NRG Stadium Houston, Texas 4:47 P.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: You’re all being very polite. You’ve been with me all day, and it’s dinner time. (Laughs.) Good afternoon — or almost. Actually, it’s evening. And I want to thank you, Governor and Mrs. Abbott, for your hospitality and your friendship. And Representative — Senator Cornyn, I…
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Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
Via Teleconference 11:02 A.M. EDT ACTING ADMINISTRATOR SLAVITT: Good morning. Thank you for joining us. As President Biden said, recovering from a devastating pandemic will require all of us doing our part. We are not out of the woods, but we know what we need to do as a country. The President has now laid…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, April 19, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:19 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Happy Monday. Okay, a couple of items for you all at the top. Today is an exciting day; we enter a new phase of our vaccination program and our effort to put the pandemic behind us. Starting today, everyone 16 years and older, in…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:47 P.M. EST MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Today, the Vice President is in Memphis, Tennessee, to attend the celebration of life service for Tyre Nichols. White House officials, including Senior Advisor for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms and Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, February 25, 2021
12:36 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: All right. I will tell you masks are a little tricky with earrings on, so just bear with me here. Okay. So, just have a couple of items at the top. Okay. Learned my lesson on earrings. All right. Today, the President will deliver remarks to mark the 50 — mark 50 million…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:21 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Happy Tuesday. Good afternoon, everyone. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, before I turn things over to Jake, I have a couple of updates at the top, and then we’ll get this going. So, this afternoon, President Biden will award the Medal of Honor,…
Remarks by President Biden at a Virtual Meeting with a Bipartisan Group of Governors
Via TeleconferenceSouth Court Auditorium 1:13 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, hi, everybody. It’s good to — I’m supposed to look over here and not at you guys. But we got six governors with us today — Democrats and Republicans — and they’re meeting the moment: Governor Mills of Maine, Governor DeWine of…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Economic Council Director, February 6, 2023
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:28 P.M. EST MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Monday. Okay. So before I introduce our special guest today, I wanted to address the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Today, our deepest condolences are with those who have lost loved ones in the devastating earthquakes that have thus far claimed…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, July 9, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:50 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Happy Friday. I have a couple of items for all of you at the top. First, we welcome the unanimous adoption today in the U.N. Security Council to extend the mandate for a critical humanitarian aid lifeline to Syria. This…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Cecilia Rouse, and Member of the Council of Economic Advisers Heather Boushey, March 24, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:33 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Okay. As you may know and now you will know, today is Equal Pay Day. And we have two special guests from the Council of Economic Advisers: Chair Cecilia Rouse and member Heather Boushey. Chair Cecilia Rouse recently served as the dean of the Princeton School…