Aboard Air Force One
En Route Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11:39 A.M. EDT
MS. DALTON: So, as you know, we're on our way to Philadelphia, where President Biden will deliver remarks on how Bidenomics is fueling America's clean energy future. We're creating American-made projects in American factories with American workers and attracting more than $500 billion in private-sector manufacturing and clean energy investments that will support good-paying jobs.
In Philadelphia, the President will visit the Philly Shipyard for a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel that will be used to help build offshore wind farms. The Acadia and the offshore wind farms it will help build are expected to support hundreds of new union jobs. The company building the Acadia, called Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, has stated that it would not have entered the growing U.S. offshore wind market were it not for the Biden-Harris administration's clean energy policies.
While in Philadelphia at the steel-cutting, the President will also announce the first-ever offshore wind sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
In Philadelphia, the President will be joined by Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, as well as Representatives Brendan Boyle, Madeleine Dean, Chrissy Houlahan, Donald Norcross, and Joe Courtney.
With that, Darlene.
Q Two questions, two topics really quickly. Is the U.S. any closer to determining where Private King is being held in North Korea? And how does the U.S. expect to get him back to America if North Korea is not even willing to talk about it?
MS. DALTON: Here's the latest I can tell you on Private King: As of this morning, the White House remains in close contact with DOD, with the Department of State, with the U.N., with our Swedish partners and our South Korean partners to ascertain the whereabouts and the well-being of Private King.
