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- Add at-home tests, antiviral pills, and masks for the general population to America’s stockpile for the first time.
- White House to unveil a system for tracking heat-related illnesses nationwide
- Sustain and increase American manufacturing of COVID-19 tests, so we can continue to have a robust supply of tests.
- Guns in America
- FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Hosts First-Ever White House Summit for Sustainable and Healthy Schools
- Climber who died in Alaska national park ID'd as noted N.Y. forest ranger
Ohio state Sen. Michael Rulli, a Republican whose district includes East Palestine, said Buttigieg should resign over what he called the Transportation Department’s inaction. “He has not even come close to being near ground zero and he should be ashamed,” Rulli said. “They’ve been asked to leave their homes.” He said that if he lived there, he would be willing to move his family back into the area as long as testing shows it’s safe. Regan said Thursday that anyone who is fearful of being in their home should seek testing from the government. We know there’s a lack of trust.” Officials are “testing for everything that was on that train,” he said. The Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, left toxic chemicals spilled or burned off, prompting evacuations and fears of contamination by wary residents distrustful of the state and federal response.
Add at-home tests, antiviral pills, and masks for the general population to America’s stockpile for the first time.
A blaring alarm interrupted the White House briefing, Capitol Hill pressers and courtroom processes Wednesday, as a nationwide emergency test hit devices. More than 70 people are feared dead after a series of tornadoes tore through several states late Friday, said Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. Biden was briefed about the devastating tornadoes by Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, White House Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall, and other senior officials, it said.
White House ups ante on emergency disaster aid - Roll Call
White House ups ante on emergency disaster aid.
Posted: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
White House to unveil a system for tracking heat-related illnesses nationwide
Biden has been in full campaign mode this spring, with two more days on the trail planned this week. Despite his celebratory tone on Wednesday, the national security spending measure is not that popular with voters. Biden approved immediately sending Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance and said the shipment would begin arriving in the “next few hours” — the first tranche from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine. The package includes air defense capabilities, artillery rounds, armored vehicles and other weapons to shore up Ukrainian forces who have seen morale sink as Russian President Vladimir Putin has racked up win after win. But significant damage has been done to the Biden administration’s effort to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion during the funding impasse that dates back to August, when the Democratic president made his first emergency spending request for Ukraine aid. Even with a burst of new weapons and ammunition, it’s unlikely Ukraine will immediately recover after months of setbacks.
Sustain and increase American manufacturing of COVID-19 tests, so we can continue to have a robust supply of tests.
Department of State (State), HHS and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other entities are working side-by-side with on-the-ground providers, providing technical assistance in vaccine program implementation, care provision, and outbreak investigation. We have increased the world’s capacity to manufacture vaccines and have fostered an enabling environment for innovation, including by spurring African manufacturing. The Administration has enhanced our collection, production, and analysis of data, and expanded electronic case reporting to all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and thousands of health care facilities. The CDC now tracks a range of key COVID-19 response metrics including cases, tests, vaccinations, and hospital admissions in real-time.
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The rules are a key part of President Joe Biden’s pledge to eliminate carbon pollution from the electricity sector by 2035 and economy-wide by 2050. The Administration has also successfully built a robust emergency response infrastructure. Since July 2021, the federal government has deployed over 4,000 military and non-military personnel including doctors, nurses, and paramedics; sent over 3,400 ventilators, ambulances, and other critical supplies; and shipped over 115 million pieces of PPE. And over the last year, FEMA has invested $300 million in state hospital preparedness to expand hospital capacity in 38 states. The U.S. government will continue to work to build better capacity to fight COVID-19, manage future variants, and advance health security and preparedness for future pandemics.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is preparing Friday to direct federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded and avert politically and economically costly disruption of federal services. The end of the public health emergency could also bring the end of Title the order that has allowed the Trump and Biden administrations to turn many migrants away at the border by citing the potential spread of the virus. Biden, who was in Columbia, South Carolina, on Sunday, was briefed in the morning by Austin, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and principal deputy national security adviser Jon Finer, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. In the afternoon, he met virtually with Vice President Kamala Harris and his national security team for an update. “This barrage of new EPA rules ignores our nation’s ongoing electric reliability challenges and is the wrong approach at a critical time for our nation’s energy future,” said Matheson, whose association represents 900 local electric cooperatives across the country.
White House Daily Briefing August 16, 2023 - C-SPAN
White House Daily Briefing August 16, 2023.
Posted: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Additionally, the CDC launched – and is continually enhancing – the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) to track the presence of SARS-COV-2 in wastewater samples collected across the country. And America has established a world-class sequencing operation, sequencing up to 90,000 isolates a week. The CDC’s sequencing efforts can now reliably detect variants that account for as little as 0.1% of all COVID-19 cases circulating in the United States.
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Hosts First-Ever White House Summit for Sustainable and Healthy Schools
Celebrities included Academy Award winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Hamm and Chris Pine. Trump did not attend Saturday’s dinner and never attended the annual banquet as president. In 2011, he sat in the audience, and glowered through a roasting by then-President Barack Obama of Trump’s reality-television celebrity status. Obama’s sarcasm then was so scalding that many political watchers linked it to Trump’s subsequent decision to run for president in 2016. But the president quickly segued to a grim speech about what he believes is at stake this election, saying that another Trump administration would be even more harmful to America than his first term. An evening normally devoted to presidents, journalists and comedians taking outrageous pokes at political scandals and each other often seemed this year to illustrate the difficulty of putting aside the coming presidential election and the troubles in the Middle East and elsewhere.
The president also warned that China, Iran, North Korea and other countries are providing Russian forces with new weapons. Specifically, the U.S. commander in chief said air defense and rocket systems, as well as armored vehicles made in America, would be in the first tranche of combat equipment sent under the bipartisan supplemental package. I just signed into law the national security package that was passed by the House of Representatives this weekend and by the Senate yesterday. Jordan, a staunch Western ally and a crucial power in Jerusalem for its oversight of holy sites there, is suspected of launching airstrikes in Syria to disrupt drug smugglers, including one that killed nine people earlier this month. Since the war in Gaza began Oct. 7, Iranian-backed militias have struck American military installations in Iraq more than 60 times and in Syria more than 90 times, with a mix of drones, rockets, mortars and ballistic missiles.
And if new variants emerge, the federal government will leverage established playbooks to assess a new variant’s impact on our vaccines, treatments, and tests, and rapidly deploy the tools, personnel, and resources Americans need. America will also retain a significant stockpile of tools to combat COVID-19 that remain ready for deployment. The public health emergency also affects the health care coverage Americans have come to rely on for free COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and tests. While vaccines will remain largely free for people with insurance even after the emergency ends -- so long as they're administered by an in-network provider -- free treatment and tests could be less of a guarantee. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change.
On Capitol Hill, the interruption sparked jokes and laughter amid a Senate GOP news conference. The alarms prompted chuckles, and the noise continued throughout the White House press corps working area after the briefing as reporters who turned off their phones to attempt to avoid hearing the noise during the briefing turned them back on. “Well, it works,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said when the test interrupted questions at the press briefing. She noted that the test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System happens at least once every three years.
U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), who toured the site with Regan and Brown on Thursday, has generally supported the federal response but joined other Ohio officials in calling for more help from FEMA. Johnson sent a letter Friday asking the EPA to provide detailed information about the derailment, including the controlled burn conducted last week and testing plans for air and water quality. The impact of the public health emergency ending will come into clearer focus over the next three months, as different agencies in the federal government determine which related programs can be continued without the order in place -- and how to unwind programs that can't.
