Rob Friedlander Archived

Axios: Jeff Zients on how Biden will finish the job with five-month sprint: lowering costs, more infrastructure projects, jobs, factories, protecting personal freedoms, delivering on the world stage axios.com/2024/08/19/jef…

Major breakthrough for patients across the country today. @POTUS and @VP passed a law that gave Medicare the power to negotiate down the cost of Rx drugs, and the results are way more significant than projected. nytimes.com/2024/08/15/us/…

As of today, entrepreneurs across the country have filed 19 million new business applications since Vice President Harris and I took office. That’s 19 million acts of hope and confidence in our economy.

Every American deserves affordable housing. Today our Administration announced $100 million to help state and local governments cut red tape and build affordable homes across our nation. @POTUS and I will continue fighting to help more Americans afford their rent and buy a home.

.@POTUS & @VP Harris believe we need to build, build, build to lower housing costs. Today, the Administration is taking new actions to reduce barriers to build, making it easier & faster to use federal financing to build or rehab affordable housing. 🧵: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

As much as it disappoints those rooting against continued success, the American economy keeps humming.

Time is money! CBS: Biden White House moves to make canceling subscriptions and memberships less hellish cbsnews.com/news/how-to-ca…

Big kudos to our fearless leader, @WHCommsDir! axios.com/2024/08/08/ben…

Today, I stood beside the families of Paul, Evan, Alsu, and Vladimir in the Oval Office as they spoke to their loved ones for the first time since they regained freedom. These families never lost hope. And today, they'll each be reunited with the missing piece of their soul.

STATEMENT - @POTUS on Anita Dunn: "She's not only a key senior member of our team that helped us win a historic election in '20, she’s also been an invaluable part of our White House. She’s tough and tested, and her experience and intellect helped us deliver historic results."

Statement from @POTUS on Protecting 600,000 Teamster Pensions whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Our economy has grown more under @POTUS Biden and @VP Harris than almost any forecaster projected. Here is real GDP growth compared to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's forecast in 2021.

JUST IN: Strong growth in Q2. The US economy grew at a 2.8% pace in Q2 2024. That’s way above expectations of 1.9% and a big jump from 1.4% in Q1. Consumer spending was the key (+2.3% in the quarter). Biz investment and gov't spending also helped. Bottom line: The economy keeps powering on

"No where else on earth could a kid with a stutter -- from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Claymont, Delaware -- one day sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as president of United States," Biden says. "But here I am."

.@POTUS: “I revere this office, but I love my country more. It’s been the honor of my life to serve as your president.”

2025 is an opportunity to not just correct the failures of the Trump tax cuts but to fundamentally reorient our tax system to achieve broadly shared growth and economic opportunity. Read my speech here: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

The Congressional GOP plan to extend the Trump tax cut adds ~$5 trillion to the debt, with tax cuts skewed to the wealthy. This doesn't include the cost of additional corporate rate cuts they've floated, their efforts to gut the IRS, or any of the...even wackier ideas from today.

The last two inflation reports suggest inflation is now continuing to move down towards pre-pandemic levels. This is how each month of 2024 compares to recent years in the unadjusted series:

Statement from @POTUS on today's CPI inflation report: "Today’s report shows welcome progress on lowering inflation, which was zero on a monthly basis in May and is down nearly two-thirds from its peak."

The May #CPI report is the fourth in a row showing a decline in average grocery prices.