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The United States strongly condemns the DPRK for its test of a long-range ballistic missile. The President’s national security team is assessing the situation in close coordination with our allies and partners.  This launch is a brazen violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions and needlessly raises tensions and risks destabilizing the security situation in the region. This action demonstrates that the DPRK continues to prioritize its unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs over the well-being of its people.  We urge all countries to condemn these violations and call on the DPRK to come to the table…

President Joe Biden met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.  President Biden congratulated President Erdoğan on the agreement he reached with Swedish Prime Minister Kristersson and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg to send Sweden’s NATO accession protocol to parliament for ratification. The Presidents discussed efforts to strengthen bilateral cooperation, welcoming the latest round of discussions in the strategic mechanism and exchanging views on defense and economic priorities. They also discussed regional issues of shared interest, including their enduring support for Ukraine and the importance of preserving stability in the Aegean. ### Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/11/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-meeting-with-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-of-turkiye/

New measures will protect communities from extreme heat Millions of Americans are being impacted by extreme heat waves, which are growing in intensity, frequency, and duration due to climate change. In June, heat waves broke records across the country. Puerto Rico experienced its hottest month in more than 120 years, and Texas recorded its top 19 hottest days ever. Parts of Michigan, New York and Vermont also broke their daily temperature records. And in the first six months of 2023, there were 12 individual billion-dollar weather and climate events across the country. The situation is alarming, and it requires an…

Lowering hard-working families’ child care costs is a core pillar of “Bidenomics” From the beginning of this Administration, President Biden and Vice President Harris have been focused on child care costs as a critical challenge for families. That is why President Biden signed the most comprehensive set of executive actions any President has ever taken to make care more affordable and accessible for hard-working families, and provide support for care workers and family caregivers while strengthening the care economy. In his Executive Order (EO) that he signed in April, the President directed the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)…

Today, Maine has become the thirteenth state, along with the District of Columbia, to pass paid family and medical leave legislation. President Biden commends the leadership of Governor Janet Mills, Speaker of the House Rachel Talbot Ross, Senate President Troy Jackson, Representative Kristen Cloutier, Senator Mattie Daughtry, other legislative sponsors, and state and community leaders who made this historic achievement possible. Paid family and medical leave improves the lives of working families and strengthens our workforce and economy. The Biden-Harris Administration has worked to make the Federal government a model by supporting Federal employees in accessing the leave they need and…

Lithuanian Exhibition and Conference Center Vilnius, Lithuania 6:20 P.M. EEST PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Mr. President, it’s good to see you again — delighted to be with you.  And, you know, we’re at this historic summit meeting.  We’re resolving a lot of things, I hope.  And you made — you made all the more historic by the agreement you reached yesterday in the admission of Sweden and how you’re going to proceed.  I want to thank you for your diplomacy and your courage to take that on.  And I want to thank you for your leadership, Mr. President.  This summit is reaffirming our commitment to…

THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  And good morning to everyone.  This is a critical issue for almost every family in our country — and the issue, of course, being the need for affordable childcare.  And, frankly, in too many places in our country, it’s just too expensive.  In April, President Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to find ways to improve access to care and support caregivers, because, of course, we care not only about the parents and families that require and need this kind of support, we also care about the workers who are providing that support. …

President Biden and Vice President Harris came into office determined to rebuild our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down—and that strategy is working. Even as they faced an immediate economic and public health crisis—with a raging pandemic, elevated unemployment, snarled supply chains, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses at risk of shuttering—the President and Vice President understood that it wouldn’t be enough to simply go back to the economy we had before the pandemic. That economy was saddled with longstanding challenges that held America back—including rising inequality and disinvestment from communities across…

President Biden and Vice President Harris came into office determined to rebuild our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down—and that strategy is working. Even as they faced an immediate economic and public health crisis—with a raging pandemic, elevated unemployment, snarled supply chains, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses at risk of shuttering—the President and Vice President understood that it wouldn’t be enough to simply go back to the economy we had before the pandemic. That economy was saddled with longstanding challenges that held America back—including rising inequality and disinvestment from communities across…

President Biden and Vice President Harris came into office determined to rebuild our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down—and that strategy is working. Even as they faced an immediate economic and public health crisis—with a raging pandemic, elevated unemployment, snarled supply chains, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses at risk of shuttering—the President and Vice President understood that it wouldn’t be enough to simply go back to the economy we had before the pandemic. That economy was saddled with longstanding challenges that held America back—including rising inequality and disinvestment from communities across…