By: Jennifer Klein White House Gender Policy Council Today is Equal Pay Day, a moment to highlight the persistent gender pay gap between men and women and recommit to fighting for equal pay for all. In 2021, women working full-time, year-round were paid 84 cents, on average, for every dollar paid to men. Pay disparities…
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Remarks by President Biden at the IBEW Construction and Maintenance Conference
Washington Hilton HotelWashington, D.C. 12:08 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello! (Applause.) Hello, hello, hello! (Applause.) It’s good to be home. (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you. As my mother would say, “God love you.” Please have a seat if you have one. I don’t wa- — (laughs) — want you all to have to…
FACT SHEET: President Biden Advances Vision for World Class Passenger Rail by Delivering Billions in New Funding
$16.4 Billion from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Repair and Replace Critical Rail Infrastructure Along Northeast Corridor to Provide Faster and More Reliable Passenger Rail Experience, Create More than One Hundred Thousand Construction Jobs Bidenomics and President Biden’s Investing in America agenda are tackling long-standing infrastructure needs, supporting communities nationwide, and making it possible to get…
Remarks by President Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Long Island Railroad West Side Train YardNew York, New York 12:40 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello. Please have a — have a seat, if you have one. Well, thank you. Chuck, thanks for that introduction. That was worth the trip. Thank you, really. Thank you very much. And, look, one person in particular…
Bidenomics Is Working: The President’s Plan Grows the Economy from the Middle Out and Bottom Up—Not the Top Down
President Biden and Vice President Harris came into office determined to rebuild our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down—and that strategy is working. Even as they faced an immediate economic and public health crisis—with a raging pandemic, elevated unemployment, snarled supply chains, and hundreds of thousands of small…
FACT SHEET: President Biden Kicks off Major Baltimore Rail Tunnel Project Funded by Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Replacing 150-Year Old Baltimore And Potomac Tunnel Will Create 30,000 Good-Paying Jobs And Address Largest Rail Bottleneck Between Washington, D.C and New JerseyContinued Focus On Implementing Game-Changing Infrastructure Projects Including Brent Spence Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, and Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project in New York Continuing the Biden-Harris Administration’s focus on implementing its economic agenda to…
Remarks by President Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel North PortalBaltimore, Maryland 2:44 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello! (Applause.) Anytime I see a train door open, I head for it. And, by the way, I can say it now since I’m no — the — there’s different leadership. I used to, about 15 percent of the time, ride…
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby En Route Syracuse, New York
12:20 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: (In progress.) …a delayed start this morning. I apologize. Just going to talk a little bit about the trip and then I’ll hand it over to the Admiral, who has some stuff on — on the Middle East and some other stuff — some other foreign policy stuff. So, we’ll…
FACT SHEET: President Biden Signs Executive Order to Boost Quality of Federal Construction Projects
Biden-Harris Administration will make federal procurement more economical and efficient by improving coordination and minimizing disruptions on large federal construction projects Tomorrow, the President will sign an Executive Order to improve timeliness, lower costs and increase quality in federal construction projects. Federal construction projects span the country – from the maintenance of nuclear sites to…
Remarks by President Biden on the CHIPS and Science Act | Syracuse, NY
Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and TechnologySyracuse, New York 2:39 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello. (Applause.) It’s good to be back in Syracuse. (Applause.) I fell in love with this place, but I fell in love with a girl before I did that. (Laughter.) Come — please, all, have a seat. Shannon,…
