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I would also refer you to the State Department to get an update on that particular — particular situation. So don’t want to get ahead of what the State Department might share. I don’t have anything specific on — to share with you, but we are committed to execute — executing that. So, we were — we have been able to do this. And the President has been committed to getting this done.
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As it relates to the bill — the law now — there’s time. There are already American investors who are — who are willing and are interested in buying TikTok. So, we’re going to continue to do that forcefully, condemn antisemitism from this administration. We’re going to contem- — continue to do that. We’re implementing, as you know, the — the first-ever National Strategic Effort to Counter Antisemitism because there should be no place in this country in — when it relates to that type of hate.
A Proclamation on National Small Business Week, 2024
So, look, I would say, more broadly — and I said this moments ago — this is a deeply painful, painful moment for many communities, and we understand that. But the President believes that free speech, debate, and nondiscrimination on college campuses are important. And that — and so, he’ll always be very clear — we will always be very clear about here — about that here. The Lad- — Labor Department is also protecting retirement security by requiring financial advisors to act in the saver’s best interest, not their own. This will save millions of Americans thousands of dollars for their retirement accounts. So, you put all that together and I think the calculus of the Russians or the critics of Ukraine who say, “Time is on Russia’s side” — they’ve got it wrong.
White House Daily Briefing March 18, 2024 - C-SPAN
White House Daily Briefing March 18, 2024.
Posted: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Jake Sullivan Says Vote Against Supplemental Will Hurt Ukraine and Help Russia
Obviously, the decisions how to manage the virus are done at the local level, informed by community transmission, vaccination rate, and local capacity. So, we need to use the tools we have and get more people vaccinated to keep people safe without going backwards in any way, shape, or form. Ahead of tonight’s deadline, the federal government has achieved 95 percent compliance and 90 percent of the 3.5 million federal workers are already vaccinated.
Officials from the White House, the State Department, and across the administration worked tirelessly and relentlessly to see this moment through. “There’s a huge diversity issue and they’re afraid of what folks are going to say,” added this source, who said they learned of the effort from multiple people briefed by Dunn and confirmed at least one person from outside the administration did speak with Jean-Pierre. WASHINGTON — Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has learned. The early in vitro and clinical studies that I mentioned indicate that boosters reconstitute the antibody titers and enhance the vaccine protection against Omicron. The Omicron variant undoubtedly compromises the effects of a two-dose mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies and reduces the overall protection. However, as I showed on a prior slide, considerable protection still maintains against severe disease.
White House: Still working on timing and location of meeting with Trump and Kim Jong Un
Kirby, who is widely respected by journalists as a valuable source of both information and soundbites, has requested to pick out who asks him questions at briefings, but Jean-Pierre has not agreed to allow him to do so. “Sometimes he talks to her and she acts as if he is not talking,” said a fourth source familiar with the situation and critical of Jean-Pierre. That is a promise that his administration is continuing to — contin- — continuing to fight for.
DOJ refuses to comply with congressional subpoena for audio of Biden’s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur
And the United States welcomes these moves from a stalwart ally. The fact is that it’s going to take some time for us to dig out of the hole that was created by six months of delay before Congress passed the supplemental. These capabilities are going to start moving immediately to make up for lost time. And the quantities and the type of humanitarian assistance that we have seen increase over the last two weeks, we need to see continued increases and sustained increases as we go forward. We are successfully lowering visa interview wait times — that’s around the world. And we’ve doubled our hiring of U.S. foreign service personnel to do this important work.
In this updated figure on COVID Data Tracker, the blue line shows rates of hospitalization among the unvaccinated and the green line among the vaccinated through September 25th. The downtick in hospitalizations of the blue line is because of decreasing case rates towards the end of September, and the very slight uptick in the green line represents waning immunity, for which we are recommending boosters. The seven-day average of hospital admissions is about 5,600 per day, about a 6 percent increase from the prior seven-day average. When a reporter asked where it might happen, noting the White House wouldn't want to hold the meeting in "downtown Pyongyang," Sanders said. "We won't have those conversations between me and the press. Those conversations will take place at a much higher level."
Statement from National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard on March PCE Report
Don’t want to get ahead of any conversation about arms deal. But this was about what the President’s commitment is and has been, what the administration’s work has been, which is bringing home American citizens who are wrongfully detained. And that has been our focus with Brittney this past year. What I can tell you is the promise that this President has made, right? We’re not going to — certainly not going to talk about diplomatic conversations that may be occurring, right? But we want — we want American people to know that their safety and security is among our highest priorities.
And, again, this is what we were able to do to get her home. And we are not going to stop, we will — not going to stop to bring Paul Whelan home as well. We’re going to continue to do the work — and also other Americans who have been held — wrongfully detained. They also said that they were proud to see, you know, Brittney come home today. And the President is going to do everything that he can, as we have seen him do many times across this — his — across the time, his tenure in the administration, to bring Paul home.
This is an Israeli study that has looked at individuals who — after their second dose compare to their third dose. And 12 days or more after the third booster dose of a BioNTech, they had a diminution in the risk of infection of 11.3-fold difference and a rate of severe illness was lowered by a factor of almost 20. Even in our updated data, unvaccinated people are at 14 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19 than people who are vaccinated. And that’s what we’ve seen from Republicans continuing — like, when they put out their budget recently, that’s what they’re doing. You all — you all listened to the President, right? So, he had an opportunity this morning, so he was going to take that opportunity to say how we need to continue to move forward with the border — border — border security negotiation — or the plan that came out of the negotiation.
This morning, you heard President Biden speak about the critical importance of the national security supplemental, which came to the President’s desk, as we said it would, with overwhelming bipartisan support from the U.S. I’ve stood at this podium numerous times and said, you know, the road may be full of twists and turns, I can’t predict exactly when it will happen, but I always had confidence it would happen. We are going to do everything that we can to bring them home. We are going to keep our commitment to bring American citizens — again, who are being wrongfully detained, who are being held hostage — safe — back home safely to their families, where they should be. I mean, obviously we’re all very happy to hear the news that she’s coming home.
Trump did not attend Saturday’s dinner and never attended the annual banquet as president. In 2011, he sat in the audience, and glowered through a roasting by then-President Barack Obama of Trump’s reality-television celebrity status. Obama’s sarcasm then was so scalding that many political watchers linked it to Trump’s subsequent decision to run for president in 2016. We would encourage people who gather to do so safely after they’ve been fully vaccinated, as we’ve been saying for months now.
And I’m wondering what the research shows and what your expectation is for that. We’ve secured enough supply of all three vaccines for booster shots for every adult, as well as for the half-million first and second shots we continue to get into arms each day. It is on- — not only related to Israel — because a study from the UK in people 50 years of age and older, when they compared a third shot to those who received the second shot, they looked at two types of vaccines. One was AstraZeneca, which is not relevant to the discussion now. But when you compared the protection of two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech to three, you went from 63 percent up to 94 percent. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said at today's press briefing that "a time and place have not yet been determined," when asked where and when President Trump would meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
There’s time — there’s time — there’s certainly time on the books to see how this plays out. And so, that’s what members of Congress moved forward with. That is not what this bill is about — or this now law is about, canceling it. But this really is something that we take care to separate from politics, to separate from, you know, decisions taken at the White House. It is a State Department analysis with a State Department outcome.
Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth,” CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement. More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether. Criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has spread through American college campuses, with students pitching encampments and withstanding police sweeps in an effort to force their universities to divest from Israel.
