UNITED States President Joe Biden will send a delegation to represent him at the inauguration of President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the US Embassy in Manila announced Monday.
"Mr. Douglas Emhoff, Second Gentleman of the United States, will lead the delegation," the embassy said in an advisory. The other members of the group that will attend the historic June 30 event are Heather Variava, Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, Rep. Bobby Scott, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, Nani A. Coloretti, deputy director, Office of Management and Budget, Admiral James "Sandy" A. Winnefeld Jr. (Ret.), former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Edgard D. Kagan, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania, National Security Council and Chantale Y. Wong, US director of the Asian Development Bank.
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