James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:16 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hello. Good afternoon, everybody. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Okay. So today I’d like to welcome Jared Bernstein, member of the Council of Economic Advisers, back to the briefing room. Jared is here to talk about the strong economic progress we’re making and the…
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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, October 14, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:42 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. All right. Hello. Hello. Okay, just a couple of items for you at the top. Today we learned that last week’s initial unemployment claims fell to another pre-pandemic low, down below 300,000 for the first time in almost 20 months. The four-week average similarly…
Remarks by President Biden on the COVID-19 Response and the State of Vaccinations
South Court Auditorium 1:45 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everyone. Back in December, I set a goal of administering 100 million shots — vaccine shots in my first 100 days in office. At the time, some told us that it couldn’t be done, it was awfully ambitious. But we did it in 58 days…
On-the-Record Press Call by Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. Eric Lander and NSC Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense Dr. Beth Cameron on American Pandemic Preparedness
Via Teleconference 11:31 A.M. EDT MS. RAYMOND: Good morning, everyone. And thank you so much, Brad. To all our participants, thank you for joining us for this embargoed briefing today. We will be providing an overview of the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan, also entitled “Transforming our Capabilities,” which will advance the…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger, and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and Deputy NEC Director Daleep Singh, February 18, 2022
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:43 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Happy Friday. Okay, so we have two special guests with us today. Joining us are Deputy National Security Advisors Anne Neuberger and Daleep Singh. By way of a quick introduction, Anne is Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology. Previously,…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, May 5, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:32 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Q Hi, good afternoon. MS. PSAKI: Good afternoon. Okay. We have another special guest joining us today: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. As you all know, this is Secretary Vilsack’s second turn at the Department of Agriculture, which he led in the Obama-Biden administration from 2009…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, January 29, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 10:02 AM MS. PSAKI: Early morning briefing. We’ll see how this goes; you guys can give feedback on the time of day. Okay, I have several announcements for your today. To begin, I know many of you and the American people are interested in the news coming from Johnson…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:07 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So a couple things at the top before we take questions. Today marks the anniversary of three landmark Supreme Court cases which were consequential in affirming the basic truth that every American should have the right…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Sameera Fazili, and Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness Peter Harrell, June 8, 2021
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…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, January 13, 2022
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…