DCPD-202600280 - Remarks on Health Care Costs and Affordability and an Exchange With Reporters - DCPD-202600280 | Content Details

DCPD-202600280 - Remarks on Health Care Costs and Affordability and an Exchange With Reporters

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

Document Categories: Addresses and Remarks : Health care costs and affordability

Subjects: 2026 midterm elections
Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
District of Columbia, law enforcement improvement efforts
Domestic Policy Council
Federal Reserve System
Food and Drugs Administration
Greece, Prime Minister
Health care costs and affordability
In vitro fertilization and reproductive assistance services
Iran, commercial transit through Strait of Hormuz
Iran, human rights issues
Iran, nuclear weapons development
Iran, U.S. military operations
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, renovation work
Medicare and Medicaid programs
News media, fairness and accuracy
Oil and natural gas, domestic production
Oil markets and prices
Pharmaceutical supply chains, improvement efforts
Prescription drug costs, reduction efforts
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of War
Semiconductor manufacturing
Shipbuilding, domestic expansion efforts
Stock market
Tariffs
United Kingdom, Duchess of Sussex
United Kingdom, Duke of Sussex
United Kingdom, King
White House renovation projects

Names: Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Burgum, Douglas J.; Charles III, King; Cuban, Mark; Harry, Prince; Hegseth, Peter B.; Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.; Kessler, Howard J.; Kessler, Michele; Klomp, Christopher; Lutnick, Howard W.; Makary, Martin A.; Markle, Meghan; Mitsotakis, Kyriakos; Obama, Barack; Overton, Heidi; Oz, Mehmet; Phelan, John C.; Powell, Jerome H.; Schleifer, Leonard S.; Smith, Sierra; Smith, Travis; Warsh, Kevin M.; Yancopoulos, George D.

Notes: The President spoke at 3:12 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Mark Cuban, cofounder, Cost Plus Drugs; Howard J. Kessler, cofounder, Kessler Financial Services, and his wife Michele; Secretary of War Peter B. Hegseth; Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, wife of Prince Harry; King Charles III of the United Kingdom; Kevin M. Warsh, the President's nominee to be Federal Reserve Chairman; and Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors Jerome H. Powell. Secretary Kennedy referred to Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren. Dr. Schleifer referred to his wife Harriet and son Adam. Deputy Director Overton referred to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. A reporter referred to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on April 24.