President Joe Biden‘s White House summit on countering hate-fueled violence will tiptoe around politically motivated violence, according to senior administration officials.
Civic, faith, philanthropic, and business leaders, including from technology companies, have been invited to Biden’s United We Stand Summit on Thursday as the White House gathers partners to stop or better respond to violent incidents. But after Biden traveled to Philadelphia this month to condemn MAGA Republicans as a threat to democracy, administration officials were adamant the event was not “about Jan. 6.”
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“This is something that everyone should be able to agree on. It’s not a Democratic issue. It’s not a Republican issue,” an official told reporters before the event. “The purpose here is to demonstrate that we are all in this together.”
Biden will announce new agency actions to strengthen the federal government’s coordination and community engagement on hate-fueled violence, according to the White House. For example, Biden’s Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services will call on education and health leaders to reevaluate how they contend with hate-based threats, harassment, and bullying, providing states, school districts, and individual schools with funding and technical assistance to ease the process.
Administration officials also underscored how Biden asked Congress to appropriate more funding for the Department of Homeland Security‘s nonprofit security grant program, for example.
“We know that HBCUs faced bomb threats this year,” an official said of historically black colleges and universities. “It’s a serious problem.”
The summit’s schedule comprises expert presentations and moderated discussions, in addition to remarks by Biden and a ceremony honoring 16 “Uniters” and hate-fueled violence survivors.
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“Technology companies, including YouTube, Twitch, Microsoft, and Meta, are announcing new actions their platforms are taking to prevent hate-fueled violence,” the White House stated in a fact sheet.
