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• Review and Consolidation of Business Management Systems for the Proposed Department of Homeland Security

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  On July 19th, OMB provided guidance to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component agencies on preventing redundant IT infrastructure. That guidance recognized that an effective DHS requires high quality integrated common systems. The guidance also established the Homeland Security IT Investment Review Group as the executive review group for IT investments proposed by DHS component agencies. A similar opportunity for effectiveness and economy exists in the case of management systems for financial management, procurement, and human resources. Not only is consolidation possible, it has been used effectively in the recent past. In 1998, the Department of Interior's National Business Center consolidated payroll systems for Interior, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Education and many smaller agencies onto the Federal Personnel Payroll System. The result was a payroll system that worked better and cost 25 percent less. Currently, DHS component agencies all use different financial management systems, and lack a common automated system for either procurement or human resources.

  United States. White House Office

  2002-07-30
• What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs: 1988-1998

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  Since 1991, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has published a biennial report on expenditures by Americans on illegal drugs and on legal drugs used illegally. This version of that biennial report provides estimates of cocaine, heroin and marijuana consumption from 1988 through 1998 and projects estimates for 1999 through 2000. For the first time, it provides comparable estimates for methamphetamine. This version improves and updates estimates of the supply of cocaine to the United States, and for the first time, provides estimates of the supply of heroin to American consumers. Finally, this version reports improved and updated estimates of trends in the domestic price of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana.

  United States. White House Office

  2000-12
• Economic Costs of Drug Abuse in the United States: 1992-1998

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  This report was developed for The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) which asked The Lewin Group to calculate more current estimates of the societal cost of drug abuse. In the context of this report, the phrase "drug abuse" is used to refer to consequences of using illicit drugs, as well as societal costs pertaining to the enforcement of drug laws. This study does not address costs related to abuse of or dependence on legal substances that may be termed drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, or prescription medications. The most recent previous estimates of drug abuse related costs are for 1995 as developed by Harwood et al. (1998). In addition to providing new estimates of the societal cost of drug abuse, this report provides annual estimates for 1992 through 1998 and projections for 1999 and 2000 that are consistently developed, so that trends in the overall societal cost and in component costs of drug abuse can be evaluated. Projections are only provided for 1999 and 2000, because there is a significant lag in the availability of the base data for estimating the component values. For the majority of components, the most recent data available is from 1998. The estimates have followed guidelines developed by the U.S. Public Health Service for cost-of illness studies. These guidelines have been applied in earlier studies of drug abuse in the U.S. (e.g., for 1992, 1985, 1980, and 1977), and to cost-of-illness studies for virtually all of the major medical problems. Accordingly, these estimates can be compared meaningfully to estimates for diseases, such as cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, alcohol abuse and mental illness. The results of this study are summarized in five sections. The first section presents the overall estimates of the cost of drug abuse for 1992 through 1998 and projections for 1999 and 2000. Then, sections two through four demonstrate how the costs in each of the three major cost categories changed between 1992 and 2000. All of the three major cost categories contain costs related to crime. The fifth section below extracts the crime-related costs from each of the other major cost categories and summarizes them. Finally, the sixth section below provides a brief discussion of the study's results.

  United States. White House Office

  2001-09
• Office of National Drug Control Policy FY 2001- FY 2007 Strategic Plan

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  In accordance with the Government Performance Result Act (GPRA) requirements, this Plan documents the Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP's) long-range goals, strategies, and performance measures by which Congress and the public will hold it accountable and evaluate its success. This plan covers the period FY 2001 to FY 2007. This Plan states ONDCP's overall mission and goals and those of the four specific programs ONDCP manages. These goals strive to produce national as well as international outcomes. Because of this, their accomplishment requires the coordinated effort of numerous federal agencies, state and local governments, the private sector, society at large, and foreign governments. Clearly, no one agency or sector can achieve the goals of the National Drug Control Strategy (Strategy) and ONDCP's primary role is to guide the disparate efforts of numerous agencies by setting national drug control priorities and objectives. By law, ONDCP's principal purpose is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the United States' drug control program which are articulated in the Strategy. This policy-making and oversight role, however, consumes only a small proportion--less than ten percent--of ONDCP's annual budget. ONDCP applies well over 90 percent of its budget to the four drug control programs it directly manages.

  United States. White House Office

  2001-07
• Presidential Decision Directive 63: Critical Infrastructure Protection [Audio, Part 1]

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  This is part one of an audio recording of the text of Presidential Decision Directive 63. This Presidential Directive builds on the recommendations of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. In October 1997 the Commission issued its report, calling for a national effort to assure the security of the United States' increasingly vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures, such as telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, transportation, and essential government services. Presidential Decision Directive 63 is the culmination of an intense, interagency effort to evaluate those recommendations and produce a workable and innovative framework for critical infrastructure protection.

  United States. White House Office

  1998-05-22
• Impeachment Inquiry of President Trump: Letter from the White House Addressing the Impeachment Inquiry

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  From the Document: "I write on behalf of President Donald J. Trump in response to your numerous, legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled contrary to the Constitution of the United States and all past bipartisan precedent-as an 'impeachment inquiry.' As you know, you have designed and implemented your inquiry in a manner that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process. For example, you have denied the President the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counsel present, and many other basic rights guaranteed to all Americans. You have conducted your proceedings in secret. You have violated civil liberties and the separation of powers by threatening Executive Branch officials, claiming that you will seek to punish those who exercise fundamental constitutional rights and prerogatives. All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent. Never before in our history has the House of Representatives-under the control of either political party-taken the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to pursue."

  United States. White House Office

  Cippolone, Pasquale A.

  2019-10-08
• Telephone Conversation with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine

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  This is a transcript of the July 25, 2019 telephone call between United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

  United States. White House Office

  2019-07-25
• Securing the Homeland, Strengthening the Nation

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  This document outlines the White House's FY 2003 budget priorities for homeland security. "Our Nation learned a painful lesson on September 11. American soil is not immune to evil or cold-blooded enemies capable of unprecedented acts of mass murder and terror. The worst of these enemies - and target number one in our war on terrorism - is the terrorist network Al Qaeda. Yet the threat to America is not limited to Al Qaeda - or to suicide hijackings of commercial aircraft. As we learned on October 4, 2001, a Florida man named Robert Stevens became the first known victim of an unprecedented act of biological terrorism. A new wave of terrorism, involving new weapons, looms in America's future. It is a challenge unlike any ever faced by our Nation. But we are not daunted. We possess the resources and the determination to defeat our enemies and work to secure our homeland against the threats they pose."

  United States. White House Office

  2002
• Fact Sheet: The American Families Plan

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  From the Website: "The American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan are once-in-a-generation investments in our nation's future. The American Jobs Plan will create millions of good jobs, rebuild our country's physical infrastructure and workforce, and spark innovation and manufacturing here at home. The American Families Plan is an investment in our children and our families--helping families cover the basic expenses that so many struggle with now, lowering health insurance premiums, and continuing the American Rescue Plan's historic reductions in child poverty. Together, these plans reinvest in the future of the American economy and American workers, and will help us out-compete China and other countries around the world."

  United States. White House Office

  2021-04-28
• National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness

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  From the Executive Summary: "We can and will beat COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. America deserves a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is driven by science, data, and public health -- not politics. Through the release of the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, the United States is initiating a coordinated pandemic response that not only improves the effectiveness of our fight against COVID-19, but also helps restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic. [...] The National Strategy provides a roadmap to guide America out of the worst public health crisis in a century. It outlines an actionable plan across the federal government to address the COVID-19 pandemic[.]"

  United States. White House Office

  2021-01-21
• 1776 Report

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  From the Introduction: "The declared purpose of the President's Advisory 1776 Commission is to 'enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.' This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is 'accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.' And a rediscovery of our shared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future. The Commission's first responsibility is to produce a report summarizing the principles of the American founding and how those principles have shaped our country. [...] The President's Advisory 1776 Commission presents this first report with the intention of cultivating a better education among Americans in the principles and history of our nation and in the hope that a rediscovery of those principles and the forms of constitutional government will lead to a more perfect Union."

  United States. White House Office

  2021-01
• Interim National Security Strategic Guidance

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  From the Document: "Today, I am issuing this interim guidance to convey my vision for how America will engage with the world. I direct departments and agencies to align their actions with this guidance, even as we begin work on a National Security Strategy. [...] Today, more than ever, America's fate is inextricably linked to events beyond our shores. We confront a global pandemic, a crushing economic downturn, a crisis of racial justice, and a deepening climate emergency. We face a world of rising nationalism, receding democracy, growing rivalry with China, Russia, and other authoritarian states, and a technological revolution that is reshaping every aspect of our lives. Ours is a time of unprecedented challenges, but also unmatched opportunity."

  United States. White House Office

  2021-03-03?
• 21st Century Interagency Process

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  "As we all know the 21st Century announces itself as one in which there are great challenges to the symmetric world of the 20th century. Matters pertaining to national and international security are broader and more diverse than anyone thought possible just a few years ago. The United States must navigate an environment in which traditional organizations and means of response to global challenges may be inadequate or deficient. Indeed, the ability of the Nation to successfully compete in global issues is being tested in ways that were unimaginable until recently. To succeed, the United States must integrate its ability to employ all elements of national power in a cohesive manner. In order to deal with the world as it is, rather than how we wish it were, the National Security Council must be transformed to meet the realities of the new century."

  United States. White House Office

  2009-03-18
• Myth/Fact: The Administration's Legislation to Create Military Commissions

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  This fact sheet corrects mistaken ideas about the Administration's legislation to create military commissions. The myths addressed include the following: The Administration's bill would permit trials by military commission that deprive the accused of due process; the Administration supports 'secret trials' in absentia; the Administration supports the use of evidence obtained through torture or coercion; the Administration's support for the use of hearsay evidence will deny the accused a fair trial; Americans will be tried by the military commissions; civilians at the Pentagon ignored military lawyers; we know Common Article 3 is clear because the military trains to Common Article 3; and the Administration is seeking to narrow the War Crimes Act to protect abusers.

  United States. White House Office

  2006-09-06
• Fact Sheet: Operation Enduring Freedom Overview: Campaign against Terrorism Results

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  This fact sheet covers achievements and actions of the Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community in the two weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Achievements include the State Department negotiating information sharing, diplomatic, and military support from other countries, NATO, and the United Nations; the Treasury Department freezing al-Qaida accounts; numbers of military personnel in Theater and reserves called to activity duty; and numbers of interviews, searches, subpoenas, and arrests by the Department of Justice.

  United States. White House Office

  2001-10-01
• President's Identity Theft Task Force Report

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  "Two years ago, the President launched a new era in the fight against identity theft by issuing an executive order establishing the Identity Theft Task Force. The executive order charged 15 federal departments and agencies with crafting a comprehensive national strategy to combat more effectively this pernicious crime, which afflicts millions of Americans each year and, in some cases, causes devastating damage to its victims. One year later, on April 11, 2007, the Task Force submitted its Strategic Plan to the President. The Strategic Plan examined the nature and scope of identity theft and offered a far-reaching series of recommendations to reduce its incidence and impact. Although these recommendations were directed primarily at improving the federal government's response to identity theft, the Task Force recognized that everyone-consumers, the private sector, and federal, state, and local governments-has a role to play in fighting this crime. This report documents the Task Force's efforts to implement the Strategic Plan's recommendations. The Task Force has successfully carried out most of the recommendations or is making substantial progress in doing so."

  United States. White House Office

  2008-09
• Quarterly Report to the President on Progress Implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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  "This report will provide the current status of funding under the [American Recovery and Reinvestment] Act, review the first and primary purpose--job creation--and share some reports from the field that provide insights into initial implementation efforts." From the introduction by Vice-President Biden: "Over 90 days have passed since [the President] signed the Recovery Act, and significant progress has been made toward implementation. We remain ahead of schedule in most programs and, due to efficiencies and sound management, many projects are coming in under budget. As you know, we set a goal of outlaying 70 percent of Recovery Act expenditures by the end of 2010; after just three months, we have already obligated more than $88 billion." This document also includes several charts and graphs.

  United States. White House Office

  2009-05
• New Generation of American Innovation

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  "America's economy leads the world because our system of private enterprise rewards innovation. Entrepreneurs, scientists, and skilled workers create and apply the technologies that are changing our world. President Bush believes that government must work to help create a new generation of American innovation and an atmosphere where innovation thrives. On April 26, 2004, President Bush announced a series of specific measures to inspire a new generation of American innovation--policies to encourage clean and reliable energy, assure better delivery of health care, and expand access to high-speed Internet in every part of America. By giving our workers the best technology and the best training, we will make sure that the American economy remains the most flexible, advanced, and productive in the world."

  United States. White House Office

  2004-04
• Quiet Revolution: President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative: Seven-Year Progress Report

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  "On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the first two Executive Orders of his Administration, creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI) and similar offices within five Federal agencies. The President's goal was to eliminate government barriers inhibiting partnerships with faith-based and grassroots charities and to strengthen the work of America's armies of compassion in tackling society's toughest problems. [...] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI), the newest FBCI Center, is particularly focused on disaster preparation, response, and recovery issues."

  United States. White House Office

  2008-02
• President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative in 50 States: Report to the Nation

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  "This guidebook details the remarkable diversity of the FBCI [Faith-Based and Community Initiative] at work in every State. Specifically, it details the awards won by each State's nonprofits, the funding they received, and the innovative programs they administer. On the right side of each page, we highlight an individual whose story conveys the distinct achievements of a particular grassroots effort within the State - describing impacts of the President's Initiative that numbers can never fully capture."

  United States. White House Office

  2008-06
• President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative in 50 States: Report to the Nation's Governors

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  This White House report, addressed to the Nation's governors, is a State-by-State guidebook that accompanies the report entitled 'The Quiet Revolution' in discussing the President's faith-based and community initiative from 2001-2008.

  United States. White House Office

  2008-02
• Policy Framework for PACE [Property Assessed Clean Energy] Financing Programs

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  "The following Policy Framework has been developed by the White House and the relevant agencies as a policy framework for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing programs. Today [October 18, 2009], the Vice President is announcing support for the use of federal funds for pilot programs of PACE financing to overcome barriers for families who wish to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements. The innovative PACE approach attaches the obligation to repay the cost of improvements to the property, not the individual borrower, creating a way to pay for the improvements if the property is sold. This Policy Framework provides important safeguards for the relevant parties, including homeowners and mortgage lenders. The Policy Framework applies to federal funding of PACE programs and also is designed to serve as a resource for state, local, and tribal governments who seek to carry out PACE activities without federal funding." This document also includes an overview of PACE and some challenges it faces.

  United States. White House Office

  2009-10-18
• National Framework for Strategic Communication

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  "Across all of our efforts, effective strategic communications are essential to sustaining global legitimacy and supporting our policy aims. Aligning our actions with our words is a shared responsibility that must be fostered by a culture of communication throughout the government. We must also be more effective in our deliberate communication and engagement, and do a better job understanding the attitudes, opinions, grievances, and concerns of peoples -- not just elites -- around the world. Doing so is critical to allow us to convey credible, consistent messages, develop effective plans and to better understand how our actions will be perceived. Our study has revealed the need to clarify what strategic communication means and how we guide and coordinate our communications efforts. In this report, we describe 'strategic communication' as the synchronization of our words and deeds as well as deliberate efforts to communicate and engage with intended audiences. We also explain the positions, processes, and interagency working groups we have created to improve our ability to better synchronize words and deeds, and better coordinate communications and engagement programs and activities. These changes are already producing visible results; however, we still have much ground to cover. We recognize the need to ensure an appropriate balance between civilian and military efforts. As a result, a process has been initiated to review existing programs and resources to identify current military programs that might be better executed by other Departments and Agencies. This process includes an interagency working group tasked to develop short-, medium-, and long-term options for addressing issues pertaining to budgets, personnel, and future programs and activities."

  United States. White House Office
• International Crime Threat Assessment

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  At the direction of the President and as part of the International Crime Control Strategy, a US Government interagency working group has prepared the following comprehensive assessment of the threat posed by international crime to Americans and their communities, US businesses and financial institutions, and global security and stability. The assessment is divided into five parts. Chapter I addresses the Global Context of International Crime, identifying those factors, including the implications of a changing world, the greater sophistication of criminal organizations, and institutional shortcomings elsewhere in the world, that have contributed to the growing problem of international crime. Chapter II provides a comprehensive overview of specific International Crimes Affecting US Interests, including their effect on American lives and livelihood, costs to US business interests at home and abroad, and impact on US national security interests around the world. Chapter III addresses Worldwide Areas of International Criminal Activity, particularly as source areas for specific crimes and bases of operations for international criminal organizations. This section includes an analysis of the driving factors in different countries and regions that allow criminal organizations and international criminal activity to flourish, as well as an assessment of the impact of international criminal activity on stability in these countries and regions. Chapter IV addresses the Consequences of International Crime for US Strategic Interests, including the ability to work cooperatively with foreign governments and the problem of criminal safe havens, kleptocracies, and failed states. Finally, Chapter V offers a perspective on the Future of International Crime as it develops in the next 10 years.

  United States. White House Office

  2000-12
• Campaign against Terrorism: A Coalition Update

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  This document updates the status of coalition forces and how they are dealing and diminishing the terrorist threat. Following the appalling events of September 11th, countries across the world expressed their support for action against terrorism. That support now forms the foundation of a remarkable world-wide coalition. The Coalition rapidly established its objectives. The first things to do were: to stop Usama Bin Laden and the Al Qa'ida network and to ensure that Afghanistan ceased to harbor and sustain international terrorism. The Coalition's objectives remain: to do everything possible to eliminate the threat posed by international terrorism; to deter states from supporting, harboring or acting complicity with international terrorist groups. Coalition forces have destroyed a number of Al Qa'ida training camps in Afghanistan and removed the corrupt Taliban regime. The international community is fully committed to helping Afghanistan recover from the destruction wrought by the Taliban and its close ally, Al Qa'ida. While Coalition action has achieved a great deal in shutting down terrorist training camps, the Coalition's campaign in Afghanistan and against terrorism continues.

  United States. White House Office

  2002-03
• National Performance Review

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  September 1993. This report addresses the need of fundamental change in the way federal government operates to become more efficient.

  United States. White House Office

  1993-09
• National Security Presidential Directive 23: National Policy on Ballistic Missile Defense

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  This first part of this document contains the full text of National Security Presidential Directive 23, obtained by Bill Gertz of the Washington Times. Passages that differ from the White House fact sheet on this directive that was released to the public in May 2003 are highlighted in bold. The second part of the document contains the original Directive as signed by President Bush.

  United States. White House Office

  2002-12-16
• Declaration of Leaders Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change [July 9, 2008]

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  This declaration of the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States declares their commitment to combat climate change. "To enable the full, effective, and sustained implementation of the Convention between now and 2012, we will: Work together on mitigation-related technology cooperation strategies in specific economic sectors, promote the exchange of mitigation information and analysis on sectoral efficiency, the identification of national technology needs and voluntary, action-oriented international cooperation, and consider the role of cooperative sectoral approaches and sector-specific actions, consistent with the Convention; Direct our trade officials responsible for WTO issues to advance with a sense of urgency their discussions on issues relevant to promoting our cooperation on climate change; Accelerate enhanced action on technology development, transfer, financing, and capacity building to support mitigation and adaptation efforts; Support implementation of the Nairobi Work Programme on impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change; Improve significantly energy efficiency, a low-cost way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance energy security; Continue to promote actions under the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer for the benefit of the global climate system; and Intensify our efforts without delay within existing fora to improve effective greenhouse gas measurement."

  United States. White House Office

  2008-07-09
• Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction

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  The pages contained in this document are excerpts from a 90+ page National Intelligence Estimate released in October 2002. The key judgments from the National Intelligence Estimate were declassified on July 18, 2003 and presented at a White House background briefing on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report was compiled by six intelligence agencies that pulled together all of their information. The analytical judgments contained in this report are a critical resource for policymakers. Overall, the report presents a clear and compelling case for aggressively pursuing the war on terror both in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. This document, however, also contains the INR's alternative view which states that given the lack of persuasive evidence; the INR is not prepared to speculate as to whether Iraq began "a coherent effort to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program" and is "unable to predict when Iraq could acquire a nuclear device or weapon."

  United States. White House Office

  2003-07-18
• Benefits of Transitioning to a Nationwide Wireless Broadband Network for Public Safety

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  "At a recent hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly remarked that a 16-year-old with a smartphone has more advanced communications capability than a police officer or deputy 'carrying a radio.' The failings of public safety communications systems include both interoperability--with the limitations of current systems becoming tragically apparent on 9/11 and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and opperability with the cost-effectiveness and performance of traditional public safety devices trailing well behind those provided by modern commercial cellular operators. With the emerging rollout of commercial services marketed as 4G, LTE-based wireless services, there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the effectiveness of our first responders through a national strategy to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety. Such a broadband service promises to enhance the effectiveness of public safety agencies and, if developed appropriately, can also ultimately replace their legacy (and very expensive) communications infrastructure and devices. This report explains how the President's Wireless Innovation and Infrastructure Initiative can facilitate the transition away from the traditional, fragmented world of public safety communications to a next generation system. It begins by providing the relevant context, explaining, among other things, the drawbacks of today's systems, and it concludes by discussing benefits and opportunities made possible by a successful transition to an LTE-based nationwide network. In so doing, it recognizes that this transition will take some time and, in order for it to be successful, it must planned carefully, coordinated effectively, and begin as soon as possible."

  United States. White House Office

  2011-06