During his first State of the Union address, President Biden announced a four-part Unity Agenda focused on areas where members of both parties can come together and make additional progress for the American people: ending cancer as we know it; delivering on the sacred obligation to veterans; tackling the mental health crisis; and beating the opioid and...
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We the Quad partners of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are launching a public campaign to improve cyber security across our nations: the Quad Cyber Challenge. We are inviting Internet-users across the Indo-Pacific and beyond to join the Challenge and pledge to practice safe and responsible cyber habits. The Challenge reflects our continuing...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – First Lady Jill Biden will welcome guests to join her in the viewing box for President Biden’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Each of these individuals were invited by the White House because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by the President in his speech, or they embody the...
President Joseph R. Biden spoke this afternoon with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Türkiye. He reaffirmed the readiness of the United States to provide any and all needed assistance to our NATO Ally Türkiye in response to this tragedy. President Biden expressed condolences on behalf of the American people to those who were injured or lost loved ones in...
Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Munich, Germany February 16-18 to attend the 2023 Munich Security Conference. On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the Vice President’s engagements in Munich will demonstrate Transatlantic unity and resolve; U.S. global leadership; and our enduring commitment to support Ukraine....
South Lawn 4:08 P.M. EST Q Do you take any blame for mishandling classified documents, Mr. President? THE PRESIDENT: No — Q Mr. President — THE PRESIDENT: To — to answer: Wait until you get the whole report. Q Mr. President, does the balloon weaken U.S.-Chinese relations? THE PRESIDENT: No. We’ve made it clear to...
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...
Today, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, and Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall convened a Principals Committee Meeting of the Interagency Group to Counter Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Related Forms of Discrimination and Bias. The group’s first order of business is to develop a national strategy to counter antisemitism. President Biden has made rooting...
On February 10, 2021, by Executive Order 14014, I declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in and in relation to Burma. The situation...
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Madam President:) 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 emergency...