President Joe Biden postponed a trip to Pueblo, Colorado that was scheduled on Monday in order to attend to national security matters, the White House confirmed.

“The President’s trip to Colorado is postponed and it will be rescheduled. The President will remain at the White House to participate in national security meetings.”

Biden was scheduled to tour Pueblo’s CS Wind factory, the largest wind turbine tower manufacturing plant in the world, which is located in U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s district.

The White House canceled the trip as the war between Israel and Hamas entered its second week. 

More than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israeli invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas’ leadership after its deadly incursion. 

Israeli forces, supported by U.S. warships, positioned themselves along Gaza’s border and drilled for what Israel said would be a broad campaign to dismantle the militant group. A week of blistering airstrikes have demolished neighborhoods but failed to stop militant rocket fire into Israel.

The war that began Oct. 7 has become the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides, with more than 4,000 dead. The Gaza Health Ministry said 2,750 Palestinians have been killed and 9,700 wounded.

More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, and at least 199 others, including children, were captured by Hamas and taken into Gaza, according to Israel.

Biden has reiterated his disapproval of an occupation of Gaza by Israel but said he supports the country’s right to defend itself after the terrorist attacks earlier this month.

“I think it’d be a big mistake. Look, what happened in Gaza, in my view, is Hamas, and the extreme elements of Hamas, don’t represent all the Palestinian people. And I think that … it would be a mistake … for Israel to occupy Gaza again,” Biden said on CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Sunday.

Biden’s trip to Colorado’s third congressional district was scheduled to take place shortly after third-quarter fundraising numbers showed Democrat Adam Frisch raising $3.4 million in his bid to oust Boebert in 2024. In 2022, Frisch finished more than 500 votes behind Boebert in a close contest.

The White House earlier billed the visit as part of Biden’s “Investing in America” tour, in which the president would have highlighted how “Bidenomics” and the Inflation Reduction Act are “mobilizing companies to invest in clean energy industries and create good-paying jobs in places like CO-03, while extreme House Republicans try to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and deny their constituents the jobs and opportunities that the President’s agenda is creating.”

CS Wind company broke ground earlier this year on an expansion it says will double manufacturing capacity, with an anticipated 850 additional jobs at the plant by 2026.

In August, Biden mentioned CS Wind during a speech touting clean energy investments stemming from last year’s Democratic-sponsored Inflation Reduction Act at a wind tower plant in Albuquerque.

Noting that the CS Wind plant is in Boebert’s congressional district, Biden had wisecracked that “the very quiet Republican lady” voted against the legislation, “along with every other Republican.”

Boebert fired back on social media at Biden’s facetious description of her.

“Wishful thinking, Joe,” Boebert responded. “I’m calling you out every single day and I won’t be getting more quiet about it anytime soon!”

The Pueblo visit would have been Biden’s second trip to Colorado this year after delivering the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs on June 1.

Also since the start of his administration, Biden spoke at Camp Hale in Eagle County on Oct. 12, 2022, to designate a national monument, and met with families affected by the Marshall fire during a Jan. 7, 2022, stop in Louisville.

Biden talked about clean energy jobs during a visit to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory outside Arvada on Sept. 14, 2021.

The Associated Press and Washington Examiner contributed to this report.