Year: 2024

Across the country, communities are experiencing the devastating impacts of climate change. From record-high average temperatures and extreme heat to changing precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, climate impacts – including disasters made worse by climate change – are affecting every corner of society and every community in America. The magnitude of challenges posed by the […]

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Hosted by the Urban Institute and the Consumer Federation of AmericaAs Prepared for Delivery Thank you all for the important work you do on behalf of American consumers every day. President Biden sees our economy through the eyes of middle-class families like the ones he grew up with in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He knows that a […]

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President Biden is delivering on the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in history, including by already protecting more than 41 million acres of lands and waters. Today the Biden-Harris Administration is taking new steps to conserve, restore, and expand our nation’s old growth forests by advancing a proposal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture […]

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On World Refugee Day, the United States reaffirms its commitment to the safety, dignity, and protection of refugees and forcibly displaced persons worldwide. A historic number of people, now more than 120 million, have been forced from their homes by war, violence, and persecution. Many of them left behind everything, fleeing with their families because of a fear […]

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Plans to welcome more than 100,000 refugees to their new U.S. communities in Fiscal Year 2024, the most in three decades Encourages Americans to consider directly supportingand welcoming a refugee into their community From Day One, the Biden-Harris Administration has prioritized rebuilding and strengthening the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program after its dismantling under the previous […]

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Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of New Mexico and ordered Federal aid to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the South Fork Fire and Salt Fire beginning on June 17, 2024, and continuing. The President’s action makes Federal funding […]

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Dear Mr. Speaker:   (Dear Madam President:) Consistent with the provisions of 19 U.S.C. 1330(c)(1), this is to notify the Congress that I have designated Amy Karpel as Chair of the United States International Trade Commission for the term expiring Jun...