{"id":608638,"date":"2021-08-02T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608638"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:35:33","slug":"president-biden-to-skip-out-on-obamas-massive-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-to-skip-out-on-obamas-massive-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden To Skip Out On Obama\u2019s Massive Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresident-biden-to-skip-out-on-obamas-massive-birthday-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608638&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden will not attend former President Barack Obama\u2019s 60th birthday bash at Martha\u2019s Vineyard, the White House announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s party is scheduled to have up to 500 guests and more than 200 staff and has faced criticism from some over COVID-19 concerns. The party will have a \u201cCOVID-coordinator\u201d to mitigate risk of outbreaks from the large gathering, and all attendees are encouraged to be vaccinated and are required to get tested, according to Axios. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/29\/joe-biden-states-companies-schools-mandate-vaccines-delta-variant-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Says He Wants Mandates For Vaccines Throughout The Nation)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"49.928348097968\">\n<p>\u201cWhile President Biden is unable to attend this weekend, he looks forward to catching up with former President Obama soon and properly welcoming him into the over-sixty club,\u201d the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/obama-plans-birthday-bash-amid-covid-concerns-26278329-43be-473d-bf16-80b025e03912.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Axios<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5185222\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5185222\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5185222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2016-08-18T160822Z_1_LYNXNPEC7H0WZ_RTROPTP_4_USA-OBAMA-e1474574652189.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he walks out with First lady Michelle Obama from the White House in Washington, U.S. August 6, 2016 before departure for their summer vacation in Martha&#039;s Vineyard, Massachusetts. REUTERS\/Yuri Gripas\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5185222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he walks out with First lady Michelle Obama from the White House in Washington, U.S. August 6, 2016 before departure for their summer vacation in Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts. (REUTERS\/Yuri Gripas)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Obamas will host their hundreds of guests at their oceanfront mansion, and Pearl Jam <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/biden-skip-obamas-60th-birthday-161600189.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is scheduled to perform<\/a> at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/27\/cdc-changes-guidance-vaccinated-americans-normal-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced last week<\/a> that even vaccinated Americans should wear masks in while indoors in certain high risk areas, a reversal of its previous mask guidance. Martha\u2019s Vineyard does not currently meet the criteria for \u201chigh risk\u201d area, however.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC based its updated guidance on a study finding that vaccinated people can contract and spread COVID-19 and the delta variant in some situations, though their cases are less severe than for those who have not been vaccinated. The study group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cdc-fully-vaccinated-people-infected-can-transmit-covid-study-2021-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came out of Provincetown<\/a>, Massachusetts, which sits roughly 60 miles north of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>Some medical experts have warned against hosting large gatherings under current circumstances, with National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins telling Americans to use \u201ccommon sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re talking about a small party like I might have at my house for six or eight people who are all fully vaccinated, I do not believe, at this point, we need to put masks on to be next to each other,\u201d Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/02\/politics\/obama-birthday-bash-marthas-vineyard\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told CNN on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if there were 100 people, and, of course, how are you really going to be sure about people\u2019s vaccination status?\u201d he said. \u201cThen the dynamic changes a little bit. There will be some need for common sense there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will not attend former President Barack Obama\u2019s 60th birthday bash at Martha\u2019s Vineyard, the White House announced Monday.Obama\u2019s party is scheduled to have up to 500 guests &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}