Biden holds first Cabinet meeting in nearly a year, first lady joins for first time

President Biden convened his Cabinet connected Friday for the archetypal clip successful astir a twelvemonth – this clip with First Lady Jill Biden joining him for the meeting. 

It was the archetypal clip the Cabinet has met since Oct. 2, 2023. Jill Biden spoke astir a White House inaugural connected women’s wellness probe earlier the president fielded a question astir the escalating tensions betwixt Israel and Lebanon. 

"We're continuing to effort to bash who we've tried from the beginning. To marque definite that some the radical successful bluish Israel, arsenic good arsenic confederate Lebanon, are capable to spell backmost to their homes and spell backmost safely," Biden said. "And the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, our full squad is moving with the quality assemblage to effort to get that done. We're going to support astatine it till we get it done. But, we've got a mode to go." 

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President Joe Biden flanked Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, right, speaks during a gathering with the members of his furniture and archetypal woman Jill Biden, successful the Cabinet Room of the White House connected Friday, Sept. 20. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden, erstwhile asked astir the chances of an Israel-Hamas cease-fire successful Gaza, responded "If I ever said ‘it's not realistic’ we mightiness arsenic good leave." 

"A batch of things don't look realistic until we get them done. We person to support astatine it," Biden said. 

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First woman Jill Biden, 3rd from left, speaks during Friday's Cabinet meeting. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden besides highlighted during the gathering the request for Congress to walk a continuing solution to money the government. 

The past clip President Biden held a Cabinet gathering was successful October 2023. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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At the past Cabinet gathering successful October 2023, Biden said helium was convening the gathering "to get an update connected the advancement we’re making connected pressing priorities for our country" -- specifically the "promise and peril of artificial intelligence" and "taking enactment connected weapon violence."