Administration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2022

August 25, 2022

The President. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Pleaseâplease sit down.

Hello, hello, hello. Honey, what's your name? Well, let me tell you something. Is that your daddy? He owes you big for having to sit here. [*Laughter*] This has to be the most boring, boring thing in the world for a beautiful young woman to have to do. So I don't knowâwhat do you like best? Ice cream? What do you want? I mean, Iâwe've gotâwe've got to work something out, okay? Okay, because he owes you big.

And by the way, I like yourâhang on a second. I've been wearing Ray-Bans so long, since 100 years ago when I was a lifeguard for years. Everybody made fun of me. Now, it's veryâ folks, it's terrible, when you've been a United States Senator for 36 years and Vice President for 8 years and a President, to be known for two things: Ray-Ban sunglasses and ice cream. [*Laughter*] What a dull person. But at any rateâso, I like your glasses. Okay?

All right. But he owes you big. You let me know, okay?

Folks, thank you very much. And let me thank our host and hostess. And, look, this is aâ our hosts are responsible, in no small part, for my standing here and being President. Because back in 2019, when it was "Joe who? What? How? What? Huh?" And you all helped out. And you helped out significantly. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. I really mean it.

Look, folks, there is aâto state the obvious, there's a lot going on, and it's taken a while for folks to catch up. And I do notâI don't mean that in a critical way.

You know, when you think about it, when you got me elected the first time around, we had theâone of the highest unemployment rates in American history. We were in a situation where we were in significant debt. We hadâwell, there wasâinstead of dealing with the deficit, we were piling up the deficit. We were in a situation where we had onlyâonly 2 million vaccines for the wholeâfor the entire country.

We were, if you think about the things we were facingâand, in the process, people didn't know quite what to do. I think there isâI don't think it's an exaggeration to say that when you go through a period of such uncertainty where things that never happened reallyânot in our lifetime hadn't happened beforeâwhen you have, you knowâyou know, 100 million people dyingâI mean, dying.

Finding ourselves in a circumstance where everybody wondered whether there was a thing called global warmingânobody seems to doubt it right now. You see what's happening all around the world. Turn on the television every day, what do you see? You see flooding and fires.

I have literally been in a helicopter with Governors around the country, with FEMAâwhich I think we've done a hell of a job now. But you know, more forests have burned and homes have gone down than all the land, the square mileage of all the property from New York toâall the way down to Virginia, because of theâNew Jersey. I mean, it's gigantic. That's how much has been just laid to waste.

And we're still playing around. We were still playing around. There were so many climate deniers that it wasâyou know, think about it. I mean, just a year ago, if we had this meeting, there would still be a lot of deniers who were saying: "No, no, no, it can't beâwe can't afford to do anything about this. It's going to affect my this, that, or the other thing."

And so there's a lot that's happened. And a lot that's happened. But things are beginning to change a little bit. We're in a situation, in my view, whereâI used to always tell Barack, thatâ when he'd get down, I'd say, "You know, Mr. President, a country will never be more optimistic than its Presidentâa country will never be more optimistic than its President."

We're at a point, in my viewâand you've heard me say beforeâthat we've reached an inflection point in world history. And we reach one of those everyâanywhere from five to seven generations. Something fundamentally changes beyond the immediate leadership. So much is in flux. So much is changingânot all bad, but changing significantly.

You have a circumstance whereâwhen I met with Putin back in Geneva to talk about strategic security, he talked about how there wasn't much need for that. I said, "Well, you've got a country where the tundra in northernâin the eightâeight time zones youâyou span, where it's literally burning." The permafrost is burningânot melting, burning. Burning. More methane is coming out of the ground, which is four to six times more dangerous than everything else that can pollute the air that's out there.

So much is changing. China is in a circumstance where they're trying to figure out where they go, how they deal with where they go. And they're not quite sure. And Xi Jinping, whoâI've spent more time with him than any other world leader. I've spent over 78 hours with him alone.

And of that, 68 hours was in person with him over the last 12 years. Thatâhe's not sure what to do. He got 1,400,000,000 people and wondering whether or not people are going to stillâbut what was his what was his advertising call? "Well, come invest in China. Yes, I haveâyou've got this gigantic population to sell to."

Well, what's happening now? What's happening nowâhe's not at all so certain about the ability. The Chinese are very, very uncertain about their future. The Chinese people are uncertain about their future.

My generic point is, there's is a lot of movementâa lot of movement. And when I ran the first time, I talked about there was a need to do three things.

One, to restore the soul of this country. By that, I meant who we areâthe idea of dignity; honorâhonor, making sure weâyou mean what you say; treating people with respect. Andâbut look what's happened.

And I said I wasâthe second reason I was running, I wanted to restore the middle class, the backbone of the country. You know, when the middle class does well, the wealthy do very well and the poor have a way up and there's some stability.

The third thingâwhich I got, you remember, pilloried for and still occasionally, until very recentlyâI said we have to unite the country. You know, democracy doesn't work very well unless you can reach a consensus, and you can't reach consensus unless you can have some unity.

And what we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It's not justâit's not just Trump. It's theâit's the entire philosophy that underpinsâ it'sâI'm going say somethingâit's almost like semi-fascism, the way in which it deals.

For the first time, you have 50 percent of the American peopleâ50 percent of the American people say their greatest concernâover 50, I think it's 51 percent in the latest pollsâconcerned about whether or not democracy can be sustained. Did you ever thinkâ2 years ago, 5 years ago, 10 years agoâwe'd be talking about sustaining democracy in the United States of America?

There was a major piece today in the press by some serious foreign policy types, talking about the fact that the average life of democracy in history is 300 years, and we're approaching 300 years. It's likeâit's just like out of "Alice in Wonderland," some of the stuff we're talking about.

But what's happened isâI think, as we began to gain hold and do the things that would logically have been done under a normal Republican administration the last time out and/or normal relations between Democrats and Republicans in the Congress, we begin to make some progress.

We put 200 million shots in people's arms. We were dealing with a circumstance where we now are in a situation where we actuallyâit's not over by a long shot, but the price of gas is down over $1 on average. And we're moving in the right directionâno guarantee, but we're moving in the right direction.

We're in a circumstance where we haveâyou know, I've said a long time ago and I keep saying itâthe idea that 12 years of education is sufficient in the 21st century is just not rational.

One of the reasons why we did so well as a nation at the turn of the 20th centuryâwe had the best education system in the world because it was universally available to everyone. Others had betterâelements of their education was better than ours, but as a population, as a whole.

But the rest of the world is caught upâcaught up. We're not in a position to continue along where we are now. We've learned a lot as a consequence of what we've done. We now realize that if you put a kid in school at age 3, no matter their backgroundâschool, not daycareâthey have a 56-percent chance of going all the way through 12 years of school, no matter what the background of the parentâwhether they come from a family that has a serious drug problem, or whether or not the mother is single or is beingâit doesn't matter. They are exposed to education.

The idea that we think that we can get by with 12 yearsâI think we need a minimum of 14 years of education. Two to begin withâso beginning at age 3, and 2 afterâafter high school that should be free.

Butâso I laid out a program early on, and nobody paid a whole lot of attention to it for a while. But now people are starting to pay attention to it. We're in a situation where, as I said, that we've had record job growth at 10 million jobs in the first monthâ18 months in this administrationâmore than any other President in the history of United States of America. We've got the unemployment rate down to 3.5 percent, which is the second lowest ever in American history.

We're in a circumstance where, you know, my Republican friends keep talking about "the big-spending Democrats." Well, if you recall, whether you liked their tax policy or not, they had a

$2 trillion tax cut and not a penny which was paid for. Well, guess what? Our first year in office, we cut the deficit by $352 billion. This year, we'll cut the deficit by 1 trillion, 700 billon dollars by the end of October. And the act we just passedâthe so-called IRAâthat is going to reduce the deficit by $300 billion, in addition, becauseâso my point is, you're stuck with me because we ended up with the single largest investment in infrastructure in American history other than Eisenhower's highwayânational Highway Trust Fund.

We're in a situation now where we are putting inâwe put the first African American woman on the Supreme Court. We haveâand by the way, I've been able to appoint more judges who are appellate court judges in the Federal court who are African American women than all other Presidents combined in American history. I made a commitment.

And by the way, I'm not just checking off things. I said we need a Government that looks like Americaâthat looks like America. And look at the incredible people we haveâthe Cabinet members we have, the number of women and African Americans and Asian Americans and Hispanic AmericansâLatinos that are in theâbecause we'reâwe're encouraging people to conclude that they can make a difference if they get engaged.

And look, weâyou know, we rallied the world to stand up against Putin's aggression. When I first got elected, I remember showing up at the Gâ7âand, by the way, I'm not beating my chest about this, because it's still very dangerous. Very dangerous. It's a very small step between helping Ukraine and a world war withâwith Russia, depending on what we do and how we do it. And so there's a lot going on. And we've already spent several billion dollarsâ$6 billion dollars so farâin economic and military assistance to Ukraine.

But the point is that I think we got to a point where I underestimatedâand it's not about this particularâmy predecessor aloneâbut I underestimated how much damage the previous four years had done in terms of America's reputation in the world.

When I showed up at the first Gâ7 meeting with all the major economic powers, I sat downâand we were in Great Britain, in Englandâand I sat down, and I was sitting between as he used to go, "Boris!" The former Prime Minister was an interesting guy. Andâ[*laughter*]âno, he's not a bad guy. Butâand Macron andâand Schmidt and, you knowâI mean, Scholzâwhat am I talking about?

And one of the things I saidâI said, "America is back." And Macron looked at me. He said, "For how long?" [*Laughter*] I seriously had to think about it.

What do you think we'd say, we'd think if we left here, went inside and the way through, and one of the CNN or CâSPAN was on, and they showed a picture of several thousand people storming the British Parliament, knocking down the doors of the parliament, going in, and ransacking the place and killing several police officers? What would we think? I'm notâI'm being deadly earnest now. What would we think about the state of the world and the state of not just Great Britain, the state of the world in Europe?

Well, Madeleine Albright was right about a lot of things, one of which was: We are the essential nation. The rest of the world, like it or not, does look to usâthey're not always happyâ but they look to us: What are we going to do?

And so I thinkâis really important for not only our securityâeconomic, political, physical securityâbut also for some stability in the world as we begin, as things are changing so rapidlyâ that the United States gain control of where it is and knowsâknow who we are.

One of the things that I think as weâI believe with every fiber of my beingâand I wish I could say I was new to this, but I've been doing this a fair amount of timeâis that I believe there's not a damn thing in the world America can't do if we set our mind to it. No, I mean it. But we have to do it as the United States of Americaâthe United States of America. There's nothing beyond our capacityânothing beyond our capacity.

And so one of the things that Iâeverybody said: Why did I haveâwhy have I had so much, so much focus on, for example, cancer and the curing of cancer and Alzheimer's?

Well, I don'tâI'm beginning to thinkâand I've learned that American people have sort of lost confidence that we can do anything. We got to doâwe got to demonstrate we can do big things againâbig things again, not think small. Do big things again.

And it's totallyâand that's why I put together an outfit called ARPAâH, where we put billions of dollars into special research facilities at NIH that is separate thatâto deal with cancer, Alzheimer's, and to deal with it in a way that theâeven though there's a lot of decent folks and brilliant people in the pharma industry, they don't want to spend the tens of billions of dollarsâ millions of dollars to try to find the answer to some of these. Not because they don't want to, but it's not a great bet. It's not a great bet.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, there are certain things that I've been convinced that the vast majority of the American people have agreed with for a long time. But special interests have prevented us from being able to make the kind of progress we should make.

For example, the idea that in the United States of America, we're not in a situationâwhy do we continue to pay the highest price for prescription drugs of any nation in the entire worldâthe entire world? Nobody else is close. Why? Well, because we've been unwilling toâwe've been unable to take on a major interest. Pharma is a greatâa big interest. No one has ever beaten pharma.

We have a situation now where, for example, anybodyâI'm not asking you for a show of hands, but any of you have type 2 diabetes and need to use insulin, or a child who does? Well, it can range between $641 a month to $1,000 a month. It costs 15 bucks to make and produce, because theâa particular company is selling it. They didn't come up with the patent. An individual invented it and didn't even patent it because he didn'tâhe wanted it to be available. But it costs now enormous amounts of money.

Well, we finally gotâI finally was able to convince the Congress that we should insist that for anyone on Medicare, that you in fact are able to be in a situation where you don't have to pay more than $35 for a vial of insulin for your diabetes or whatever else you need it for. Because it's the only outfit in the world that cannot compete to set price and say we're not going to pay more than a certain amount.

We had a provision in there also that said that, in fact, anyoneâanyone who needs the insulin should not have to pay more than that. My Republican friends knocked the second part out. Knocked the second part out.

But my point is this: People are beginning to focus on the things that really do make a difference, really do make a difference. We're in a situation whereâas I said, take a look at the environment. Well, guess what? Granted, I didn't get everything I wanted, but I recently called for

$520 billion over this period of time; we got $368 billion. But it's going to change the nature of how we deal with climate in a major way.

So, I guessâI guess the point I'm trying to make is: I think the American people are beginning to realizeâif you look at the polling data and the restâit's beginning to changeâthat forâlet me give you an example: I've spentâthe first year, I had to spend an awful lot of time abroad. So I spent an enormous amount of time in Europe trying to put NATO back together again; an enormous amount of time spending in the Pacific with trying to put South Korea and Japan back in the field again; put together the Quad betweenâwith Australia, India, the United States, and Japan, dealing with the Indian Ocean being open, et ceteraâa whole lot of things.

And I spent a lot of time with the ASEAN countries. I spent weeksâand I spent with theâthe innerâthe inter-American initiative we have.

You know, we're in a situation whereâand I'll stop with this. I know this is even boring me at this point. [*Laughter*]

But look, here's the deal: Today, there are 15 percent fewer democracies in the world than there were 10 years ago. Fifteen percent of the world fewerâfewer actual democracies in the world than there were before. How do we sustain peace and stability if that's the case?

We put together aâa package, as I said, for infrastructure: roads, bridges, internet, highway, et ceteraâairports, ports. Well, we put more money into that than any timeâoneâ$1.4 billionâ 1 trillion 400 billion dollars. And we're going to rebuild the world. Because what happens? We've all of a sudden, becauseâand we learned about whatâwhat the pandemic does. We learned

about this whole notion of what's available in one part of the world better be available in the other part or you can't get it built.

For example, a major reason for inflation last year was the cost of automobiles. Why did they go up so high? They didn't have the computer chips to build the automobiles, so fewer automobiles were built, fewer trucks were built. The price went up, and then went up exponentially. So we put together a CHIPS Act, we call it. The CHIPS Act.

And weâwe're starting toâwe used to invest 3â2 percent of our entire GDP in pure research andâandâjust pure research. Well, now we do 0.7 percent. Well, where would we have been if we were only investing in 0.7 percent for the last 25 years? China now is investing more on pure research than the United States is.

And so, I guess what I'm saying is that I think there's enormous, enormous, enormous opportunities that we have. You know, it's theâbut this is not your father's Republican Party. This is a different deal. And there's an awful lot of really standard, good, decent Republicans.

For example, the reason I'm not going to be able to stay long as I'm going to go to a major rally for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Democratic candidates. Two thousand people are supposed to be in this gym that I'm going to.

And you know, you have your gubernatorial candidate, the Democratic candidate, inâin this State who is also a veteran and a Rhodes Scholar and aâthis is a guy who made the point that his opponent is not really fit for the office, joined by the sitting Republican Governor of the State pointing out that this is a MAGA Republican. This is not a traditional conservative Republican; this is a different deal.

And so, you knowâand then along came theâa guy I know well, because I've worked with him for so long, and even he's not as extreme as someâsome of these folks are. But the Republican leader of the Senate, he was able to, quote, "pack the Court" legitimately by putting more people on the Courtâthe Supreme Court. And when what do we get? *Roe *v. *Wade *gets thrown out after 50 yearsâ49 years and 9 monthsâchanging.

And you have a man that I didn't support when I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee saying thatâon the Courtâsayingâbut we want to make it clear: It's not just about *Roe *and choice. It's aboutâit's about marriageâsame-sex marriage. It's about contraception. It's about a whole range of things that are on the docket.

If in fact we don't win this election, we lose the House and Senate, mark my words: You're going to see a nationwide effort to provide for the ability of wiping out the ability to have choice across the board, not just in terms of individual Statesâred Statesâbut across the board.

Now, fortunately, I'll be Presidentâif my health maintained, I'll be President for at least 2 more years, and I'll veto it. But the point is, what are we talking about now? We're talking about things thatâno exceptions: rape, incest. No exceptions whatsoever.

If you cross a State line to get medical help or get a prescription or a particular drug, you're going to be arrested. That's what's happening now. That's the fight going on. So everything is sort of up in the air in the minds of an awful lot of people. And I think that what we have to do is be very clear: Our team has to show up and, quite frankly, vote, just simply vote.

And look, let me sort of cut to the chase here. Rick Scott, theâwho heads up the ultra- MAGA agenda for the Republicans, he's the head of the Senate campaign committee for the Republicans. He's introducedâand I'm going to be showing this; I have a big chart I'm taking to this next event. He saidâhe thinks everyone in America should pay taxesânot more taxesâ everyone in America should pay taxes. All those folks making less than $100,000 a year, if they

have some exemption, they should have to pay net more taxes. Average increase expected to be

$1,200 bucks for every American under that amount.

Well, beyond that, he says that we should try to be in a situation where weâCongress, every five years, has to affirmatively vote to maintain Social Security, which you paid for your whole life. You have to affirmatively vote. It comes upâif it's not positively voted for, it's gone, it's eliminated. And you think I'm making this up; it's not. It's the only written Republican platform so far.

And so you're out if in fact you do notâand what that means: Every 5 years, it's up on the chopping block, because under the Senate rules, you can do everything from cut it, alter it, change it, eliminate it possibly. It's unlikely they can eliminate it. And then, on top of that, thatâ Medicare and Medicaid on top of it.

And so, folks, we're in a situation where the distinguished senatorâand I say that lightlyâ [*laughter*]âSenator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, he thinks thatâhe says that when the Senateâ when Republicans regain control of the Senate, if that were to occur, they're going to go back again for the 38th time or so and repeal Obamacare, repeal the ACA.

Well, theâwhatâthe reason why he won those 40-some seats in the off-year in '18 is, I picked outâas a guy who was out of office, picked out 56 races where there was a Republican incumbent Senator who was arguing to get rid of the ACA. Because people didn't know the only reason anyone with a preexisting condition could have health care was because of the ACA.

So, under the ACA, whether you have a pre-existing condition or not, you get covered. And when that happened, we won 44 seats. Well, they're back at it again.

In addition, the Senator from the State of Wisconsin is also calling for that you treat allâ every single appropriation in the United States Government, youâyou treat it as there's no longer any entitlements. Every year, they have to be voted onâevery single solitary thing.

And so, folks, you know, it's aboutâthis is a real battle. And you know, whether it's prescription drugs, whether it's Social Security, whether it's the gun lobby, we've had success. We took on and we beat the gun lobby for the first time in 30 years.

Butâif I have anything to do with it, we're going to add assault weapons to banningâ [*inaudible*]. I got that passed when I was a United States Senatorâbanning assault weapons. But look at all the people being killed. I mean, scores and scores and scores. I've been to every one of those sites from Uvalde, to up in Buffalo, and all the rest. You know, you have the velocity of a bullet coming out of assault weapons is three and a half times as fast as a bullet coming out of another weapon. The ability to be able to rapidly fire and make it an automatic is easy. And it can even penetrate bulletproof vests.

And so, you have, literally, hundreds and hundreds of hundreds of people being gunned down. And those stories you never read about on the street. Every single day, there is a Uvalde out there.

So, you know, I think that what we've demonstrated is, we can take on the gun lobby, we can take onâwe can take on these other organizations and educate the American people as to what's at stake. And I think we can win.

As I said when I began here, I think that we're in a battle for the soul of this country. And I think the American people are waking up to the reality that things have changed so drastically, we better get it back in line sooner than laterâsooner than later. And that's what you're doing with these contributions. You're helping the Senators and House Members and local officials.

Did you ever think you'd see a time when we'd have an election and there'd be fighting to see who is the election commissioner so that they can independently count the votesânot the Federal Government, not going backâthat it's an independent determination made locally under a very narrow reading of the Constitution?

That's whereâthat's where we are right now. So we've got to win, and we've got to set theâ and I believe, and the data shows, that a significant portion of Republican party agrees with us.

They agree with the fact that the MAGA crowd has gone much too farâmuch too far in their view of what the role of government is.

And so I just want to thank you all for your willingness to sit here on a hot summer day, talk about being willing to help elect mainstream and progressive Democrats all across the country, and some Republicans tooâsome Republicans as wellâwho understand that this is about getting together againâDemocrats, Republicans, and Independents.

We have to unite. We have to unite on the basic fundamental questions that face the country.

And one of those questions is whether or notâwhether or not we are going to maintain and strengthen our democracy, or are you going to let it continue to splinter.

So thank you all so very muchâfor bothering to listen.

And I promised my staff I would take no questions, but I can take a couple on the way out. [*Laughter*] Anybody? Yes.

Climate Change

Q. Recently, you signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which invested billions in clean energy. But as you said, this is not enough. What do you plan to do next to combat climate change?

The President. Well, there's a number of things I'm going to do next. Number one is, I'm going toâwell, the press is here, I'd better not do it yet. [Laughter]

NOTE: The President spoke at approximately 5 p.m. at the residence of Risa S. Bender and Benjamin B. Klubes. In his remarks, he referred to former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald

J. Trump; President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia; President Xi Jinping of China; Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson; Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom; President Emmanuel Macron of France; Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany; Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore and Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox; Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., of Maryland; Senate Minority Leader A. Mitchell McConnell; and Sen. Richard L. Scott, in his capacity as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. This transcript was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on August 26. Audio was not available for verification of the content of these remarks.

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