In June, President Biden—alongside G7 Leaders—announced Build Back Better World, a values-driven, high-standard, transparent, and catalytic infrastructure partnership led by major democracies to meet the enormous infrastructure need in the developing world. Since then, the United States and G7 partners have been undertaking efforts individually and jointly to increase the ambition and impact of our…
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Remarks by President Biden in Meeting on the Build Back Better World Initiative
Scottish Event Campus Glasgow, Scotland 11:31 A.M. GMT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everyone. Thank you all for making the time amid these very packed schedules we all have. We’re gathered here at COP26 to emphasize how the choices we make today — and I literally mean today — will resonate for decades to come. This is…
FACT SHEET: President Biden and G7 Leaders Launch Build Back Better World (B3W) Partnership
The United States is rallying the world’s democracies to deliver for our people, meet the world’s biggest challenges, and demonstrate our shared values Today President Biden met with G7 leaders to discuss strategic competition with China and commit to concrete actions to help meet the tremendous infrastructure need in low- and middle-income countries. Build Back…
A U.S.-EU Agenda for Beating the Global Pandemic Vaccinating the World, Saving Lives Now, and Building Back Better Health Security
Vaccination is the most effective response to the COVID pandemic. The United States and the EU are technological leaders in advanced vaccine platforms, given decades of investments in research and development. It is vital that we aggressively pursue an agenda to vaccinate the world. Coordinated U.S. and EU leadership will help expand supply, deliver in…
Background Press Call on the President’s Executive Order on Commercial Spyware
Via Teleconference 9:07 A.M. EDT MODERATOR: Thank you, everyone, for joining us on this Monday morning very early. As a brief reminder to the ground rules of this call, it’s being held on background, attributable to “senior administration officials,” and embargoed until 12:00 p.m. Eastern today. For your awareness but not for your attribution, the two speakers…
Background Press Call by a Senior Administration Official Previewing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Visit to the White House
Via Teleconference 5:04 P.M. EST MODERATOR: Hi, everyone. I hope everybody is having a good evening. Thanks so much for joining us on our background briefing on Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany’s visit to the White House tomorrow. I just want to run through a couple of ground rules before we get going here. The call is…
Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials Previewing the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Cyber Strategy
Via Teleconference 5:02 P.M. EST MODERATOR: Hi everyone. And thanks for joining. This is [Moderator] from NSC. Before we get started, a quick housekeeping: Everyone on this call should have received the embargoed copy of the factsheet and an embargoed version of the strategy. All of that is embargoed until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow for reference. …
Jobs to Be Proud of, Rebuilding a Country to be Proud Of
By Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh In his State of the Union address President Biden told the American people how we are going to build on his record of historic job growth and the lowest unemployment rate in history. A big part of that plan is delivering the…
Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on a Successful Counterterrorism Operation in Somalia
Via Teleconference 3:12 P.M. EST MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for your patience. As a reminder, this call will be for attribution to “senior administration officials.” For your awareness, not for reporting, on the line we have [senior administration official] and [senior administration official]. The contents of this call will be embargoed until further…
Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on U.S. Support to Ukraine
Via Teleconference 9:34 A.M. EST MODERATOR: Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. This is [senior administration official], and welcome to the background call on U.S. support for Ukraine. As a reminder of the ground rules, this briefing will be on background, attributable to “senior administration officials,” and under embargo until 12:00 p.m. Eastern today, when the…