This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day’s press releases.
POTUS’ Schedule*
*The US President (POTUS) and Vice President’s (VPOTUS) daily schedules are subject to change.
The White House had yet to release the President’s schedule.
VPOTUS’ Schedule*
2:00 p.m. EST – THE VICE PRESIDENT leads a White House Coronavirus Task Force meeting | White House Situation Room
Recap of Friday – Sunday, January 8-10, 2021
Note: Bold hyperlinks spotlight COVID-19 and reopening developments.
The White House
- Letter to the Nation: First Lady Melania Trump | Our Path Forward | January 11, 2020
- Proclamation on Honoring United States Capitol Police Officers
- Memorandum on Providing an Order of Succession Within the United States International Development Finance Corporation
- Executive Order on Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Defense (DOD)
- Statement: On Behalf of the U.S. Army | Statement on the National Guard Response in the District of Columbia From the Secretary of the Army | January 8, 2021
- Press Release: Planning and Execution Timeline for the National Guard’s Involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, First Amendment Protests in Washington, D.C.
- Publication: Planning and Execution Timeline for the National Guard’s Involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, First Amendment Protests in Washington, D.C.
- Readout of Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller’s Phone Call With Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto (re: commercial airplane crash)
- Readout of PDO Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Anthony Tata Meetings With Senior Officials in Equatorial Guinea
- Readout of PDO Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Anthony Tata Meetings With Senior Officials in Mozambique
- Readout of PDO Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Anthony Tata Meeting With Senior Officials in Saudi Arabia
- Readout of (PDO) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs David Helvey’s Meeting With Pakistan’s Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Sahir Shamshad Mirza
- Statement by Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Doses Delivered Today | January 9, 2021
- Statement by Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Doses Delivered Today | January 8, 2021
- Press Release: DOD Awards $110 Million Firm Fixed Price Contract Action to Puritan Medical Products to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Foam Tip Swabs
- Press Release: Space Force Becomes 18th Member of Intel Community
- Article: DOD Office Works to Prevent Trafficking in Persons
- Press Release: Defense Department Announces New Appointments
- Contracts for January 8, 2021
Department of State
- Daily Schedule | Monday, January 11
- January 10: Statement | Terrorist Designation of Ansarallah in Yemen
- January 9: Statement | Iran Threatening To Expel UN Investigators
- January 9: Joint Statement on Hong Kong | Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom
- January 9: Statement | Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship
- January 9: Statement | Remembering the Victims of PS752 (Ukraine commercial aircraft downing in Iran)
- January 8: Sanctions | Designation of Iraqi Militia Leader in Connection with Serious Human Rights Abuse
- January 8: Statement | The Department of State Breaks Ground on New U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Advisory: USAID Acting Assistant Administrator Javier Piedra Travels to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (Jan. 8-17)
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
- Press Release: DNI Ratcliffe Welcomes U.S. Space Force as 18th Intelligence Community Member
Department of the Treasury
- Press Release: SBA and Treasury Announce PPP Re-Opening; Issue New Guidance
- Sanctions: Treasury Sanctions Iraqi Militia Leader Connected to Serious Human Rights Abuse
- Sanctions: Global Magnitsky Designation; Non-SDN Communist Chinese Military Companies List (NS-CCMC) Updates
- Guidance: Issuance of Communist Chinese Military Companies General License 1
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Press Release: SEC Charges Deutsche Bank With FCPA Violations Related to Third-Party Intermediaries
Department of Justice
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | Daily Press Releases
- Statement on Misinformation on Social Media Regarding the Office of the Pardon Attorney
- Statement of Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen on the Death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick
- Press Release: Thirteen Charged in Federal Court Following Riot at the United States Capitol
- Press Release: Man Arrested for Illegally Entering Office of Speaker of the House
- Press Release: Deutsche Bank Agrees to Pay over $130 Million to Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Fraud Case
- Press Release: Two Quebec Men Extradited to North Dakota from Canada as Part of ‘Operation Denial’
- Press Release: Three Foreign Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS
- Press Release: Florida Medical Doctor Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Falsify Clinical Trial Data
- Press Release: North Carolina Nail Salon Owner Convicted of Forced Labor
- Press Release: Owner of Seafood Processor Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion
- Press Release: Court Orders Georgia Defendants to Stop Selling Vitamin D Products as Treatments for Covid-19 and Other Diseases
- Press Release: Former Hamtramck, Michigan Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Charge For Excessive Use of Force
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
- Press Release: Amir of Qatar Hosts Discussion with Acting Secretary Wolf Addressing 21st Century Security Solutions; Wolf Also Signs Memorandum of Border Security Cooperation
- Press Release: CBP Officers Seize Over 120 lbs. of Liquid Meth (California)
- Press Release: Border Patrol Assist ICSO with Stolen Vehicle Recovery (California)
- Press Release: 10,080 Counterfeit Surgical Masks Seized in Cincinnati (Ohio)
- Press Release: More than $1M of Counterfeit Designer Masks Intercepted by CBP in Louisville (Kentucky)
- Press Release: CBP and CPSC Lock Down Pink Bicycles Excessively Coated in Harmful Lead Paint (Maryland)
- Press Release: Pittsburgh CBP Seizes Steelers’ Fake Super Bowl Rings ahead of Wild Card Weekend (Pennsylvania)
- Press Release: Air and Marine Operations and Partners Seize Nearly Two Tons of Cocaine, Disrupt Smuggling Attempt (Florida)
- Press Release: AMO Interdicts Vessel Seizing 450 Pounds of Cocaine and Arrest 3 Individuals Near Culebra, Puerto Rico
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Press Release: FEMA Establishes Emergency Management Priorities and Allocations System (Washington, D.C.)
- Press Release: FEMA Issues Public Notice (Alabama)
- Press Release: One Month Left to Apply for FEMA Disaster Assistance (Alabama)
US International Trade Commission (USITC)
- Press Release: Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates Injures U.S. Industry, Says USITC
- Press Release: USITC to Investigate Effect of Imports on the U.S. Cucumber and Squash Industries, with a Focus on the U.S. Southeast
US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
- Press Release: Joint US-Uzbek Statement on the Abraham (Ibrahim) Fund
US Export-Import Bank (EXIM)
- Readout from EXIM Chairman Kimberly Reed’s Call with U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates John Rakolta Jr.
- Press Release: EXIM Chairman Kimberly Reed Concludes Visit to Oman with Strengthened Economic Cooperation
- Press Release: The Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Government of Sudan Sign $1 Billion Memorandum of Understanding to Promote U.S. Exports to Sudan
- Press Release: EXIM Approved 117 Small Business Authorizations Totaling $97 Million and Supporting 400 U.S. Jobs in October 2020
- Press Release: EXIM Finalizes First-Ever U.S. LNG Export Transaction in Support of 200 American Jobs
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Press Release: Trump Administration Invests $16 Million in High-Speed Broadband in Rural Illinois, Oregon and South Carolina
Department of Energy
- Press Release: Department of Energy Issues Policy Statement Streamlining Short-Term LNG Export Authorizations
Department of Transportation
- Press Release: Air Travel Consumer Report | October 2020 Airline Complaint Data
Department of Labor
- Press Release: U.S. Department of Labor Issues Two Wage and Hour Opinion Letters
- Press Release: U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA Announces $3,930,381 In Coronavirus Violations
- Statement by U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia on the December Jobs Report
Department of Education
- Press Release: Secretary DeVos Announces More than $4 Billion Available in Emergency Education Grants for Governors to Help Students Continue Learning
Health & Human Services (HHS)
- Press Release: HHS Finalizes Unprecedented Regulatory Reform
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Press Release: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update | January 8, 2021
- Press Release: FDA Issues Alert Regarding SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutation to Health Care Providers and Clinical Laboratory Staff
US Government (USG) COVID-19 Webpages
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 webpage
- Department of Defense COVID-19 webpage
- Department of State COVID-19 Travel Advisory webpage
- Office of Personnel Management COVID-19 webpage
- Food and Drug Administration COVID-19 webpage
- Department of Homeland Security Employee COVID-19 webpage
- Department of Labor COVID-19 webpage
- USAGov COVID-19 webpage
Non-USG COVID Webpages
Johns Hopkins University & Medicine
- Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker (tracks vaccine distribution in the United States)
- Coronavirus Resource Center