Remarks by Vice President Harris and Prime Minister Šimonytė of Lithuania Before Bilateral Meeting

Vice President’s Ceremonial OfficeEisenhower Executive Office Building 1:48 P.M. EST VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS:  Madam Prime Minister, welcome to Washington.  And I look forward to our discussion.  Before I do address the subject of our meeting today, I will comment on Russia’s continued brutality against Ukraine, including the latest barrage of missile strikes this week.  Since launching an unprovoked…

Remarks by President Biden, European Council President Charles Michel, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Before Trilateral Meeting

Cabinet Room 12:40 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT BIDEN: Welcome. Madam President and Mr. President, it’s great to see you both again. And our last summit, we committed to revitalizing the partnership between the EU and the United States. And over the last two years, we made good on that commitment, I think. And we stood together…

Remarks by NEC Director Lael Brainard on Opportunity, Inclusion, and Growth at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Thank you, Jessica Fulton and Paul Thornell for your leadership. I’d like to congratulate my friend and former colleague Dr. Lisa Cook on receiving the Louis E. Martin award last night. We know from both evidence and theory that opportunity, inclusion, and growth go hand in hand. As I have noted previously, “when there are…

Chair’s Summary: UN Food Systems Summit

The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit is an extension of longstanding U.S. leadership and investment in ending hunger, malnutrition, and poverty and building more sustainable, equitable, and resilient food systems. During the UN General Assembly, President Biden previewed the United States’ commitment to $10 billion in multi-year initiatives to strengthen food security and nutrition for…

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, October 14, 2021

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:42 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  All right.  Hello.  Hello.  Okay, just a couple of items for you at the top.  Today we learned that last week’s initial unemployment claims fell to another pre-pandemic low, down below 300,000 for the first time in almost 20 months.  The four-week average similarly…

Joint Statement Following Meeting Between President Biden and President of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed in Jeddah

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met today with President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in a bilateral meeting during the Summit of the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. President Biden offered his personal…

Joint Statement from India and the United States

1.           Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed United States President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to India today, reaffirming the close and enduring partnership between India and the United States.  The leaders expressed their appreciation for the substantial progress underway to implement the ground breaking achievements of Prime Minister Modi’s historic, June 2023, visit to Washington.…

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