Day: March 10, 2023

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:46 P.M. EST   MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Okay, good afternoon, everybody. Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Happy Friday. Q    Happy Friday. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  We made it.  Okay.  So, joining us today are two critical members of the President’s economic team and Cabinet, CEA Chair Cecilia Rouse and OMB Director Shalanda Young. They need no introduction and have joined us in the briefing room before.  And so, I’m going to keep it short, but a couple things I do want to say at the top about the two of them. Chair Rouse has led the Council of Advisers for two years…

At the North American Leaders’ Summit on January 9-10, President López Obrador, President Biden, and Prime Minister Trudeau instructed their Cabinets to intensify efforts to address the synthetic opioid epidemic that is ravaging communities across North America. The three leaders committed to intensify and expand coordinated efforts to prosecute drug traffickers, dismantle criminal networks, disrupt the supply of precursor chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl, and prevent the trafficking of drugs, firearms, and people across our shared border. To follow through on this commitment, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador welcomed a high-level U.S. delegation led by White House Homeland Security Advisor Dr.…

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met today with President Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia. They discussed recent developments in Georgia, underscoring their countries’ shared interest in Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration. They talked about President Zourabichvili’s advocacy for a unified and inclusive approach to achieving the reforms necessary to advance Georgia’s candidacy for European Union membership. They also discussed their shared concern about draft legislation to register and stigmatize civil society organizations for receiving external funding, which could impede the important work of hundreds of Georgian NGOs working to improve their communities. They welcomed the government’s recent decision to withdraw the two draft…

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1. Led to the Strongest Jobs Recovery on Record: When President Biden came into office, there was tremendous economic uncertainty. Unemployment was at 6.1% when ARP passed. It was expected to average 5% in 2022. With the passage of ARP, unemployment averaged 3.6% in 2022 and fell to 3.4% at the beginning of 2023. ARP Drove the Strongest 2-year job growth ever: Over 12 million jobs have been added since President Biden took office – the largest 2-year total in US history and more jobs in two years than in any previous administration’s full year term. Powered the Fastest Recovery in the World: After…

FACT SHEET: The American Rescue Plan’s 2-year Difference Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/10/fact-sheet-the-american-rescue-plans-2-year-difference/