Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Pittsburgh next week
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Pittsburgh next week, the White House announced.
Harris will come to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Feb. 20 to tout the Biden administration's work toward delivering clean water for Americans and talk about how investments in clean water are creating good-paying jobs across the country.
She'll be joined by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan. Their visit is part of the Harris-Biden administration's fourth Investing in America Tour, which starts on Feb. 15.
No other details were immediately released about her visit. It's unclear where exactly Harris will be heading.
The White House says it's Harris' 11th visit to Pennsylvania since taking office. She was also in Pittsburgh in June of 2022 to highlight the need to replace lead water lines.
Pittsburgh has already had multiple visits from members of the Biden administration so far this year.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Pittsburgh in January to tout more than $5 billion in infrastructure funding, with more than $142 million coming to Pittsburgh to fix what's known as "the bathtub" -- the part of the Parkway East that runs alongside the Mon Wharf Downtown. It earned that nickname because it floods when the Mon River occasionally rises and spills over the concrete wall.
Just on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen toured West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield. She visited the hospital's new skin cancer center, and in a panel discussion afterward, she praised the administration's Inflation Reduction Act.
President Joe Biden will be visiting East Palestine, Ohio, just over the Pennsylvania-Ohio border, on Friday, a year after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled hazardous chemicals.