Joe Biden Elevates Xi Jinping in Address to Congress
28 Apr 2021
President Joe Biden elevated Chinese President Xi Jinping in his address to Congress Wednesday, suggesting he was on his way to leading his country to overtake the United States.
“He’s deadly earnest, of becoming the most significant consequential country in the world,” Biden said during his speech, veering from his prepared text.
It was an unusual decision by Biden to refer to the Chinese president by name twice during an important address to Congress – more than any other foreign leader in his speech.
The president added that he had traveled with President Xi for 17,000 miles, a repeated claim from him that has been fact-checked as false.
Gov. Lujan Grisham statement on President Biden’s joint address to Congress
SANTA FE Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday issued the following statement after President Joe Biden issued his first address to a Joint Session of Congress:
“President Biden’s American Families Plan prioritizes all the right things for both our country and our state: investing in our children, our families, and our economic future – the very same things we are doing right here in New Mexico. In fact, we are encouraged that the President is prioritizing universal pre-school, free community college, and paid sick leave, just as we are in New Mexico.
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has said that it is time to grow the US economy from the bottom and the middle, asserting that America is in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century.
In his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Biden quoted the International Monetary Fund as saying that the US economy will grow at the rate of more than 6 per cent this year.
“That will be the fastest pace of economic growth in this country in four decades,” he said.
“My fellow Americans, trickle-down economics has never worked and it is time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out,” Biden said.
28 Apr 2021
Below is the text, as prepared for delivery, of Sen. Tim Scott’s response to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress delivered Wednesday night:
Good evening. I’m Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina.
We just heard President Biden’s first address to Congress.
Our President seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words.
But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership.
He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted.
That was the pitch. You just heard it again.
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April 29, 2021 07:52 IST
Mr. Biden marked his first 100 days in office as the nation emerges from a confluence of crises, making his case before a pared-down gathering of mask-wearing legislators because of pandemic restrictions.
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U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 28, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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Mr. Biden marked his first 100 days in office as the nation emerges from a confluence of crises, making his case before a pared-down gathering of mask-wearing legislators because of pandemic restrictions. U.S. President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress that the nation is “turning peril into possibility,” celebrating progress against the coronavirus and urging a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that would fundamentally transform roles the government plays in American life.