Biden Bits: “Will Continue to Address the Challenges of Today”

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It’s Monday…

President Biden’s public schedule for 06/10/2024:

10:00 AM
Presidential Daily Brief		The President receives the President’s Daily Brief
Biden Residence, Wilmington, DE
Closed Press
3:00 PMIn-Town Pool Call Time
The White House
In-Town Pool
3:25 PMOut-of-Town Pool Call Time
Biden Residence, Wilmington, DE
Out-of-Town Pool
4:55 PMThe President departs Wilmington, Delaware en route to Joint Base Andrews
New Castle National Guard Base
Out-of-Town Pool
5:35 PMThe President arrives at Joint Base Andrews
5:45 PMThe President departs Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House
6:05 PMThe President arrives at the White House
North Grounds In-Town Travel Pool
7:00 PMThe President hosts a Juneteenth Concert; The Vice President participates; The Second Gentleman attends [Ed. Note: Featuring Roy Wood Jr., Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle]
South LawnOpen Press

From the White House…

06/07/2024:

White House Announces Juneteenth Concert

The President and First Lady to Host a Juneteenth Concert on Monday, June 10, 2024

The White House announced today a Juneteenth Concert on Monday, June 10. The South Lawn concert will be a celebration of community, culture and music.

In 2021, President Biden signed bipartisan legislation establishing Juneteenth as the nation’s newest Federal holiday, so that all Americans can feel the power of this day, learn from our history, celebrate our progress, and recognize and engage in the work that continues.  

Since taking office, President Biden has worked to advance racial equity and ensure the promise of America for Black Americans. See a fact sheet on the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing efforts to advance equity and opportunity for Black Americans and communities across the country here.  
This concert celebration will also take place during Black Music Month, where the Biden-Harris Administration will uplift American art forms that sing to the soul of the American experience.

This event is supported by: The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Museum and Library Services, STARZ #TakeTheLead Initiative, Adobe, LVMH North America’s Moët & Chandon and Hennessy USA and will feature:

White House Announces Juneteenth Concert. 06/07/2024.
  • Raheem DeVaughn
  • Kirk Franklin
  • Doug E. Fresh
  • Anthony Hamilton
  • Gladys Knight
  • Patti LaBelle
  • Patina Miller
  • Brittney Spencer
  • Trombone Shorty
  • Charlie Wilson
  • Roy Wood, Jr.
  • “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band

President Biden Hosts a Juneteenth Concert @7:00 p.m. D.C., time:


Jobs Report Tweets

From Friday…

Statement from President Joe Biden on the May Jobs Report

The great American comeback continues, but we still have to make more progress. On my watch, 15.6 million more Americans have the dignity and respect that comes with a job. Unemployment has been at or below 4% for 30 months—the longest stretch in 50 years. And a record high share of working-age women have jobs.
 
I will keep fighting to lower costs for families like the ones I grew up with in Scranton. I’m fighting corporate greed by calling on corporations with record profits to lower prices—as Target and Walmart have for grocery prices. I’m fighting to make rent more affordable by building 2 million new homes. I’m fighting to lower the cost of health care and prescription drugs, like insulin and inhalers.
 
Congressional Republicans have a different vision—one that puts billionaires and special interests first. The Republican plan would increase inflation by repealing the Affordable Care Act, siding with Big Oil to raise utility bills, letting Big Banks rip off Americans, and blow up the debt by slashing taxes for billionaires. I will never stop fighting for Scranton—not Park Avenue.

Statement from President Joe Biden on the May Jobs Report. 06/07/2024.

BLS.gov reported on Friday that in May non-farm payroll added 272,000 jobs. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.0 percent.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 272,000 in May, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in several industries, led by health care; government; leisure and hospitality; and professional, scientific, and technical services.

[snip]

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised down by 5,000, from +315,000 to +310,000, and the change for April was revised down by 10,000, from +175,000 to +165,000. With these revisions, employment in March and April combined is 15,000 lower than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.)

BLS.gov. 06/07/2024.

June’s Jobs report will be released on 07/05/2024.

France Visit Tweets

From Friday…

Show more =’s But they fulfilled their mission. They did their duty. They were part of something bigger than themselves.

Remarks by President Biden on Democracy and Freedom | Normandy, France; the YouTube is 16 minutes and 23 seconds long.

I’ve long said that history has shown that ordinary Americans can do extraordinary things when challenged.  There’s no better example of that in the entire world than right here at Pointe du Hoc.
 
Rangers from farms and cities in every part of America, from homes that didn’t know wealth and power, they came to a shoreline that none of them would have ever picked out on a map.
 
They came to a country many of them had never seen for a people they had never met.  But they came, they did their job, they fulfilled their mission, and they did their duty.
 
They were a part of something greater than themselves.  They were Americans.

Remarks by President Biden on Democracy and Freedom | Normandy, France; the YouTube is 16 minutes and 23 seconds long. 06/07/2024.

The video clip is 55 seconds long.

As we gather here today, it’s not just to honor those who showed such remarkable bravery on that day, June 6th, 1944.  It’s to listen to the echoes of their voices, to hear them, because they are summoning us, and they’re summoning us now.

They ask us: What will we do?

They’re not asking us to scale these cliffs, but they’re asking us to stay true to what America stands for.

They’re not asking us to give or risk our lives, but they are asking us to care for others and our country more than ourselves.

They’re not asking us to do their job.  They’re asking us to do our job: to protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy, to stand up aggression abroad and at home, to be part of something bigger than ourselves.

Remarks by President Biden on Democracy and Freedom | Normandy, France; the YouTube is 16 minutes and 23 seconds long. 06/07/2024.

The video clip is 13 seconds long. There is no voice-over or music. It just shows President Biden paying respects to the Point du Hoc monument.

From Saturday…

We’re the fortunate heirs of a legacy of these heroes, those who scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc.  But we must also be the keepers of their mission — the keepers of their mission, the bearers of the flame of freedom that they kept burning bright.  That — that is the truest testimonial to their lives — our actions every day to ensure that our democracy endures and the soul our nation endures.

Remarks by President Biden on Democracy and Freedom | Normandy, France; the YouTube is 16 minutes and 23 seconds long. 06/07/2024.

From Sunday…

Show more =’s Generation after generation, people across both our nations have upheld these ideals because they know, when we stand as one, our countries are stronger and the world is safer.

The video clip is 1 minute and 2 seconds long. There is no voice-over. It’s a highlight reel of President Biden’s France State Visit set to music.

The welcome ceremony YouTube is 31 minutes and 26 seconds long.

The video clip is 34 seconds long.

Remarks by President Biden in Press Gaggle; Forbes Breaking News YouTube is 6 minutes and 25 seconds long.

And so, it — you know, I think it — as a measure of a country’s support for democratic values, that they honor those who’ve risked their lives and lost their lives.  And think about it.  You had this — they were on their way to Paris — Germans.  They stopped them here.  They stopped them here, just like the Americans on Normandy — the Normandy beach stopped w- — turned the war around.  And gives you both a sense of pride and, in my case — and my guess is you as well — a sense of reverence for what they did.

[snip]

And so, I — I just wanted to — Jill and I wanted to come and pay our respects.  And it — it matters a lot.

Remarks by President Biden in Press Gaggle; Forbes Breaking News YouTube is 6 minutes and 25 seconds long. 06/09/2024.

From the White House; France Visit…

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06/08/2024:

National Gun Violence Awareness Day Tweet

From Friday…

Wear Orange.org says: On January 21, 2013, Hadiya Pendleton marched in President Obama’s second inaugural parade. One week later, Hadiya was shot and killed on a playground in Chicago. Soon after this tragedy, Hadiya’s friends commemorated her life by wearing orange, the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves and others. Wear Orange is now observed every June. Thousands of people wear the color orange to honor Hadiya and the more than 43,000 Americans are killed with guns and approximately 76,000 more are shot and wounded every year.

The next “Wear Orange Weekend” is June 6th thru the 8th, 2025.


“New” from the White House

06/07/2024:

  • A Proclamation on Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2024; NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 14, 2024, as Flag Day and the week starting June 9, 2024, as National Flag Week.  I direct the appropriate officials to display the flag on all Federal Government buildings during this week, and I urge all Americans to observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by displaying the flag and honoring all of our brave service members and revering those who gave their last full measure of devotion defending our freedoms.  I encourage the people of the United States to observe with pride and all due ceremony those days from Flag Day through Independence Day, set aside by the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a time to honor the American spirit, to celebrate our history and the foundational values we strive to uphold, and to publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.

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