East Room 5:16 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT BIDEN: Thank you all. Please have a seat. Today, it’s been my great honor — and I mean that — to welcome a dear friend back to the White House. And before I say anything else, Chancellor Merkel, I want to express to you and to the people of Germany my…
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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:30 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Let’s give folks a couple of seconds to settle in. All right, everyone. Good afternoon. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Thank you. Since the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, we have seen an alarming rise in reported antisemitic incidents at schools and…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, and NEC Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:41 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: All right, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome back. Oh, wow. No excitement in the room. (Laughs.) Hello! Hello. Q Hello. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Okay. Q We’ve got visitors today. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, we do. So today is a great day for middle-class Am- — middle-class…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, April 23, 2021
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 11:43 A.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Happy Friday. We have another very exciting guest today: our new Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, who made history when she became the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet Secretary. She is the member — she is a member…
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jen Psaki
Aboard Air Force OneEn Route Cincinnati, Ohio 12:31 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: So, welcome to our trip to Cincinnati. This is my last gaggle on Air Force One, so I have a lot of things to get off my chest. (Laughter.) I’m just kidding. Okay, I wanted to give you guys a sense of the…
Remarks by President Biden at the 29th AFL-CIO Quadrennial Constitutional Convention
Philadelphia Convention CenterPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 11:03 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, AFL-CIO! (Applause.) You ain’t labor, you’re union. It makes a difference! (Laughs.) It’s good to be home. (Applause.) As they say in Claymont, you all brung me to the dance. Thank you. Please. Please, have a seat if there is one. (Laughs.) You’re a gigantic…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:15 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: All right. All right, everybody. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Q Good afternoon. Q Hi. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hi. Q Hello. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: It’s raining outside. Okay. So, as you just saw today, the President directed his Trade Representative to increase tariffs under Section 301…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, May 10, 2022
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:40 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Okay. It’s a little rowdy in here today. All right. Tomorrow, the President will visit a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois, with the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, to discuss the impact of President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on the rise in food…
President Biden Announces His Intent to Nominate Nine More Individuals to Serve as Ambassadors
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals – including four career members of the Senior Foreign Service – as ambassadors to represent the United States on the world stage: Julie Chung, Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Sharon L. Cromer,…
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:19 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Happy Monday. Q Happy Monday. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I have two things before we get to our guest this morning — or this afternoon. Today, the President and the First Lady will honor the 2023 Teachers of the Year from state and…