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Obama top advisor to visit Iron Range next week

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Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough briefs President Barack Obama during a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, March 28, 2011. Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President, is pictured at right. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

Denis McDonough

(Washington, DC) — White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough will visit Range Community and Technical College in Virginia next Tuesday (12/22) to discuss Iron Range layoffs and the national steel crisis. Governor Mark Dayton, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, and Congressman Rick Nolan all applaud the trip by President Obama’s top advisor, who’s a Minnesota native. Dayton says the Obama administration should do everything possible to fight back against illegal dumping of foreign steel.