Government Press Briefings

Depictions of formal gatherings and press briefings at government institutions, featuring speakers addressing audiences about various topics.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken introduces President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Vice President Kamala D. Harris to State Department employees, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2021.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 2021.

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - SES Briefing , Environmental Protection Agency

President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett depart the Roosevelt Room of the White House following a meeting, Feb. 24, 2011. From left, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling; Michael Froman, NSA Deputy for International and Economic Affairs; Council of Economic Advisers Chair Austan Goolsbee; and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner continue to work.

President Barack Obama leads a health care meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and Senior Staff in the Roosevelt Room in the White House, June 18, 2009.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks at a virtual COVID-19 Ministerial from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 2021.

CNN Correspondent Jim Sciutto asks questions of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as they addressed reporters during a news conference at the Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev, Ukraine, on February 5, 2015, after the Secretary concluded a round of meetings with the Prime Minister, President Petro Poroshenko, and Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden during a Situation Room briefing May 12, 2009.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, joined by Department Spokesperson Ned Price and Senior Official for the Bureau of International Religious Freedom Daniel Nadel, delivers remarks to the press on the release of the 2020 International Religious Freedom Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on May 12, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken introduces President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Vice President Kamala D. Harris to State Department employees, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2021.

President Barack Obama (center) with Afghan President Karzai and Pakistan President Zardari during a US-Afghan-PakistanTrilateral meeting in Cabinet Room May 6, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the media in the Press Briefing Room, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds a town hall meeting with Department of State personnel, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, D.C. on February 8, 2016.

Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Lisa Peterson delivers remarks on the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announces the appointment of Russ Feingold as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2013.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price briefs reporters at the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya participate in a joint press availability following the Security Consultative Committee (�2+2�) meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a virtual roundtable with emerging journalists, in Tokyo, Japan on March 17, 2021.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 17, 2021.

President Barack Obama meets with advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, March 31, 2011. Seated with the President, from left, are: Director of Communications Dan Pfeiffer; Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Rob Nabors; Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew; National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling; Assistant to the President and Special Advisor Phil Schiliro; Counselor to the President Pete Rouse; Bruce Reed, Chief of Staff to the Vice President; Vice President Joe Biden; Chief of Staff Bill Daley; Senior Advisor David Plouffe; and Press Secretary Jay Carney.

Vice President Joe Biden, flanked by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson, addresses Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on January 21, 2016, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, amid a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks to the press at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2022.

President Barack Obama receives a briefing on the ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy, at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2012.

President Barack Obama meets with staff in the Oval Office, prior to his meeting with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., July 28, 2010. Pictured, from left, are Louisa Terrell, Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Phil Schiliro, assistant to the President for legislative affairs, and Brian McKeon.

President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order entitled Establishment of the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center, in the Oval Office, Feb. 28, 2012.

President Barack Obama holds conference call from the Situation Room of the White House concerning the earthquake in Chile, Feb. 27, 2010. Pictured are, left to right, Tom Donilon, deputy national security advisor, Rajiv Shah, administrator of USAID, and Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff. Other Cabinet officials joined the meeting by phone.

President Bush announces Mike McConnell to replace Negroponte as director of national intelligence

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with bipartisan members of the House and Senate to discuss supply chains Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, addresses reporters in Great Hall at Faneuil Hall in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, on January 31, 2015, during a news conference that followed a North American Ministerial meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird and Mexican Foreign Secretary Jos� Antonio Meade focused on trilateral issues.

President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Oval Office, Oct. 29, 2013. Chief of Staff Denis McDonough hands a note to Rob Nabors, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, left.

President Barack Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing from Robert Cardillo, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration, in the Oval Office, Jan. 31, 2012. Part of the briefing was done using a tablet computer.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price briefs reporters during a department press briefing, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on August 27, 2021.

President Barack Obama waits to be introduced at a luncheon for Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Ill., Aug. 5, 2010. Trip Coordinator Jordan Whichard, right, Bobby Schmuck, staff assistant, political affairs, and Director of Political Affairs Patrick Gaspard, wait with the President.

NASA Administrator Meets with Delegation from Monaco. Monacos Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Isabelle Berro-Amadeï, meets with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Thursday, June 22, 2023 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.

President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor David Axelrod work on a statement regarding the U.S.-Korea Trade Agreement in the Outer Oval Office, Dec. 4, 2010. At right are Terry Szuplat and Katie Johnson.

Office of the Administrator - Department of State Air Monitoring - Administrator Gina McCarthy and Secretary of State John Kerry , Environmental Protection Agency

Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert Cisneros speaks to a zoom audience during a briefing on economic security in the military community at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a Afghanistan Task Force and Relocation Volunteers Recognition Ceremony from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 20, 2021. The Secretary recognized the Department�s efforts to evacuate and resettle more than 124,000 U.S. citizens and Afghans over the past five months.

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women�s Issues Kelley E. Currie, with Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump and National Security Advisor Robert O�Brien, delivers remarks at the Women's Global Development and Prosperity initiative virtual event on August 11, 2020, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama meets with administration officials on the Times Square attempted car bombing during a terrorism threat briefing in the Situation Room of the White House, May 4, 2010. Left to right, National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2022.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2021.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the media at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 2020.

Members of the press address Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Feb. 20, 2024. (DoD

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS, SECRETARY JOHN SNOW AND SECRETARY ELAINE CHAO AT WEST COAST JOBS GROWTH TOUR

Phil Schiliro, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, looks on as President Barack Obama drops by a Green Cabinet meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to discuss the importance of passing comprehensive energy legislation, June 9, 2009.

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Leaders� Summit to Counter ISIL and Violent Extremism at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on September 29, 2015.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken co-hosts the virtual 2022 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee (�2+2�) meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, joined by Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Japan, on January 6, 2022.

Office of the Secretary - JCCT BILATERAL

President Barack Obama is briefed by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the Administrations efforts to respond to the historic drought conditions being felt across the country, during a meeting in the Oval Office, July 18, 2012.

President Barack Obama drops by Chief of Staff Denis McDonough's meeting with Cabinet Members in the Chief of Staff's West Wing Office at the White House, May 31, 2013. Seated, clockwise from the President, are: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Chief of Staff Denis McDonough; Danielle Gray, Cabinet Secretary; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack; and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Director Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Office Acting Director Dr. Kari Johnstone deliver remarks on the release of the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2021.

President Barack Obama meets with his national security advisors concerning the situation in Iraq, in the Situation Room of the White House, Sunday, July 27, 2014. Participants include: National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and John Podesta, Counselor to the President.

President Barack Obama signs the bipartisan budget bill 2015 into law in the Oval Office of the White House on November 2, 2015

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with U.S. Embassy Kyiv in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 19, 2022.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the press, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 2020.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, participate in a listening session with AAPI community leaders Friday, March 19, 2021, at Emory University in Atlanta.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III co-host the 2023 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu, at the Department of State. Washington, D.C., Jan 11, 2023.

World Food Prize President, Barbara Stinson gives remarks during an event at the U.S Department of State where it was announced that Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, was awarded the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Harry S. Truman Building in Washington.

President Barack Obama reviews his notes with National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling before delivering remarks at the College Opportunity Summit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's South Court Auditorium, Jan. 16, 2014. Brian Mosteller, Director of Oval Office Operations, stands at right.

Office of the Administrator - Department of State Air Monitoring - Administrator Gina McCarthy and Secretary of State John Kerry , Environmental Protection Agency

Panels participants, from left, Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, former White House Science Fair participant Joey Hudy, Environmentalist and third-year law student at Elon University School of Law Tyrone Davis, White House innovation expert Cristin Dorgelo, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gill Pratt, take a question from the audience during the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the press at the White House Filing Center in Singapore on June 11, 2018.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick welcomes U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to the Wind Technology Testing Center in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 9, 2014, for an event focused on climate change.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with employees from U.S. Embassy Chisinau in Chisinau, Moldova on March 6, 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with the Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual roundtable with Jewish Community Leaders, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 2021.

United States, Washington, D.C. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow answers reporters' questions at the daily briefing in the pressroom of the White House on August 2, 2007.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2021.

President Barack Obama listens to Dan Turton, deputy director of Legislative Affairs, during a health care strategy session with advisors in the Chief of Staff's Outer Office at the White House, March 20, 2010.

U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price briefs reporters during the Department Press Briefing, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on October 25, 2021.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel looks at a newspaper in the Oval Office, as President Barack Obama talks on the phone April 4, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on �Afghanistan 2001- 2021: Evaluating the Withdrawal and U.S. Policies � Part 1�, in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with U.S. Embassy Kabul staff at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 3, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets virtually with the AFL-CIO Executive Council, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 9, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Australian Foreign Minister and Minister for Women Marise Payne at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides, including Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks R. Lyle Laverty, Jr., to Ottawa, Canada for bilateral talks with Canada's Minister of the Environment, John Baird, concerning the status of the polar bear and other cross-border issues

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with Kompas TV in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 14, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo attends President Donald J. Trump's Signing Ceremony for Commercial Trade Agreements with Vietnamese President Nguy_n Ph� Tr_ng in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27, 2019.

President Barack Obama signs Executive Order "Improving the Security of Consumer Financial Transactions," at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2014.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with rank-and-file law enforcement officials from across the country, in the Oval Office, Feb. 24, 2015. They discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to ensure public safety and strengthen neighborhoods.

Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun meets with Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Lee Do-hoon, in Seoul, Korea, on December 9, 2020.

Office of Business Liaison - Secretary Donald Evans Luncheon with Hispanic CEO's

President Bush nominates Rob Portman to head Office of Management and Budget and Susan Schwab to replace Portman

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flanked by Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, delivers remarks on the release of the 2017 International Religious Freedom Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 2018.

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the opening session of the Forum on Modernizing Government, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. As part of his commitment to change how business is done in Washington and instill a new sense of responsibility for taxpayer dollars, the President welcomed more than 50 of the countrys top CEOs, deputy secretaries, including NASA's Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and department chief information officers to the forum.

Signing ceremony, Joint Resolution in support of Detroits bid to host the 1968 Olympic Games, 4:05PM. President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks during the signing ceremony for a joint resolution in support of Detroits bid to host the 1968 Olympic Games. Behind President Kennedy stand officials from Michigan (L-R): Representative James G. O Hara, Representative Lucien N. Nedzi, Senator Pat McNamara (partially hidden), Mayor Jerry Cavanagh of Detroit, Senator Philip A. Hart, Representative Martha W. Griffiths, Representative Neil Staebler, and Representative Harold M. Ryan. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.

President Bush meets with Tony Saca, President of El Salvador in the Oval Office

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmes address reporters in Brussels, Belgium, on March 25, 2021.

Office of the Administrator - Portrait Unveiling , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rodolfo Solano Quir�s, Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Roberto �lvarez, and Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes address reporters at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2022.

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh speaks during an on-camera press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Feb.22, 2022.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Press Conference Cuba (Secretary Gutierrez and Condoleezza Rice)

2008 Democratic candidates for President speak at the DNC winter meeting

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosts a swearing-in ceremony for Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Greg Starr at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 8, 2014.

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall announces funding for historically Black colleges and universities to create a university affiliated research center consortium during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., June 27, 2022. UARCs are research centers affiliated with a university to ensure that technology and engineering capabilities important to the military service are maintained.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Clean Energy Economy Forum - The Public Health Benefits of a Clean Energy Reform , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III conduct a press conference with Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique A. Manalo and Philippine Officer in Charge of the Department of National Defense Carlito Galvez after a U.S.-Philippines 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue, Washington, D.C., April 11, 2023.

With Spokesperson Ned Price looking on, State Department Coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response and Health Security Gayle Smith delivers remarks at the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2021.

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