East Room 1:44 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Excuse me. I’d like to start by saying a few words about the ransomware cyberattack currently impacting Colonial Pipeline. This is something that my administration — our administration have been tracking extremely carefully. And I have been perfectly — personally briefed every day. The Department of…
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Remarks by President Biden at the National Governors Association’s Winter Meeting
4:35 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you, Andrew. I appreciate it a lot. I appreciate your friendship. Let me start by saying: Guaranteed, if we’re able to, we’ll not only have you next — next year, at this time, for the governors’ conference, but we’ll have whatever food you want. We…
Readout of the White House’s Meeting with Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Leaders
Today, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, alongside senior staff from the National Economic Council, the Council on Environmental Quality, and Department of Transportation, held a virtual meeting with CEOs from electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure companies to discuss shared priorities from tackling the climate crisis to supporting the economic recovery to build back better. National…
Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
Via Teleconference 1:36 P.M. EDT MR. ZIENTS: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us. Today, we’re joined by Doctors Fauci and Walensky, who I’ll turn to in a few minutes. First, I want to report on the progress we are making to end the COVID-19 pandemic here at home and around the world. Here…
Background Press Call by A Senior Administration Official on the Official Working Visit of the Republic of Korea
Via Teleconference(May 19, 2021) 4:32 P.M. EDT SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Hi. Good afternoon. And thank you so much for joining us today, everyone. Today’s call will be on background, attributed to a “senior administration official” and will be embargoed until five o’clock Eastern time tomorrow morning. With that, I’m happy to turn it over to our speaker. Over…
Readout of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary Buttigieg’s Meeting with House Members on Infrastructure
Today, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg met in the Oval Office with a bipartisan group of Members of Congress from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to discuss the critical need to invest in modern and sustainable American infrastructure, including strengthening and enhancing American roads, bridges, waterways, schools, housing,…
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by First Lady Jill Biden at Sauk Valley Community College
Dixon, IL Most people now call me First Lady, but to one group of students at Northern Virginia Community College, I am—first, foremost, and forever—their writing professor, Dr. B. In my class, my students don’t take anything for granted. Some are there for a head start on a four-year degree—others for a much-needed fresh start.…
Remarks by President Biden in a CNN Town Hall with Don Lemon
Mount St. Joseph UniversityCincinnati, Ohio (July 21, 2021) 8:01 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: How you doing, pal? Good to see you. MR. LEMON: Good to see you. THE PRESIDENT: Good to see you. MR. LEMON: How you been? THE PRESIDENT: Well. (Applause.) Thank you. (Laughter.) MR. LEMON: It’s good to see you. THE PRESIDENT: It’s good to be back. MR. LEMON: Yeah, you…
Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
Via Teleconference 11:55 A.M. EDT MR. ZIENTS: Good morning, and thanks for joining us. Before I turn to Drs. Murthy, Walensky, and Fauci, I want to provide an update on our vaccinations program. Today, more than 210 million Americans — nearly 75 percent of people age 12 and older — have gotten at least their…
Remarks by President Biden on the American Jobs Plan
Carpenters Pittsburgh Training CenterPittsburgh, Pennsylvania 4:38 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) (Inaudible) Mike asked me — and I said to Bobby, my good friend — he asked me back there — he said, “Do you ever get nervous?” And I — he said, “Because I got up this morning, made breakfast for my…
