden. This event will be car­ried live on WhiteHouse.gov for any­one inter­est­ed in view­ing it.

Fol­low­ing the event, the Pres­i­dent will trav­el to a DNC fundrais­er near­by in Port­land. After remarks and pos­si­ble Q&A, he will return to PDX and depart for Seat­tle. The flight up to Seat­tle will take slight­ly less than an hour.

The Pres­i­dent will be com­ing into Seat­tle-Taco­ma Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, prob­a­bly neces­si­tat­ing a tem­po­rary ground stop dur­ing rush hour.

Biden’s first stop in Seat­tle will be anoth­er DNC fundrais­er. After that, his pub­licly announced sched­ule is done for the day, and he’ll retire to his lodgings.

Tomor­row morn­ing, Biden will appear with Gov­er­nor Jay Inslee, Sen­a­tors Pat­ty Mur­ray and Maria Cantwell, and Unit­ed States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Kim Schri­er at an Earth Day event in Schri­er’s dis­trict (Green Riv­er Col­lege in Auburn).

After that event con­cludes, Biden is sched­uled to return to Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

Seat­tle and Port­land area trav­el­ers can expect some traf­fic and air­port impacts from the Pres­i­den­t’s vis­it. For oper­a­tional secu­ri­ty rea­sons, the Secret Ser­vice does­n’t dis­close what roads they will be using for the Pres­i­den­t’s trav­el, and thus it isn’t pos­si­ble for us to pass along any spe­cif­ic advi­sories about road clo­sures. How­ev­er, any­one who needs to trav­el in South King Coun­ty tonight or tomor­row should leave plen­ty of extra time for their trip.

We will offer con­tin­u­ing cov­er­age of Pres­i­dent Biden’s trip to the great Pacif­ic North­west here on the Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate through its con­clu­sion tomor­row after­noon. If you’d like to get updates when they are pub­lished, you can use the sub­scribe by email option to your right, or our RSS feed.