The White House lifts its last COVID-19 prevention protocol

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• Fact Sheet: Vice President Harris Announces Historic Advancements in Long-Term Care to Support the Care Economy
• Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on President Biden’s Call with President-elect Gabriel Boric of Chile
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• Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on Iran’s Attacks Against the State of Israel
• Key takeaways from Biden's remarks reflecting on his first year in office
• Biden imposes new sanctions on Iran after drone and missile attack on Israel

Thanks to work by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Federal Government will transition the Information Technology Management series, called the 2210 series, to skills-based hiring principles and practices. The 2210 job series represents IT workers in every federal agency and a majority of the federal IT workforce accounting for nearly 100,000 current federal employees. This rule will not only benefit residents and their families, it will also ensure that workers aren’t stretched too thin by having inadequate staff on site, which is currently a common reason for worker burnout and turnover. Workers who are on the frontlines interacting with residents and understanding their needs will also be given a voice in developing staffing plans for nursing homes.

Fact Sheet: Vice President Harris Announces Historic Advancements in Long-Term Care to Support the Care Economy

The President said he thinks his report card going into the midterms is "pretty good," and is confident his administration will be able to sign into law "good chunks" of his agenda. More than 1.18 million people in the U.S. died from COVID-19, according to CDC data and 6.85 million were hospitalized over the past four years. More than 270 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. The vaccines have helped dramatically reduce instances of serious disease and death since their widespread availability in early 2021.

Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on President Biden’s Call with President-elect Gabriel Boric of Chile

I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. Israel is facing unprecedented attacks from Iran, and Ukraine is facing continued bombardment from Russia that has intensified dramatically in the last month. Ending his remarks on a somber note, Biden raised his glass toasting to a free press, an informed citizenry and an America where freedom and democracy endure. "He said he wants to be a dictator on day one," Biden told the crowd of journalists, lawmakers, celebrities and others, characterizing remarks Trump repeatedly made about the southern border and drilling efforts. "He promised a bloodbath when he loses again. We have to take this seriously. Eight years ago we could've written it off as just Trump talk but no longer."

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Neither Israel nor its close ally the United States accept the ICC’s jurisdiction, but any warrants could put Israeli officials at risk of arrest in other countries. A series of Israeli announcements in recent days about allowing more humanitarian aid into Gaza appears to be aimed in part at heading off possible ICC action. The ICC launched a probe three years ago into possible war crimes committed by Israel and Palestinian militants going back to the 2014 Israel-Hamas war, but it has given no indication such warrants are imminent. The Ukrainian official added he’d never heard any nuance like this from the US administration before. Biden went on to say that he hasn't left Washington enough in the last few months to promote his agenda to the American people. Manchin had expressed opposition to the provision, citing the cost of the sweeping bill to expand the social safety net.

Trump required hospitalization after falling seriously ill weeks before the 2020 presidential election; Biden had minimal symptoms after catching it in the summer of 2022 after having been vaccinated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday lifted its COVID-19 testing requirement for those who plan to be in close contact with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses, bringing to an end the last coronavirus prevention protocol at the White House. Former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton each met members of the ruling Kim family, but only after they'd left office. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was just asked why Trump accepted the meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un without "preconditions," such as the release of the three Americans that are being held there. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said it’s “absurd” to pretend that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was not involved in the North Korea discussions Thursday and defended reports that the Pentagon was left out of the loop.

ONCD has been leading the efforts to transition to skills-based hiring for cyber jobs in both public and private sectors. Skills-based hiring opens up opportunities to workers who have learned skills in programs like apprenticeships and other training programs rather than relying solely on two or four-year college degree requirements. The Biden-Harris Administration has prioritized expanding registered apprenticeships and has invested $440 million in related programs. In March 2024, President Biden signed an Executive Order to expand registered apprenticeship programs in the Federal Government. Thanks to a registered apprenticeship sprint for cybersecurity workers, more than 7,000 individuals were hired into a paid apprenticeship role across the nation.

Key takeaways from Biden's remarks reflecting on his first year in office

"Look, I don't have a crystal ball to predict the future, but the President's national security adviser is General McMaster. He is a valued member of the President's team and an important part of this process," Sanders said. Pineland TelephonePineland Telephone works closely with middle and high school students to demonstrate the skills needed for a fulfilling cybersecurity career. We'll be in touch with the latest information on how President Biden and his administration are working for the American people, as well as ways you can get involved and help our country build back better.

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Biden imposes new sanctions on Iran after drone and missile attack on Israel

Now, soaring inflation and supply-chain snarls have hit Americans in the wallet and grocery store. What's more, the omicron variant of the coronavirus is raging and the Supreme Court ruled against Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate. When Biden took over from Trump, the coronavirus pandemic was in full force, ravaging the national economy and education system, as well as overwhelming hospital emergency rooms and funeral homes. Biden had said in his remarks that "there are differences" within NATO on how what to do if Russia takes action that is "something significantly short" of a military invasion, noting the kind of financial sanctions under consideration would hurt European economies, and emphasizing that he has to "make sure everybody's on the same page as we move along."

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats pressed forward on two voting rights bills backed by Biden — the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — which are all but guaranteed to fail. At the same time, Biden was asked about voting rights, specifically about Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney's recent remarks, attacking the White House for keeping Republicans out of discussions over election reform. Psaki continued by noting that the president "knows from long experience that the Russians have an extensive playbook of aggression short of military action, including cyberattacks and paramilitary tactics."

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held a news briefing on Friday, a day after a special counsel report found evidence that President Joe Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen, including about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, but concluded that criminal charges were not warranted. As President Biden held a news conference to tout his administration's achievements during his first year in office, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin criticized his party over their push to end the filibuster in order to advance legislation on voting rights. Verizon, IncVerizon’s Skill Forward Program, in collaboration with edX, provides tuition-free technical and professional learning pathways. This initiative is designed to prepare 500,000 U.S. workers for future tech careers in fields such as cybersecurity and AI by 2030, reinforcing Verizon’s commitment to workforce diversity and skilled employee retention.

President Trump was upset with Sanders over her responses Wednesday regarding his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, a source close to the White House told CNN. 815, which provides supplemental emergency appropriations for fiscal year 2024 to Federal agencies to respond to the situations in Israel and Ukraine, and for assistance to the Indo-Pacific region. Strong transparency measures will ensure nursing home residents and their families are aware when a nursing home is using an exemption. Merck & Co., Inc.Merck & Co., Inc’s Information Technology organization commits to embracing the company’s Skills-First talent practices by removing four-year degree hiring requirements to even more roles, having already doubled the number of roles posted without the requirement since 2021. Glendale Community CollegeGlendale Community College (GCC) commits to maintaining a live security operations center (SOC) where 19 paid interns will monitor, detect, and inform partnering rural municipalities at no cost, providing with over 300 hours of competency-based experience as a SOC Analyst or SOC Engineer by the end of 2024.

A Ukrainian official told CNN’s Matthew Chance he is “shocked that the US President Biden would distinguish between incursion and invasion” and suggest that a minor incursion would not trigger sanctions but an invasion would. President Biden said Wednesday that he was unsure that the child tax credit could pass in a scaled-back version of his Build Back Better agenda, a key provision Democrats have sought to extend that lacks support from moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. The White House has issued a high-level clarification following President Biden's remarks suggesting potential disunity within NATO over how to respond in the event of a "minor incursion" by Russia into Ukraine.

President Biden’s Investing in America agenda – including the CHIPS and Science Act – is spurring a manufacturing and clean energy boom. Since President Biden took office through the end of March 2024, companies have announced over $825 billion in private sector investments in manufacturing and clean energy, and over 50,000 infrastructure and clean energy projects are underway. This announcement is part of the President’s broader commitment to build an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down, and invest in all of America. The National Cyber Director announced that the Biden-Harris Administration is leading by example and will overhaul the federal hiring process to become fully skills-based for an entire series of technical employees.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration, through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a Final Rule, entitled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy. The Final Rule strengthens the Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by prohibiting the disclosure of protected health information (PHI) related to lawful reproductive health care in certain circumstances. HHS is issuing this Final Rule after hearing from communities that changes were needed to better protect patient confidentiality and prevent medical records from being used against people for providing or obtaining lawful reproductive health care. This Final Rule will bolster patient-provider confidentiality and help promote trust and open communication between individuals and their health care providers or health plans, which is essential for high-quality health care.

The U.S. president and first lady traditionally attend the annual event, and it was far from Biden’s first. His attendance last year marked the first presidential appearance at the dinner in six years after the event’s two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump’s refusal to attend while he was in office. The White House has said Biden erred in having the documents in his home and Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel’s office, said on Friday that Biden would soon name a task force “to ensure that there are better processes in place” to protect classified materials when administrations change. Israel expanded the mobilization of reservists to 360,000 on Tuesday, according to the country’s media. After days of fighting, Israel’s military said Tuesday morning that it had regained effective control over areas Hamas attacked in its south, and of the Gaza border. In total, Biden spoke for nearly two hours on topics ranging from the pandemic and his administration's response to how he planned to forge forward on his legislative priorities and the nation's foreign policy agenda.