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President Joe Biden joked about first lady Jill Biden not coming home after her visits to Indian country, riffing during a tribal nations summit at the Interior Department.

Biden made the comment after describing his wife's visit to a Cherokee Nation immersion school in Oklahoma, an effort to revive use of the Cherokee language. She took the trip along with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.

'By the way, she spent a lot of time on other reservations – other nations – as well,' Biden said. 

'I'm worried she's not going to come home one of these days when she goes.'