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President Biden to visit Los Angeles over the weekend

The president makes his arrival in Nevada on Dec. 8 and will continue on to California.

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President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Nov. 14, 2023, to board Marine One as he heads to San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

President Joe Biden is making his way to Los Angeles after a visit to Nevada.

The president plans to deliver remarks in Las Vegas on Dec. 8 and shortly depart to participate in a campaign reception in Los Angeles along with First Lady Jill Biden.

A planned high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area got a Biden administration pledge on Tuesday of $3 billion to help start laying track, Nevada elected officials said.

“We’re ready to get to work,” Wes Edens, founder and chairman of Florida-based Brightline, said in a statement ahead of a Friday event in Las Vegas that may coincide with a visit by President Joe Biden.

Rosen and U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, both Democrats, led a bipartisan group including all of Nevada’s elected federal lawmakers and four House members from California that in April urged Biden to commit up to $3.75 billion in federal infrastructure funds toward what they call a public-private partnership.

Planners say trains carrying passengers at nearly 200 mph could cut in half a four-hour freeway trip from a station in Las Vegas through Victorville, California, to a suburban Los Angeles light rail line in the San Bernardino County city of Rancho Cucamonga.

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