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David Smith

@SmithInAmerica

Washington bureau chief of The Guardian

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Jean-Pierre: Pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine caused inflation to rise. 'The president took historic action to deal with the supply chain.'

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Jean-Pierre on Baltimore: 'We have said we want to work with Congress to get the Key bridge back up... We've been there for them... I don't have an estimate for you. We're going to talk to the Maryland delegation.'

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Jean-Pierre: 'The hostage deal includes getting the humanitarian aid in... We know how dire the situation is in Gaza. We are very aware of that. We have had conversations almost every day with our counterparts in the Israeli government.'

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Jean-Pierre on Gaza: 'We understand what's going on. We understand what the dire needs there are.' We have conversations with the Israeli government every day about what needs to be done. 'Now we are seeing an uptick.'

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Jean-Pierre: 'We're going to continue to have conversations with the Israeli government on how this aid is distributed... Be very straightforward with our Israel counterparts here... Of course we know how dire the situation is in Gaza.'

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Jean-Pierre on Gaza food aid: 'We believe that Israel's keeping their promise... We're seeing progress here.'

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Jean-Pierre on Joe Biden: 'He talks about lowering costs almost every event... Republicans put out their budget and their budget is to cut social security, Medicaid.' The president has been very clear about giving the Fed the space to make independent decisions.

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Jean-Pierre: 'America will protect Israel's security, especially against these threats from Iran and its proxies. That hasn't changed.'

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Jean-Pierre: 'The humanitarian situation in Gaza, obviously, is dire... Every time the president has spoken to the prime minister, part of that conversation has been to do more with humanitarian aid... We've seen a thousand trucks go into Gaza over the last three days.'

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Jean-Pierre: 'The number one way to deal with what's happening at the border is to move forward with the bipartisan agreement.'

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Jean-Pierre: 'Israel has made commitments. The prime minister has made commitments to the president. We've seen an uptick in trucks: more than a thousand in the past three days.'

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Jean-Pierre on Israel: 'The president has always been very honest and direct with leaders including the prime minister... The president has been very clear that more needs to be done to protect civilians.'

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Jean-Pierre: 'We have to get Congress to act to make Roe v Wade the law of the land. We've seen where extreme elected Republicans are on this issue.'

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Jean-Pierre on abortion: Twenty-one states have extreme bans and 'that has been caused by the chaos we've seen from the overturning of Roe v Wade... We should be fighting for women's freedom, Americans' freedom, and that's not where Republicans are.'

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Jean-Pierre on Arizona abortion ruling: The president talked about 'how devastating and wrong the decision to go back to 1864 is to make it more difficult for millions of women... He stands for women's rights. He stands for women's ability to make decisions about their bodies.'

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Jean-Pierre: 'Obviously we don't want this conflict to spread. We've been very clear about that... We communicated to Iran that the US had no involvement in the strike in Damascus.'

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Jean-Pierre: The president made clear that US has 'iron clad' commitment to defence of Israel against Iranian attacks. 'We have made ourselves very clear where we stand in terms of Israel's security.'

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