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12:41 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Happy Thursday.  Okay, we have a special guest.  Happy to welcome back Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.  Today, she will be telling us about a new economic development initiative that the Department is launching, thanks to the American Rescue Plan.  She’ll take a couple of questions.  After that, as always,…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:18 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Okay, we have another special guest today, our National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, who will give us some brief opening comments.  We’ll take some questions, and then we’ll proceed with a briefing from there.  With that, I will turn it over to…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:37 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  Happy Wednesday.  It feels like it should be later than Wednesday in the week.  I may be the only one who feels that way. Okay, a couple of items for you all at the top.   Today, the Department of the Treasury announced the…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:39 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Happy Friday.  We have a special guest with us today, on Jobs Day — Brian Deese, our Director of the National Economic Council — who will give some brief remarks on the jobs numbers and take a few questions, and then we’ll…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:52 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi everyone.  All right.  Okay, I have a couple of items for you — all of you at the top.  Today we are announcing the release of $39 billion of American Rescue Plan funds to states, territories, and Tribes to address the child care crisis…

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…

  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…

12:07 P.M. EST      MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  Today, we have a very special guest, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas.  Secretary Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant confirmed to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.  He has led a distinguished 30-year career as a law enforcement official and a nationally recognized lawyer in the private sector. …