Historic Actions Include Authorizing Defense Production Act to Lower Energy Costs, Strengthen Power Grid, and Create Good-Paying Jobs Today’s clean energy technologies are a critical part of the arsenal we must harness to lower energy costs for families, reduce risks to our power grid, and tackle the urgent crisis of a changing climate. From day…
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Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC)
AS DELIVERED Good afternoon everyone. And on behalf of President Biden—I want to welcome you to Washington. Yolaan, thank you so much for those opening words which I think really do effectively frame not only the task of this conference, but the task of this broader enterprise all of you are so deeply invested in.…
Remarks by President Biden on American Manufacturing and Creating Good-Paying Jobs
TSMC Semiconductor PlantPhoenix, Arizona 2:17 P.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know if any of you have any seats, but if you have a seat, please take them. (Laughter.) I once said that when I first became President, and they said, “Biden is so slow, he doesn’t realize there’s no seats out here.” (Laughter.) Anyway,…
Remarks by President Biden at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting
East Room 4:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much. Please — please sit down. My dad used to have an expression: Quit while you’re ahead. (Laughter.) I tell you what, I can’t tell you how pleased I am to have you all here, and…
Remarks by President Biden in State of the Union Address
U.S. CapitolWashington, D.C. 9:08 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker — (applause) — (Turns to audience members.) Thank you. You can smile. It’s okay. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Please. Mr. Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman — good to see you guys up there — (applause)…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, December 14, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:08 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Okay. Two updates for all of you at the top. Today, a new study from the Commonwealth Fund found that vaccinations, which President Biden has prioritized and taken bold steps to expand, have saved over 1 million lives, prevented more than 10…
Remarks by President Biden at a Reception for the Democratic National Committee
Private ResidenceBethesda, Maryland (August 25, 2022) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Please — please sit down. Hello, hello, hello. Honey, what’s your name? Well, let me tell you something. Is that your daddy? He owes you big for having to sit here. (Laughter.) This has to be the most…
Remarks by Vice President Harris at a DNC Finance Reception
Private Residence San Francisco, California THE VICE PRESIDENT: Let me thank Carol and Shelby and Reid for just — for so long being such dear friends and for all that you have done to support me personally and the Democratic Party. It’s extraordinary. And there are people in this room — I look at you…
Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception | Minneapolis, MN
6:09 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please. Please, sit down. What — what generous introductions. Folks, as I was being introduced, I thought to myself how much — and you wouldn’t know this necessarily — this state has meant to me and my career and, quite frankly, my emotional sanity. (Laughter.) And…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, August 2, 2022
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:42 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So as the President spoke to yesterday, the United States undercoo- — undertook a counterterrorism operation in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. At his direction, the U.S. intelligence targeted and killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s leader. We…