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It’s a wrap: Biden buys tacos in boost for US restaurants

/ 07:04 AM May 06, 2021

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 U.S. President Joe Biden   (Getty Images via AFP)

WASHINGTON, United States  – President Joe Biden put his money where his mouth is Wednesday with a surprise lunch visit to a Washington tacos restaurant.

The surprise jaunt from the White House saw Biden’s heavily guarded motorcade descend on Taqueria Las Gemelas in Union Market.

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Biden was promoting the newly opened Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which provides $28.6 billion in stimulus for one of the hardest-hit sectors during the coronavirus pandemic.

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And while at the restaurant, which is part-owned by Mexican immigrants, Biden did his bit for economic recovery by ordering a hefty lunch.

Co-owner Josh Phillips told dc.eater.com that the most powerful man in the world’s order consisted of four tacos and two quesadillas, one of them featuring chorizo with habanero salsa.

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Picking up his order, Biden looked around and growled, jokingly, to his staff: “These are my tacos.”

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On the election campaign trail, he said, lunch orders sometimes went missing.

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her own impromptu dose of economic stimulus with a raid on a book shop during a trip to Providence, Rhode Island.

Harris, accompanied by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, emerged from Books on the Square with three novels and a cookbook, “Simply Julia.”

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“I’m going to find time,” the vice president said.

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