First Lady Jill Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Visit Alabama on Friday

First Lady Jill Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Visit Alabama on Friday

Posted by Jan McDonald September 10, 2024

Alabama – First Lady Jill Biden is set to visit Alabama on Friday to highlight a new children’s program. (According to AL.com)

Biden, accompanied by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, will visit Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery.

The event will focus on a new universal pre-kindergarten program being introduced at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools.

This program is part of “Joining Forces,” a White House initiative that supports military families, veterans, caregivers, and survivors.

Biden and Austin are expected to speak about the program, which the Biden-Harris Administration aims to use as a model for achieving universal pre-K education in non-military schools.

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Jill Biden previously visited Birmingham in 2021.

Austin, a Mobile native, is an Auburn University graduate and a former trustee of the school.

Austin’s visit comes amid U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark’s nomination to four-star commander of the U.S. Army Pacific force. Tuberville has expressed concerns about the secrecy surrounding Austin’s hospitalization last year following cancer surgery, according to the Washington Post.

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