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1. Preamble      At our meeting today in Hiroshima, we, the Leaders of the G7, reaffirmed our commitment to stand together against Russia’s illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. We condemn, in the strongest terms, Russia’s manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations (UN) and the impact of Russia’s war on the rest of the world. 15 months of Russia’s aggression has cost thousands of lives, inflicted immense suffering on the people of Ukraine, and imperiled access to food and energy for many of the world’s most vulnerable people. We express our full sympathy…

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by First Lady Jill Biden at the G7 Summit Spousal Program’s Next Generations’ Symposium Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/19/remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-by-first-lady-jill-biden-at-the-g7-summit-spousal-programs-next-generations-symposium/

Five years ago today, the lives of eight young people and two of their teachers were stolen in one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. Their families, classmates, and colleagues continue to live with the trauma and anguish from this devastating attack, and Jill and I are keeping them especially close in our hearts today. One of the lasting tragedies of the shooting at Santa Fe High School – and too many other devastating school shootings – is the refusal by Congressional Republicans to enact meaningful legislation to stop gun violence. Guns are the number one killer of…

Yesterday, National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi hosted a meeting at the White House with sustainability executives and business leaders from companies that are experiencing benefits from the President’s Investing in America agenda including the Inflation Reduction Act.  At the meeting, they discussed how the Inflation Reduction Act has changed their companies’ business models to scale across the country, and how the tax credits have changed their calculus for their clean energy work.  These companies expressed significant concerns about how any repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits – including clean energy tax incentives – presents substantial economic risk and…

Via Teleconference 12:49 P.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, Mayor Steve Benjamin, for your leadership and all that you do on behalf of our administration. Hello, everyone.  I want to thank you all for joining us today.  You — you can hear I have a bit of a frog in my throat.  Please forgive me.  I’ve been talking about this issue a lot recently.  (Laughs.) On this call, we have community leaders, labor leaders, state and local elected officials representing all 50 states and the territories.  And you all are on this call, so — obviously because you are leaders. …

Via Teleconference 7:57 A.M. EDT MODERATOR:  All right.  I think we’ve got folks here.  We’ll go ahead and get started.  Apologies for the delay, everyone, and thanks for hopping on the call. As a reminder, this call is on background, attributable to a senior administration official.  For your awareness and not for your reporting, here with me is [senior administration official].  And this call is embargoed until 8:30 — sorry, it’s embargoed until 5:00 a.m. Japan time tomorrow, May 19th, and 4:00 p.m. Eastern on May 18th, for those of you stateside. And with that, I’ll turn it over to [senior…

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., spoke today with Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea. President Biden, calling from Air Force One, personally conveyed that he would be unable to travel to Papua New Guinea to meet with Prime Minister Marape and other Pacific Island Forum leaders due to the need to return to Washington for meetings with Congressional leaders to ensure that Congress takes action by the deadline to avert default.  The President emphasized continued U.S. commitment to the renewed partnership with the Pacific Islands and conveyed that Secretary Blinken would represent him at the U.S. – Pacific…