It’s Tuesday…
President Biden’s public schedule for 08/01/2023:
| Vacation Day 2 | On Tuesday, the President has no public events scheduled Biden Beach House, Rehoboth Beach, DE |
| 12:00 PM | Out-of-Town Pool Call Time Biden Beach House, Rehoboth Beach, DE |
“New” from the White House…
“Bidenomics” Tweets
From Monday…
Remarks by President Biden on Helping Workers and Innovators Invent and Make More in America | Auburn, ME (07/28/2023):
The share of working-age Americans in the workforce is as high as it’s been in 20 years, including during every single day my predecessor was president. Remember we had — they were going to have that “Infrastructure Week”? Anyway, long story. (Laughter.)
White House.gov. 07/28/2023.
BLS.gov said in June’s Jobs Report; In June, the labor force participation rate was 62.6 percent for the fourth consecutive month, and the employment-population ratio, at 60.3 percent, was unchanged over the month.
From Tuesday…
The above graph comes from the Council of Economic Advisers blog; The Advance Estimate of Second Quarter Real GDP (07/27/2023)
In exciting news July’s Jobs Report will be released this Friday…
American Rescue Plan.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.
Inflation Reduction Act.
CHIPS and Science Act.
Health Care Tweets
From Monday…
Cancer Moonshot Tweet…
On Thursday, the White House posted the following announcement; As Part of President Biden’s Unity Agenda, Cancer Moonshot Announces Launch of New ARPA-H Program to Develop Novel Technologies for More Precise and Accurate Cancer Tumor Removal (07/27/2023).
President Biden offered a statement. I’m only going to share a snip of that statement.
Harnessing the power of innovation is essential to achieving our ambitious goal of turning more cancers from death sentences to treatable diseases and – in time – cutting the cancer death rate in half. As we’ve seen throughout our history, from developing vaccines to sequencing the genome, when the U.S. government invests in innovation, we can achieve breakthroughs that would otherwise be impossible, and save lives on a vast scale. ARPA-H follows in that tradition of bold, urgent innovation.
White House.gov. 07/27/2023.
I shared the announcement and the statement in full in Friday’s Biden Bits…
Access to Mental Health care tweets…
From the White House…
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Make it Easier to Access In-Network Mental Health Care (07/25/2023).
Remarks by President Biden on Expanding Access to Mental Health Care (07/25/2023):
Today, we took a big step on coverage. Now we need to keep expanding care — for example, by increasing access to telemedicine; expanding our mental health workshop — workforce — doctors, therapists, and counselors. Expanding it.
We need to address prevention and the root cause of the pain and trauma that a lot of people are feeling, like loneliness and isolation, social media and online bullying, gun violence.
[snip]
People with insurance are twice as likely to have to go out-of-network for mental health care compared to physical healthcare. And that gap has only gotten wider.
[snip]
And under the existing law, when facts reveal that mental health care is not being treated on par with physical healthcare, they would be required by law to fix it. Fix it, fix it, fix it. (Applause.)
White House.gov. 07/25/2023.
I shared the full fact-sheet in Tuesday’s Biden Bits…
Opioid Epidemic Tweet…
From the White House…
Today, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released a National Response Plan to coordinate a whole-of-government response in the continued efforts to address the deadly combination of xylazine mixed with fentanyl. Earlier this spring, ONDCP Director Dr. Gupta used an executive designation authority to designate fentanyl combined with xylazine as an emerging threat to the United States and proactively address this dangerous threat head-on.
To read the full National Response Plan to Fentanyl Combined with Xylazine, click HERE.
[snip]
The White House is rolling out a new plan Tuesday to combat the rising threat of fentanyl that is being combined with a veterinary tranquilizer. As fentanyl deaths have risen, the Biden administration has tried to crack down on fentanyl supply chains and to stop the flow of the drug coming into the U.S. from across the globe. Most recently, the administration has warned of a new concern surrounding deaths from fentanyl laced with an animal tranquilizer known as xylazine — sold on the streets as “tranq.”
Read the full National Response Plan to Fentanyl Combined with Xylazine HERE.
Read about the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to crack down on illicit fentanyl supply chains HERE.
Read the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Drug Control Strategy HERE.
White House.gov. 07/11/2023.
What I snipped from the White House’s “In Case You Missed It” post, are links to the media coverage surrounding the announced National Response Plan.
This is an Open Thread.
