Watch live as White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds briefing - US News - tranganhnam.xyz
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MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Okay —
Q Or maybe not.
MS. PSAKI: Oh, what did you think was going to happen? (Laughter.) I’m sorry to disappoint. Okay, sorry to disappoint. You never know who’s behind the door.
Okay. Okay, tomorrow — just one item for all of you at the top: Tomorrow, the President will travel to Elk Grove Village, Illinois — a trip he had planned to do last week — to meet with public and private sector leaders who have implemented vaccination requirements. The President will visit with a company local to the Chicago area that is imposing its own vaccine requirement ahead of the OSHA rule.
The President’s message will be clear: Vaccination requirements work. Vaccination requirements get more people vaccinated, helping to end the pandemic and strengthen the economy.
That’s why he’s leading and implementing on — implementing vaccination requirements for 100 million workers, two thirds of all workers in the United States, and that’s why we’re seeing growing momentum for vaccination requirements across the sectors and across the country.
Alex, go ahead.
Q Thanks, Jen. I was hoping to get you to weigh in on three different debt limit scenarios since there’s so many —
MS. PSAKI: Great.
Q — developing. So, off the top, Senator Mitch McConnell has proposed for Republicans to either support a short-term hike in the debt limit through December or to support a expedited reconciliation process where Democrats would vote to hike it long term. What’s the White House response to that? Is there support for either of those from the President?
And then, I was hoping to get clarification on something the President said yesterday. He seemed to suggest that he would support a carveout in the filibuster, if all else fails, to hike the debt limit. Is that where he stands? Would he be open to that?
MS. PSAKI: Well, right now — and perhaps this the awkwardness of 4:15, while people are still meeting on the Hill — right now, Democratic members are meeting on the Hill to discuss options on the path forward. I think Republican members may also be meeting or discussing among themselves.
My understanding, at the point I walked out here, is that there’s been no formal offer made. A press release is not a formal offer.
And regardless, even the scant details that have been reported present more complicated, more difficult options than the one that is quite obvious, in the President’s view, and is in front of the faces of every member up on the Hill. We could get this done today. We don’t need to kick the can. We don’t need to go through a cumbersome process that every day brings additional risks.
So, they’re discussing up there. We’ll, obviously, be in close touch with them, as we will continue to be, and we’ll see where we — where we are at the end of today.
Q Or maybe not.
MS. PSAKI: Oh, what did you think was going to happen? (Laughter.) I’m sorry to disappoint. Okay, sorry to disappoint. You never know who’s behind the door.
Okay. Okay, tomorrow — just one item for all of you at the top: Tomorrow, the President will travel to Elk Grove Village, Illinois — a trip he had planned to do last week — to meet with public and private sector leaders who have implemented vaccination requirements. The President will visit with a company local to the Chicago area that is imposing its own vaccine requirement ahead of the OSHA rule.
The President’s message will be clear: Vaccination requirements work. Vaccination requirements get more people vaccinated, helping to end the pandemic and strengthen the economy.
That’s why he’s leading and implementing on — implementing vaccination requirements for 100 million workers, two thirds of all workers in the United States, and that’s why we’re seeing growing momentum for vaccination requirements across the sectors and across the country.
Alex, go ahead.
Q Thanks, Jen. I was hoping to get you to weigh in on three different debt limit scenarios since there’s so many —
MS. PSAKI: Great.
Q — developing. So, off the top, Senator Mitch McConnell has proposed for Republicans to either support a short-term hike in the debt limit through December or to support a expedited reconciliation process where Democrats would vote to hike it long term. What’s the White House response to that? Is there support for either of those from the President?
And then, I was hoping to get clarification on something the President said yesterday. He seemed to suggest that he would support a carveout in the filibuster, if all else fails, to hike the debt limit. Is that where he stands? Would he be open to that?
MS. PSAKI: Well, right now — and perhaps this the awkwardness of 4:15, while people are still meeting on the Hill — right now, Democratic members are meeting on the Hill to discuss options on the path forward. I think Republican members may also be meeting or discussing among themselves.
My understanding, at the point I walked out here, is that there’s been no formal offer made. A press release is not a formal offer.
And regardless, even the scant details that have been reported present more complicated, more difficult options than the one that is quite obvious, in the President’s view, and is in front of the faces of every member up on the Hill. We could get this done today. We don’t need to kick the can. We don’t need to go through a cumbersome process that every day brings additional risks.
So, they’re discussing up there. We’ll, obviously, be in close touch with them, as we will continue to be, and we’ll see where we — where we are at the end of today.