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The United States welcomes the appointment of Ambassador Cindy McCain as the next Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. With decades of humanitarian and business experience, Ambassador McCain will bring her strong leadership to one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the world. Her appointment comes at a critical period as the world continues to experience record levels of acute food insecurity, with war and climate change threatening the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people. The Biden-Harris Administration has made addressing global food insecurity a top priority, and as the leading donor to WFP…

Letter from Dr. Kevin O’Connor: President Biden’s 16 February 2023 Dermatologic Procedure Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/03/letter-from-dr-kevin-oconnor-president-bidens-16-february-2023-dermatologic-procedure/

Via Teleconference 5:04 P.M. EST MODERATOR:  Hi, everyone.  I hope everybody is having a good evening.  Thanks so much for joining us on our background briefing on Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany’s visit to the White House tomorrow. I just want to run through a couple of ground rules before we get going here.  The call is going to be on background, attributable to a “senior administration official.”  This call is not held under any embargo.  Not for attribution, but for everyone’s awareness — for those on the call, our speaker this evening is [senior administration official]. And we don’t have a ton of…

East Room 11:43 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Please, all — please be seated.  I have to say at the outset — and I’ve had the great honor — and we have other Medal of Honor recipients here — and that I’ve been able to give one of those medals.  And we have five here. But this, Mr. Secretary, may be the most consequential day since I’ve been President.  This is an incredible man.  I — A hundred and fifty-eight years ago today, in the White — in this White House, President Lincoln was putting the final touches on his second…

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer, and Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall yesterday hosted veterans, volunteers, and Afghan newcomers to honor their contributions to Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), through which the U.S. government welcomed tens of thousands of our Afghan allies to America. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, Deputy Secretary Defense Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Andrea Palm, and Acting Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources John Bass represented the range of federal departments and agencies that have been involved in the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to support our Afghan…

     Families deserve to be protected from the fraudsters and scammers who often prey on the most vulnerable among us, draining real money from the pockets of hard-working Americans.  This National Consumer Protection Week, we urge every American to learn about their legal rights as consumers and the resources available to defend those rights.  Consumer protection is critical to building a healthy economy from the bottom up and middle out, and it is a question of basic fairness and justice.      After a few tough years, America is in the midst of a historic economic recovery — growth is up,…