On a late summer day in 1963, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood on the National Mall before hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who had gathered to march for freedom, justice, and equality. On that day, Dr. King shared a dream that has continued to inspire a Nation: To bring justice where there is injustice,...
From the earliest days of our Nation, courageous people from every part of the world have come to the United States in search of religious liberty, risking everything to flee oppression, persecution, and discrimination because of their beliefs. Our Founders enshrined the principle of religious freedom in the First Amendment to our Constitution, establishing it as...
Via Teleconference 4:33 P.M. EST MODERATOR: Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us closer to the end of the day on a Friday. So, as noted in the invite, this is a background call on cybersecurity. I'm going to let our speaker get into more details about that. Before I turn it over to the speaker, let...
Via Teleconference 1:36 P.M. EST MR. MUNOZ: Hi, everybody. Thank you for joining us this afternoon to talk about the Biden administration's new plan to begin distributing at-home COVID-19 rapid tests to the American people for free. As a reminder, this call will be embargoed until 2:30, as is the factsheet that should be in your inbox. ...
The Biden Administration is Buying One Billion Tests to Give to Americans for Free; Online Ordering of a Half-Billion Tests Begins on January 19th; Builds on Significant Actions to Expand Testing Capacity and Increase Access to Free Testing Testing is an important tool to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Public health experts and the...
NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2022: Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2018, vice Randal Quarles, resigned. Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be...
WASHINGTON - Today, President Biden announces his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles: Laurence B. Alexander, Chair, Board for International Food and Agricultural Development Pamela K. Anderson, Member, Board for International Food and Agricultural Development Marie Boyd, Member, Board for International Food and Agricultural Development Rattan Lal, Member, Board for...
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 11:48 A.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Okay. We have another special guest today: our FEMA Administrator, Deanne Criswell. And she's going to give a brief update to all of you at the top on all of the important work the - FEMA is doing to help us fight the pandemic....
South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building 1:06 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, Mitch. It is - there's a lot of talk about disappointments and things we haven't gotten done. We're going to get a lot of them done, I might add. But this is something we did get done, and it's...
We were astonished to learn that the Iranian authorities have decided, without any prior explanation or notification, to reimprison our compatriot Fariba Adelkhah. Ms Adelkhah, first jailed on 5 June 2019, had been put under house arrest on 3 October 2020, with an electronic tag. As we have repeatedly emphasized, Ms Abdelkhah's (...)
WASHINGTON - Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Patricia Neuman to serve as Member of the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund Board of Trustees, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund Board of Trustees, and the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Board of Trustees. Dr. Neuman is...
WASHINGTON - Today, President Joe Biden appointed the following individuals to serve in key regional leadership roles at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): Blong Xiong, USDA State Executive Director, Farm Service Agency, California Matt Gellings, USDA State Executive Director, Farm Service Agency, Idaho Whitney...
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 4:15 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Q Hello. MS. PSAKI: Okay. We have a very special guest - a return guest, shall I say - Brian Deese, our NEC Director, who is going to give some brief comments on the data out this morning, answer a couple of questions, and then...
U.S. CapitolWashington, D.C. 2:25 P.M. EST Q Mr. President, are you confident you can get this done? Q Mr. President, why can't you get these two votes? Q What is the plan B? Q Can you get this done? THE PRESIDENT: First of all, y'all ask questions about complicated subjects like, "Can you get this...
South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building 10:40 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everyone. I want to begin by thanking the Secretary of Defense and our FEMA Director for joining me today. We were joking earlier - no, it wasn't really joking: When you need something done, call on the military. (Laughs.) We'll get FEMA...
My administration began to institute vaccination requirements last July, when after months of making vaccinations free and widely available, 90 million Americans were still unvaccinated. Today, that number is down to under 35 million. These vaccine requirements applied to members of the Armed Forces, federal workers and contractors, health care workers, and employees in large...
Today, we received new information on producer prices. The data show a slowdown in producer price increases in December, relative to the month before, and the lowest monthly increase in the Producer Price Index (PPI) since November 2020. Monthly inflation results are always volatile, and this report was driven in large part by a reduction...
Since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration has taken every step available to keep schools safely open for full-time, in-person instruction. These efforts have resulted in 96% of schools open in-person in January 2022, up from 46% of schools in January 2021. Students have sacrificed so much over the course of the pandemic, and the President...
New Actions Advance Offshore Wind, Leverage Public Lands for Clean Energy, and Build the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's Transmission Lines When President Biden came into office nearly a year ago, he pulled every lever to position America to scale up clean energy that creates good-paying, union jobs and lowers energy bills for consumers. Since then, the...
Clément Beaune, Minister of State for European Affairs, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, will spend today and tomorrow in Berlin presenting the top priorities for the French presidency of the Council of the European Union before the European Affairs committee of the Bundestag. On January 13, he will speak at a hearing there alongside the German Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Anna Lührmann. As Secretaries General for Franco-German Cooperation, Mr. Beaune and Ms. (...)
Q: The Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that the CSTO contingent will begin its withdrawal in two days' time and that this process will take no longer than 10 days. How do you view the withdrawal of the CSTO forces after such a short period of time? A: We have taken note of the Kazakh president's January 11th statement before the Majilis, the Parliament's lower house, regarding the withdrawal of the CSTO's rapid reaction force, which has been deployed in Kazakhstan. France and (...)
France condemns the latest missile launch on January 10, less than a week after the January 5th launch, both characterized by North Korea as hypersonic missile launches. North Korea's pursuit of its weapons program is a threat to international peace and security and undermines international efforts to resume a dialogue, as noted in the joint statement delivered the day before yesterday by France, Albania, Ireland, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States at the Security Council, and (...)
Via Teleconference 11:04 A.M. EST MR. ZIENTS: Good morning. And thanks for joining us. Today, Dr. Walensky will share the latest on Omicron. And Dr. Fauci will provide an update on COVID treatments. First, I want to discuss next steps - new steps we're taking to increase access to COVID testing for K-through-12 students, teachers,...
Atlanta University Center ConsortiumAtlanta, Georgia 4:14 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: In our lives and the lives of our nation - the life of our nation, there are moments so stark that they divide all that came before from everything that followed. They stop time. They rip away the trivial from the essential. And they force...
Q: In Geneva yesterday, the Russian diplomatic service stated that the Russian Federation has no "intention" of invading Ukraine. Is this likely to reassure France and the EU, and what would be the right occasion for the EU to take part in these "de-escalation" negotiations? A: Please refer to Jean-Yves le Drian's statement before the National Assembly in response to questions regarding the latest (...)
