Letter from the President on the Implementation of the Global Fragility Act The world stands today at the dawn of a decisive decade — a moment of consequence and peril, of profound pain and extraordinary possibility. Perhaps now more than ever, we have seen how the most urgent challenges of our time do not confine … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD1ChCEWoG8 Oakland News Now – President Joe Biden, VP Kamala Harris arrive at Atlanta airport – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. They were first greeted by newly-elected Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. via … Read more
Washington, D.C. State Dining Room – 9:59 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, folks. Well, finally: Infrastructure Week. (Laughter.) I’m so happy to say that: Infrastructure Week. (Laughs.) Folks, yesterday — I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to suggest that we took a monumental step forward as a nation. We learned that our economy created 5.6 million jobs … Read more
Supply chain bottlenecks are a big problem. Here’s what President Joe Biden said about the problem. Remarks by President Biden on Supply Chain Bottlenecks October 13th 2021 East Room 2:58 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Please, sit down. Thank you. Well, good afternoon, everyone. I know you’re hearing a lot about something called “supply chains” and … Read more
Readout of the President and Vice President’s Meeting with Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Leaders Today, the President and Vice President met with 13 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA & NHPI) leaders representing the rich diversity of the AA & NHPI communities to discuss a wide range of issues, including … Read more
Belarus’s forced diversion of a commercial Ryanair flight, traveling between two member states of the European Union, and subsequent removal and arrest of Raman Pratasevich, a Belarusian journalist traveling abroad, are a direct affront to international norms. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms both the diversion of the plane and the subsequent … Read more
As I stand here tonight, we are just one day shy of the 100th day of my administration. 100 days since I took the oath of office—lifted my hand off our family Bible—and inherited a nation in crisis. The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack … Read more
Former Vice President Walter Mondale passed away Monday at the age of 93 years old. The man who I was sure was going to beat the late President George H. W. Bush, did at least pave the way for our current Vice President Kamala Harris. So here, we present both the statements of President Joe … Read more
Vice President Harris and I have been briefed by our homeland security team on the mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, where a lone gunman murdered eight people and wounded several more in the dark of night. Today’s briefing is just the latest in a string of tragedies, following closely after gunmen … Read more
First, Happy Easter! Second, a Georgetown University Study done by its Center for Education and the Workforce, evaluated the proposed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris American Jobs Plan and found the following: – 90% of infrastructure jobs are held by men, and the majority of new jobs created would be in male-dominated … Read more
While the American Rescue Plan is changing the course of the pandemic and delivering relief for working families, this is no time to build back to the way things were. This is the moment to reimagine and rebuild a new economy. The American Jobs Plan is an investment in America that will create millions of … Read more
One of the core values and beliefs that should bring us together as Americans is standing against hate and racism, even as we acknowledge that systemic racism and white supremacy are ugly poisons that have long plagued the United States. We must change the laws that enable discrimination in our country, and we must change … Read more
The House of Representatives voted to extend the deadline for the Paycheck Protection Program. Here’s President Biden’s statement, below. Small businesses are the engines of our economy, the glue of our communities, and account for half of private sector employment. But since the start of this pandemic, more than 400,000 small businesses have permanently closed … Read more
Small businesses account for 44 percent of U.S. GDP, create two-thirds of net new jobs, and employ nearly half of America’s workers. Now, millions of main street small businesses – especially Black- and Brown-owned small businesses – are struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis. Without … Read more
The White House released this “What They Are Saying” press release after the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Biden’s American Rescue Plan WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: House Passes President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Today, the House voted to pass the American Rescue Plan, a historic accomplishment that will provide immediate relief and support to … Read more
Donald Trump, the former President who lost to current President Joe Biden by a wide margin (Trump got his butt kicked in the general election, can’t handle the truth, and won’t stop crying about it), has come out of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with new odds of being the 2024 Republican Presidential Nominee … Read more
Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with Governor Greg Abbott of Texas President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke this evening with Texas Governor Greg Abbott about the severe winter weather situation facing central and southern parts of the United States, including Texas. President Biden conveyed his support to the people of Texas in … Read more
From now on, for particular Biden Administration releases that I believe would be of particular interest to the Oakland Community, I will put “FYI Oakland:” in the title of the post. Readout of the White House’s Meeting with Community Violence Prevention Experts Today, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice and White House Deputy Public Engagement Director … Read more
As this is written, President Joe Biden is on his way home to Wilmington, Delaware to watch Super Bowl LV. This from the White House Pool Reporter, who sent this to Zennie62Media, and others on the White House Press List: The White House passes this along — The President is spending the weekend at his … Read more
Executive Order on Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities REFORMING OUR INCARCERATION SYSTEM TO ELIMINATE THE USE OF PRIVATELY OPERATED CRIMINAL DETENTION FACILITIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered … Read more
Oakland-Scranton flag honors Harris, Biden From YouTube Channel: January 24, 2021 at 07:07PM ONN – Oakland-Scranton Flag Honors President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris AP writes: The hometowns of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have created an Oakland-Scranton flag in a gesture to commemorate their inauguration as U.S. president and vice president and to … Read more
Leading Economists, Including Former Top Trump Advisor, Praise the American Rescue Plan and Stress Urgency of Additional Economic Relief Support continues to grow for President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, including among leading economists who recognize the need for urgent action to combat the economic damage being wrought by COVID-19, get relief and support to the … Read more
Chad Hurley, YouTube Founder, Sports “Oakland In The House” T-Shirt On Biden Harris Inauguration Day ONN – Chad Hurley, YouTube Founder, Sports “Oakland In The House” T-Shirt On Biden Harris Inauguration Day – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Chad Hurley, YouTube Founder, Sports “Oakland In The House” T-Shirt On Biden Harris Inauguration Day Chad Hurley, celebrating … Read more
President Joe Biden gets his first win as the U.S. Senate just confirmed Avril Haines, as the first female Director of National Intelligence. The vote was 84 to 10. This is how the Biden Administration described Ms. Haines, a few weeks ago, when she was introduced as the DNI-designate: A consummate national security professional, Avril … Read more
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Co-Chairs of the White House Gender Policy Council WASHINGTON – Today, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced the formation of the White House Gender Policy Council, co-chaired by Jennifer Klein and Julissa Reynoso. President-elect Biden pledged to create a White House Council on … Read more
To start, this Trump Rally blog post is, at this point, a purely speculative work, designed to help tie together what is at this point a disparate set of facts that seem to point to one conclusion, but a large set of loose ends stop me from saying the result is absolute fact. The “one … Read more