President Joe Biden visited the Las Gemelas taqueria in Union Market to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and to talk up the new program to provide aide to restaurants:
Biden has arrived at Las Gemelas in Union Market, per pooler @nielslesniewski. The restaurant is a beneficiary of ARP aid, per WH: “Today, on Cinco de Mayo, the administration is reminded of the resiliency and ingenuity of the Mexican-American community in difficult times.”
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) May 5, 2021
Biden was, of course, masked up for the social-distanced visit:
The President making a stop to pick up lunch & talk with the staff at Las Gemelas, a DC restaurant that benefited from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. He said he got tacos & enchiladas to go pic.twitter.com/EdMls1iPsC
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) May 5, 2021
Can someone please explain to us why Biden needs a mask for this visit. . .
“The restaurant industry is so badly hurt nationwide,” President Biden says as he visits a DC taqueria to tout federal restaurant grants. pic.twitter.com/uUvT0tRWSe
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 5, 2021
. . .but not for this one?
We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the @POTUS and @FLOTUS visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.!
Thank you President and Mrs. Biden! pic.twitter.com/QcA33iUev4
— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) May 4, 2021
He wore the mask outdoors, too:
Biden stopped at Las Gemelas, a Mexican restaurant in NE DC (attached to La Cosecha) owned partly by Mexican immigrants and walked out with tacos and enchiladas. pic.twitter.com/iO8kA5sHc7
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) May 5, 2021
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You know, one other way to help restaurants would be to show America vaccines work. Just a thought:
President Biden just left Las Gemelas, a taqueria in Northeast DC pic.twitter.com/QFtGOUvKo2
— AnnaMaria Di Pietro (@AnnaMariaDP) May 5, 2021
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