March 3, 2016
WASHINGTON – President Obama cast some light on his post presidency plans Thursday, telling lunch companions in Milwaukee that he plans to remain in Washington so that his youngest daughter can finish high school.
March 3, 2016
WASHINGTON – President Obama cast some light on his post presidency plans Thursday, telling lunch companions in Milwaukee that he plans to remain in Washington so that his youngest daughter can finish high school.
President Obama has lunch with Affordable Care Act letter writers at Engine Company No 3 in Milwaukee Thursday. Joining the president are Brent Brown, Karen George, Karen and Sharon Szyszko and Susan Campbell. The president's trip to Milwaukee is to celebrate the cityís victory in the Healthy Communities Challenge, a competition between 20 cities to increase the number of Americans with health insurance during the latest Health Insurance Marketplace open enrollment period.
"We're going to have to stay a couple of years so Sasha can finish. Transferring someone in the middle of high school — tough," he said while eating lunch at a Milwaukee restaurant.
Beyond that? "We haven't figured that out yet," he said.
Perhaps realizing that he was within earshot of his travelling press corps, he then shooed reporters away. "Thanks guys," he said. "Get out of here."
Obama was in Milwaukee Thursday to congratulate that city on having the most health insurance enrollments under Obamacare of any city under a White House initiative called the Healthy Communities Challenge. He had lunch in Milwaukee Wednesday with people who had written him letters about the Affordable Care Act, considered the signature legislative achievement of his presidency.
Sasha, 15, attends Sidwell Friends School in Washington. His elder daughter, Malia, is going off to college this year.
Obama's remark was more definitive than his earlier statements on the matter. In 2013, Obama told ABC's Barbara Walters that he might stay in Washington until Sasha goes off to college. "We gotta make sure that she's doing well," Obama told Walters. "Sasha will have a big say in where we are."
Obama would be the first president not to leave Washington since Woodrow Wilson.
Courtesy: USA Today
