Biden abruptly cancels Delaware trip after top level meeting on Ukraine crisis

U.S. President Joe Biden walks after arriving on Marine One from a trip to Ohio at the White House in Washington, February 17, 2022.

President Joe Biden canceled his plans to go to Delaware for the holiday on Sunday after a four-hour meeting of his national security team to discuss the Russian threat to Ukraine.

The president added the trip home to his schedule on Sunday afternoon. It was canceled a little over an hour later.

It is unusual for a U.S. president to change his travel plans so quickly.

According to the White House, the president had a family-related issue that was going to take him to Delaware, but he will not be going and will remain in Washington, DC tonight.

Biden's schedule and his interaction with his national security team have taken on a new sense of importance after the president said he believed Russian President Putin had decided to carry out an attack on Ukraine.

Biden said Friday in a formal address to the nation that there was reason to believe the Russian forces were planning to attackUkraine in the coming week.

Biden's prediction sent shock waves around the world, as he revealed information about an adversary's battle plans. Nearly half of the nation's military is deployed on the northern and eastern border of Russia.

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