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James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:20 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Q    Hello. MS. PSAKI:  Happy Friday. Q    Happy Friday. MS. PSAKI:  Brian Karem has got some sunglasses on.  Everybody is ready for the weekend. Okay, I have a couple of items for all of you at the top. Last week, we launched…

1:59 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  Welcome to our trip to Ohio.  Today, on the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act being signed into law by President Obama, we’re traveling to Columbus as part of the “Help Is Here” tour to highlight how the American Rescue Plan will lower healthcare costs for many families — a big…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:56 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  All right.  I have a couple of items for all of you at the top, and some charts.  We love charts in here.  In today’s encouraging report, initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to their lowest level and below 400,000 for the first time since the…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:16 P.M. EDT      MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Good afternoon.      Q    Good afternoon.      MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Okay.  Happy Friday.  We’re excited to have Deputy Director of the National Economic Policy [Council] Bharat Ramamurti here with us again today to discuss the student loan announcements this week and how they will…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:33 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  A special guest.  A member of our Jobs Cabinet.  Today, I am thrilled to have Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh with us.  As you all know, Secretary Walsh was mayor of the City of Boston for the last seven years.  While mayor, he…

12:50 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Good afternoon.  All right, I promise we will keep you all on time — who’s going to the President’s event. A couple of items for all of you this afternoon.  Today, the President is meeting with business leaders and CEOs that have instituted vaccine requirements or are working to implement…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 10:02 AM MS. PSAKI:  Early morning briefing.  We’ll see how this goes; you guys can give feedback on the time of day.  Okay, I have several announcements for your today.  To begin, I know many of you and the American people are interested in the news coming from Johnson…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:15 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Happy Tuesday.  So, we have two very special guests with us again today.  As you know, the Biden-Harris administration — I’m just going to let you all settle in here.  Okay.  All right.  Great.  Okay.  So, as you all know, today, the Biden-Harris administration…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 11:31 A.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Hi everyone.  Happy Monday and International Women’s Day.  We have some special guests. Today, on International Women’s Day, the President signed two executive orders.  The first establishes the White House Gender Policy Council to ensure that the Biden administration advances gender equity and equal…

  1:06 P.M. EST  MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  Lots going on around here.  I have a couple of items for all of you at the top. Obviously, today is “Jobs Day.”  And with today’s jobs report showing — show — while it shows some progress, it also shows the long road ahead.  Right now, there are 9.5 million fewer jobs…