DCPD-202400031 - Remarks to the United States Conference of Mayors and a Question-and-Answer Session - DCPD-202400031 | Content Details

DCPD-202400031 - Remarks to the United States Conference of Mayors and a Question-and-Answer Session

Category: Budget and Presidential Materials

Collection: Compilation of Presidential Documents

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

Event Date: January 19, 2024

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Document Categories: Addresses and Remarks : U.S. Conference of Mayors, remarks and question-and- answer session

Subjects: Bipartisanship
Border security
Broadband and wireless technologies
Climate change
Community policing programs, improvement efforts
COVID–19 pandemic
Criminal background check procedures, strengthening efforts
Drinking water, safety improvement efforts
Drug and alcohol addiction, treatment and reduction efforts
Economic improvement
Economic stimulus legislation
Environmental justice
Federal student loans, partial forgiveness
Firearm rights
Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024
Gasoline costs
Gaza, conflict with Israel
Group of Twenty (G–20) nations
Gun control efforts
Gun violence, prevention efforts
Hamas political-paramilitary organization
Homelessness, prevention and reduction efforts
Housing, affordability and access
Hungary, Prime Minister
Immigration reform
India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor
Inflation
Infrastructure improvements
Insulin cost controls
Israel, military operations in Gaza
Job creation and growth
Junk fees imposed on consumers, prevention efforts
Lead service lines, replacement efforts
Manufacturing industry, domestic investment
Mayors, U.S. Conference of
Medicare and Medicaid programs
Mental health programs and services
Middle East, regional integration and security
Natural disasters, climate change impacts
Office of Gun Violence Prevention
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
Office of Public Engagement
Opioid epidemic, efforts to combat
Prescription drug costs, reduction efforts
Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
Rail infrastructure, improvement efforts
Renewable energy sources and technologies
Rental assistance
Russia, conflict in Ukraine
Secretary of Transportation
Semiconductor manufacturing
Small businesses, promotion efforts
Speaker of the House of Representatives
State and local law enforcement, Federal support
U.S. Surgeon General
Ukraine, Russian invasion and airstrikes
Water management policy, improvement efforts

Names: Balliet, Chad; Balliet, Heather; Benjamin, Stephen K.; Biden, Francis W.; Biden, James B.; Biden, Jill T.; Bloomberg, Michael R.; Bottoms, Keisha Lance; Buttigieg, Peter P.M.; Cochran, Tom; Holt, David; Johnson, J. Michael; Landrieu, Mitchell J.; Murthy, Vivek H.; Orbán, Victor; Owens, Valerie Biden; Perez, Thomas E.; Rosenberg, Katie; Schieve, Hillary L.; Trump, Donald J.; Walsh, Martin J.

Locations: Washington, DC

Notes: The President spoke at 4:05 p.m. in the East Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City; former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, GA, in her former capacity as Senior Adviser and Director of the Office of Public Engagement; Senior Adviser and Director of the Office of Public Engagement Stephen K. Benjamin, in his former capacity as mayor of Columbia, SC; former Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu of New Orleans, LA, in his former capacity as Senior Adviser and Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator; former Mayor Martin J. Walsh of Boston, MA, in his former capacity as Secretary of Labor; Secretary Buttigieg, in his former capacity as mayor of South Bend, IN; Speaker of the House of Representatives J. Michael Johnson; Heather and Chad Balliet, owners, South Mountain Cycle in Emmaus, PA; former President Donald J. Trump; Prime Minister Victor Orbán of Hungary; and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy. He also referred to H.R. 2872, Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024, which was approved January 19 and assigned Public Law No. 118–35; and his brothers James and Francis Biden and sister Valerie Biden Owens. Mayor Schieve referred to her sister Amanda Schieve-Crawford. The transcript was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on January 20.