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FACT SHEET: On One-Year Anniversary of President Biden’s Care EO, the Biden-⁠Harris Administration Celebrates New Progress toward Providing Care and Other Supportive Services for WorkersWhite House Hosts Event and Issues Call to Action to Government Leaders, Employers, and Others to Build on These EffortsDuring Care Workers Recognition Month and the Month of Action on Care, the Biden-Harris Administration will mark progress toward expanding access to care and other supportive services workers need to train for and stay in good-paying jobs. Today, Senior Biden-Harris Administration officials—including White House Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden, Director of the Gender Policy Council Jennifer Klein, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Shailen Bhatt—will be joined by Governor Tina Kotek of Oregon, Governor Kathy Hochul of New York, and Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts along with tradeswomen, care advocates, and business community representatives for a Making Care Work event. Participants will announce new actions that advance President Biden’s call to strengthen the nation’s Care Economy and discuss the importance of supportive services, including child care and long-term care, for building a skilled, diverse workforce.Workers cannot train for or stay in good jobs if they cannot meet basic needs, such as access to child care and transportation. That is why supportive services are critical to building the workforce necessary to carry out President Biden’s Investing in America (IIA) agenda. Building on the Department of Commerce’s historic requirement that companies receiving major CHIPS and Science Act grants provide child care for their workers, the President’s Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers (Care EO) directed every cabinet-level agency to determine how they can require, preference, or encourage their own federal funding applicants to provide supportive services, including care, for workers.Today’s event will highlight how agencies are implementing the President’s Care EO, including by making funds available for supportive services in their grants and loans where allowable, strengthening language in their funding opportunities, producing key resources for applicants, and more. The event will also showcase examples of how grantees—from states to employers, unions, community colleges, and more—are leading the way on care and other supports for workers. Administration officials will announce the first National Child Care Innovation Summit, and issue calls to action to employers, governors, and others to further expand care and other supports for workers.https://lnkd.in/eAy3TZWR

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FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Highlights Substantial Progress on the President’s Care Agenda During Month of Action on CareBRIEFING ROOM -STATEMENTS AND RELEASESDuring Care Workers Recognition Month, the Biden-Harris Administration is marking the progress we have made to make care more affordable for American families, support family caregivers, boost compensation and job quality for care workers, and expand care options. Today, President Biden will be joined by care workers and unions as he lays out how he will build on that progress with transformational investments in child care, home care, paid family and medical leave, tax cuts for workers and families, and other priorities, which are fully paid for by making the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share in taxes. That is in sharp contrast with congressional Republicans, who would make devastating cuts to funding for care, healthcare, Social Security, and Medicare to pay for massive tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations.The Need to Improve CareToo many families and individuals struggle to access the affordable, high-quality care they need. The cost of child care is up 26% in the last decade and more than 200% over the past 30 years. For older adults and people with disabilities, long-term care costs are up 40% over the past decade. As a result, the cost of care is out of reach for many Americans. At the same time, care workers—who are disproportionately women of color—struggle to make ends meet, even as they care for others. Due to the low pay and the demanding nature of care work, turnover rates are high. In addition, at least 53 million Americans serve as family caregivers—including over 5 million caring for service members or veterans—and many face challenges due to the lack of support, training, and respite.The President’s Plan to Lower Costs for Families for CareThe President has made child care, long-term care, family caregiving, and paid leave a core part of his domestic and economic agendas. He has referenced these issues in each of his State of the Union Addresses, and proposed transformative investments in each budget. The President’s most recent budget proposes the following:Affordable, High-Quality Child Care and Universal PreschoolHigh-quality early childhood education improves the lives of both children and their parents. The President’s child care plan provides a lifeline to the parents of more than 16 million children by guaranteeing affordable, high-quality child care from birth until kindergarten for low- and middle-income working families. Right now, the average price of child care is nearly $11,000 a year, with low-income families paying as much as a third of their income for child care. https://lnkd.in/ebTHX3uc

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Donald the Denier: Donald Trump Has Repeatedly Called Climate Change a “Hoax” / DNC Talking Points - As Donald Trump repeatedly calls climate change a “hoax” while pushing an extreme MAGA agenda that would gut basic environmental protections and end tax relief to lower energy costs for working families, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: “Donald Trump has never met a baseless conspiracy theory he doesn’t love, so of course he thinks climate change is a ‘hoax’ – it’s why he’s running on the same extreme, unpopular agenda to dismantle basic environmental protections and end President Biden’s tax relief for working families to help lower energy costs. While President Biden is tackling the climate crisis head-on with new investments to protect jobs and our planet, Trump is just pushing dangerous conspiracy theories and threatening growing sustainable industries that have helped fuel our economic recovery. The American people want a leader who understands the threats we face and does something about it, not a MAGA extremist like Trump who doesn’t care about keeping Americans safe or protecting the jobs of the future.”.Donald Trump repeatedly called climate change a “hoax” as he spent every single year in office gutting and undermining environmental protections and regulations.Forbes: “Donald Trump told host Stuart Varney that climate change is ‘a hoax.’ The former president said ‘in my opinion, you have a thing called weather, and you go up, and you go down,’ he said. ‘If you look into the 1920s, they were talking about a global freezing, okay? In other words, the globe was going to freeze.’”Washington Post: “Trump reiterated some of his frequently repeated falsehoods and petty grievances. ‘The global warming hoax, it just never ends,’ he said. He mocked the concept of sea levels rising, disputing widely held science. ‘To which I say, great, we have more waterfront property,’ he said. ‘There was a big thing about global cooling — what will be next?’ he said. Trump said he wasmore concerned about ‘nuclear warming’ than global warming.”New York Times: “Over four years, the Trump administration dismantled major climate policies and rolled back many more rules governing clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals.”Associated Press: “[Trump] rolled back dozens of environmental rules he considered overly burdensome on businesses. Many of the regulations were designed to protect the environment and public health, but were viewed by the Trump administration as costly and unnecessary.”###

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OFFICE OF POLITICAL STRATEGY & OUTREACH April 22, 2024 / WhiteHouse Talking Points - President Biden Marks Earth Day 2024 with Historic Climate ActionToday, to celebrate Earth Day 2024, President announced $7 billion in awards through EPA’s Solar for All program and unveiled major steps to advance the American Climate Corps. When President Biden took office, he pledged to restore America’s climate leadership at home and abroad. Watch the President's remarks here.Learn more here: FACT SHEET: President Biden Marks Earth Day 2024 with Historic Climate Action On his first day in office, the President signed the United States back into the Paris Agreement. And each day since, the Biden-Harris Administration has continued to lead and deliver on the most ambitious climate agenda in history, including securing the largest ever climate investment and unleashing a clean energy manufacturing boom that has attracted hundreds of billions in private sector investment and created over 270,000 new clean energy jobs. The President’s agenda is also advancing environmental justice and ensuring that the benefits of climate investments reach overburdened communities, mobilizing the next generation of clean energy workers through the American Climate Corps, and delivering historic investments in our nation’s climate resilience. At the same time, the Administration is protecting America’s natural wonders, conserving more than 41 million acres of lands and waters. The President’s agenda is also advancing environmental justice and ensuring that the benefits of climate investments reach overburdened communities, mobilizing the next generation of clean energy workers through the American Climate Corps, and delivering historic investments in our nation’s climate resilience. At the same time, the Administration is protecting America’s natural wonders, conserving more than 41 million acres of lands and waters. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Stephen Benjamin traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada to break ground on the Brightline West High-Speed Rail Project funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Lyndora, Pennsylvania to highlight how President Biden’s agenda is lowering emissions for domestic steel manufacturing and supporting American workers as they help build the clean energy economy. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra delivered remarks at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Washington, DC on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the health care sector. Department of Housing and Urban Development Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman participated in an event in Washington, DC with children to plant trees, supporting Washington, DC’s tree canopy, helping to combat the urban heat island effect, and making sure the many benefits of trees reach everyone.

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Hello Democrats – Today, the DNC is launching two billboards in Scottsdale, AZ, where RFK Jr. is hosting a private fundraising event tomorrow. The billboards will run in Scottsdale, AZ until Tuesday, April 23. Democratic National Committee Spokesperson Matt Corridoni released the following statement: “RFK Jr. was recruited to run by Trump allies like Steve Bannon, his candidacy is being propped up by Trump’s largest donor, and his own campaign staffer said the campaign's top goal is stopping President Biden. Arizona voters deserve to know who RFK Jr. really is, a spoiler for Donald Trump.” See the art below: Details for Location: Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway at the Scottsdale Road ExitLoop 202 towards Mesa, AZ ICYMI: Last night, Biden supporters in Michigan rallied outside of RFK Jr.’s “MAGA Clown Show”Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.Best, Matt Corridoni DNC Spokesperson

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 22, 2024 / WhiteHouse Talking Points - Project 2025: Trump is a Toxic Threat to Planet EarthHappy Earth Day to everyone – except for Donald Trump and the oil barons funding his campaign – who Trump has vowed to do “much of what they wanted ‘on Day 1’” in exchange for political donations. Trump has said climate change is a “con job” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese.” He’s said he doesn’t think “science knows, actually” and didn’t believe a report put out during his own administration underlining the threat and consequences of climate change. Trump has even said windmills cause cancer. They don’t. Trump’s administration launched a war on the planet: Exited the Paris Climate AgreementNominated climate lobbyists and deniers to key administration posts – including EPA Administrator Dismantled environmental rules Worked to make our air more hazardous to breathe and our water more polluted Removed nearly 200 references to climate change in government websites and documentsPresident Biden and Vice President Harris have made enormous progress undoing the damage Donald Trump inflicted on our global fight to curb the impacts of climate change – including passing the most sweeping climate legislation by any country in history – but if Trump regains power, he has even worse plans for planet Earth. Trump and his allies’ Project 2025 agenda for a second term is all the worst of his first term but on steroids:Repealing the most consequential clean energy law in American historyGutting federal research on the effects of climate change Barring the military from considering climate change when planning for national security threatsEnacting a battle plan against climate action in favor of oil and gas companies The following is a statement from Biden-Harris 2024 National Advisory Board Member Congressman Maxwell Frost:“Donald Trump doesn’t believe in the threat of climate change, which makes Donald a threat to our planet and every future generation. He will sell out the American people to oil barons who want to pollute our air and take our country backwards – in exchange for campaign donations. “This election is about the future we want to build today and for generations to come. President Biden is doing that – enacting, delivering, and leading the most ambitious climate, clean energy, and environmental justice agenda in history.”###

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