It’s Tuesday aka First Day of Fall Eve.
For Tuesday, September 21st, 2021, President Biden has addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Around noon eastern time President Biden will participate in a bilateral meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Later this afternoon he will depart New York and head back to D.C., where he will participate in a bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
President Biden has tweeted 4 times so far for Tuesday; I’m gonna share his first tweet from Tuesday down thread.
His second tweet:
His third tweet:
His fourth tweet:
As the News Blender featured; President Biden spoke before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday morning.
I’m pretty sure that is a direct quote from his speech this morning. The White House will publish his full speech later today.
When Biden Bits was published for Monday, President Biden had tweeted 1 time. He added 6 tweets giving him a Monday Tweeting Total of 7 tweets and 0 retweets.
His full statement:
Ten years ago today, a great injustice was remedied and a tremendous weight was finally lifted off the shoulders of tens of thousands of dedicated American service members. The repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which formally barred gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members from openly serving, helped move our nation closer to its foundational promise of equality, dignity, and opportunity for all. It was the right thing to do. And, it showed once again that America is at its best when we lead not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.
Despite serving with extraordinary honor and courage throughout our history, more than 100,000 American service members have been discharged because of their sexual orientation or gender identity—including some 14,000 under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Many of these veterans received what are known as “other than honorable” discharges, excluding them and their families from the vitally important services and benefits they had sacrificed so much to earn.
As a U.S. Senator, I supported allowing service members to serve openly, and as Vice President, I was proud to champion the repeal of this policy and to stand beside President Obama as he signed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act into law. As President, I am honored to be Commander-in-Chief of the strongest and most inclusive military in our nation’s history. Today, our military doesn’t just welcome LGBTQ+ service members—it is led at the highest levels by brave LGBTQ+ veterans, including Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Shawn Skelly, who served under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. I was gratified to appoint the first openly gay Senate-confirmed Cabinet member, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve and Afghanistan veteran who joined the military under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. And during my first week in office, I proudly delivered on my pledge to repeal the discriminatory ban on open service by patriotic transgender service members.
On this day and every day, I am thankful for all of the LGBTQ+ service members and veterans who strengthen our military and our nation. We must honor their sacrifice by continuing the fight for full equality for LGBTQ+ people, including by finally passing the Equality Act and living up to our highest values of justice and equality for all.
White House.gov. 09/20/2021.
He issued tweets between the above and this one:
The White House published the following readout from the meeting:
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met this evening with Secretary-General António Guterres of the United Nations. They reaffirmed the strong partnership between the United States and the United Nations which, in particular, is based on common values that include respect for universal human rights, fundamental freedoms, and international law. They discussed the importance of multilateralism and the defense of democracy and the rules-based international order, which is anchored by the United Nations, as critical to addressing today’s greatest challenges. Specifically, they spoke of the urgency to work together, along with Member States of the United Nations, to end the COVID-19 pandemic, prepare for future health security threats, combat climate change, strengthen food systems and food security, address humanitarian needs, prevent and mitigate conflict, and promote and defend human rights worldwide. The President reaffirmed that complex, global challenges can only be addressed by genuinely global solutions, an approach reflected in the President’s vision of building back better, and he emphasized the unique role of the United Nations in delivering prosperity, peace and security for everyone.
White House.gov. 09/20/2021.
There was a pool spray prior to the meeting.
The YouTube video is 3 minutes and 39 seconds long. Their remarks can be found here.
The tweet he used from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the third tweet from a 5 tweet total thread that Pelosi posted Monday afternoon.
This week, the House of Representatives will pass legislation to fund the government through December of this year to avoid a needless government shutdown that would harm American families and our economic recovery before the September 30th deadline.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 20, 2021
The legislation to avoid a government shutdown will also include a suspension of the debt limit through December 2022 to once again meet our obligations and protect the full faith and credit of the United States.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 20, 2021
A suspension of the debt limit through 12/22 would provide an amount of time commensurate w/ the debt incurred as a result of passing last winter’s bipartisan $908B emergency COVID relief legislation, which was authored by GOP Senators & signed into law by the previous president.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 20, 2021
Addressing the debt limit is about meeting obligations the government has already made, like the bipartisan emergency COVID relief legislation from December as well as vital payments to Social Security recipients and our veterans.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 20, 2021
We look forward to passing this crucial legislation with bipartisan support through both chambers and sending to the president’s desk in the coming weeks. Read my Joint Statement with @SenSchumer on Continuing Resolution and Debt Limit Legislation here: https://t.co/4w6h1v0c3G
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 20, 2021
The joint-statement:
This week, the House of Representatives will pass legislation to fund the government through December of this year to avoid a needless government shutdown that would harm American families and our economic recovery before the September 30th deadline. Both Republicans and Democrats have priorities they want to see addressed in the regular order appropriations process for Fiscal Year 2022, and an extension of government funding through December will provide an appropriate amount of time for that bipartisan, bicameral process to come to completion. In addition to avoiding an unnecessary government shutdown, this must-pass legislation will include the Administration’s request to provide emergency funding to help those devastated by the recent natural disasters as well as to help resettle our Afghan evacuees.
The legislation to avoid a government shutdown will also include a suspension of the debt limit through December 2022 to once again meet our obligations and protect the full faith and credit of the United States. We believe a suspension of the debt limit through December 2022 would provide an amount of time commensurate with the debt incurred as a result of passing last winter’s bipartisan $908 billion emergency COVID relief legislation, which was authored by Republican Senators Cassidy, Romney, Portman, Collins and others – and ultimately voted for by more than 40 Republicans – including Senator McConnell – and signed into law by the previous president.
The American people expect our Republican colleagues to live up to their responsibilities and make good on the debts they proudly helped incur in the December 2020 ‘908’ COVID package that helped American families and small businesses reeling from the COVID crisis.
Addressing the debt limit is about meeting obligations the government has already made, like the bipartisan emergency COVID relief legislation from December as well as vital payments to Social Security recipients and our veterans. Furthermore, as the Administration warned last week, a reckless Republican-forced default could plunge the country into a recession.
We look forward to passing this crucial legislation with bipartisan support through both chambers and sending to the president’s desk in the coming weeks.
Speaker.gov. 09/20/2021.
TUESDAY TWEET:
As we’ve discussed for several weeks if not months this is all about his Build Back Better agenda. The tweeted out video is 2 minutes and 40 seconds long. I’m not gonna transcribe the video it’s basically just a gist of what we’ve been hearing for those several weeks–months I already mentioned.
The daily briefing will be a press gaggle aboard Air Force One.
This is an Open Thread.
