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Via Teleconference 9:34 A.M. EST MODERATOR:  Thank you, everyone, for joining us today.  This is [senior administration official], and welcome to the background call on U.S. support for Ukraine.  As a reminder of the ground rules, this briefing will be on background, attributable to “senior administration officials,” and under embargo until 12:00 p.m. Eastern today, when the President is scheduled to deliver remarks. For your awareness but not for your reporting, our three speakers today are [senior administration official], [senior administration official], and [senior administration official].  I will turn it over to our speakers for opening remarks, after which we’ll do Q&A.  First, I’ll…

This week, Council of Economic Advisers Member Heather Boushey, Office of Management and Budget Chief Economist Zach Liscow, and other officials from across the Biden-Harris Administration attended the Executive Meeting of the Roundtable on Macroeconomic and Climate-related Risks and Opportunities convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This Roundtable’s goal is to improve our understanding of how the physical and transition effects of climate change relate to and affect macroeconomic performance, in addition to exploring the implications for fiscal, monetary, and financial stability policies. In attendance were dozens of scholars and policymakers focused on the intersection of climate…

Roosevelt Room 12:01 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good almost morning. It’s exactly noon. Thank you for being here. Yesterday marked 11 months since Russia’s brutal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine; 11 months in which the Ukrainian people have showed Putin and the world the full force of their courage and the indomitable determination to live free. And through every single step of this horrific war, the American people have been strong and unwavering in their support. And Democrats and Republicans in Congress have stood together. The United States has worked in lockstep with our Allies and partners around the world to…

I promised to lower costs for families and ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care. Today, we received further proof that our efforts are delivering record-breaking results. More Americans than ever before have signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. From November 1st to January 15th, over 16.3 million Americans signed up for insurance on HealthCare.gov and the state-based Marketplaces.  This is more than double the number of Americans who signed up for coverage during the first ever Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment in 2014.  And for the more than 30 states that use…

Administration also launches Resident-Centered Housing Challenge, a call-to-action to improve the quality of life for renters Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new actions to increase fairness in the rental market and further principles of fair housing. These actions align with a new Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights that the Administration is also releasing today. The Blueprint lays out a set of principles to drive action by the federal government, state and local partners, and the private sector to strengthen tenant protections and encourage rental affordability. Key actions announced today include: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the…

1:44 P.M. EST MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I always hear, like, comments when I walk in, and it’s always so funny.  (Laughs.) All right.  Good afternoon, everyone.  Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  For the second time in recent days, a California community has been devastated by a mass shooting and families are mourning loved ones lost to a senseless act of gun violence.  As some of the victims’ families have said, we are starting Lunar New Year broken.  To read their stories is indeed heartbreaking.  Stories like the 65-year-old who went to the dance studio in Monterey Park on weekends because it’s what she loved to do. …

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today with Prime Minister Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago to continue their dialogue on efforts to strengthen the energy security and climate resilience of the Caribbean.  The Vice President conveyed to the Prime Minister that the Treasury Department would take action to help meet the region’s long term energy needs.  The Vice President and the Prime Minister also discussed progress on the U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis 2030 (PACC 2030), including recent trips by the U.S. Government’s PACC 2030 Investment Facilitation Team to support a pipeline of clean energy projects in the…

Roosevelt Room 3:10 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Well, I’m excited. We got a strong group of leaders here, a new start and a new Congress. And I’m excited about the leadership we have running the Democratic side. We — we got a lot done in the last couple years, and we got a lot more to do and a lot more to finish than what we’ve already done. And we’ve already made some real progress on the economy, on inflation, and a number of other things. Foreign policy is — we’ve united the West in a way that it hadn’t…

This afternoon President Biden and Vice President Harris hosted Leader Schumer, Senator Durbin, Senator Stabenow, Leader Jeffries, Representative Clark, and Representative Aguilar in the Roosevelt Room. The leaders agreed on the importance of building on the historic economic progress being achieved because of their shared accomplishments from the last two years, including the lowest unemployment in 50 years, significant ground gained against inflation, and more Americans getting health coverage than ever. The President and the congressional leaders discussed continued stepped-up implementation of groundbreaking laws like the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which…

From its first day in office, the Biden-Harris Administration has focused on helping the nation’s businesses recover from the economic impact of the pandemic and grow. Last week, the Census Bureau released data that showed that over the last two years Americans have applied to start 10.5 million new businesses, making 2021 and 2022 the strongest two years on record for new business applications. With unemployment at a record low and the two strongest years of job creation in our history, this is just the latest confirmation that the President’s economic plan is working to build our economy from the…