Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, December 9, 2022

Table Of Content

• User Clip: KJP: President Biden 'Passes a Cognitive Test Every Day'
• WH Press briefing on Biden Administration support for striking health care workers
• Statement of President Joe Biden on the Passing of U.S. Congressman Donald Payne Jr.
• WATCH: President Biden References Infamous Lauren Boebert Theater Incident In WHCD Joke
• Jake Sullivan Says Vote Against Supplemental Will Hurt Ukraine and Help Russia

Obviously, the decisions how to manage the virus are done at the local level, informed by community transmission, vaccination rate, and local capacity. So, we need to use the tools we have and get more people vaccinated to keep people safe without going backwards in any way, shape, or form. Ahead of tonight’s deadline, the federal government has achieved 95 percent compliance and 90 percent of the 3.5 million federal workers are already vaccinated.

User Clip: KJP: President Biden 'Passes a Cognitive Test Every Day'

And, you know, the U.S. government continues to encourage the Russian government through every — every contact with them, through every channels to secure his release. Again, regrettably, due to nature of the total — totally illegitimate charges they levied against Paul, the Russians are treating this situation differently than Brittney — Brittney’s situation, and we have been unable to secure his release. Once Brittney lands in the United States, she will be offered appropriate care and support from the U.S. government, including medical screenings as well. And this morning, just to clear up some of the questions that you all have had, Cherelle had been invited to the White House for a meeting with the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. As the President said this morning, he will — he will never stop working to secure Paul’s release and return home.

WH Press briefing on Biden Administration support for striking health care workers

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. We are grateful for their leadership at the — at the last G20 and look forward to working closely with India as they’re new chair of the G20. I’m not going to speak to specific — every specific individual invites that was made last week.

Statement of President Joe Biden on the Passing of U.S. Congressman Donald Payne Jr.

But when we’re talking about hateful rhetoric, when we’re talking about violence, we have to call that out. It’s something that we are dealing with on all three fronts. And you’ve heard Secretary Blinken, obviously, who’s now in Beijing, speak to our concerns with respect to the PRC and its support for Russia’s defense industrial base. And we have been vocal from this podium about both North Korea and Iran, and we’ll continue to be. I can’t speak beyond that because, of course, we’re in the early days of fully understanding what happened. Until recently, as we’ve said on many occasions, we were unable to provide these ATACMS because of readiness concerns.

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These three boxes here show what the effect is on hospitalization; severe, in the middle; and death, on the right. This is referred to as a Kaplan-Meier curve. And it’s very easy to see what the data are. The red line is showing the cumulative incidence after two doses, and the greenish line shows what that cumulative incidence is after three doses. There is no doubt what the efficacy and real-world effectiveness of boosters are here.

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We’re not saying that we do not want Americans to use TikTok. We want to make sure that it’s done in a way that we protect our national security and that we protect Americans. Because it would have been the toughest, it would have been the fairest if it was — if the President had an opportunity to sign that into law — you know, law that we had seen in some time. And it would have addressed a lot of the concerns that Republicans have that we’re seeing — the challenges that we’re seeing at the border. You know, President Biden spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu a little more than two weeks ago.

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I want to take a moment and talk about the critical steps forward we took last week in our country’s vaccine booster program. I want to share with you what Friday’s regulatory action by FDA and updated recommendations from CDC means for millions of Americans. And your first question was about Iran sanctions. The EU has moved, the UK has moved, the United States has moved, and we will continue to move. Cherelle, who herself has handled Brittney’s detention with incredible strength, asked me to communicate once again her sincere gratitude to everyone in the administration and in their broader — and in their own broader support network, who made this day possible.

Jake Sullivan Says Vote Against Supplemental Will Hurt Ukraine and Help Russia

Kirby, who is widely respected by journalists as a valuable source of both information and soundbites, has requested to pick out who asks him questions at briefings, but Jean-Pierre has not agreed to allow him to do so. “Sometimes he talks to her and she acts as if he is not talking,” said a fourth source familiar with the situation and critical of Jean-Pierre. That is a promise that his administration is continuing to — contin- — continuing to fight for.

That’s something that we helped facilitate, including by giving the AU — African Union — our place in line. We have plenty of doses of Moderna for boosters and primary series here in the U.S.  So we’re able to do that to facilitate Moderna getting more doses to the African Union. Over 135 million individuals are now eligible for a booster shot, with tens of millions more becoming eligible over the coming months. This is a major step forward in our vaccination program that will help accelerate our work to put the pandemic behind us. Now, if you look at this again — I want to show it because the results in that same study are really dramatic. If you look at this again, the red boxes are what happens after placebo — after booster vaccination.

In this updated figure on COVID Data Tracker, the blue line shows rates of hospitalization among the unvaccinated and the green line among the vaccinated through September 25th. The downtick in hospitalizations of the blue line is because of decreasing case rates towards the end of September, and the very slight uptick in the green line represents waning immunity, for which we are recommending boosters. The seven-day average of hospital admissions is about 5,600 per day, about a 6 percent increase from the prior seven-day average. When a reporter asked where it might happen, noting the White House wouldn't want to hold the meeting in "downtown Pyongyang," Sanders said. "We won't have those conversations between me and the press. Those conversations will take place at a much higher level."

And so, I do think that this is very different because we actually have the tools to prevent the vast majority of cases. We can curb the spread of the virus without having to in any way shut down our economy. So that — you know, we have 82 percent of people now with one shot, and more and more people getting vaccinated each week. Stepping back, there’s no question that we are headed into a very different Thanksgiving compared to last year, when millions of families were unable to celebrate the holiday together.

As they try to coordinate the humanitarian element of this. So, I can’t speak specifically to these reports, how they relate to Israel’s future military operations, because I’ve only seen them kind of written in the newspaper. I haven’t yet seen what exactly they’re referring to. But I think really what this weekend showed is that, at the end of the day, despite substantial effort by a lot of parties, including the Russians, to figure out a way to not have this bill pass, it has passed. And I think the message that that sends is that, at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, the United States is going to be there with the resources necessary for Ukraine.

So, look, I would say, more broadly — and I said this moments ago — this is a deeply painful, painful moment for many communities, and we understand that. But the President believes that free speech, debate, and nondiscrimination on college campuses are important. And that — and so, he’ll always be very clear — we will always be very clear about here — about that here. The Lad- — Labor Department is also protecting retirement security by requiring financial advisors to act in the saver’s best interest, not their own. This will save millions of Americans thousands of dollars for their retirement accounts. So, you put all that together and I think the calculus of the Russians or the critics of Ukraine who say, “Time is on Russia’s side” — they’ve got it wrong.