Biden departed for a moment from his written speech: “We’re not going to ignore that either.”
Biden during his campaign to unseat former President Donald Trump accused Trump of stoking white supremacist tendencies and deadly attacks with his rhetoric and of ignoring the white supremacist threat. Trump came under fire for cutting programs targeting and tracking white supremacists.
Biden at the outset of his speech referred to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by far-right rioters who sought to keep Congress from affirming Biden as president. He called the attack “The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
Joe Biden is closing in on the first 100 days of his presidency, having far exceeded some goals – he smashed his vaccination target – and having fallen short of others, such as his pledge to dramatically raise the refugee cap.
Tonight, Biden will deliver a primetime address to a joint session of Congress – and to all of America – and will lay out his vision for bringing the nation out of the darkness of the pandemic and on the path to a robust economic recovery.
President Biden pitches jobs and family plans in address to Congress
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WASHINGTON President Joe Biden used his address to Congress Wednesday to pitch his American Jobs Plan and a new $1.8 trillion American Families Plan that invests in families, children and the education system.
Biden proposed spending billions of dollars on education funding. Some of that will be used to provide free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children. He also wants to make two years of community college free. When you add 2 free years of community college, you start to change the dynamic, Biden told Congress.
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President Joe Biden delivered his first speech before a joint session of Congress. Here are some takeaways
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President Joe Biden delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, sharing a video of America’s future one the country will experience once the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.
Biden delivered the speech just days before he will reach his 100th day in office. Biden entered the White House amid surging COVID-19 case numbers and a struggling economy. Now, the vaccine rollout has begun to combat the novel coronavirus in a major way and has led to a rebound in the economy.