Madame VP Kamala Harris’ Closet

 1) Vice President Harris and The President receive the President’s Daily Brief in the Oval Office.

2) Then she went to the Vice President's Ceremonial Office where she received a group of stakeholders in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and immigrant rights advocates then convened a discussion to determine the future of the program following a federal judge's ruling in Texas that the program is illegal.

3) She joined President Biden in the East Room where he delivered remarks and signed H.R. 1652, the VOCA Fix to Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 2021, into law. 

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The bill was bipartisan which will aims to provide assistance for crime victims, including counseling expenses, medical bills and lost wages

4) The President and the Vice President received and met with union and business leaders in the Roosevelt Room to discuss the strong support and urgent need for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework

On July 23rd, there was no public outing except a video was released with Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman Emhoff cheering on the US Olympic Team as they had arrived in Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 

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 1) In the morning, Vice President welcome another foreign leader to the Naval Observatory Residence for an official meeting. His Majesty King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan accompanied by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah who were in the country for a 5-day working visit. 

Both leaders had previously spoken via phone on a number of issues affecting the Middle-East. During the brunch meeting, they reaffirmed the longstanding friendship between our countries.  They also discussed the many challenges facing the Middle East, and pledged to continue our close strategic partnership.

2) Then she joined President Biden in receiving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the White House for a ceremony celebrating their Super Bowl championship. Also accompaning them was the Second Gentleman. Later she received two players of the Buccaneers, punter Bradley Pinion and tackle Donovan Smith in her office.

Bradley Pinion and Donovan Smith gave the Vice President a signed jersey with her name on it and a signed NFL oval shaped ball in a glass jar.

3) To mark their 6th month anniversary in office, The President held a Cabinet meeting with The Vice President also attending in the Cabinet Room. 

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 So sorry for the late posts, I had been sick and took a short break on here to mend myself. So I am back to updating.

Because July 4th was on a Sunday, Monday July 5th was a public day. There wasn't much on the 6th and 7th that is publicly known except for the statement, the Office of the Vice President release on the occasion of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and the attack on First Lady Martine Moïse of the Republic of Haiti. 

On July 8th, she began the day by joining President Biden in the Oval Office where they met with the White House National Security Team to receive a periodic update on the progress of our military drawdown from Afghanistan.

2) Then she departed for her first visit to her alma mater Howard University since Inauguration Day where she spoke a powerful defense of voting rights and the need to ensure that all American voices are heard in the political process and also launch the DNCs “I Will Vote” initiative.

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Madam Vice President is an alumna of the university where she addressed the Howard community, local community organizers and volunteers for civil rights organizations at the Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library. She spoke about the DNC party’s efforts to combat voter suppression and protect voting rights nationwide. At the campus event, Vice President Harris then unveiled a $25 million expansion of the Democratic National Committee’s “I Will Vote” initiative to address and overcome efforts across the country to make voting more difficult and burdensome.

3) Then she returned to White House where she joined President Biden in the Roosevelt Room where they met with leaders of Top Legacy Black civil rights Organizations in the country.

According to the White House's statement, "The group discussed the wave of anti-voter legislation that has recently passed or is pending in state legislatures across the country and the path forward to protect the right to vote. The group also discussed steps the Administration recently announced to address the rise in gun violence and the status of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that is currently being negotiated in the Senate. The President and Vice President reiterated that they will continue to push for Congress to pass critical legislation that protects the right to vote and combats subversion of the election process, while continuing to utilize all existing authorities in an all-of-government effort to ensure full voter participation and elections that reflect the will of the people.

The civil rights leaders provided an update on the work their organizations are doing, both nationally and in the states, to protect the right to vote. They also provided the President and Vice President with their ideas on ways to engage the public on civil rights issues."

The meeting participants included:

• Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
• Dr. Johnnetta Cole, National Chair and President of the National Council of Negro Women
• Wade Henderson, Interim President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human
• Damon Hewitt, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP (virtual)
• Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League
• Reverend Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network

From the White House:

• Danielle Conley, Deputy Counsel to the President
• Tina Flournoy, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President
• Catherine Lhamon, Deputy Assistant to the President for Racial Justice and Equity
• Dana Remus, Assistant to the President and White House Counsel
• Susan Rice, Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor
• Cedric Richmond, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Public Engagement

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 On Thursday, there wasn't any publicly known schedule but on Friday July 2nd, Vice President Harris joined President Biden in welcoming and receiving the Los Angeles Dodgers who are the 2020 Baseball World Series Champions to the White House.

The President and Vice President received them in the East Room.

 With no none public events for Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th, on Wednesday Madam Vice President took part and delivered opening remarks at the UN’s Generation Equality Forum, “a global gathering for gender equality convened by UN Women in a live speech. The forum was co-hosted by the Governments of Mexico and France in partnership with youth and civil society.

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According to the United Nations: The Forum kicked off in Mexico City in March and will culminate in Paris from 30 June to 2 July 2021, launching a series of concrete, ambitious and transformative actions to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality. The event also marked the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Vice President Harris lead the U.S. virtual delegation to the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, and provided live opening remarks alongside co-hosts French President Emmanuel Macron, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and U.N. Secretary General António Guterres. 

2) In the afternoon, Vice President Harris joined President Biden in the South Court Auditorium for a meeting with some Western Governors to discuss ways and briefings to address this year’s current and upcoming severe fire danger, titled "Western Wildfires."

They were accompanied by Cabinet officials, and private sector partners to discuss the devastating intersection of drought, heat, and wildfires in the Western United States, and strengthening prevention, preparedness and response efforts for this wildfire season

Cabinet Officials who attended were:

• Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland
• Energy Department's Secretary Jennifer Granholm,
• White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy 
• White House's Chief of Staff, Ron Klein
• Deputy secretary of Defense Kathleen Holland Hicks 
• EPA Administrator Michael Regan,
• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall  who serves as the Homeland Security Advisor for U.S. President Joe Biden
• Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas
• Tom Vilsack, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE

 Governors attending were: 

 On Thursday, here's Vice President Harris' publicly known schedule:

1) In the morning she was in the Southern Auditorium, where she hosted a virtual “National Vaccine Month of Action” event with community partners from across the country.

During the session, she thanked hundreds of grassroots and community organizations and volunteers across the country who are working to get their communities vaccinated. 

2) Then she joined President Biden in the Oval Office to meet with a bipartisan group of Senate Leaders to negotiate on the Infrastructure spending bill.

After a bipartisan agreement was made, President Biden and the attending Senators gaggle with the press on the historic deal, with Vice President Harris looking on with other members of the Top negotiating team which included: Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the President, Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council and Louisa Terrell, WH legislative affairs director.

Then she joined President Biden in the East Room where the President deliver remarks in the bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.