It’s Thursday…
President Biden’s public schedule for 11/14/2024:
| 9:00 AM Closed Press The President receives the President’s Daily Brief |
| 9:45 AM In-Town Pool In-Town Pool Call Time |
| 9:50 AM Out-of-Town Pool Out-of-Town Pool Call Time |
| 10:20 AM South Grounds In-Town Travel Pool The President departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews |
| 10:50 AM Joint Base Andrews In-Town Travel Pool The President arrives to Joint Base Andrews |
| 11:00 AM Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Pool The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route to Lima, Peru |
| 5:45 PM Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to Lima, Peru The President arrives to Lima, Peru |
Climate Change with Dashes of Peru Trip Tweet
From Thursday…
The United States has been leading the fight against climate change – and today I’m proud to announce two more investments that will continue this work while lowering energy costs for hardworking families. pic.twitter.com/hshGXuAIL0
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 14, 2024
The video is 1 minute and 10 seconds long.
President Biden:
This week, I’m heading to Peru and Brazil to meet world leaders, and I’ll be the first American president to visit the Amazon rainforest.
We’re going to discuss how we can resolve our toughest global challenges, including climate change by working together. Together.
The United States has been leading that work.
And today, I want to announce two more investments that will lower the energy costs for hardworking families and help tackle the climate crisis.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to aware $250 million in Rural Energy for America Program grants to help over 1,000 farmers and rural small businesses install cost-saving, clear energy, and energy-efficient improvements all across 40 states.
And the Department of Energy will award nearly $18 million to help communities nationwide to save money by improving energy efficiency and reducing dangerous climate pollution.
This is a win-win.
More jobs, more investment, cleaner Air, and lower energy bills.
Folks, there’s nothing we can’t do if we do it together.
Let’s do it, okay?
God bless you all, and may God protect our troops.
POTUS Twitter. 11/14/2024.
From the White House…
11/14/2024:
Investments come ahead of President Biden’s trip to the Amazon, where he will highlight global climate action and ongoing work to preserve and protect this critical ecosystem
When President Biden took office, he pledged to restore America’s climate leadership at home and abroad. Every day since, the Biden-Harris Administration has led and delivered on the most ambitious climate, conservation, clean energy, and environmental justice agenda in history. These efforts, part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, include securing the largest ever investment in climate and clean energy in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – and unleashing a clean energy manufacturing and deployment boom that has attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in private sector investment; created hundreds of thousands of new clean energy jobs; and lowered energy costs for families while delivering cleaner air and water for communities across the country.
As part of this historic Investing in America agenda, today the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new climate investments that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, invest in clean energy manufacturing, and lower home energy costs for families and businesses.
These domestic climate announcements come ahead of President Biden’s historic trip to the Amazon to engage with local and Indigenous leaders and other stakeholders working to preserve and protect this critical ecosystem. He will also travel to Lima, Peru, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he will continue to highlight the economic opportunities afforded by accelerating climate action at home and abroad.
These investments come on the heels of the 29th U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the Administration continued to rally other countries to accelerate their climate ambition in this decisive decade and announced new initiatives to galvanize global efforts to keep a resilient, 1.5°C future within reach.
Today’s investments in climate and clean energy include:
Funding to improve energy efficiency, reduce climate pollution, and lower overall energy use. Today, the U.S. Department of Energy is announcing nearly $18 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 61 local and territorial governments to fund a wide range of energy efficiency and decarbonization projects. Through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, communities across the country are investing in projects and programs that save energy, reduce climate pollution, and advance local energy goals. This is the tenth tranche of formula awards granted to EECBG Program eligible entities. Grantees will develop net-zero building roadmaps, bolster recycling programs, launch residential energy efficiency rebate programs in disadvantaged communities, expand bike lanes and pedestrian walkways, update street and building lighting with LED technology, purchase electric vehicles and install charging infrastructure for municipal fleets, and more. Since the first awards were announced in October 2023, 294 communities have benefited from the program.
Investments in clean energy for American farms and rural small businesses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture today is announcing more than $256 million from the Inflation Reduction Act that will support more than 1,100 clean energy projects in 40 states. These projects – funding through the Rural Energy for America Program – will lower costs, expand access to clean energy and strengthen American farms and small businesses. This funding will enable agricultural producers and rural small business owners to expand their use of wind, solar, geothermal and small hydropower energy and make energy efficiency improvements. These innovations help them increase their income, grow their businesses and address climate change while lowering energy costs for American families. Since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration, USDA has invested more than $2.7 billion through REAP in 9,901 renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements. Almost 7,000 of these projects were funded by over $1 billion provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Funding to help states utilize cleaner construction materials for transportation projects. The U.S. Department of Transportation today is announcing $1.2 billion to states under the Low Carbon Transportation Materials Discretionary Grant Program, created by the Inflation Reduction Act. The program will help lower carbon emissions by empowering states, Tribes, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and other agencies to use construction materials that create less pollution, including asphalt, glass, steel, and concrete, for infrastructure projects. By supporting demand for these cleaner, made-in-America construction materials to be incorporated into infrastructure projects, the program will be a vehicle to move our nation to more sustainable construction practices. The program is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Federal Buy Clean Initiative and is consistent with Executive Order 14057, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.
These investments build on an expansive climate and conservation record led by President Biden and Vice President Harris that has reduced emissions, created jobs, and expanded manufacturing in every sector across the country. Since the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law, the Administration has awarded more than $98.5 billion in grants for projects across the country, and the private sector has responded to the laws’ historic incentives with nearly $300 billion in announced investments in clean energy and battery manufacturing and clean power generation during that period. From replacing toxic lead pipes and modernizing our electric grid to reducing air pollution and conserving our nation’s lands and waters, President Biden and Vice President Harris have positioned America to lead the global effort against climate change and protect the health, safety, and economic vitality of our communities and our environment for generations to come. Additional actions the Administration has taken to deploy clean energy, bolster climate resilience, cut energy costs, revitalize American manufacturing, advance environmental justice, and conserve our lands and waters can be found here.
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Continues Driving Climate Investments to Reduce Emissions, Lower Home Energy Costs. 11/14/2024.
From the White House…
Info on President Biden’s travel to South America…
11/07/2024:
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will travel to Lima, Peru from November 14-16 to meet with President Dina Boluarte to reinforce the strong U.S.-Peru bilateral relationship and participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, where he will highlight U.S. economic leadership and engagement in the Indo-Pacific region.
President Biden will then travel to Manaus and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from November 17-19. While in Manaus, President Biden will visit the Amazon rainforest to engage with local, indigenous, and other leaders working to preserve and protect this critical ecosystem, the first such visit of a sitting U.S. President. In Rio de Janeiro, President Biden will meet with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on the margins of the G20 and reinforce U.S. leadership on workers’ rights and clean economic growth. During the G20, President Biden will demonstrate the strong value proposition of the United States to developing countries and lead the G20 to work together to address shared global challenges like hunger and poverty, climate change, health threats, and developing country debt burdens.
Statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on President Biden’s travel to Peru and Brazil. 11/07/2024.
11/13/2024:
Background Press Call on the President’s Meeting with President Xi Jinping in Peru
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL:
Great. Thank you so much. And thanks so much for joining today. I’m cognizant there are many news stories. I’m glad you chose to spend a bit of time with us today.
On November 16, President Biden will meet with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China on the sidelines of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Lima, Peru. We’ve been working towards this meeting since National Security Advisor Sullivan visited Beijing in late August. And as you’ll recall, he briefed the press at that time that we expected the two leaders to meet later this year on the margins of either APEC or G20.
This will be the third in-person meeting between the two leaders since President Biden entered into office. They previously met in Bali, in 2022, on the margins of the G20, and at Woodside, in 2023, on the margins of APEC, exactly one year and one day ago from this upcoming meeting.
The two presidents have known each other for more than a decade, dating back to when they were both vice presidents, and have spent many hours in meetings together. We expect this will be their last meeting as presidents.
With that in mind, we expect the President will use the opportunity to take stock of efforts to responsibly manage competition over the last four years, how the two countries have advanced areas of shared interest, and, even amidst deep differences and intense competition, have worked to do so.
Throughout his time in office, President Biden has emphasized the importance of responsibly managing one of the world’s most consequential relationships. And from the very beginning of this administration, four years ago, President Biden made it clear the United States would advance and protect our interests at home and abroad. And the framework of this administration’s China policy — invest, align, and compete — has remained constant over the last four years.
The President has prioritized investments and sources of U.S. strength at home, strengthened our alliances abroad, and taken commonsense measures to protect U.S. technology and national security.
As mentioned before, at the same time, the President has demonstrated that our two countries can and must manage our differences and prevent competition from veering into conflict or confrontation by maintaining open lines of communication and advancing cooperation in areas of shared interest.
I expect President Biden will want to take stock of the progress we have made in a number of areas since the Woodside Summit last year. That cooperation can be an important stabilizing force in the relationship. For example, over the last year, the two sides have resumed military-to-military communications at all levels. At the senior level, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Brown, Secretary of Defense Austin, and the INDOPACOM commander have met or had telephone calls with their PRC counterparts over the last year.
The U.S. and the PRC also restarted the Defense Policy Coordination Talks in January of 2024 and have carried out agreed-upon defense engagements since, to include the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement, MMCA, which is an operator-to-operator level talks that was just held earlier this month, and Crisis Communications and Prevention Working Group that was held in late October.
These discussions are important to avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation. And for the first time this year, I should add as well, both sides pre-notified their respective ICBM launches.
President Biden has made clear and will continue to emphasize the importance of maintaining military-to-military communications at all times and especially during times of heightened tension.
On counternarcotics, another outcome of Woodside, the two sides have strengthened joint law enforcement actions and increased information sharing over the last year. Since the resumption of counternarcotics cooperation last November, the PRC has scheduled over 55 dangerous synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals, shut down dozens of online platforms and stores, and arrested hundreds of individuals involved in the illicit chemical industry.
In just the last month, the PRC has moved to arrest two different groups of individuals that were indicted in the United States, and we managed to do joint announcements on both of those. Joint but separate.
All of these steps are helping us combat the global fentanyl crisis at home and contributed to the decline in overdose deaths and disruption in the supply of illicit fentanyl that we’ve seen over the last year.
On AI, the two sides have recognized the novel risks posed by frontier AI models and have begun to have difficult but productive conversations about AI safety and risk. These discussions paved the way for the PRC at UNGA to co-sponsor the first-ever AI resolution proposed by the U.S. in March and, for later in the summer, the U.S. to co-sponsor the PRC’s AI resolution.
On climate, our countries’ envoys have also had deep and meaningful discussions over the past four years, leading to three far-ranging joint statements that have set the stage for climate commitments on greenhouse gas reductions, peak emissions, and renewable energy. Those discussions are continuing this week, of course, at COP.
Equally importantly, the President intends to use this meeting to discuss areas of difference and how to manage those differences in the period ahead. I expect the President will express deep concern over the PRC’s support for Russia’s war against Ukraine, as well as the deployment of over 10,000 DPRK troops to Russia, where they have begun engaging in combat operations with Russian forces. We are increasingly concerned about the consequences for longer-term stability in both Europe and the Indo-Pacific of this deployment.
I expect the President will warn that cyber pre-positioning on civilian critical infrastructure and engaging in reckless attacks against our critical networks are unacceptable. These actions have the potential to destabilize the bilateral relationship and lead to an even broader de-risking away from PRC technology.
I expect the President will also underscore the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and express his concerns that the PRC’s increased military activities around Taiwan are destabilizing and eroding the status quo.
The President may also express concern over PRC actions in the South China Sea, including PRC coast guard actions against lawful maritime operations by other South China Sea claimant countries.
In his many conversations with President Xi, President Biden has consistently also underscored the critical importance of respect for human rights, and I expect he will do so again.
And of course, the President will also underscore his longstanding concern with the PRC’s unfair trade policies and non-market economic practices, which have over time created an unlevel playing field for American workers.
Let me pause there and see if there are any questions. Back over to you, Michael.
Background Press Call on the President’s Meeting with President Xi Jinping in Peru. 11/13/2024.
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan; the YouTube is 48 minutes and 56 seconds long.
Thanks, Karine. And hi, everybody. I’m going to make some brief comments about the president’s trip that he leaves on tomorrow, answer a few questions, because I know the issue you are most interested in is hearing from Karine about the meeting, so I will not dally too long up here. But I think it is important to lay out the president’s trip here over the next several days.
Tomorrow, he travels to South America. His first stop will be Peru for the APEC Summit — the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit — and then he’ll go on to Brazil for the first-ever presidential trip to the Amazon and then to the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
At APEC, the president will reinforce America’s leading role in the Indo-Pacific. And over the last four years, he has markedly enhanced our strategic position in this vital region, from our treaty alliances to AUKUS to the Quad to the historic trilateral with Japan and Korea.
And with respect to that trilateral, he will meet with President Yoon of South Korea and Prime Minister Ishiba of Japan to celebrate the historic cooperation between our three nations and discuss the importance of institutionalizing the progress we’ve made so that it carries forward through the transition.
While in Lima, President Biden will also meet with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China. This will be the third in-person meeting between the two leaders since President Biden came into office and their final meeting as presidents. They previously met, as you know, in Bali in 2022 at the G20 Summit and at Woodside, California, near San Francisco in 2023 on the margins of APEC Summit, which was exactly one year and one day ago.
And throughout his time in office, President Biden and his team have worked to effectively and responsibly manage the competition between the United States and the PRC.
The president’s approach on the PRC has prioritized investments in sources of American strength at home, including growing the middle class and ensuring that America maintains its industrial capacity and its innovation edge in fields such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
He has strengthened our alliances around the world and especially in the Indo-Pacific, he has boosted American deterrence, and he’s ensured that America remains the partner of choice for countries both in the region and across the world.
The president has also taken commonsense measures to advance our national — national security and protect our most sensitive technologies to prevent them from being exploited or used against us by the PRC, including through significant new export control measures.
At the same time, the president has demonstrated that the U.S. and the PRC can manage our differences and prevent competition from veering into conflict or confrontation, and he has done that by ensuring the maintenance of open lines of communication at the leader level, at the military-to-military level, and at every level of our respective governments. And we’ve also worked to advance cooperation where our interests align, including on counternarcotics and climate change, which is what the people of our two countries expect and what the world expects.
And this meeting between President Biden and President Xi will be an opportunity to ensure a smooth transition and also to continue to keep those channels of communication open, including those especially critical military-to-military channels of communication.
Of course, in Lima, President Biden will also meet President Boluarte of Peru to mark the strength and durability of our bilateral relationship with Peru.
After that, the president will travel to Brazil, and he’ll start with a historic stop in the Amazon to underscore his personal commitment and America’s continuing commitment at all levels of government and across our private sector and civil society to combat climate change at home and abroad. And this has been, obviously, one of the defining causes of President Biden’s presidency.
While in Manaus, in the Amazon, President Biden will visit the rainforest, engage with local leaders who are working to preserve and protect this critical ecosystem. And as I noted, this will be the first-ever visit of a sitting U.S. president to the Amazon.
President Biden will then travel to Rio de Janeiro to par- — participate in his fourth and final G20 Leaders’ Summit.
High on the agenda there will be issues associated with debt sustainability for low- and middle-income countries; mobilizing finance for infrastructure — physical, digital, energy infrastructure around the world; and also dealing, obviously, with the major geopolitical issues of the day, from Ukraine to the Middle East.
As you all know, the G20 is a unique forum. It includes both our closest allies and partners as well as our adversaries, and pulling this group together around shared challenges is never easy, but we do expect to make some progress, particularly around debt and finance, during our time in Rio.
The president, of course, will also meet with President Lula of Brazil. The two leaders have really built a strong, productive relationship over the last four years, and they’re looking forward to have their final meeting together as presidents as well.
So, we’ve got a busy week ahead of us.
And with that, as I said, I’ll take a few questions and then turn it back over to Karine.
Yeah.
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan; the YouTube is 48 minutes and 56 seconds long. 11/13/2024.
11/14/2024:
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will meet with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Lima, Peru on November 16. This will be the third meeting between the two leaders, building on the November 2023 Woodside Summit in California and their November 2022 meeting in Bali, Indonesia. President Biden and President Xi will discuss bilateral, regional, and global issues.
Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the Meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China. 11/14/2024.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Gaggle Aboard Air Force One En Route to Lima, Peru @2:30 PM D.C., time:
Classroom to Career Summit Tweets
From Wednesday…
Tune in as the First Lady and I deliver remarks at the Classroom to Career Summit. https://t.co/S7WN9EiZqj
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 13, 2024
Remarks by President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the Classroom to Career Summit; the YouTube 25 minutes and 37 seconds long.
Today, Jill and I hosted the Classroom to Career Summit, 15 years after the first White House summit on community colleges.
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 13, 2024
Education is Jill’s life’s work – and the steps we've taken to connect students to good-paying jobs is one of the most important efforts of my Presidency. pic.twitter.com/gH6osPy755
From the White House…
11/13/2024:
Met With Shitshow Tweet
From Wednesday…
Today I met with President-elect Trump in the Oval Office.
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 13, 2024
I look forward to leading a smooth transition and peaceful transfer of power. As I told the President-elect, my team is committed to doing everything we can to ensure the incoming administration has what they need. pic.twitter.com/vDri4HZFE3
The YouTube is 1 minute and 55 seconds long.
Remarks by President Biden and President-Elect Trump in a Meeting
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, Mr. President-Elect and former president —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, Joe.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: — and — Donald, congratulations.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: And looking forward to having a, like we said, smooth transition — do everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated, what you need. And we’re going to get a chance to talk about some of that today. So —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Good.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: — welcome. Welcome back.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. And thank you very much.
And politics is tough. And it’s, many cases, not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today. And I appreciate it very much — a transition that’s so smooth it’ll be as smooth as it can get.
And I very much appreciate that, Joe.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: You’re welcome.
Thank you all.
Remarks by President Biden and President-Elect Trump in a Meeting. 11/13/2024.
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