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After more than four months in office, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both planning this week to leave the U.S. and take the first foreign trips of their administration.<\/p>\n
Harris will leave the country first, scheduled to fly Sunday to Guatemala for talks with President Alejandro Giammattei and other leaders there about the “root causes” of migration. <\/p>\n
From there she\u2019s set to travel Monday night to Mexico for similar talks with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his advisers before returning to Washington.<\/p>\n
“Part of giving people hope is having a very specific commitment to rooting out corruption in the region,” Harris said recently, according to Bloomberg, referring to one of several root causes of migration she and her office have listed. Other causes include poverty and the effects of severe weather and natural disasters, they have claimed.<\/p>\n
In late March, the vice president took on the role of manager of the Biden administration\u2019s response to the migrant crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border. <\/p>\n
Ever since accepting the assignment, Harris has faced relentless criticism from Republicans \u2013 and from some Democrats \u2013 for not visiting border communities in the U.S. to learn more about the issues those communities and the Border Patrol agents who work there are dealing with as migrants, including many unaccompanied minors, flood the region and strain resources.<\/p>\n
“Kamala Harris should stop at the US border on her way to Mexico and Guatemala tomorrow to see Biden\u2019s record-breaking border crisis firsthand,” GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel wrote on Twitter on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Harris and her defenders in Washington have countered that the vice president\u2019s role was always intended to be a diplomatic assignment in which she would deal with foreign leaders instead of tour U.S. communities. <\/p>\n
While neither Biden nor Harris have traveled to U.S. border areas since taking office, the administration has sent other top officials, such as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.<\/p>\n
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\n President Biden and Vice President Harris will be leaving the U.S. this week for the first time since taking office in January. (Getty Images)\n <\/p>\n
Come Wednesday it will be President Biden\u2019s turn to represent the U.S. overseas. The president is scheduled to attend the G7 economic summit in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, then he and first lady Jill Biden will meet with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. <\/p>\n
The president\u2019s itinerary also includes stops in Belgium for a NATO summit and a meeting with Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan \u2013 and a June 16 face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
Biden leaves the country while facing his own share of criticism from Republicans.<\/p>\n
Writing on the Fox News website on Saturday, McDaniel pointed to Friday\u2019s federal jobs report, which showed growth figures that were 17% below expectations.<\/p>\n
Other Republicans have taken Biden to task, claiming he has appeared weak in dealing with Putin. They\u2019ve pointed to a recent ransomware attack by Russian hackers against a U.S. fuel pipeline \u2013 coinciding with Biden\u2019s recent decision to allow Putin to proceed with a pipeline of his own into Europe.<\/p>\n
“Biden\u2019s decision \u2026 is more than mixed messaging and sloppy decision-making,” U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., recently wrote. “It is a threat to America\u2019s national security.”<\/p>\n