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James S. Brady Press Briefing Room  2:28 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Q    Hello. MS. PSAKI:  All right.  Happy Tuesday.  Okay, a couple of items for you at the top.  Today, President Biden is issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to hundreds of thousands of their employees.  These workers are critical…

12:32 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Happy Monday.  I just have a couple of things for all of you at the top.  First, over the weekend, the President’s Homeland Security Advisor, Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall, convened a coordination call with the Acting FEMA Administrator and the Director of the National Weather Service on the storm system moving…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:08 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Q    Good afternoon.  MS. PSAKI:  Good afternoon.  All right, Secretary Fudge would have been impressed with that response this morning.  (Laughter.)  We’re all awake. A couple of items for all of you before we get started.  This afternoon, the President will take…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:02 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Happy Friday.  Okay, I only have one item for you all at the top: a brief preview of the President’s schedule for next week.  On Monday, he will visit FEMA headquarters in D.C. to receive a briefing on the Atlantic hurricane outlook and preparedness…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:43 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  All right.  So I have a special guest with me today.  Joining us in the briefing room is actress and multiplatinum recording singer/songwriter, Olivia Rodrigo, who traversed red lights and stop signs to see us.  If you know her music, you’ll get…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:31 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Good afternoon.  President Biden is continuing to follow through on his key promise to take swift and bold action that addresses the climate crisis, building on his day-one actions of rejoining the Paris Agreement and strengthening our clean air and water protections and holding…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:05 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  I have a few updates for all of you at the top.   Today, President Biden will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  President Biden’s first phone call, as you all know, was to — to a foreign leader was to the Prime…

11:41 A.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  We have a very special guest today. Since his inauguration, President Biden has put diplomacy at the center of the United States’ foreign policy, grounding our international engagement in American values, rebuilding our alliances, and reengaging with international institutions to help strengthen them.  Obviously, part of his visit…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:15 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Happy Tuesday.  So, we have two very special guests with us again today.  As you know, the Biden-Harris administration — I’m just going to let you all settle in here.  Okay.  All right.  Great.  Okay.  So, as you all know, today, the Biden-Harris administration…