President Biden’s public schedule for 08/23/2024:
| 1:00 PM Closed Press | The President receives the President’s Daily Brief |
| 3:00 PM Out-of-Town Pool | Out-of-Town Pool Call Time |
Two Tweets
From Thursday…
Republicans in Congress want to play politics with the border.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 22, 2024
I’m fighting to fix it. pic.twitter.com/gtQxpEnISI
CBP.gov said on 08/16/2024: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics today for July 2024, which show a significant decline in migrant encounters during the first full month after a Presidential Proclamation issued June 4, 2024, by President Biden to temporarily suspend the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border. U.S. Border Patrol encounters in July were 32% lower than in June 2024 and were the lowest monthly total along the southwest border since September 2020. July’s total numbers between ports of entry are also lower than July 2019, and lower than the monthly average for all of 2019, the last comparable year prior to the pandemic. CBP monthly reporting can be viewed on CBP’s Stats and Summaries webpage.
I've never been more optimistic about the prospects of our nation, and it's because of talented young Americans like our White House Interns. pic.twitter.com/i60vzaJdjO
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 22, 2024
The video clip is 11 seconds long. It’s the Summer 2024 Class of White House Interns taking their class photo.
President Biden and Dr. Biden were delighted to meet with the Summer 2024 Class of White House Interns and thank them for their service. pic.twitter.com/UepHliAlbm
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 19, 2024
Two Tweets
From Friday…
Like the vast majority of Americans, Vice President Harris and I support a woman’s right to make deeply personal health care decisions.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 23, 2024
We will never stop fighting for women. pic.twitter.com/fhM1pNRxcu
BREAKING: More than 100 pregnant women were turned away from ERs or negligently treated since 2022, an AP analysis finds. https://t.co/kJo7QjWYrO
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 12, 2024
The article is from the 12th of August.
More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an Associated Press analysis of federal hospital investigations found.
AP News. 08/12/2024.
This is the part of the article that stood out to me…
Serious violations that jeopardized a mother or her fetus’ health occurred in states with and without abortion bans, the AP’s review found.
Two short-staffed hospitals — in Idaho and Washington — admitted to investigators they routinely directed pregnant patients to other hospitals.
A pregnant patient at a Bakersfield, California [this is where I live], emergency room was quickly triaged, but staff failed to realize the urgency of her condition, a uterine rupture. The delay, an investigator concluded, may have contributed to the baby’s death.
Doctors at emergency rooms in California, Nebraska, Arkansas and South Carolina failed to check for fetal heartbeats or discharged patients who were in active labor, leaving them to deliver at home or in ambulances, according to the documents.
Nursing and doctor shortages, trouble staffing ultrasounds around-the-clock and new abortion laws are making the emergency room a dangerous place for pregnant women, warned Dara Kass, an emergency medicine doctor and former U.S. Health and Human Services official.
“It is increasingly less safe to be pregnant and seeking emergency care in an emergency department,” she said.
AP News. 08/12/2024.
Abortion =’s reproductive health care.
But let’s leave aside abortion; the danger lays in Nursing and doctor shortages because those have spillover effect on general ER patients.
It means that say a 10 car pile up happens and patients go to a hospital to get treated but they don’t have the staff to treat all involved which could be far more than 10 people.
We saw it during covid, where patients suffered because the hospital’s ER’s were overfilled and they didn’t have the staff to treat them fast enough.
Laws have real life consequences, in the case of abortion bans, those consequences can be deadly…
My dad always used to say that you build wealth by building equity in your home.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 23, 2024
It’s past time for Congress to pass my plan to build 2 million homes, help first-generation homeowners with up to $25,000 in down payment assistance, and unlock the dream of homeownership for all.
From the White House…
03/19/2024:
FACT SHEET: In Nevada, President Biden to Double Down on Plan to Lower Housing Costs and Increase Housing Supply for American Families
I am not gonna share the whole thing…
[snips]
- Down Payment Assistance for First-Generation Homeowners. The President continues to call on Congress to provide up to $25,000 in down payment assistance to first-generation homebuyers whose families haven’t benefited from the generational wealth building associated with homeownership. This proposal would help about 400,000 families purchase their first home.
Lowering Costs by Building and Preserving 2 Million Homes
FACT SHEET: In Nevada, President Biden to Double Down on Plan to Lower Housing Costs and Increase Housing Supply for American Families. 03/19/2024.
America needs to build more housing in order to lower rental costs and increase access to homeownership. That’s why the President is calling on Congress to pass legislation to build and renovate more than 2 million homes, which would close the housing supply gap and lower housing costs for renters and homeowners.
“New” from the White House…
08/23/2024:
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