Today, President Biden will present awards to federal employees and host a reception to mark the end of Ramadan ahead of a planned visit to Alabama on Tuesday to tour a Lockheed Martin facility that manufactures Javelin antitank missiles being sent to Ukraine. That visit is among a flurry of stepped-up gestures of solidarity with Ukraine from leading U.S. political figures amid a war with Russia with no end in sight.
Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made an unannounced visit to Kyiv that included a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Later this week, first lady Jill Biden is traveling to Romania and Slovakia to meet with Ukrainian families displaced by the war. She will spend her Mother’s Day visiting with refugees.
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In Georgia, the seating of a special purpose grand jury is scheduled to begin Monday, marking a new phase in an Atlanta-area prosecutor’s probe into whether former president Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state.
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