It’s Monday.
President Biden’s public schedule for Monday 04/10/2023:
| 9:00 AM | In-Town Pool Call Time The White House In-Town Pool |
| 10:15 AM Easter Egg Roll | The President and The First Lady host the 2023 White House Easter Egg Roll; The Vice President and The Second Gentleman attend South Lawn Pre-Credentialed Media |
| 1:45 PM | The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing; The Vice President attends Oval Office Closed Press |
| 2:00 PM Press Briefing | Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre James S. Brady Press Briefing Room |
I had ideas that I would post the post early, but yeah, not worth the stress to rush through.
Easter Egg Roll: 10:15 a.m. D.C., time.
First Lady Jill Biden Reads to Children: 11:05 a.m. D.C, time.
Press Briefing: 2:00 p.m. D.C., time.
I’m gonna keep on placing like tweets with like tweets.
The Economy Tweets
From Friday…
From Saturday…
From Sunday…
Friday was Jobs Report Friday; Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 236,000 in March, and the unemployment rate changed little at 3.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in leisure and hospitality, government, professional and business services, and health care.
From the report; Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Hispanics decreased to 4.6 percent in March, essentially offsetting an increase in the prior month. The unemployment rates for adult men (3.4 percent), adult women (3.1 percent), teenagers (9.8 percent), Whites (3.2 percent), Blacks (5.0 percent), and Asians (2.8 percent) showed little or no change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
His budget can be found here.
American Rescue Plan.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.
Inflation Reduction Act.
CHIPS and Science Act.
We met Brandon Moore in Friday’s Biden Bits.
The Tennessee Three Tweets
From Friday…
The first tweet was covered in Friday’s Biden Bits…
Not objective here. And I’m sure you already know what went down in TN last week.
Even though Rep. Gloria Johnson held her seat. She did it with just one vote in her favor.
Democrats Justin Jones, Justin J. Pearson and Gloria Johnson had led supporters in chants calling for gun control measures after a shooting at a Nashville school killed six people, including three 9-year-old children. The three broke House rules and used a bullhorn when they were not recognized to speak. Tennessee House leaders cast the protest as an “insurrection” and voted last Thursday to expel Jones and Pearson from the Legislature. Johnson, who is white, survived her vote, which she suggested had to do with her race.
Last week, 23 members of the 40-seat Metropolitan Council, a majority, said they would vote to send Jones back to the Legislature. Vice Mayor Jim Shulman told NBC News that he expects the council will consider suspending the rules to allow a vote on a successor to fill Jones’ seat at today’s 5:30 p.m. ET meeting instead of holding a monthlong nomination period.
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The Shelby County Board of Commissioners, the body charged with choosing Pearson’s successor, will meet Wednesday to consider action to reappoint Pearson to his seat, Chairman Mickell Lowery announced Sunday.
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Under state rules, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, must schedule a primary for Jones’ and Pearson’s seats within 60 days and a general election within 107 days.
NBC News. 04/10/2023.
The Mifepristone Ruling(s) Tweets
From Friday…
I’m posting a lawyer opinion here cause this area is outside my legal speak comfort zone…
I did find this, it’s long, I haven’t got to read it yet.
President Biden’s full statement:
Today a single federal district judge in Texas ruled that a prescription medication that has been available for more than 22 years, approved by the FDA and used safely and effectively by millions of women here and around the world, should no longer be approved in the United States. The Court in this case has substituted its judgment for FDA, the expert agency that approves drugs. If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks.
White House.gov. 04/07/2023.
The prescription medication in question in this case is used for medication abortion, and medication abortion accounts for over half the abortions in America. The lawsuit, and this ruling, is another unprecedented step in taking away basic freedoms from women and putting their health at risk. This does not just affect women in Texas – if it stands, it would prevent women in every state from accessing the medication, regardless of whether abortion is legal in a state. It is the next big step toward the national ban on abortion that Republican elected officials have vowed to make law in America.
My Administration will fight this ruling. The Department of Justice has already filed an appeal and will seek an immediate stay of the decision. But let’s be clear – the only way to stop those who are committed to taking away women’s rights and freedoms in every state is to elect a Congress who will pass a law restoring Roe versus Wade. Vice President Harris and I will continue to lead the fight to protect a woman’s right to an abortion, and to make her own decisions about her own health. That is our commitment.
The Justice Department tonight issued the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland following the district court decisions in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA and Washington et al. v. FDA:
“The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the decision of the District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA and will be appealing the court’s decision and seeking a stay pending appeal. Today’s decision overturns the FDA’s expert judgment, rendered over two decades ago, that mifepristone is safe and effective. The Department will continue to defend the FDA’s decision.
Separately, the Justice Department is reviewing the decision of the District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in Washington et al. v. FDA.
The Department is committed to protecting Americans’ access to legal reproductive care.”
Justice.gov. 04/07/2023.
Easter Sunday Tweets
From Sunday…
His full statement:
Jill and I join Christians around the world in celebrating Easter Sunday, a day of hope and joy, renewal and rebirth. It marks the end of Lent, a period of sacrifice and contemplation. And it commemorates Christ’s Resurrection, a powerful reminder of God’s love and the promise of redemption for us all.
White House.gov. 04/09/2023.
During Lent and especially on Good Friday, we held in our hearts all those who are suffering from threats of violence and persecution, grief and isolation, and illness, poverty, and other hardships.
Today, we hold close the Easter message that nothing – not even death – can match the power of faith, hope, and love. And we remember Jesus’ sacrifice and recommit ourselves to love God with all our hearts and to love our neighbors as ourselves, embracing His call to treat one another with compassion.
To all those gathering in churches and homes around the world today, happy Easter and may God bless and keep you.
From Monday…
Hope everyone had a lovely Easter.
This is an Open Thread.
