Content Details
DCPD-202400363 - Remarks on Infrastructure Improvement Efforts in Wilmington, North Carolina
- Category
- Budget and Presidential Materials
- Collection
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Publisher
- Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
- Event Date
- May 2, 2024
- President
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Document Categories
- Addresses and Remarks : Infrastructure improvement efforts in Wilmington, NC
- Subjects
- Broadband and wireless technologies
Carbon emissions, reduction efforts
Crime rates
Drinking water, safety improvement efforts
Economic improvement
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal deficit and debt
Household income and wages
Inflation
Infrastructure improvements
Insulin cost controls
Job creation and growth
Junk fees imposed on consumers, prevention efforts
Law enforcement, service and dedication
Lead service lines, replacement efforts
Manufacturing industry, domestic investment
North Carolina, Governor
North Carolina, President's visit
North Carolina, shooting of law enforcement officers in Charlotte
PFAS and chemical pollutants, regulation efforts
Prescription drug costs, reduction efforts
Rail infrastructure, improvement efforts
Tax Code reform
Unemployment rate
Vice President
- Names
- Biden, Francis W.; Biden, James B.; Blowers, Jack; Budd, Theodore P.; Campbell, Justin; Cooper, Roy A., III; Elliott, W. Alden; Eyer, Joshua; Giglio, Michael; Harris, Kamala D.; Owens, Valerie Biden; Poloche, Samuel; Pugh, Paris; Regan, Michael S.; Saffo, Bill; Tolley, Christopher; Trump, Donald J.; Weeks, Thomas M., Jr.
- Locations
- Wilmington, NC
- Notes
- The President spoke at 5 p.m. at the Wilmington Convention Center. In his remarks, he referred to Paris Pugh, teacher, Bradley Creek Elementary School in Wilmington, NC; Ofc. Joshua Eyer of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD), Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas M. Weeks, Jr., and Officers Samuel Poloche and W. Alden Elliott of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, members of the U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, who were killed in a shooting while attempting to serve an arrest warrant in Charlotte, NC, on April 29; CMPD Officers Christopher Tolley, Michael Giglio, Jack Blowers, and Justin Campbell, who were injured in the shooting; Vice President Kamala D. Harris; and former President Donald J. Trump. He also referred to his sister Valerie Biden Owens and brothers Francis W. and James B. Biden. The transcript was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on May 3.