Jean-Pierre arrived at the White House after a breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ready to work with Biden on the farewell speech he planned to deliver to the public later that afternoon.

Karine Jean-Pierre shared in a heartbreaking essay this week that she had a “second full-time job” while serving as White House press secretary: caring for her mother, who has cancer. She wrote in Vanity Fair that she visited her mom in New York every weekend for 18 months while maintaining a secret she kept from even her workmates.

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed Tuesday that she kept her mother’s cancer battle a secret to almost everyone – except former President Joe Biden — because as a black woman,