President Biden’s public schedule for 10/25/2024:
| 10:30 AM Out-of-Town Pool Out-of-Town Pool Call Time |
| 11:00 AM Closed Press The President receives the President’s Daily Brief |
| 1:30 PM Open Press The President delivers remarks at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. The President will discuss the Biden-Harris Administration’s record of delivering for Tribal communities, including keeping his promise to make this historic visit to Indian Country – his first as President |
| 2:15 PM Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Out-of-Town Pool The President departs Phoenix, Arizona en route to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 7:10 PM Philadelphia International Airport Out-of-Town Pool The President arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 7:20 PM Philadelphia International Airport Out-of-Town Pool The President departs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania en route to Wilmington, Delaware |
| 7:35 PM Out-of-Town Pool The President arrives in Wilmington, Delaware |
Presidential Apology Tweet
From Friday…
The Federal Indian Boarding School Era is one of the darkest chapters of American history. The trauma experienced in those institutions haunts our conscience to this very day.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 25, 2024
Today, I'm in Arizona to issue a long overdue presidential apology for this era – and speak to how my…
Show more =’s Today, I’m in Arizona to issue a long overdue presidential apology for this era – and speak to how my Administration has worked to invest in Indian Country and our relationships with Tribal Nations, advance Tribal sovereignty and self-determination, respect Native cultures, and protect Indigenous sacred sites. On my watch, we’ll remain committed to ushering in a new era between our government and nation-to-nation relationships – one that is grounded in dignity and respect. We must remember our full history, even when it’s painful. That’s what great nations do. And we are a great nation.
From the White House…
10/24/2024:
Tomorrow, at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, President Biden will outline his record of transformative investment in Indian Country and relationships with Tribal Nations, advancing Tribal sovereignty and self-determination, respecting Native cultures, and protecting Indigenous sacred sites.
President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken historic actions to support Indian Country through executive actions, historic investments, and strengthening government-to-government relationships. The President has issued three historic Executive Orders that reform federal funding to help live up to the promise of Tribal self-determination, improve public safety and criminal justice for Native Americans while targeting the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people, and improve educational outcomes and career opportunities for Native American students by focusing on systemic barriers and increasing access to high-quality education. The President has also taken further executive action through two Presidential Memoranda on Tribal consultation, including his 2021 Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships and his 2022 Memorandum on Uniform Standards for Tribal Consultation.
This executive action builds on the historic investments President Biden has made in Indian Country, including:
FACT SHEET: President Biden Touts Historic Support for Indian Country and Transformation of the Nation-to-Nation Relationship with Tribal Nations. 10/24/2024.
- $32 billion in the American Rescue Plan, the largest direct federal investment in Tribal Nations in history.
- $13 billion in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to build high-speed internet, roads, bridges, public transit, and clean water sanitation infrastructure in Tribal communities.
- $700 million in the Inflation Reduction Act to invest in Native communities for climate resilience and adaptation programs, drought mitigation, home electrification, and clean energy development.
- Obligating billions of federal contract dollars—and significant percentages of agencies’ overall procurement dollars—to Native-owned or controlled businesses through the Buy Indian Act, a law that has been re-invigorated under the Biden-Harris Administration.
The Biden-Harris Administration has made honoring Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples central to our conservation agenda, including by restoring and designating multiple new national monuments that honor Tribal Nations by protecting sacred ancestral places and their historically and scientifically important features, designating the first Indigenous-focused national marine sanctuary, directing federal agencies to support First Foods including healthy and abundant native salmon and steelhead, signing over 200 new co-stewardship agreements with Tribes, issuing an updated Sacred Sites MOU and best practices, and implementing a first-of-its kind Indigenous Knowledge guidance.
The President has also sought to have an Administration that reflects the priorities of Indian Country by hiring over 80 Native appointees in historic positions, including the first Native American Cabinet Secretary with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and the first Native American Treasurer of the United States with Chief Lynn Malerba. In addition, the President followed through with his promise to reinstate the annual White House Tribal Nations Summit and the White House Council on Native American Affairs.
Dr. Biden has been a champion for Native communities. As First Lady, she has visited Native communities ten times, highlighting the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic investments in youth mental health, Native language revitalization, and infrastructure and economic development, and she has worked to improve access to cancer screening and cancer care for Native communities.
The President also believes that to usher in the next era of the Federal-Tribal relationships we need to fully acknowledge the harms of the past. That is why he is issuing a historic Presidential apology for the Federal Indian Boarding School era. For over 150 years, the federal government ran boarding schools that forcibly removed generations of Native children from their homes to boarding schools often far away. Native children at these schools endured physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and, as detailed in the Federal Indian Boarding School Investigative Report by the Department of the Interior (DOI), at least 973 children died in these schools. The federally-run Indian boarding school system was designed to assimilate Native Americans by destroying Native culture, language, and identity through harsh militaristic and assimilationist methods.
In making this apology, the President acknowledges that we as a people who love our country must remember and teach our full history, even when it is painful. And we must learn from that history so that it is never repeated.
The Presidential apology builds on the Biden-Harris Administration’s extraordinary accomplishments working with Tribes and Native Communities:
FACT SHEET: President Biden Touts Historic Support for Indian Country and Transformation of the Nation-to-Nation Relationship with Tribal Nations. 10/24/2024.
Strengthening Tribal Self-Determination
- Executive Order 14112 on Reforming Federal Funding and Support for Tribal Nations to Better Embrace Our Trust Responsibilities and Promote the Next Era of Tribal Self-Determination (Dec. 2023): EO 14112 directs agencies to reform federal funding programs in a manner that reflects trust in Tribal priorities and deference to Tribal decision-making. The Executive Order directs the White House Council on Native American Affairs, the Office and Management and Budget, and the White House Domestic Policy Council to work across the Federal Government to measure the chronic shortfalls of existing federal funding for Tribes and develop recommendations for what additional funding and programming is necessary.
Addressing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons and Gender-Based Violence in Native Communities
- Signing an Executive Order to improve public safety and criminal justice and address the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) by directing agencies to prioritize addressing this crisis and assessing what more they can do.
- Signed into law the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2022, which expanded special Tribal criminal jurisdiction over non-Native perpetrators of sexual violence, child violence, stalking, assaults on Tribal law enforcement officers, and sex trafficking on Tribal lands, in addition to domestic and dating violence.
- Awarded $68 million in FY 2023 VAWA grants and more than $85 million in FY 2024 VAWA grants to support Native communities to provide services and promote justice for survivors.
- Established the Not Invisible Act Commission to improve the federal government’s efforts to address violent crime and the high rates of people reported missing in Native communities.
Historic Investments in Indian Country
- Historic investments in Tribal Nations, including $32 billion in the American Rescue Plan, the largest direct federal investment to Tribal Nations in history; $13 billion in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; and $700 million in the Inflation Reduction Act.
- Through the President’s Justice40 Initiative, more than 500 federal programs, including programs funded and created through the President’s Investing in America agenda, are working to deliver benefits to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution. All federally recognized Tribes and Tribal entities are recognized as disadvantaged for purposes of benefitting from the Justice40 Initiative. These investments are resulting in cleaner air and water, more affordable clean energy, good-paying jobs, and other benefits that Tribes are seeing and experiencing today and into the future.
Supporting Native-owned Businesses
- The Biden-Harris Administration has spent billions of federal contract dollars with Native-owned or controlled businesses through the Buy Indian Act, a law that authorizes the Department of the Interior and Indian Health Service (IHS) at the Department of Health and Human Services to have contract set-asides for Tribal and Native-owned businesses.
- Under the Biden-Harris Administration, Federal spending with Native firms has increased by $8.2B between FY20 and FY23. The Small Business Administration (SBA) has expanded access to capital for Native communities by nearly doubling the total dollar amount lent to Native American small businesses. SBA now has 12 Native-owned banks and CDFIs that lend with SBA backing.
Advance Appropriations for Indian Health Service
- For the first time ever, and after many years of Tribal advocacy, the Biden-Harris Administration successfully secured advance appropriations for the Indian Health Service (IHS), and the President has requested mandatory funding for IHS moving forward.
Regulations Supporting Tribes and Native Communities
- The Biden-Harris Administration has worked consistently with Tribal Nations throughout the last four years to secure regulatory improvements that reflect long-standing Tribal priorities. Some of this regulatory work includes revising regulations for promoting economic development opportunities across Indian Country, revising regulations for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), increasing transparency for Nation-to-Nation consultation and other changes to support Tribal Self-Governance, updating the federal regulations regarding the Indian Reorganization Act to streamline the process for placing land into trust, proposing updated regulations pertaining to groups petitioning the Department for federal acknowledgment, updating Class III Indian gaming compacts to increase transparency and provide guidance to Tribes and states, updating regulations for modernizing Indian Arts and Crafts Act regulations, revising the Agricultural Leasing regulation to ensure Tribal self-determination is being upheld and proposing a rule that describes Tribally chartered entities as having the same federal tax status as their owning Tribes and clarifying Tribal eligibility for elective pay to access Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.
Tribal Consultation
- Signing two Presidential Memorandums directing federal agencies to submit plans of action to implement meaningful consultation with Tribal Nations and establishing uniform standards for Tribal Consultation.
A Whole-of-Government Approach to the Federal Trust Responsibility
- Re-launching the Tribal Nations Summit and re-establishing the White House Council on Native American Affairs that serves to foster an all-of-government approach to coordinating and developing Tribal policy.
Protecting Tribal Treaty Rights, Sacred Sites and Tribal Homelands
- Restoring and strengthening protections for areas of national importance and of cultural significance to Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples, including Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, as well as the Tongass National Forest.
- Designating new National Monuments that honor Tribal Nations by protecting sacred ancestral places and their historically and scientifically important features: Camp Hale – Continental Divide in Colorado; Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada; Castner Range in Texas; and Baaj Nwaajo I’tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon in Arizona; expansion of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument and San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in California.
- Designated the first Indigenous-focused marine sanctuary, the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, following nearly a decade of work by Tribes, Indigenous Peoples, community leaders, and committed to work meaningfully with Indigenous Peoples to help guide sanctuary management.
- Took Presidential action and reached a historic agreement to work in partnership with Tribes and states from the Pacific Northwest to restore wild salmon populations in the Columbia River Basin, including the issuance of a Presidential Memorandum on Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin.
- Signed the Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Interagency Coordination and Collaboration for the Protection of Indigenous Sacred Sites in 2021, which commits the signatory agencies to identifying best practices for the management and protection of sacred sites on federal lands and waters. Fulfilling this commitment, WHCNAA has completed a Best Practices Guide for Tribal and Native Hawaiian Sacred Sites, which provides best practices, procedures, and guidance for the management, treatment, and protection of sacred sites, identifies impediments to federal-level protection of sacred sites, and helps federal agencies address and remedy impediments. The initial draft was based on comments heard at two federal listening sessions, and the final version has been expanded and improved based on comments received through Tribal consultation
- Signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Regarding Interagency Coordination and Collaboration for the Protection of Tribal Treaty Rights and Reserved Rights at the 2021 Tribal Nations Summit, where 17 federal agencies, coordinated through WHCNAA committed to integrate Tribal treaty rights into agency decision-making processes. In 2022, the 17 signatories developed and released the Best Practices Guide for Identifying and Protecting Tribal Treaty Rights, Reserved Rights, and Other Similar Rights in Federal Regulatory Actions and Federal Decision-Making. This year, the MOU Workgroup will be issuing government-wide trainings on the protection of Tribal treaty rights.
- Signed more than 200 co-stewardship or co-management agreements with Federal agencies, which allow Tribal Nations to collaborate with the agencies to manage the federal lands, waters, and resources that are most important to them. The announcements include the first ever co-stewardship agreement with the Department of Commerce (DOC), more than 70 co-stewardship agreements with the Department of the Interior (DOI), and over 120 new co-stewardship and co-management agreements with the Department of Agriculture (USDA), which also tripled its investment in these agreements to over $68 million.
- Protected significant lands and waters: Took action to protect the cultural and historic resources surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park from new oil and gas leasing and mining claims. Rejected the proposed Ambler Road project, which would have traversed 211 miles of significant wildlife habitat and pristine waters that are vital for the subsistence activities of Tribal communities along the iconic Brooks Range in north central Alaska.
Revitalizing Native Languages
- Native Languages MOA: At the 2021 Tribal Nations Summit, several agencies and offices—DOI, USDA, HHS, ED, Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, NEA, NEH, DOT, and White House CEQ—signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Native Languages, kickstarting a new interagency initiative to preserve, protect, and promote the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice, and develop Native languages. Since 2021, several other agencies have signed on to the MOA including, ACHP, OPM, SSA, SBA, OMB, DHS, DOC, DOL, DOS, VA, AmeriCorps, and EPA.
Strengthening Education for Native American Students
- Executive Order 14049 on Establishing the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities: EO 14049 seeks to improve educational outcomes and career opportunities for Native American students. It focuses on addressing systemic barriers, increasing access to high-quality education, and fostering economic empowerment.
President Biden: "I'm heading to do something that should have been done a long time ago; to make a formal apology to the Indian Nations for the way we treated their children for so many years. That's why I'm heading west." pic.twitter.com/hmWYI8utEm
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 24, 2024
Remarks by President Biden Before Marine One Departure
THE PRESIDENT: I’m heading —
(Cross-talk.)
THE PRESIDENT: I’m —
(Cross-talk.)
THE PRESIDENT: I’m heading to do something that should have been done a long time ago: to make a formal apology to the Indian Nations for the way we treated their children for so many years. That’s why I’m going — that’s why I’m heading West.
Thank you.
Remarks by President Biden Before Marine One Departure. 10/24/2024.
President Biden Delivers Remarks at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona @1:30 D.C., time:
Three Tweets
From Thursday…
I’m so proud of the Inflation Reduction Act, which finally beat Big Pharma to allow us to negotiate lower prescription drug prices and secure more affordable insulin for seniors.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 24, 2024
Not a single Republican voted for it – but that didn’t stop us. pic.twitter.com/pp0dUf0Ik2
The video clip is 34 seconds long.
Remarks by President Biden on Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs | Concord, NH; the YouTube is 1 hour and 9 minutes long. President Biden begins his remarks at the 40 minute mark.
That’s why one of the proudest things I’ve ever done was pass the Inflation Reduction Act that allowed us to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs. Not a single Republican voted for this — not one single Republican in the House or Senate voted. Not one.
But thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, we finally beat Big Pharma — in no small part because of your delegation. Not a joke. (Applause.)
[snip]
But Kamala and I wanted $35 insulin for everyone — not just seniors, for everybody. (Applause.) And she’s going to get it done.
Remarks by President Biden on Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs | Concord, NH; the YouTube is 1 hour and 9 minutes long. President Biden begins his remarks at the 40 minute mark. 10/
Folks, not only is inflation coming down in the United States.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 24, 2024
It's come down faster and lower here than almost any other advanced economy.
From the White House…
09/18/2024:
Remarks by President Biden at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.; the YouTube is 34 minutes and 52 seconds long.
But now — now inflation is coming down in the United States. And the fact is, it’s come down faster and lower than almost any other [of the] world’s advanced economies.
Remarks by President Biden at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.; the YouTube is 34 minutes and 52 seconds long. 09/18/2024.
The nearest thing I can find to a explainer on the US economy recovery from COVID-19 is from the Federal Reserve; Fed Notes (05/17/2024): Why is the U.S. GDP recovering faster than other advanced economies? The contributors to the piece; Francois de Soyres, Joaquin Garcia-Cabo Herrero, Nils Goernemann, Sharon Jeon, Grace Lofstrom, and Dylan Moore
I won’t be copying and pasting it over, because it’s a bit long, plus they share graphs that can’t be excluded.
Congressional Republicans think the way to lower costs is imposing a national sales tax averaging $4,000 per family and ending the ACA.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 24, 2024
I have a better plan.
Let's actually lower costs by building homes, expanding drug cost caps, and cutting taxes for hardworking families. pic.twitter.com/RLkFwKvy04
This is a Harris for President campaign tweet that digs at Twice Impeached 45 Convict 34’s plan to place blanket tariffs on all our imports.
Vice President Kalama Harris has said in events that these tariffs would add about $4000.00 a year to each household as NBC News says, economists put the cost a bit lower; Adam Hersh, a senior economist at EPI Action, the advocacy arm of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, puts that estimate lower but still in the four-figure range at $2,500 to 3,000 per year.
I’m sure it comes as no surprise from me, but in case there was a doubt. I hate tariffs–can measured product specific tariffs work in the short term; yes.
BUT…
Tariffs are taxes the industries impacted pass on to consumers; with blanket tariffs all industries will be impacts, not just some, and not just in the short term. It’s an outdated school of thought that believes a tariff on a product will lead to consumers purchasing American made products, vs., sucking up the cost on imported items.
FWIW: Here are two reasons, I think estimates on costs to US consumers are not accurate and will likely be higher…
- If Twice Impeached 45 Convict 34 has his way and all our imports, countries will place tariffs of equal or higher value on all of our exports; that’s called a “retaliatory” tariffs. It means that eventually our industries; farmers will be impacted the most, will eventually need government aid to survive. And like we’ve already experienced, when Twice Impeached 45 Convict 34 was in office, those bailouts don’t always lead to keeping the family farm…
- Mass deportation combined with tariffs on all our imports will increase demand on some products like food thus increasing the price for food…
I will end this economic talk with Tiff where I started…
I HATE TARIFFS!
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