By Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana Every day, Americans use their phone to order food, monitor the weather, check their bank balance, and communicate with family and friends. These interactions are quick, easy, and seamless. Americans want to interact with the Federal government in the same way but we don’t consistently make it easy…
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FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
New action combines two pillars of Bidenomics by ensuring that infrastructure investments in America lead to good-paying, family-sustaining jobs. Today, Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing that the Labor Department (DOL) will publish a rule that advances the Administration’s economic vision to build the economy from the bottom up and middle out – not the…
Readout of Council of Governors Meeting
Yesterday, senior officials from the White House, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security participated in the 26th plenary meeting of the Council of Governors to discuss upcoming initiatives and priorities. Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks, White House Homeland Security Advisor Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall, and Senior Advisor to the President and Director…
A Message to the Congress on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Ukraine
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the…
Environmental Justice
“We’ve put environmental justice at the center of what we do, addressing the disproportionate health, environmental, and economic impacts that have been borne primarily by communities of color — places too often left behind” President Joe Biden, Earth Day 2022 For far too long, communities across our country have faced environmental injustices, bearing the brunt…
Hearing from You: How OIRA Meets with the Public
The President’s Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review calls on the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to consider changes in how OIRA meets with the public regarding rules under OIRA review, with the goal of expanding who OIRA hears from and increasing transparency about those meetings. Members of the public can schedule these…
Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities
On April 1, 2015, by Executive Order 13694, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the increasing prevalence and severity of…
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard on the Right to Repair
Thank you all for joining us today. In the simplest terms, the right to repair means that when something you own breaks, you should have the right to fix it yourself or to take it to an independent repair shop. You might ask why we care about the right to repair. President Bident knows kitchen…
FACT SHEET: President Biden’s Safer America Plan
President Biden knows what works to make our communities safer: investing in community policing andcrime prevention. We need to fund police who walk the beat, know the neighborhood, are accountable to those they are sworn to serve, and build community trust and safety. We need to invest in mental health and substance use treatment services,…
Executive Order on the Establishment of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment. There is established the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (Commission). Sec. 2. Membership. (a) The Commission shall be composed of not more than…
