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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris mark Cinco de Mayo with quesadilla, churros

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Friday by stepping out for a quesadilla and tacos at a Washington meals corridor. His unannounced go to prompted one onlooker to comment, “This is the most D.C. thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Biden was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris at Taqueria Habanero, within the Edgewood neighborhood of the capital. The president paid in money for his order and posed with employees for footage. Aides mentioned Biden ordered a hen quesadilla and churros, in addition to an assortment of tacos for White House employees. To the folks peering over a wall and looking out down from their house balconies to see him, the president joked, “Don’t jump.”

Cinco de Mayo is a yearly celebration on May 5 that commemorates Mexico’s 1862 victory over France within the Battle of Puebla. The vacation has turn into more and more widespread within the United States.

Last yr, Biden and his spouse, Jill, celebrated Cinco de Mayo on the White House. In 2021, the president visited Las Gemelas, a Mexican restaurant in Washington and instructed employees there that the corporate can be receiving monetary assist from his COVID reduction package deal.

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