It’s Friday.
There are 16 days until Halloween!
For Friday, October 15th, 2021, President Biden has received his daily brief. President Biden is traveling today. His first stop is Hartford, Connecticut, where he’ll promote his Build Back Better Agenda. His second stop will be the University of Connecticut.
During yesterday’s daily press briefing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained today’s Presidential Travel:
Also wanted to just note: As you know, tomorrow, the President is headed to Connecticut. He will visit a childcare center in Hartford, where he will deliver remarks highlighting the need for investments in childcare, in preschool that provide a lifetime of benefits for children, help parents work, and support equitable economic growth.
The United States currently ranked 35th out of 37 countries tracked by the OECD in public investment in child — children from birth to five as a percentage of GDP. And only about half of three- and four-year-olds in the United States are enrolled in early childhood education, compared to more than 90 percent of children in advanced countries like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and even Latvia — I shouldn’t say “even Latvia” — Latvia as well.
The average annual cost of a childcare center for a toddler in Hartford is $16,000. And a typical four-person household in the state would need to spend more than 26 percent of their income for childcare for two young children each year.
The President’s Build Back Better Agenda would ensure parents earning up to 150 percent of the state’s median income pay no more than 7 percent of their income on childcare, and the lowest-income families will receive childcare for free.
After visiting the child center, he will join former Senator Chris Dodd — a longtime friend; members of the Connecticut congressional delegation; Governor Ned Lamont; the president of UConn; and students, faculty, and staff to mark the dedication of The Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut.
White House.gov. 10/14/2021.
President Biden has tweeted 3 times so far for Friday; I’ll be sharing his first tweet down thread.
SECOND FRIDAY TWEET:
The tweeted wording is just rewording from remarks he gave last Friday regarding the September Jobs Report. His full remarks can be found here.
President Biden: The monthly totals bounce around, but if you take a look at the trend, it’s solid. On average, 600,000 new jobs created every month since I took office. And in three months before I got there, that was one tenth of what was being created. It’s 60- — the 60,000, as opposed to 600,000 jobs a month. In total, the job creation in the first eight months of my administration is nearly 5 million jobs. Jobs up, wages up, unemployment down — that’s progress.
THIRD FRIDAY TWEET:
The White House’s Build Back Better Agenda information can be found here.
When Biden Bits was published for Thursday he had tweeted 2 times. He added 7 times giving him a Thursday Tweeting Total of 9 tweets and 0 retweets.
The “update” provided was 5 minutes and 48 seconds long. His full remarks can be found here. The “path out of the pandemic plan” can be found here.
President Biden: My team and I are doing everything we can. But I’m calling on more businesses to step up. I’m calling on more parents to get their children vaccinated when they are eligible. And I’m asking everyone — everyone who hasn’t gotten vaccinated: Please get vaccinated. That’s how we put this pandemic behind us and accelerate our economic recovery. We can do this.
President Biden: It’s working. We’re making progress. Nationally, daily cases are down 47 percent; hospitalizations are down 38 percent over the past six weeks. Over the past two weeks, most of the country has improved as well. Case rates are declining in 39 states and hospital rates are declining in 38 states. We’re down to 66 million — it’s still an unacceptably high number — of unvaccinated people from almost 100 million in July. That’s important. It’s important progress. But it’s not — now is not the time to let up. We have a lot more to do. We’re in a very critical period as we work to turn the corner on COVID-19.
President Biden: The Labor Department is going to soon be issuing an emergency rule for companies with 100 or more employees to implement vaccination requirements in their — among their workforce. Every day, we see more businesses implementing vaccination requirements, and the mounting data that shows they work.
President Biden: Today, I want to provide a brief update on my plan that I announced in early September to accelerate the path out of the pandemic. It’s working. We’re making progress. Nationally, daily cases are down 47 percent; hospitalizations are down 38 percent over the past six weeks. Case rates are declining in 39 states and hospital rates are declining in 38 states. We’re down to 66 million — it’s still an unacceptably high number — of unvaccinated people from almost 100 million in July. That’s important. It’s important progress. But it’s not — now is not the time to let up. We have a lot more to do. We’re in a very critical period as we work to turn the corner
on COVID-19.
FIRST FRIDAY TWEET:
President Biden: Let me close with this: The plan I laid out in September is working. We’re headed in the right direction. We have critical work to do, but we can’t let up now. My team and I are doing everything we can. But I’m calling on more businesses to step up. I’m calling on more parents to get their children vaccinated when they are eligible. And I’m asking everyone — everyone who hasn’t gotten vaccinated: Please get vaccinated. That’s how we put this pandemic behind us and accelerate our economic recovery. We can do this.
Non-related to coronavirus remarks tweets:
The pool spray prior to the bilateral meeting YouTube is 5 minutes and 23 seconds long. Their full remarks can be found here.
The White House published a readout of the meeting:
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. met today with President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya to address the strong U.S.-Kenyan partnership. Together they discussed their shared commitment to defending democracy and human rights, advancing regional peace and security, and accelerating economic prosperity through climate smart solutions and the use of renewable energy resources. They also discussed greater cooperation on vaccine manufacturing and production on the African continent in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic and preparing for future health security threats, as President Biden announced today’s donation of over 17 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the African Union. Kenya has received 2.8 million vaccines and is slated to get additional Pfizer doses in the next few months as part of the pledge President Biden made at the G7 earlier this year to donate 500 million vaccine doses globally. Together, President Biden and President Kenyatta underscored the need to bring additional transparency and accountability to domestic and international financial systems and to advance peaceful resolutions to the conflicts in Somalia and Ethiopia.
The White House.gov. 10/13/2021.
With the President traveling today the daily press briefing will be held as a press gaggle on Air Force One. Probably prior to post.
Reminders: At random sometimes the YouTube feed disappears only to show up later. It is audio only.
President Biden’s remarks on his Build Back Better Agenda from Hartford, Connecticut are scheduled for 1:45 p.m. D.C., time.
President Biden’s remarks from the University of Connecticut are scheduled for 4:00 p.m. D.C., time.
This is an Open Thread.
