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- WATCH LIVE: White House holds briefing as Israeli officials worry ICC will issue arrest warrants
- Statement from President Joe Biden on the UAW Tentative Agreement
- Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference
- Biden doesn't directly answer question about minor incursions into Ukraine
- Watch Biden's full remarks at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ dinner
While the legislation has the support of all 50 Democrats, it would need 60 votes to move forward. Schumer has said he will push forward with a rules change to lower the threshold to 51 votes if it doesn't pass, but Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have both said they would not support the rules change, setting the vote up to fail. I mean, obviously we’re all very happy to hear the news that she’s coming home.
WATCH LIVE: White House holds briefing as Israeli officials worry ICC will issue arrest warrants
Well, folks, when I think climate, I think jobs. I think union jobs — good-paying jobs that don’t require a college degree. Especially being fired because you had no protection. President Biden said Wednesday that he was unsure that the child tax credit could pass in a scaled-back version of his Build Back Better agenda, a key provision Democrats have sought to extend that lacks support from moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. The President said he thinks his report card going into the midterms is "pretty good," and is confident his administration will be able to sign into law "good chunks" of his agenda. 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.
Statement from President Joe Biden on the UAW Tentative Agreement
I don’t know how we can say it’s not. I understand the overwhelming frustration, fear, and concern with regard to inflation and COVID. But the idea — if I told you, when we started, I told you what I’m going to do — “The first year, I’m going to create over 600 — or 6 million jobs. I’m going to get unemployment down to 3.9 percent.
Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference
Demand decisions made by a leader of a country — that’s what’s at stake here. And another thing that we know is that voters spoke clearly about their concerns — about raising costs — the rising costs and the need to get inflation down. There are still a lot of people hurting that are very concerned.
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Washington Disaster Declaration
We went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment I was sworn in to 210 million Americans being fully vaccinated today.We created 6 million new jobs — more jobs in one year than at any time before. However, the two-dose mRNA vaccinated people who received a booster dose — look — had a substantial increase in neutralizing activity to the tune of a 38-fold increase. Moderna, a couple of weeks ago, was able to accelerate delivery — at a fair price — of doses to the African Union. That’s something that we helped facilitate, including by giving the AU — African Union — our place in line. We have plenty of doses of Moderna for boosters and primary series here in the U.S. So we’re able to do that to facilitate Moderna getting more doses to the African Union. 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.
In fact, just across Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we got 3 million booster shots into arms — a million booster shots per day. Over 135 million individuals are now eligible for a booster shot, with tens of millions more becoming eligible over the coming months. This is a major step forward in our vaccination program that will help accelerate our work to put the pandemic behind us. I have heard from many families who are now able to reunite because of the protection from COVID-19 vaccines. There is certainly much to be thankful for this year. For me and my family, we will reflect on how deeply thankful we are that we can safely be together.
Earlier this month, an administration official told CNN McMaster could leave the White House by the end of March. "I have no immediate plans to contact Mr. Putin," he said. "Mr. Putin is — I need to choose my words very carefully. I'm prepared to speak with Mr. Putin if, in fact, there is an interest in him — he's looking for a way to end the war. He hasn't done that yet." Biden and Macron both agreed that there needs to be support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. But Biden also said he had "no plans to contact" Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war. Biden was asked about the effort to avert a rail strike, and he defended the deal he wants Congress to pass designed to avoid one – even though that negotiated deal doesn't include paid sick leave for rail workers.
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Biden doesn't directly answer question about minor incursions into Ukraine
And the President referred in his remarks earlier today to the reports of Ukrainian troops literally cheering in the trenches, watching on their phones, as the House passed the bill over the weekend. That goes to show you how closely they are following the — the U.S. Congress, because it means the difference between having them — the tools they need to put up that fight effectively and not having those tools.
Watch Biden's full remarks at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ dinner
And we’re adding about 9 million more vaccinations each week. So, I would hope, and I think there’s a reasonable chance, that the durability of protection following the third dose will be longer than the durability of protection that I just showed in one of my slides, where it waned after several months. If that’s the case, then we may not need to get boosted every six months or so. But if it does wane, which I hope it doesn’t, then we will address it. Q Hi, thank you for taking my questions.
In July, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Justice Department would increase resources dedicated to enforcing voting rights protections. The Justice Department has also sued Georgia and Texas over sweeping election laws that were passed in 2021. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has zeroed in on voting rights legislation, which is headed toward a doomed vote on Wednesday night.
I read one study that for those million people, they had nine people who were — each one of them had, on average, nine people close to them. A relative, someone they’re married to, a child — someone close. I understand what that pain is like. And we’ve had a number of discussions so far. And I’m hopeful that, now that our election is over, there is a willingness to — to negotiate more specifically with us. I’m told that President Putin is not likely to be there, but other world leaders are going to be there in Indonesia.
"I think he still does not want any kind of full-blown war," Biden said, adding he thinks Putin wants to test the West — and would regret it. "I think that he is dealing with what I believe he thinks is the most tragic thing to happen to Mother Russia," Biden said, explaining his thinking about Putin's motivation. His description of possible Russia action against Ukraine as potentially "minor" drew immediate scrutiny from Republicans, including Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, who recently visited Ukraine. On Republicans, Biden said that "one man out of office" — meaning former President Donald Trump — was intimidating senators from supporting any of Biden's policies. He said he had spoken to five unnamed Republican senators who said that they agreed with him privately on some issues but were worried they would be defeated in primaries if they were public.
And that’s why we have to be very careful about how we move forward and make it clear to him that there are prices to pay that could, in fact, cost his country an awful lot. You mentioned your Republican colleagues. But right now, your top two legislative priorities — your social spending package and voting rights legislation — are stalled, blocked by your own party, after months of negotiation. Seventy-five percent of adults are fully vaccinated. We’ve gone from 90 million adults with no shots in arms last summer down to 35 million with no shots as of today.
However, if you look at two weeks post the third dose, note the substantial degree of elevation of the neutralizing titer well within the range of neutralizing Omicron. And most recent data from our own Vaccine Research Center, which is the first in a series of data that will be coming out over the next few days and be published in a preprint server next week, this is a sampling of the data. If you look on the left-hand part of the slide, this is 21 days after the second dose of the Pfizer product. So, we will continue to work with Moderna, Pfizer, J&J — the three U.S. manufacturers — to expand production and do all they can to help the world, because we don’t defeat this pandemic until we’ve defeated it both at home and across the globe. The message today, I think, is quite obvious, and that’s that vaccination requirements work.
Q I was in Congressman Clyburn’s district yesterday in South Carolina. You opened this news conference talking about him. I spoke to a number of Black voters who fought to get you elected, and now they feel as though you are not fighting hard enough for them and their priorities. And they told me they see this push on voting rights more as a last-minute PR push than it is a legitimate effort to get legislation passed. So whether or not we can actually get election — and by the way, I haven’t given up. We haven’t finished the vote yet on what’s going on — on the — on voting rights and the John Lewis bill and others.
We’ve seen the grit and determination of the American people this past year. But the best days of this country are still ahead of us, not behind us. I’ve long said it’s never been a good bet to bet against the American people or America. I believe that more than ever today.
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