President Biden’s public schedule for 06/09/2023:
| 9:15 AM | Out-of-Town Pool Call Time Joint Base Andrews Overhang Out-of-Town Pool |
| 9:30 AM | In-Town Pool Call Time In-Town Pool |
| 10:00 AM Leaves White House | The President departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews North GroundsIn-Town Travel Pool |
| 10:30 AM Leaves Joint Base Andrews | The President and The First Lady depart Joint Base Andrews en route to Goldsboro, North Carolina Joint Base Andrews Out-of-town Pool |
| 11:45 AM Leaves Goldsboro, NC | The President and The First Lady depart Goldsboro, North Carolina en route to Elm City, North Carolina Open Press |
| 12:05 PM Arrives | The President and The First Lady arrive in Elm City, North Carolina Out-of-town Pool |
| 1:10 PM Takes a Tour | The President and The First Lady tour Nash Community College Out-of-Town Pool |
| 1:30 PM Remarks | The President and The First Lady discuss how career-connected learning and workforce training programs are preparing students for good-paying jobs in North Carolina |
| 2:40 PM Leaves Rocky Mount, NC | The President and The First Lady depart Rocky Mount, North Carolina en route to Fort Liberty, North Carolina Out-of-Town Pool |
| 3:25 PM Arrives | The President and The First Lady arrive at Fort Liberty, North Carolina Out-of-town Pool |
| 4:15 PM Meet & Greet | The President and The First Lady meet with service members and their families and deliver remarks at an event in support of Joining Forces Open Press |
| 8:05 PM Leaves Fort Liberty, NC | The President and The First Lady depart Fort Liberty, North Carolina en route to Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Pool |
| 9:15 PM | The President and The First Lady arrive at Joint Base Andrews Joint Base AndrewsOut-of-Town Travel Pool |
| 9:25 PM Leaves Joint Base Andrews | The President and The First Lady depart Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House Joint Base AndrewsIn-Town Travel Pool |
| 9:45 PM Arrives | The President and The First Lady arrive at the White House North Grounds Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton will gaggle aboard Air Force One en route Goldsboro, North Carolina |
Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton will gaggle aboard Air Force One en route Goldsboro, North Carolina @11:00 a.m. D.C., time.
Executive Action Tweets
From Friday…
The White House posted the following fact-sheet; Biden-Harris Administration Announces Sweeping Executive Actions to Strengthen Economic Opportunity for Military and Veteran Spouses, Caregivers, and Survivors
Today, at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, President Biden will announce a comprehensive set of executive actions to increase the economic security of military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors. Joined by First Lady Jill Biden, alongside service members, veterans, and their families, caregivers, and survivors, the President will sign an Executive Order that includes nearly 20 actions aimed at enhancing career stability and expanding employment resources and support for this community.
In times of both peace and war, military-connected families sacrifice for our country, answering the call to duty over and again. Many military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors—the vast majority of whom are women—struggle to achieve their desired career goals due to the strains of multiple deployments; frequent moves with little control over their geographic location; caring for wounded, ill, and injured service members or veterans; time apart for training, and more. Although military spouses are talented, diverse, and resilient, they find themselves facing a 21 percent unemployment rate, a rate that has not significantly changed over the past decade. Employment challenges are not limited to active-duty spouses, as Reserve and National Guard spouses must balance their careers against the challenges that arise during those times when their service member is activated and deployed. What we have learned from generations of service is that the unique demands of military life continue to affect veteran families, caregivers, and survivors for years after a service member’s time in uniform.
The President and First Lady, as a military family, recognize the commitment and resilience of military-connected families as essential to the recruitment, retention, and readiness of our Armed Forces. Since Day One of the Biden Administration, Dr. Biden, through her Joining Forces initiative, has worked to eliminate barriers to employment and increase economic opportunity for military families. Meeting the economic, social, and emotional needs of our military and veteran families, caregivers, and survivors is a national security imperative.
Always—and particularly as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the all-volunteer force– we owe them nothing less than the dignity of a meaningful career and the opportunity to build economic security for their families. That is why today, the President is taking further action to help military-connected spouses, including the more than 16,000 military, veteran, and surviving spouses in the Federal workforce. These actions demonstrate the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to upholding our sacred obligation and will ensure our nation’s military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors have access to resources and support to enhance their economic security.
White House.gov. 06/09/2023.
Highlights of today’s Executive Order include:
1. Directing the development of a government-wide Strategic Plan on Hiring and Retention for Military and Veteran Spouses, Caregivers, and Survivors. To ensure the coordination of military-connected hiring and retention efforts across the Federal government, the Executive Order directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Secretaries of Defense, Labor, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security, to identify strategies to eliminate barriers to the hiring and retention of military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors. The Strategic Plan, due within 180 days following the signing of this Executive Order, will include plans for marketing the talent, experience, and diversity of military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors to agencies and encouragement for agencies to set benchmarks to improve performance and accountability.
2. Increasing Federal job postings utilizing the Military Spouse Noncompetitive Appointment Authority. In order to expand this critical pathway for hiring military spouses in Federal government positions, the Executive Order directs agencies to include spouses eligible under the Military Spouse Noncompetitive Appointment Authority when soliciting applications from outside of their workforce.
3. Setting government-wide standards to improve the Domestic Employee Teleworking Overseas (DETO) program. The Domestic Employee Telework Overseas (DETO) program, which enables certain Federal employees to work remotely from an overseas location, helps the government carry out its global mission, supports family unification, and retains valuable talent and expertise in the Federal workforce, including military spouses residing with their service member stationed overseas. The Executive Order directs agencies to develop common standards, processing timelines, and communication guidelines, and establishes a permanent Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Defense and the Department of State regarding military spouses participating in the DETO program.
4. Bolstering access to child care for military families. To continue building on the existing support and ensure that military families have access to affordable, high-quality child care allowing both the service member and the spouse to pursue professional opportunities, the Executive Order directs the implementation of Dependent Care Flexible Saving Accounts for service members no later than January 1, 2024, as well as expansion of pathways for military spouses to provide home-based child care on military installations.
5. Providing additional tools to help retain military spouses and caregivers, in the public and private sectors. In order to support the retention of military-connected spouses and caregivers in both Federal and private sector careers, the Executive Order directs several actions including:
- a. Encouraging Federal agencies to grant up to five days of administrative leave for military spouses in conjunction with a Permanent Change of Station (PCS);
- b. Directing OPM to issue guidance to agencies outlining telework and remote work flexibility for military spouses and caregivers to convey the importance of retention efforts of this resilient community of Federal employees;
- c. Encouraging Federal agencies to collaborate to place a military spouse or caregiver in another position following changes to support continuity of care or relocation due to a PCS that makes it untenable for them to continue in their existing position.
- d. Amending legal assistance instructions across the Military Departments to allow families to receive advice related to employment under Status of Forces Agreements or other host nation agreements; and
- e. Reinforcing the importance of considering remote work options for military spouses when reevaluating or entering agreements with host nations.
6. Improving support for military spouses during transition. Recognizing that military spouses also experience challenges during a service member’s transition to veteran status, the Executive Order directs the Secretaries of Defense, Labor, and Veterans Affairs to collaborate to advance support for military spouses in the workforce through the transition to veteran spouse status.
7. Developing tailored resources for military and veteran spouse entrepreneurs. To support military-connected spouse entrepreneurs in starting and sustaining their businesses, the Executive Order directs the Small Business Administration to develop tailored resources, including guidance to help military spouses with relocating a business following a geographic relocation, and to evaluate gaps in access to capital for this community.
8. Improving the collection of data on military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors in the Federal workforce. The Executive Order charges the Office of Science and Technology Policy and agencies with reviewing opportunities to improve collection of data on the military-connected population. With improved data on military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors employed in the Federal workforce, agencies will be better able to take an evidence-informed approach to reducing barriers in hiring, promotion, professional development, and retention practices.
9. Expanding training on the employment of military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors across the agencies. Today’s Executive Order directs all Federal agencies to provide annual training for agency human resources personnel and hiring managers concerning the employment of military and veteran spouses, caregivers, and survivors, including training on special authorities for the hiring of military spouses and survivors. These trainings will equip agencies with best practices to access and support this capable and diverse pool of talent.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s Record on Strengthening America’s Military and Veteran Families, Caregivers, and Survivors
Together, these actions build on the commitment of the Biden-Harris Administration to enhance the health, wellbeing, and economic security of military and veteran families, caregivers and survivors.
In September 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration published the Strengthening America’s Military Families report. Prepared by representatives from the White House with contributions from Federal agencies, the report was signed by the President with a foreword by Dr. Biden, and outlined the first round of Administration-wide key commitments to better understand and meet the needs of the families of service members and veterans, caregivers, and survivors. In the report, all Executive Agencies across the President’s Cabinet announced their participation in the Department of Defense’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership. Continuing to build on that support across the agencies, Joining Forces collaborated with military-connected spouses to create a community platform to connect military and veteran spouses, caregivers and survivors in the Federal workforce with resources for sustainable careers.
White House.gov. 06/09/2023.
In January 2023, the Defense Department launched a 12-week paid fellowship program to expand employment opportunities for eligible military spouses in the private sector, and in March 2023, Secretary Austin announced additional actions to enhance military family economic security, including the expansion of eligibility for the military spouse career advancement financial assistance program. The President also directed the Secretary of Defense to initiate the 14th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation to evaluate pay and benefits with a particular focus on factors such as the challenge of military spouse unemployment, frequent military moves, periods of geographic separation between service members and their spouses (including dual military couples), and childcare access and cost.
And, in April 2023, the President signed Executive Order 14095, “Increasing Access to High Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers.” Among the many directives were several focused on making child care and long-term care more accessible and affordable for families, including military families. The actions also improve access to home-based care for veterans and enhance job quality for child-care and long-term care workers which in turn will ease burdens for military and veteran families, military caregivers, and survivors.
President Biden’s 1:30 p.m. D.C., time remarks:
President Biden and the First Lady Meet-and-Greet @4:15 p.m. D.C., time:
Pay-walled Op-Ed by President Biden Tweets
From Thursday…
It’s paywalled–I dumped the WSJ when they told me my sub would be like $55 a month. This was after I’d been subbed to them over 2 years…
Bilateral Tweets
From Thursday…
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Prior to their bilateral meeting the President and the UK PM held an Oval Office pool spray. The YouTube is 3 minutes and 55 seconds.
Their full remarks:
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, Mr. Presi- — “Mr. President.” Just — I just promoted you.
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: (Laughs.)
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Mr. Prime Minister, it’s great to have you back. And, you know, in the past few months, we’ve met each other in San Diego and then we met in Belfast, and we met Hiroshima and now we’re here. And we’re going to solve all the problems in the world right in this next 20 minutes.
But, you know, Prime Minister Churchill and Roosevelt met here a little over 70 years ago, and they asserted that the strength of the partnership between Great Britain and the United States was the strength of the free world. I still think there’s truth to that assertion.
And together, we’re providing economic and humanitarian aid and security assistance to Ukraine in their fight against a brutal invasion of the Russians. And we’ve worked out an arrangement with AUKUS, with Australia, to make the Indian Ocean and that whole area safer and more secure. And — and, you know, we’re building on the Good Friday Agreement — 25 years — and keep that going. We can talk about that a little bit.
As NATO Allies, we’re — we’re working together to help provide the collective defense of — of all of us. And we’re going to further — I hope we can — we’re going to discuss today plans to further strengthen our economic relationship.
And the global economy is undergoing, I think, the greatest transformation that’s occurred since the Industrial Revolution. And something you know a lot about, AI, is going to play a big part in that, and I want to hear your views on that as well.
And we don’t have a closer ally than Great Britain. And I’m delighted that you’re here.
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: Mr. President, thank you. Thank you for the warm words. But also thank you for welcoming me to the White House and for allowing me to stay in Blair House, which, I’ve got to say, the spare room in the flat in Number 10 Downing Street doesn’t quite compare. So it’s been a real privilege.
And as you said, it’s daunting to think of the conversations that our predecessors had in this room when they had to speak of wars that they fought together, peace won together, and incredible change in the lives of our citizens.
And again, for the first time in over half a century, we face a war on the European continent. And as we’ve done before, the U.S. and the UK have stood together to support Ukraine and stand up for the values of democracy and freedom and make sure that they prevail, as I know we will.
But also, I completely agree with what you said: Our economies are seeing perhaps the biggest transformation since the Industrial Revolution as new technologies provide incredible opportunities but also give our adversaries more tools for harm.
The one thing I know won’t change — I’m confident won’t change is the strength of our partnership and our friendship. And we will put our values front and center, as we’ve always done, to deliver for the British and American people.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, if we had time, I’d take you over to the Residence where I live. And when you were over in Blair House, the — President Truman was there because they were redoing the White House. He put a whole — the Truman Balcony exists now because of Blair House being available. The bal- — that second balcony you see — the first balcony you see going up.
So, any rate, and there’s an awful lot of stories that are told — probably a bunch, a pocketful — about the former Prime Minister liked to take baths up the — anyway.
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: Wandering around at three in the morning.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: That’s right. (Laughs.)
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: Yeah, Winston Churchill was bothering — bothering Mrs. Roosevelt. Yes. So you won’t — don’t worry, you won’t see me there at — (laughter) —
PRESIDENT BIDEN: All right.
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: — bothering you and the First Lady.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Anyway, welcome, welcome, welcome.
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: Well, it’s great to be here. Thanks for having me, Joe.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Thank you. Good to be with you.
Thanks, everybody.
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: Thank you.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
Q: Is the special relationship in good shape, Mr. President? Is it in good shape?
(Thumbs up.) In real good shape.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
Q: Any response — federal response to the smoke, Mr. President?
You’re going to get a chance to ask me questions at the press conference.
(Cross-talk.)
PRIME MINISTER SUNAK: As the President said, you’ll have a chance to ask us questions later on.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
The Joint-Presser YouTube is 42 minutes and 43 seconds long. Their full remarks can be found here.
The White House posted; The Atlantic Declaration: A Framework for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership
Today the United States and the United Kingdom are announcing the Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership to ensure that our unique alliance is adapted, reinforced, and reimagined for the challenges of this moment.
Over the last century, the essential partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom has enabled us to lead together on issues of global importance. Since the signing of the Atlantic Charter in 1941, we have worked together to shape an open and rules-based international order based on our enduring support for shared values. In the New Atlantic Charter signed in 2021, we underscored and refreshed this vision. Together, we also designed an international economic architecture that has underpinned our economic strength and helped to lift millions around the world out of poverty. Our essential bilateral relationship is underpinned by the closest cooperation on defense and security, a thriving economic relationship, leadership in science and technology, and deep ties between our people and civil societies.
U.S.-UK cooperation and joint leadership is as essential today as ever – both internationally and for the security and prosperity of our people at home. To achieve this, we must keep pace with changes in the world around us and adapt our alliance to them. The global economy is undergoing one of the greatest transformations since the Industrial Revolution. Breakthroughs in innovation offer enormous potential if we can harness them to work for, not against, our democracies and security. The transition to the clean energy economies of the future is an opportunity to improve jobs and livelihoods and deepen the resilience of our economies. At the same time, the nature of national security is changing. Technology, economics, and national security are more deeply intertwined than ever before. We face new challenges to international stability – from authoritarian states such as Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC); disruptive technologies; non-state actors; and transnational challenges like climate change.
Over the past year, we have taken steps to deepen our unrivalled defense, security, and intelligence relationship across every theater in the globe in which we cooperate, recognizing the indivisibility of security in the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific and other regions. We have energized our traditional alliances and built new and innovative partnerships based on deeper cooperation on technology, trade, and security. We have stood shoulder to shoulder in our resolve to support Ukraine for as long as it takes in the face of Russia’s illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war of aggression and to preserve a free, independent, and sovereign Ukraine. We are committed to continuing to strengthen NATO’s ability to deter further attempts to undermine Alliance security, in support of NATO’s new Strategic Concept.
We have taken significant steps to implement AUKUS, including announcing our plans to support Australia acquiring conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines. Through our deeper engagement in the Indo-Pacific we are working more closely than ever before with our partners to support a free and open region. Through the U.S.-UK Indo-Pacific Dialogue we will continue to find new opportunities to coordinate our approaches, to support ASEAN and ASEAN centrality, to partner with the Pacific Islands, to coordinate on economic and technological advancement, and to contribute to regional peace and stability, including through AUKUS and expanded joint exercises and planning, including trilaterally.
Today, we are announcing the Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership to build on that partnership in the economic sphere. The United States and the United Kingdom resolve to partner to build resilient, diversified, and secure supply chains and reduce strategic dependencies. We remain committed to continuing to lead in the technologies of the future and advance the closest possible coordination on our economic security and technology protection toolkits to ensure that emerging technologies work for, not against, our democracies and security. And as democratic and open societies we resolve to work together to ensure the safety, prosperity, and security of our nations and peoples while driving growth in living standards across the world.
The Atlantic Declaration and accompanying Action Plan form the basis of a new type of innovative partnership across the full spectrum of our economic, technological, commercial and trade relations; a first of its kind, and which demands our joint leadership and imagination to realize in full.
It will constitute a new economic security framework covering ever-closer cooperation on critical and emerging technologies and stronger protective toolkits. It will support the United States and the United Kingdom in our efforts to harness the energy transition and technological breakthroughs to drive broadly shared growth, create good jobs, and leave no community behind. It will explore ways to deepen our trade and investment relationship. And it will strengthen our alliance across defense, science, health security, and space – allowing us to explore increased cooperation in other areas for mutual economic benefit.
These are the pressing economic issues of our time. These are the issues that demand the United States and the United Kingdom to lead together.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
Action Plan for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership (ADAPT)
Deep economic ties between the United States and the United Kingdom have long been a source of mutual strength. The U.S.-UK bilateral investment relationship is the largest in the world, with over $1.5 trillion in stock supporting more than 2.7 million jobs in both countries. As we evolve our unparalleled economic relationship to reflect today’s challenges, we have an opportunity to exemplify what a twenty-first century economic partnership should look like. Together the United States and the United Kingdom can lead in building a new form of economic partnership that advances economic growth and competitiveness, that builds capacity, resilience, and inclusiveness, and works for our workers and communities; works for our businesses; works for our climate; and works for our national security.
As the first steps in this new partnership, we are today announcing and taking concrete and coordinated actions to deepen this partnership across five pillars, by:
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
- ensuring U.S.-UK leadership in critical and emerging technologies,
- advancing ever-closer cooperation on our economic security and technology protection toolkits and supply chains,
- partnering on an inclusive and responsible digital transformation,
- building the clean energy economy of the future, and
- further strengthening our alliance across defense, health security, and space.
Senior White House and Downing Street representatives will convene biannually under the Atlantic Declaration Action Plan (ADAPT) to develop and drive forward concrete progress across the Atlantic Declaration Action Plan and ensure increasing ambition over the next months and years.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
1. Ensuring U.S.-UK Leadership in Critical and Emerging Technologies
A handful of critical and emerging technologies are forming the backbone of new industries and shaping our national security landscape. These technologies include semiconductors, quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, cutting-edge telecommunications, and synthetic biology. As the home of world-leading companies and academic institutions, we are committed to ensuring the United States and the United Kingdom continue to lead across these sectors. We intend to do so by collaborating on tangible research and development joint efforts , deepening public-private dialogue across our priority technologies, jointly mobilizing private capital towards strategic technologies and by improving reciprocal talent flows. These long term initiatives are the initial steps in a long-term partnership and will fall under existing U.S.-UK frameworks, including the U.S.-UK Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, the U.S.-UK Comprehensive Dialogue on Technology and Data, and additional forums as applicable, through which we will develop and deliver a shared workplan on critical and emerging technologies, to be updated and taken forward within the next twelve months.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
- Launching collaborative work on priority technologies. We intend to explore joint efforts and collaborative R&D in a range of critical and emerging technologies and pursue a set of initial activities, including the following:
- Pursuing a range of quantum technologies initiatives to address fundamental research questions in quantum science and other initiatives to reduce barriers to U.S.-UK collaboration, such as increasing researcher and student mobility, and exploring workforce development activities to foster the exchange of people and ideas.
- Cementing leadership by the United States and the United Kingdom in cutting-edge telecoms by setting out a joint vision, taking forward joint R&D projects, and deepening cooperation on technical activity in innovative 5G and 6G solutions, including more ambitious cooperation to accelerate Open RAN to market, and to increase the diversity and resilience of critical supply chains.
- Deepening cooperation on synthetic biology with a view to concluding a joint workplan to drive public and private cooperation, exchanges, and joint research, developing novel applications and promoting our economic security through improved supply chain pathways for biomanufacturing and biotechnologies.
- Exploring collaborative R&D in areas that support advanced semiconductor technologies, such as advanced materials and compound semiconductors, beginning in the next twelve months, and facilitating collaboration among our national research institutes.
- Accelerating our cooperation on AI with a focus on ensuring the safe and responsible development of the technology.
- Mobilizing private capital towards strategic technologies. We intend to support the growth of companies in both countries across these critical and emerging technologies. We intend to work together to crowd in private capital to ensure companies in these areas have the ability to emerge and scale. To this end, we commit to set up a U.S.-UK Strategic Technologies Investor Council within the next twelve months. We will use this newly formed Council to bring leading investors from both sides of the Atlantic together with national security experts to analyze where funding gaps currently exist and unlock new private investment in critical and emerging technologies.
- Facilitating reciprocal talent flows. We recognize the need for a skilled workforce across our technology sectors. As part of meeting this objective, we leverage expertise from across the public sector, industry, and academia to advise on how we best improve U.S.-UK reciprocal talent flows. The United States welcomes funding from the United Kingdom for expansion of Marshall and Fulbright scholarships focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects, to deepen the wider exchange of talent between our two countries.
2. Advancing Ever Closer Cooperation on Technology Protection, Economic Security Toolkits and Supply Chains
Many of our technology protection tools were designed for a different time, a different set of threats, and a different set of technologies. We recognize that our current regulatory frameworks related to export controls, investment screening, sanctions, and research and development security are essential tools that should correspond to a changing geostrategic and technological environment. We intend to take concrete steps to update and more closely align our respective toolkits across all these areas to prevent the leakage of sensitive and dual-use emerging technologies, and other export-controlled commodities and technologies. We will work to enhance our information-sharing mechanisms on threat information with relevant stakeholders in the policy and intelligence communities, including deepening our cooperation on investment security.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
- Addressing the national security risks posed by certain types of outbound investment. As allies with a close and long-standing defense partnership, and as global leaders in critical and emerging technologies, we have a shared objective in preventing our companies’ capital and expertise from fueling technological advances that will enhance the military and intelligence capabilities of countries of concern. We are taking steps to ensure that our respective toolkits are adequate to meet our shared objective. The United States is working to develop a targeted set of controls on outbound investments in sensitive technologies with a core national security nexus. The United Kingdom intends to complement this by swiftly engaging a range of business and financial stakeholders to develop an evidence base to assess and inform how the UK can best calibrate its actions to respond effectively to these risks and meet our shared objective. As we act according to our own respective timelines, we will communicate clearly to the private sector regarding our joint resolve and shared objectives in this area.
- Ensuring flexible and coordinated export controls. Against the backdrop of a rapidly shifting and ever more sophisticated technological landscape, our toolkits must address evolving challenges. We will therefore work together to enable our respective toolkits to work in a complementary way, implementing export controls related to certain sensitive technologies, including targeting end-uses of concern, and considering our approach to tackling the challenge of intangible transfers. The United Kingdom has enhanced its capability in this area by expanding the scope of its Military End Use Controls (MEUC) regime and is progressing work – due to complete by the autumn – to understand its impact. The United Kingdom will consult later this year on updating its export control regime and consider how best to flexibly and rapidly tackle sensitive technology transfers. The United Kingdom will also consult on the targeting of end uses and end-users of concern. Building on our existing cooperation and recognising that the multilateral system faces challenges in accommodating new realities and that creative solutions are necessary, both sides will advance work and bilateral consultations in the coming months to enable deeper collaboration and ensure both our export control systems are able together to tackle the identified threats.
- Strengthening our world-leading partnership across sanctions strategy, design, targeting, implementation and enforcement. We will continue to coordinate our work to tackle sanctions evasion and intend to jointly target those facilitating Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine in Russia, Belarus, and in third countries, including those who help Russia acquire goods and technology that support Russian aggression. We intend to enhance our ability to collect, analyze, and share information and data with a financial sanctions nexus from our financial institutions and businesses, including for identification of companies and individuals financially supporting or facilitating payments to Russia’s war machine. We further intend to work closely together to protect humanitarian activity from unintended impacts of sanctions, building on our significant cooperation on the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 2664. We have implemented exceptions for humanitarian activities in our UN programs. The United States has implemented these exceptions in its autonomous sanctions programs, and the United Kingdom will take this further in its autonomous sanctions programs as appropriate. We will also continue joint work to underline that food supplies are not the target of our sanctions.
- Reducing our vulnerabilities across critical technology supply chains. Recent events have shown that our supply chains need to be made more resilient to geopolitical incidents, natural disasters, third country policies, economic coercion, and other possible shocks. The United Kingdom and United States recognize the strategic and shared imperative of building resilient semiconductor and other critical technology supply chains and are putting in place robust strategies to minimize disruptions. In order to further this cooperation, the United States and the United Kingdom will work bilaterally to share analysis, develop, and deepen our channels for coordination and timely consultation during critical technology supply chain disruptions and crises.
3. Partnering on an Inclusive and Responsible Digital Transformation
As we promote the critical and emerging technology ecosystems in our countries, we will work together to shape the policy environment around technology and enable further responsible innovation.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
- Enhancing cooperation on data. The trusted and secure flow of data across our borders is foundational to efforts to further innovation. To that end, we have committed in principle to establish a U.S.-UK Data Bridge to facilitate data flows between our countries while ensuring strong and effective privacy protections. We are working to finalize our respective assessments swiftly to implement this framework. We also intend to coordinate to further promote trust in the digital economy, including through support for the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum and the OECD’s Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities, and to build shared understandings on data security risks.
- Accelerating cooperation on AI. The United States and the United Kingdom recognize Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform our societies and economies and share a commitment to the role of government action to unlock the opportunities and mitigate the risks arising from the rapid development of these technologies. We will accelerate our cooperation on AI with a focus on ensuring the safe and responsible development of the technology. Both nations welcome ongoing activity internationally including at the OECD, UN, Global Partnership for AI, Council of Europe, and International Standards Organisations, as well as the G7 Hiroshima AI Process, and recognize the need to go further particularly with respect to the risks and opportunities AI presents. The United States welcomes the Prime Minister’s plans to launch the first Global Summit on AI Safety, to be hosted in the United Kingdom this year, and commits to attend at a high level. This effort, which fits with the United Kingdom’s comprehensive and balanced approach to AI risks and opportunities, will bring together key countries, as well as leading technology companies and researchers, to drive targeted, rapid international action focused on safety and security at the frontier of this technology, including exploring safety measures to evaluate and monitor risks from AI. The United States has taken strong action to promote responsible innovation and is undertaking a process to advance a comprehensive approach to AI-related risk and opportunities, including comprehensive engagement with companies, research, civil society, and our allies and partners.
- Deepening collaboration on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. To maximize the responsible use of data, we intend to launch a Collaboration on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) that will allow us to gain more valuable insight from data and train responsible AI models, enabling economic and societal benefits, while protecting individuals’ privacy and our democratic principles.
4. Building the Clean Energy Economy of the Future
The United States and the United Kingdom are both committed to meeting our goals under the Paris Agreement, building a clean energy economy, strengthening resilient supply chains, and investing in our industrial bases. We share a belief that building a clean energy economy is one of the most significant opportunities to create good jobs with high labor standards. We affirm that bold investment and strategic public funding are necessary to achieve these goals. We are committed to deepening cooperation to develop and strengthen clean energy supply chains, including building diverse, resilient, and secure critical mineral and battery supply chains that reduce unwanted strategic dependencies to meet our defense, economic, energy security, and climate goals. As we pursue our national strategies, we will work to align our approaches wherever possible to make clean energy technologies more affordable for all nations and help drive a global, just, and secure energy transition for workers and communities that will leave no one behind. We are committed to making the 2020s the decisive decade for climate action, implementing our respective ambitious 2030 nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, and meeting our 2050 net zero emission goals.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
- Launching negotiations on a Critical Minerals Agreement. With congressional consultation, we intend to immediately begin negotiations on a targeted critical minerals agreement covering the five relevant critical minerals most important for electric vehicles – cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and nickel – that are extracted or processed in the United Kingdom count toward sourcing requirements for clean vehicles eligible for the Section 30D clean vehicle tax credit of the Inflation Reduction Act. We intend to use these focused negotiations to ensure the consistency of our approaches on supply chain diversification and robust labor and environmental standards to support the creation of well-paying jobs with a free and fair choice to join a labor union on both sides of the Atlantic. Through our strong U.S.-UK partnership we will work towards increasing our respective and collective clean energy industrial capacity, boosting electric vehicle production and deployment, and expanding access to sustainable, secure, high-standard critical mineral and battery supply chains.
- Partnering on a Joint Clean Energy Supply Chain Action Plan. Today we are announcing the launch of a one-year Joint Clean Energy Supply Chain Action Plan. Through the U.S.-UK Joint Action Group on Energy Security and Affordability (the JAG), the United States and the United Kingdom will, by the end of 2023, identify and decide on near-term actions our two countries can take in parallel and together to accelerate the buildout of capacity in our countries and third countries sufficient to meet the clean energy demands of the future. We intend to conduct public-private consultations across key clean energy supply chains, including offshore wind and electric vehicle batteries, and conduct rapid stress-test exercises across key clean energy supply chains, which could form a model for future work on supply chain resilience.
- Launching a Civil Nuclear Partnership. Building on our unique economic and security relationship, and recognizing our complementary capabilities, we are launching a civil nuclear partnership overseen by senior officials in both governments. The JAG will also be mobilized to set near-term priorities for joint action to encourage the establishment of new infrastructure and end-to-end fuel cycle capabilities by 2030 in both continents, and substantially minimize reliance on Russian fuel, supplies, and services. Our joint activity and leadership will support and facilitate the safe, secure, and sustainable international deployment of advanced, peaceful nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors, in accordance with the highest non-proliferation standards and consistent with a 1.5 degree Celsius limit on global warming. These priorities will form the basis of a Joint Standing Committee on Nuclear Energy Cooperation (JSCNEC), which is designed to deliver on shared commitments by the end of the year and serve as an enduring bilateral forum to advance shared policy goals across existing engagement mechanisms, including near-term actions identified through the JAG, and facilitate exchanges on new and evolving technical and policy developments regarding nuclear energy.
5. Strengthening our Alliance Across Defense, Health Security, and Space
We are further strengthening the U.S.-UK alliance in emerging areas with critical nexuses to economic resilience and economic security.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
- Continuing to optimize our longstanding defense cooperation. We continue to optimize our longstanding defense cooperation and ensure that defense and technology trade and exports between our countries are as frictionless as possible, particularly as part of our efforts to enable collaboration in and between AUKUS nations. To this end, the President plans to ask the United States Congress to add the United Kingdom as a “domestic source” within the meaning of Title III of the Defense Production Act. Doing so would deepen industrial base collaboration, accelerate, and strengthen AUKUS implementation, build new opportunities for United States investment in multiple strategic sectors, and support our efforts to increase our respective and collective industrial capacity across both clean energy and key technology sectors. Together the U.S. and the UK are taking steps to streamline defense trade between our nations, including the U.S. proposal to Congress to modernize export control laws to enhance collaboration between and among AUKUS nations. The UK is also examining its export control regime to streamline the flow of defense trade among the AUKUS partners.
- Strengthening bilateral cooperation on biological and health security. Building on the New Atlantic Charter, we commit to strengthening bilateral collaboration between our two nations on biological security, reflecting our shared ambition to bolster future heath and economic resilience against a growing and diverse spectrum of biological threats (deliberate, accidental, or natural), including drug-resistant infections. To this end, we will increase our collaboration to overcome the market failures that prevent vital research and development of anti-microbial vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics – via mechanisms such as the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X). We will enhance our cooperation on tackling emerging infectious disease threats with pandemic or epidemic potential and promote biosafety, biosecurity, and responsible innovation in the biotechnology and life science sectors domestically and internationally to realize the full potential of the growing bioeconomy. We reaffirm our commitment to strengthen global norms against the misuse of biology and prohibitions on the development of biological weapons.
- Looking to the future and deepening our partnership across all sectors of space cooperation. We recognize recent bilateral innovation in commercial space launch and are committed to further strengthening bilateral commercial space cooperation, including in the field of deep space communications. We are committed to taking tangible steps to deepen our collaboration on space sustainability and our respective regulations. The United States welcomes the close partnership with the United Kingdom on heliophysics missions and the United Kingdom’s contribution to the NASA Helioswarm mission in particular. The United States welcomes potential participation by the United Kingdom in future commercial space station concepts. The United States and the United Kingdom are committed to studying opportunities for cooperation on space nuclear power and propulsion in accordance with their respective domestic laws and consistent with international obligations and commitments.
Wildfires Smoke Filled Ugly Air Tweets
From Thursday…
As of Friday the above tweet thread is his “pinned” tweet…
I posted his full statement and readout of the call between President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in yesterday’s Biden Bits.
Court Ruling Tweet
From Thursday…
Show more =’s is ensuring that voters pick their elected officials — not the other way around. Today’s decision confirms the basic principle that voting practices should not discriminate on account of race, but our work is not done. @VP and I will continue to fight to pass both the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act, and the Freedom to Vote Act to ensure fair Congressional maps and that all Americans have their voices heard.
His full statement:
Today the Court ruled that Alabama likely violated the Voting Rights Act by drawing a map that diluted Black votes in the state. The right to vote and have that vote counted is sacred and fundamental — it is the right from which all of our other rights spring. Key to that right is ensuring that voters pick their elected officials — not the other way around. Today’s decision confirms the basic principle that voting practices should not discriminate on account of race, but our work is not done. Vice President Harris and I will continue to fight to pass both the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act, and the Freedom to Vote Act to ensure fair Congressional maps and that all Americans have their voices heard.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
VP Harris via Twitter:
Show more =’s protect, strengthen, and expand the freedom to vote continues. Voting is the right that unlocks all other rights, and fair maps are essential for representation. Important freedoms we enjoy and continue to fight for today come from our equal access to the ballot box. That is why the President and I continue to call on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act.
Her full statement:
The most fundamental right of American citizenship is the right to vote. Today, the Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s attempt to dilute the voting power of Black Americans and to further weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This decision upheld the law, but our fight to protect, strengthen, and expand the freedom to vote continues. Voting is the right that unlocks all other rights, and fair maps are essential for representation. Important freedoms we enjoy and continue to fight for today come from our equal access to the ballot box. That is why the President and I continue to call on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act.
White House.gov. 06/08/2023.
World Ocean Day Tweet
From Thursday…
05/31/2023: The White House issued the following Proclamation:
The ocean makes life on Earth possible — feeding us, sustaining livelihoods, and connecting economies across the globe. It bonds us as a source of recreation and rejuvenation for our spirits and links us to our heritage through Indigenous communities who have stewarded our marine habitats since time immemorial. Through its rich ecosystems of diverse plants, animals, and other species, it is also central to our fight against the climate crisis and to creating a cleaner, safer, and healthier future. During National Ocean Month, we recommit to protecting and conserving our precious ocean and to harnessing its power to shape a more sustainable planet.
My Administration is acting with urgency and a seriousness of purpose. Around the globe, the climate crisis today is drastically impacting marine life, coastal communities, and the ocean economy. The past eight years have been the warmest on record — and more than 90 percent of excess heat has been absorbed by the ocean. Rising temperatures force marine life to move away from their usual habitats, straining communities and working families who rely on fisheries for a living and for sustenance. Increasing acidity in our seas, along with nutrient and plastic pollution, endangers species and threatens food supplies. Higher sea levels make storm surges even more dangerous for coastal communities.
But we are not powerless in the face of these challenges — and the ocean can be an effective tool to confront them. That is why my Administration has joined together with State, Tribal, territorial, and local partners to implement the first-ever United States Ocean Climate Action Plan. With billions of dollars from our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and our Inflation Reduction Act –- the most significant climate investment in American history — we are advancing new offshore wind projects with an ambitious goal of deploying 30 gigawatts by 2030, enough to power 10 million homes while also protecting biodiversity. We are modernizing America’s infrastructure and electrifying equipment at our ports to decrease the carbon footprint of cargo ships and build cleaner supply chains. And as part of our strategy to place environmental justice at the center of our ocean climate action, we are supporting communities that have been smothered by a legacy of pollution.
At the same time, we are protecting ecosystems and supporting the communities who rely on them. Together with our international partners, we are cracking down on illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. And we are working to strengthen sustainable fisheries, ensuring hardworking Americans can continue to provide for their families and feed our Nation.
As part of my America the Beautiful Initiative — which set a goal of conserving 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by 2030 — we are also taking steps toward designating new national marine sanctuaries. Toward that aim, I issued a Presidential Memorandum to consider designating more than 700,000 square miles around the Pacific Remote Islands as a new national marine sanctuary. If completed, this area would be among the largest marine protected areas on the planet. And it would honor the traditional practices and ancestral pathways of Pacific Island voyagers. With input from Tribal partners, my Administration also began the designation process for multiple new national marine sanctuaries, including the Hudson Canyon in the Atlantic Ocean and the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Southern California.
These actions make us safer. Healthy ecosystems like mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes take carbon out of the atmosphere while creating natural buffers that help absorb the force of hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms before they reach our communities. That is why my Administration is investing more than $500 million to help fortify these and other, nature-based climate solutions and create good-paying jobs for Americans in the process.
It is hard to imagine just how much of the ocean we have yet to discover and what possibilities for the future of human and planetary health, as well as for our economy, lie beneath its surface. This National Ocean Month, let us honor its beauty and bounty with action and commit to protecting and conserving it for generations to come.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2023 as National Ocean Month. I call upon Americans to take action to protect, conserve, and restore our ocean and coasts.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
White House.gov. 05/31/2023.
thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh.
This is an Open Thread.
Have a super sparkly weekend, everyone. See y’all on Monday…
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