Day: May 5, 2023

President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is making America’s ports safer and more reliable, strengthening our supply chains, creating good-paying jobs, improving air quality and public health, and building a zero-emissions shipping future America’s ports play a central role in our supply chains and affordable goods movement, are important providers of good jobs, and are key to our global competitiveness. To strengthen our supply chains, reduce costs for the American people, and position the U.S. for economic success, the Biden Administration this week announced investments as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to make our ports safer, cleaner,…

Dr. Walensky has saved lives with her steadfast and unwavering focus on the health of every American. As Director of the CDC, she led a complex organization on the frontlines of a once-in-a-generation pandemic with honesty and integrity. She marshalled our finest scientists and public health experts to turn the tide on the urgent crises we’ve faced. Dr. Walensky leaves CDC a stronger institution, better positioned to confront health threats and protect Americans.  We have all benefited from her service and dedication to public health, and I wish her the best in her next chapter. ### Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/05/statement-from-president-biden-on-dr-rochelle-walensky/

Yesterday, the White House convened 24 Governors’ offices to discuss how the Biden-Harris Administration can amplify states’ efforts to lead on commercial and residential building decarbonization policies that lower utility bills, improve climate resilience, and reduce emissions. In attendance were Ali Zaidi, the National Climate Advisor, Brenda Mallory, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), and senior officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Participants discussed pathways to accelerate progress through federal-state partnership, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL),…

Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Alabama and ordered Federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes from March 24 to March 27, 2023. Federal funding is available to state, tribal, and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes in the counties of Chambers, Colbert, Coosa, Elmore, Lauderdale, Macon, Marion, Morgan, Randolph, and…

  In schools across America, teachers are arriving early to set up classrooms, spending long hours educating students, and staying late to prepare tomorrow’s lesson plans.  Their devotion to our children embodies the best of America — ready to serve and eager to see others thrive.  Today and during this week, we celebrate our Nation’s remarkable teachers and early childhood educators, and we recommit to having their backs, just as they have ours.      In the words of the First Lady, a lifelong educator, teaching is a calling — a way to live out the belief that we can…

     Every day, more than 20 million dedicated public servants in small towns and big cities across our Nation go to work to make sure that America works for all of us.  From teaching our children and delivering the mail to controlling air traffic in our skies, overseeing our elections, fighting fires, keeping our streets safe, and defending our country in uniform, these remarkable Americans are the lifeblood of our democracy.  This week, we honor them and celebrate all they give to this country.      I have had the great privilege of working with public servants who lift…