By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order as follows: Section 1. Policy. Our criminal justice system must respect the dignity and rights of all persons and adhere to our fundamental obligation to ensure fair and impartial justice for all. This…
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Remarks by President Biden on the Surfside Condo Collapse
St. Regis HotelSurfside, Florida 4:29 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, folks. Let me begin by saying that the degree of cooperation between local, state, and federal officials down here has been remarkable. I want to thank our FEMA Director for leading this national effort. But Governor DeSantis, Senators Rubio and Scott, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and…
Remarks by President Biden on Lowering Energy Costs for Working Families
POET Bioprocessing – MenloMenlo, Iowa 3:17 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very, very much. Now, as I was campaigning here in Iowa and made that commitment — I don’t think anybody heard, but we’re back. We’re back. And I — my name is Jon- — Joe Biden. I work for Congresswoman Axne. (Laughter.) There…
Background Press Call on Global Transportation Supply Chain Bottlenecks
Via Teleconference (October 12, 2021) 6:33 P.M. EDT MS. SIMONS: Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this embargoed background briefing. On this call, senior administration officials will provide an overview of the collective efforts to address global transportation supply chain bottlenecks. We will take questions at the end. While this call is…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, December 22, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:38 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Hi everyone. Q Hello. MS. PSAKI: Okay. I know we’ve done — hello — a lot of news in your inboxes this morning, so a couple of other notes for all of you and for those of you who haven’t caught up with everything quite yet. As you…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, January 25, 2022
12:19 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Okay, I just have one item. Welcome, MJ. I think — well, I know you’ve been here before, but it’s the first time since I’ve been here. Q Thank you. MS. PSAKI: Okay, one item for all of you at the top: Last night, President Biden spoke by…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, December 7, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:03 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Hello. All right. Good afternoon. We have our National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, joining us for the briefing, who will give a brief opening and then take some questions. And then we’ll proceed with a briefing after that. With that, I’ll turn it over…
Remarks by President Biden on Tropical Storm Henri and the Evacuation Operation in Afghanistan
Roosevelt Room 4:19 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. After a series of meetings throughout the weekend with my national security team, I want to update the American people on our ongoing evacuation operation in Afghanistan. But first, I just was briefed by the FEMA Administrator, who is here with me today — Ms. Criswell — about…
Remarks by President Biden on the Terror Attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport
East Room 5:24 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Been a tough day. This evening in Kabul, as you all know, terrorists attacked — that we’ve been talking about and worried about, that the intelligence community has assessed has [was] undertaken — an attack — by a group known as ISIS-K — took the lives of American…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, April 25, 2022
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:20 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Okay. There’s nothing happening in the world today, I hear — (laughter) — so this should be a quick one. I have a couple of items for you at the top, as usual. Over the past year, businesses have been dealing with…