'We gotta go!': Brandon, cat head for beach as Jill cuts off price-hike Q&A

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President Biden on Friday loaded up first cat Willow for yet another long weekend in Delaware, as first lady Jill Biden cut short her husband’s replies to questions on what most Americans are struggling with — record-high gas prices and soaring inflation.

The cat was carried in a crate across the White House lawn by a Biden aide to the humming Marine One helicopter. Journalists did not see first dog Major.

Biden took a few reporter questions before joining Willow and Jill for the trip to his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., including about rising prices.

The president sought once again to blame oil companies, but the exchange was cut short when the first lady intervened and said, “We gotta go!”

“It should not be this high,” the president told reporters on the lawn. “They’re making exorbitant profits, number one. Number two, I’ve contacted them, my team has, to ask what their plans are and to give any suggestions they have.”

He added: “There are 9,000 leases — 9,000 — that they can drill … but they’re not doing it.”

Biden went on, “Number three, I think we’re going to be in a position where we’re gonna —.” He did not complete the full thought as the first lady intervened, but he proceeded to take a final question about when he would visit India, saying he would at some point.

The Bidens are expected to return to the White House on Monday, on which the federal government is partially closed for the Juneteenth holiday, which technically falls on Sunday, June 19. The weekend coincides with the first couple’s wedding anniversary.

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