Remarks By President Biden in Press Gaggle 14 October

The White House

Tacos 1986

Los Angeles, California

12:16 P.M. PDT

Q What did you order, Mr. President?

THE PRESIDENT: Chicken quesadilla.

All right. Thanks, guys. Well done.

Q Mr. President, can we ask you a couple questions while we got you here?

THE PRESIDENT: If it's real quick.

Q Yeah. The inflation report is out. Have you seen gas prices around here in LA? It's seven bucks a gallon almost.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's always been the case here. You know, it's not — what — nationwide, they came down about $1.35, and they're still down over a dollar.

But we're going to work on — housing is the big — is the most important thing we have to do in terms of that.

Q What is your message to Saudi Arabia about this?

THE PRESIDENT: We're — "We're about to talk to you."

Q You're about to talk to —

THE PRESIDENT: We're about to talk to them.

Q In what way, sir?

Q What are you going to say to them?

THE PRESIDENT: Stay tuned.

Q Mr. President, do you plan to go to Nevada or Arizona or Georgia — some of these other states where there's competitive races in a few —

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I'm going to other races. I can't tell you how many, but I'm going to be on the road.

Thank you.

12:18 P.M. PDT

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