Presidential powers transferred to Harris today as Biden has colonoscopy [View all]

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/politics/kamala-harris-presidential-power/index.html

CNN)President Joe Biden on Friday will temporarily transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he is under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.

"The Vice President will work from her office in the West Wing during this time," Psaki said in a statement.
Biden arrived Friday morning at Walter Reed Medical Center to undergo a routine annual physical -- his first physical in office as the oldest first-term president in US history.
It's routine for a vice president to assume presidential powers while the president undergoes a medical procedure that requires anesthesia. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney did so on multiple occasions when then-President George W. Bush underwent routine colonoscopies.