The President and First Lady to Host a Juneteenth Concert on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 The White House announced today a Juneteenth Concert on Tuesday, June 13. The South Lawn concert will be a celebration of community, culture and music. In 2021, President Biden signed bipartisan legislation establishing Juneteenth as the nation’s newest Federal holiday,…
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White House Releases State Dinner Guest List
This evening, the President and the First Lady of the United States will host His Excellency Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan & Mrs. Kishida Yuko for a State Dinner. The following is a complete list of expected guests: THE PRESIDENT AND DR. BIDEN HIS EXCELLENCY KISHIDA FUMIO, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN & MRS. KISHIDA…
Readout of White House Meeting with Welcome.US
Today, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and senior White House officials met with the Welcome.US CEO Council, a group of nearly 40 CEOs from a range of industries, including its co-chairs Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet and Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. The Biden-Harris Administration has launched an historic expansion of lawful pathways for people seeking safety…
White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose
America’s overdose crisis impacts all of us. Families in small towns, large cities, Tribal lands, and every community in between are affected, no matter who they are, what they look like, or how much money they make. That’s why President Biden named beating the opioid and overdose crisis a key pillar of his Unity Agenda…
Readout of White House Meeting with RSV Immunization Manufacturers
This week, senior Biden-Harris Administration officials again met with manufacturers of RSV immunizations including Sanofi and AstraZeneca and their partners. During the meeting, manufacturers discussed recent studies showing significant decreases in hospitalization rates among infants who received Nirsevimab. Senior administration officials and manufacturers also discussed the processes for continuing to update data on the safety…
Readout of the Sixth Meeting of the White House Competition Council
Yesterday, President Biden convened the sixth meeting of the White House Competition Council to discuss new actions his Administration is taking to lower costs, promote innovation, and support workers by ending corporate rip-offs and other unfair practices that keep prices high. The President thanked Competition Council members for their work to date and called on…
Readout of White House Q&A Session on Navigation Codes
As part of his Unity Agenda, President Biden set the goal of making navigation services accessible to Americans facing cancer. Cancer navigation is personalized assistance to patients, caregivers, and families to help identify and resolve barriers to high-quality and timely cancer care through care coordination and advocacy. President Biden has prioritized increasing access to navigation…
Readout of White House Meeting with State Legislative Leaders on Housing Affordability
Building on President Biden’s Housing Supply Action Plan, White House Officials from the National Economic Council, Domestic Policy Council, and Office of Intergovernmental Affairs convened a meeting on housing affordability with state legislative leaders from ten states. Lowering costs for working families is a top priority for President Biden. In October 2022, the Biden-Harris Administration…
Readout of White House Roundtable on Clean Bus Manufacturing
On Wednesday, February 7th, the White House and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), in coordination with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), convened a roundtable discussion focused on ensuring adequate U.S. manufacturing capacity to build clean transit buses at the scale and pace needed to meet market demand and achieve national climate and equity goals.…
Readout of White House Meeting with Governor Hochul
Today, Senior Administration Officials met with New York Governor Kathy Hochul to discuss the ongoing efforts by the Biden-Harris Administration to build a humane, safe, and orderly immigration system and efforts the Administration has taken to support communities across the country who are housing migrants and asylum seekers. The Administration officials and Governor agreed on a number of actions.…
