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02 Jun

Readout of Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer’s Call with Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti

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Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer spoke with Prime Minister Albin Kurti of Kosovo yesterday.  Mr. Finer underscored the United States’ concern about the tense situation in northern Kosovo and called for all parties to take steps aimed at de-escalating the situation. He urged the Government of Kosovo to enable newly elected mayors to carry out their duties from alternative locations and to withdraw police forces from municipal buildings.  He also welcomed Prime Minister Kurti’s willingness to work towards conditions for new elections.  Mr. Finer reiterated that the United States expects both sides to re-engage in the EU-facilitated Dialogue…

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02 Jun

Readout of Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer’s Call with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic

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Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer spoke with President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia today.  Mr. Finer stressed the United States’ concern about the tense situation in northern Kosovo and called for all parties to take steps aimed at de-escalating the situation.  He urged the Government of Serbia to withdraw its armed forces stationed near the border and to lower their state of readiness, as well as to urge protesters to remain peaceful in northern Kosovo.  Mr. Finer reiterated that the United States expects both sides to re-engage in the EU-facilitated Dialogue and to fully implement the normalization agreement reached…

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02 Jun

President Biden Announces Presidential Delegation to Türkiye to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday, June 3, 2023. T.H. Jeffry L. Flake, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Türkiye, will attend the Inauguration in Ankara, Türkiye.  ### Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/02/president-biden-announces-presidential-delegation-to-turkiye-to-attend-the-inauguration-of-his-excellency-recep-tayyip-erdogan/

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02 Jun

Excerpts from Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by President Biden on Averting Default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement

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Essential to all the progress we’ve made in the last few years is keeping the full, faith, and credit of the United States and passing a budget that continues to grow our economy and reflects our values as a nation. And that’s why I’m speaking to you tonight. To report on a crisis averted and what we are doing to protect America’s future. Passing this budget agreement was critical. The stakes could not have been higher. … No one got everything they wanted but the American people got what they needed. We averted an economic crisis and an economic collapse.…

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02 Jun

Remarks by Heather Boushey on How President Biden’s Invest in America Agenda has Laid the Foundation for Decades of Strong, Stable, and Sustained, Equitable Growth

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Peterson Institute for International EconomicsConference on “Rethinking Fiscal Policy” Good afternoon. It is great to be here. Thank you to the conference organizers, Karen Dynan, Paolo Mauro, and David Wilcox, for this this important agenda today and to Adam Posen and his team for all the Peterson Institute for International Economics does to inform policymaking. Today, I will share with you this Administration’s economic framework for thinking about fiscal questions. In doing so, I’ll describe the broader shift in thinking that animates President Biden’s economic strategy. I’ll lay out how the President’s Invest in America agenda has laid the foundation…

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02 Jun

Statement from President Joe Biden Marking National Gun Violence Awareness Day

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In the last year alone, we’ve lost more than 40,000 Americans to gun violence. Countless other survivors of gun violence will carry the trauma for the rest of their lives. In the last two years, I’ve been able to sign the most significant gun safety legislation in decades and have taken dozens of executive actions. But it’s not nearly enough. I will keep fighting to do everything I possibly can, but the reality is that it will take Congressional action to make the kinds of meaningful reforms we need to keep our communities safe. A broad majority of Americans want to see…

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02 Jun

Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan for the Arms Control Association (ACA) Annual Forum

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National Press Club Thank you, Tom, for that very important set of introductory comments and for the kind words. I also want to thank Daryl for bringing us all together today. And most importantly—I want to thank all of you for giving me the opportunity to just say a few words here this morning. *** 60 years ago next month—in grainy, black and white video—President Kennedy addressed the nation. He was sitting behind the same Resolute desk that President Biden sits behind now nearly every day, and that I sit across from him nearly every day. “My fellow citizens,” he…

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02 Jun

Statement from President Joe Biden on May Jobs Report

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Today is a good day for the American economy and American workers.  We learned this morning that the economy created 339,000 jobs last month.  We have now created over 13 million jobs since I took office. That is more jobs in 28 months than any President has created in an entire 4-year term.  We also learned that the unemployment rate has been under 4 percent for 16 months in a row. The last time our nation had such a long stretch of low unemployment was in the 1960s. And the share of working age Americans in the workforce is at its…

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02 Jun

Statement from President Joe Biden on Senate Passage of the Bipartisan Budget Agreement

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Tonight, Senators from both parties voted to protect the hard-earned economic progress we have made and prevent a first-ever default by the United States. Together, they demonstrated once more that America is a nation that pays its bills and meets its obligations—and always will be. I want to thank Leader Schumer and Leader McConnell for quickly passing the bill. No one gets everything they want in a negotiation, but make no mistake: this bipartisan agreement is a big win for our economy and the American people. It protects the core pillars of my Investing in America agenda that is creating good…

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01 Jun

Remarks by Vice President Harris in a Press Call on Addressing Racial Bias in Home Appraisals

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Via Teleconference THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  And good afternoon, everyone.  Thank you for joining us.  And it is good to be with all of you to address a subject that is essential to the financial wellbeing of millions of American families — and that is the issue of home appraisal. So, I think we all would agree homeownership is an essential part of the American dream.  Homeownership is one of the single most powerful engines of wealth-b- — building available to American families.  Millions rely on the equity in their homes to put their children through college, to fund…

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