President Biden is once again scheduled to head home to Delaware Saturday, as thousands of Americans and Afghan allies remain stranded in Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover last weekend.
The White House announced that Biden would leave for Wilmington around midday following a meeting with his national security team to get updated on the situation.
As of late Friday evening, Biden had no public events scheduled for Saturday or Sunday.
He then returned to Camp David, before turning back around and heading back to the White House on Tuesday night.
Shortly before noon Friday, the White House confirmed that Biden would remain in the nation's capital that night following his address, but left open whether he would head to Delaware later in the weekend.
In his remarks from the East Room of the White House, Biden insisted that Taliban fighters were letting Americans pass through checkpoints on their way to the airport - a statement that was later contradicted by reporters on the ground in Kabul as well as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who admitted on a call with lawmakers that the Islamic fundamentalists were beating US citizens who attempted to get through the checkpoints.
Biden added Friday that 13,000 people had been flown out of Afghanistan on US military aircraft since Saturday, and thousands more had been evacuated on private charter flights.
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