Today President Biden will sign an Executive Order to help create more resilient and secure supply chains for critical and essential goods. In recent years, American households, workers, and companies have increasingly felt the strain of shortages of essential products—from medicine to food to computer chips. Last year’s shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for…
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Investing in Nature
By Jane Lubchenco, Deputy Director for Climate and Environment Heather Tallis, Assistant Director for Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to conserving and restoring nature, giving communities the tools that they need to be resilient, and achieving our climate goals. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, we are…
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan En Route Tel Aviv, Israel
Aboard Air Force OneEn Route Tel Aviv, Israel 1:22 P.M. IDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hello. Hi, everybody. Okay. I just have a quick domestic thing that I want to hit with you guys. So, later today, in D.C., there will be a classified briefing in the Senate to talk about the national security stakes for the…
Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships
January 26, 2021 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Nations are sovereign governments recognized under the Constitution of the United States, treaties, statutes, Executive Orders, and court decisions. It is a priority of my Administration to make respect for…
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall on the Future of the U.S. Counterterrorism Mission: Aligning Strategy, Policy, and Resources
September 8, 2021 I am delighted to speak at the Atlantic Council today and want to express my great thanks to Fred Kempe for his generous introduction. Fred, your leadership has been transformational, including in the work that the Atlantic Council has done recently on how counterterrorism policy needs to evolve. I know you have…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, February 13, 2023
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:17 P.M. EST Q Hello. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hi. (A reporter sneezes.) Bless you. And good afternoon. Okay, just have one thing at the top to get us started. President Biden has made clear that the United States is prepared to provide any and all types of aid to the…
Readout of White House Roundtable on Clean Bus Manufacturing
On Wednesday, February 7th, the White House and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), in coordination with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), convened a roundtable discussion focused on ensuring adequate U.S. manufacturing capacity to build clean transit buses at the scale and pace needed to meet market demand and achieve national climate and equity goals.…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:40 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hey, hey. Happy Friday. Okay, let’s get started. We have a couple things at the top before we start with your questions. So, tomorrow will mark one year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated a constitutional right that it had…
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Actions to Lower Housing Costs and Boost Supply
Launches first-of-its-kind program to address land use and zoning barriers that limit housing President Biden’s economic vision is about building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down— that’s Bidenomics. A critical foundation of that vision, and the central goal of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Housing Supply Action Plan, is an economy where…
Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the President’s Upcoming Meeting with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine
2:34 P.M. EDT NSC SPOKESPERSON: Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us. So, as the moderator noted, we’re going to use this call to give you an embargoed preview of President Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House on Wednesday, September 1st. This call is on background, attributable to “senior administration officials,” and the contents will be…
