Jean-Pierre: We're going to continue to call on congress to provide a swift and orderly transition to statehood for the people who live here in DC.

Jean-Pierre: [Biden] inherited an increase in crime when he walked in to this administration.

Jean-Pierre: [Biden's] words are being mischaracterized by someone [Taylor-Greene] who is regularly discredited for things that she says that are really conspiracy theories. And those lies are being parroted by a certain network.

Reporter: There is a separate House congressional republican proposal that would override legislation allowing non-citizens to vote in Washington, DC elections. If that passes congress, would [Biden] sign it?

Jean-Pierre: I can say that [Biden] does not support that.

Reporter: Some fact-checkers believe that $1.7 trillion [claimed deficit reduction] was because the COVID relief funds ran out. Does the White House have a response to that?

Jean-Pierre: What we know, and what we have seen from the data, is because of [Biden], because of the plans he has put forward, 1.7 trillion dollars….that's how the deficit has decreased.