Wednesday’s White Home briefing featured a Spanish-language phase to commemorate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month.
White Home director of coalitions media Luisana Pérez Fernández delivered the remarks, outlining President Biden’s schedule to commemorate the month-long celebration.
Biden and first girl Jill Biden will host a White Home reception for Hispanic leaders later Wednesday, and Biden will address the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) gala, the premier Washington occasion celebrating Hispanic heritage.
Biden has addressed the gala yearly of his presidency, although the 2021 gala was held on-line due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Vice President Harris on Wednesday addressed the CHCI Management Convention, which precedes the gala.
Pérez Fernández, who was launched by White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the high of the briefing, touted the administration’s Latino small enterprise report and well being care efforts, two high points for Latino voters.
Pérez Fernández additionally mentioned the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and family-based immigration packages.
“President Biden has additionally vigorously defended DACA and has taken steps to maintain collectively married {couples} during which one partner is an American citizen and the opposite has been in america for greater than 10 years,” Pérez Fernández mentioned in Spanish.
It’s the second time Pérez Fernández, a Venezuelan immigrant who arrived in america in 2011, has proven off her Spanish-language expertise on the White Home podium.
In 2022, she additionally delivered remarks to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month.
Jean-Pierre took the rostrum after her and mentioned that she wished to “echo” her colleague, noting the beginning of Nationwide Hispanic Heritage Month.
She touted that the Biden administration insurance policies have lowered Latino unemployment, lowered drug costs for five million Latinos with Medicare, expanded well being care protection for Latinos together with to DACA recipients and created a federal authorities that displays range of the U.S.
“We reaffirm our dedication to supporting Latino households and communities and let’s keep in mind, Hispanic Heritage Month is American heritage,” she added.
Nationwide safety communications adviser John Kirby took the rostrum after Jean-Pierre and quipped that he had to verify he didn’t “butcher my very own English right here.”
Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.