US Executive Branch Update – January 6, 2022 – Coronavirus (COVID-19)

This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch
priorities via daily schedules and the prior day’s press
releases.

POTUS’ Schedule*

9:00 a.m. EST – THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT will
deliver remarks to mark one year since the January 6th deadly
assault on the Capitol | United States Capitol

Note: The White House had yet to release the President’s
full schedule for Thursday.

VPOTUS’ Schedule*

9:00 a.m. EST – THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT will
deliver remarks to mark one year since the January 6th deadly
assault on the Capitol | United States Capitol

5:30 p.m. EST – THE VICE PRESIDENT will ceremonially swear in
Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of
Spain, and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America to the Principality of Andorra | Vice
President’s Ceremonial Office

*The US President (POTUS) and Vice
President’s (VPOTUS) daily schedules are subject to change, as
is the White House press briefing schedule.

Recap of Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Note: Bold hyperlinks spotlight COVID-19
developments.

The White House

• Transcript: Press Briefing by Press Secretary
  Jen Psaki and Port Envoy to the White House Supply Chain Task Force
  John Porcari, January 5, 2022




• Transcript: Press Briefing by White
  House COVID-?19 Response Team and Public Health Officials




• Disaster Declaration: President Joseph R.
  Biden, Jr. Approves Washington Disaster Declaration

Department of Defense (DOD)

• Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd
  Austin’s Call with U.K. Secretary of State for Defence Ben
  Wallace




• Transcript: Pentagon Press Secretary John
  Kirby Holds an Off-Camera Press Briefing




• Publication: COVID-19 Travel
  Restrictions Installation Status Update January 5, 2022




• Article: Austin Looking Forward to Discussions
  With Japanese Counterpart




• Article: Face of Defense | Teaching Young
  Athletes to ‘Unite and Believe’




• Article: Sunny Anderson, Former Air Force
  Broadcaster, Now a Food Network Star




• Contracts for January 5, 2021

Department of State

• Daily Schedule | Thursday, January 6




• January 5: Remarks | Secretary Antony J. Blinken and
  German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at a Joint Press
  Availability




• January 5: Readout | Secretary Blinken’s Call with
  Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi (RUS/UKR, DPRK, etc.)




• January 5: Readout | Secretary Blinken’s Call with
  Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid (RUS/UKR, Iran, etc.)




• January 5: Readout | Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Call
  with Spanish State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs Bau
  (RUS/UKR, NATO)




• January 5: Readout | Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Call
  with Georgian Foreign Minister Zalkaliani (RUS/UKR, Georgian
  sovereignty)




• January 5: Statement | Kazakhstan State of Emergency




• January 5: Sanctions | U.S. Government Takes Action
  Against Current and Former Bosnia and Herzegovina Officials Due to
  Involvement in Significant Corruption and Destabilizing
  Activities

US Mission to the United Nations (UN)

• Remarks by Ambassador Linda
  Thomas-Greenfield?at a UN Security Council Briefing on Chemical
  Weapons in Syria

Department of the Treasury

• Sanctions: Treasury Sanctions Milorad Dodik and
  Associated Media Platform for Destabilizing and Corrupt
  Activity




• Sanctions List Updates: Balkans-related
  Designations and Designation Update

Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

• Press Release: SEC Charges Additional Defendant
  in Phony Certificates of Deposit Scam

Department of Justice

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | Daily
  Press Releases




• Speech: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland
  Delivers Remarks on the First Anniversary of the Attack on the
  Capitol

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Customs and Border
Protection (CBP)

• Press Release: Agents conduct cold weather
  rescue (Texas)




• Press Release: Border Patrol Arrests Sex
  Offender (Texas)




• Press Release: CBP Officers at South Texas
  Ports of Entry Post Significant Increases in Fentanyl, Cocaine
  Seized in FY 2021 (Texas)




• Press Release: Agents Render Aid to Injured
  Civilian on New Year’s Eve (California)




• Press Release: Chicago CBP Intercept Various
  Illicit Products During FY 21 (Illinois)




• Press Release: Cincinnati CBP Breaks Records
  in Fiscal Year 2021 (Ohio)




• Press Release: Louisville CBP Sees Record
  Number of Illicit Shipments in Fiscal Year 2021 (Kentucky)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• Link to FEMA daily press releases

Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR)

• Readout of Ambassador Katherine Tai’s Call
  With Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis (EU/TTC,
  PRC, etc.)

Department of Commerce

• Blog: Five Ways NOAA Helped Make America
  Climate-Ready in 2021




• Blog: Santos Sworn In as New Census Bureau
  Director

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

• Press Release: Merchant Cash Advance Providers
  Banned from Industry, Ordered to Redress Small Businesses




• Press Release: FTC Issues Biennial Report to
  Congress on the National Do Not Call Registry

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

• Press Release: CFPB Releases Report Detailing
  Consumer Complaint Response Deficiencies of the Big Three Credit
  Bureaus

Department of Labor

• Press Release: U.S. Department of Labor sues
  Georgia auto repair shop owner who paid former worker final wages
  in oily pennies




• Press Release: U.S. Department of Labor
  recovers $72K in back wages, damages after an investigation finds
  California construction employer underpaid its workers




• Press Release: U.S. Department of Labor finds
  luxury apartment complex in San Jose’s historic Japantown
  denied maintenance workers overtime wages owed




• Press Release: U.S. Department of Labor cites
  chemical company after two workers die, one sickened following
  exposure to respiratory hazards

Health & Human Services (HHS)

• Press Release: HHS Secretary Becerra:
  12 to 15 Year-Olds Can Now Get a Pfizer Booster

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