12 February 2016 — On February 11, President Obama tweeted his congratulations to the LIGO team:
On Feb 12, 2016, John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, posted a statement on the White House blog with congratulations to the LIGO team.
The full statement is available at:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/02/12/statement-detection-gravitational-waves