On 9/1/2022, during press briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Last one from me is: You know, he’s going back to Pennsylvania tonight. He’s going on Monday for Labor Day. He’s doing Wisconsin. You know, everybody here has been asking about Mississippi. No plans to go see what’s going on on the ground?”
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I just said the FEMA Administrator —
Reporter: FEMA is going. What about the President?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I just — I just said the FEMA Administrator is going there tomorrow. That’s going to be important … I just don’t have anything else to preview. But it is not unusual — right? — to have the FEMA coord- —
Reporter: So she goes first and then the President goes?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m not saying that. I just said I don’t have anything to preview. But it’s not unusual for her to go down there …
Reporter: Completely unrelated, also not a thing to be optimistic about — the National Assessment of Educational Progress is — has this new testing that shows that nine-year-olds lost ground in both math and reading in pretty dramatic ways as a result of the pandemic. What is the President going to do about it? What is the administration going to do about this severe learning loss? And does the administration shoulder any blame for not pushing schools to reopen sooner?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, let’s step back to where we were not too long ago when this President walked into this administration: how mismanaged … our schools went from 40 per- — 46 percent to — open — to nearly all of them being open to full time. That was the work of this President. And that was the work of Democrats, in spite of Republicans not voting for the American Rescue Plan …
Reporter: … the majority of Americans saying they’re concerned about American democracy and something like 40 percent of Americans saying that they think civil war could happen in the next 10 years, how is the President going to deliver an optimistic speech? How is he optimistic in the face of all that?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Have you followed Joe Biden? Have you listened to him make speeches in the past before? This is a President, I would argue, who knows how to do that, who knows how to deliver an optimistic speech — at the same time, call out what is happening in this moment. And that’s what you’re going to hear from this President … just because you call out what you’re seeing in this current moment — the extremism, the attack on our democracy, the attack on our freedom, the concerns that Americans have themselves, doesn’t mean you can’t bring the country together and show a positive way forward, show some hope, give some people some hope. And you’ll see that from this President tonight.
Reporter: And then one more quick one. So I want to ask about campaign promises. While candidate Biden said that he would end the fossil fuels industry — then went back and said that he’s not going to end all fossil fuels. We’ve seen increased regulations and restrictions in that industry. Pennsylvania is the third-largest coal producer in the United States. In the past year, we’ve only seen about 1,600 jobs in net added to mining and lodging in that state. So why not just change the energy policies, help out Pennsylvania with jobs and energy security?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Look, we just passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which is going to — which is going to do — which is going to change people’s lives and is the most — which is the most historic investment that we’ll see — that we have seen in this country to deal with climate change …
Reporter: Yeah, thanks, Karine. So, you read at the top of this about the President’s statement on manufacturing and announcement of those new jobs. When will those jobs materialize? And when the government subsidies go away — like the CHIPS Act and the American Rescue Plan — will those jobs also go
away?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, the reason that we announced these — why — we announced what Micron is doing — First Solar, Toyota, Honda, and Corning — if you think about Micron, they’re going to — a $15 billion investment over the next 10 years …
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Biden not visiting Mississippi but went to Pennsylvania, Labor Day plan, doing Wisconsin.