Presidential Document2024-10757
National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week, 2024
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May 15, 2024
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May 10, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 15, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 42329-42331]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10757]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 95 / Wednesday, May 15, 2024 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10754 of May 10, 2024
National Defense Transportation Day and National
Transportation Week, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Defense Transportation Day and National
Transportation Week, we recommit to embarking on an
infrastructure decade. Because the stronger and safer
our infrastructure is, the stronger and safer we are as
a Nation.
America used to have the best infrastructure in the
world. But for years, we stopped investing in our
infrastructure and our workers. We embraced trickle-
down economics, shipping jobs overseas to the cheapest
places in the world for labor and importing low-quality
products back home. It never worked. Trickle-down
economics hollowed out the middle class, left America's
workers behind, and kept our Nation's infrastructure
stuck in the past.
That is why I signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law--a once-in-a-generation investment in American
infrastructure and the largest investment in public
transit in history. Over 51,000 new projects are
transforming our communities--including modernizing our
rail infrastructure and ports, fixing our roads and
bridges, bringing public transportation to more
communities, providing high-speed internet all over
America, and more. These investments will make our
Nation safer--from decreasing traffic and crashes to
facilitating quicker responses from emergency
responders when every minute counts. It also means
goods will be shipped more quickly and commerce will
flow more freely, ensuring our military, business, and
all Americans have what they need on demand. We are
doing all this work with American products and American
workers. To date, the economy has created over 15
million jobs since the beginning of my Administration,
including nearly 800,000 manufacturing jobs.
I also signed the CHIPS and Science Act to bring the
manufacturing of semiconductors back home.
Semiconductors are those tiny chips that power
everything from automobiles and smartphones to
satellites and weapons systems--and when I came into
office, our country was only producing 10 percent of
them, leaving our markets and national security
vulnerable. I was determined to turn that around, and
thanks to my Administration's investment in
semiconductors, private companies have invested over
$395 billion to bring semiconductor manufacturing back
to America, creating tens of thousands of jobs across
the country.
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On top of this, I signed the Inflation Reduction Act--
the most significant climate investment in the history
of the world--to build America's clean energy future
here at home. We are building a national network of
electric vehicle chargers while providing tax credits
for consumers to buy electric cars. So far, we have
quadrupled the number of electric vehicles sold, and
11,000 dealerships have now signed up to sell more. We
are also modernizing our Nation's electric grid so that
Americans have access to power even when extreme
weather hits. Like I have often said, when I think of
climate, I think of jobs--and these investments in our
Nation's clean energy market are providing Americans
with good-paying jobs in their hometowns. At the same
time, we are working with industry partners to
implement the Biden Trucking Action Plan, which helps
keep our Nation's truck drivers safe.
My Administration is working to build an America for
all Americans, and we are making sure that these new
infrastructure projects benefit our communities. When
our country began building highways, they would cut
straight through communities, especially ones with
Black or Brown residents, dividing and destroying
entire neighborhoods. To address this harmful legacy
and unify these communities once again, my
Administration launched the Reconnecting Communities
Pilot Program--the first-ever Federal initiative to cap
highways and create new green spaces that connect
neighborhoods. We are leaving no one behind, opening
new doors of opportunity, and making sure every
community is treated with the dignity and respect they
deserve.
Meanwhile, we are making sure that as we rebuild
America, we are making our infrastructure more
resilient to threats like extreme weather and cyber-
attacks--upfront and by design through new policy like
the National Security Memorandum on Critical
Infrastructure Security and Resilience (NSM-22). Under
the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law alone, we have
delivered $50 billion for infrastructure resilience--
including nearly $9 billion to make our transportation
system stronger--which will help keep Americans safe
and protect our national security.
In thousands of cities and towns across America, our
workers are writing the greatest comeback story ever
told. They are getting shovels in the ground and
operating the cranes in the sky and are hard at work
rebuilding our Nation's infrastructure. All the while,
they are bringing pride back to our communities and our
Nation because they are proving we can still get big
things done when we work together. That is what America
is all about--building a future of possibilities,
investing in all of America and in all Americans, and
making sure everyone has a fair shot.
In recognition of the ongoing contributions of our
Nation's transportation system and in honor of the
devoted professionals who work to sustain its tradition
of excellence, the United States Congress has
requested, by joint resolution approved May 16, 1957,
as amended (36 U.S.C. 120), that the President
designate the third Friday in May of each year as
``National Defense Transportation Day'' and, by joint
resolution approved May 14, 1962 (36 U.S.C. 133), that
the week in which that Friday falls be designated as
``National Transportation Week.''
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim
Friday, May 17, 2024, as National Defense
Transportation Day and May 12 through May 18, 2024, as
National Transportation Week. I urge all Americans to
observe these occasions with appropriate ceremonies,
programs, and activities as we show our appreciation to
those who build and operate our Nation's transportation
systems.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand
twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.
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[FR Doc. 2024-10757
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