WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Elected Officials, Labor Leaders, Aging Advocates, Health and Advocacy Groups, And More Applaud Administration’s Prescription Drug Announcement

Yesterday, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the first 10 drugs selected for Medicare Price Negotiation – a critical provision under the Inflation Reduction Act that will finally allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug costs for seniors, people with disabilities, and other beneficiaries. For decades, Big Pharma has blocked this from happening, forcing millions…

State of the Union 2024

President Biden’s State of the Union Address (The President presents his prepared remarks to Speaker Johnson.) Your bedtime reading. Tony! Thank you. Looking for Jill. Good evening. Good evening. If I were smart, I’d go home now. Mr. Speaker, Madam Vice President, members of Congress, my fellow Americans. In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to…

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, NSC Coordinator For Strategic Communications John Kirby, and National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:30 P.M. EST MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Good afternoon, everybody.  It’s so quiet in here.  Okay.  I’ll be really quick at the top.  Okay. (A reporter drops their laptop.)  Wow, don’t lose — don’t break that. Okay.  So, kicking off — kicking us off today is National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard,…

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:40 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Hi.  Good afternoon, everybody. Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Okay, so I wanted to provide an update on the wildfire smoke impacting millions of Americans across the country right now. The President was briefed on the wildfires in Canada last week and has been regularly updated since.  He…

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, May 9, 2022

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:29 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Okay.  A few minutes ago, you heard the President mention — talk about Victory Day — Victory in Europe Day, which the world commemorated this weekend as a celebration of the end of World War Two and a victory for the United…

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