Day: May 10, 2023

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Jake Sullivan spoke with Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi on May 10 to discuss the ongoing conflict in Gaza.  Sullivan reaffirmed the Administration’s ironclad support for Israel’s security, as well as its right to defend its people from indiscriminate rocket attacks.  Sullivan also noted continued regional efforts to broker a ceasefire, and emphasized the need to deescalate tensions and prevent further loss of life.    ### Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/10/readout-of-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivans-call-with-israeli-national-security-advisor-tzachi-hanegbi/

SUNY Westchester Community CollegeValhalla, New York 1:51 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, hello, hello!  (Applause.)  I asked Brian one question: What position did he play?  (Laughter.)  It looks like he spends a lot of time in the gym.  Please, sit down.  Sit down.  Sit down.  It’s good to be back.  It’s good to be back.  (Applause.)   Governor Hochul, thank you for welcoming us to your state.  And she’s helping New York lead the way in making things in America.  And I mean making things in America.  Not importing them — making them.  Send — sending products out, bringing jobs back. …

Washington, D.C. Thank you, Catherine. And thank you for everything you do to preserve the National Mall, Lafayette Park, and the White House grounds.  On mornings when the humidity of D.C. summer has not yet taken hold, I sometimes go to the Kennedy Garden. Surrounded by peach irises or speckled stalks of foxglove, looking out past the South Lawn, I watch the sky turn blue above the National Mall. In a city that changes and evolves with each administration, each new Congress, the monuments stand tall through wind and rain, snow and baking heat, lifetime after lifetime.  Every day, thousands…

With today’s report, annual inflation has come down 45 percent since last summer. The annual inflation rate has now come down 10 months in a row at a time when our economy and job market are strong, with the unemployment rate at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Gas prices are down nearly $1.50 from their summer peak, and prices at the grocery store have actually come down the last two months, providing some welcome breathing room for families. While we have more work to do to lower costs for families, the President’s Inflation Reduction Act is already…

President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is making a once-in-a-generation investment in America’s infrastructure and our clean energy future that is creating good-paying union jobs, growing our economy, building energy security, combating climate change, advancing environmental justice, and helping lower costs for families. To continue to drive these efforts, the Biden-Harris Administration today announced a set of priorities it urges Congress to pass as part of bipartisan permitting reform legislation. The Biden-Harris Administration has already unleashed over $470 billion in manufacturing and clean energy investments since President Biden took office, providing predictable funding for new projects that would not have…

     On May 12, 2014, by Executive Order 13667, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in and in relation to the Central African Republic, which has been marked by a breakdown of law and order; intersectarian tension; the pervasive, often forced recruitment and use of child soldiers; and widespread violence and atrocities, including those committed by Kremlin-linked and Yevgeniy Prigozhin-affiliated entities such as the Wagner…