Published April 20. 2021 6:03AM
Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to North Carolina on Monday to talk about economic opportunities and electric school buses as part of the Biden administration’s stepped-up efforts to promote its roughly $2 trillion infrastructure, clean energy and jobs spending proposal.
“The American Jobs Plan is not just about fixing what has been,” Harris said. “It’s about building what can be.”
Harris’ advisers portrayed her 15-minute speech at Guilford Technical Community College in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of her three stops in the state, as her first address on the nation’s economy since she took office, and an opportunity to preview the administration’s message as it nears the 100-day mark. On a factory-style floor surrounded by machines and flags, Harris said the country had administered nearly 200 million COVID-19 vaccine shots, double President Joe Biden’s initial goal, and c
Kamala Harris takes a seat at NC lunch counter where 4 students made history in 1960 Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apr. 20 RALEIGH The image said it all: the first Black vice president of the United States took a seat at the same Southern lunch counter where four Black college students sat on Feb. 1, 1960, leading to a wave of sit-ins across the country during the civil rights movement.
The moment captured in photos that gained attention nationwide came late Monday at the end of Vice President Kamala Harris s visit to North Carolina, where she pitched the Biden administration s new infrastructure plan.
20 Apr 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris said Americans are “able to breath easier and sleep better” due to President Joe Biden’s “help,” during a speech in North Carolina on Monday.
Harris, speaking to advance President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, promoted the Biden administration’s “help” that she believes is “delivering real, real relief.”
“Help is here. Help is here,” she reiterated.
“And hope is here and things are looking up. Schools are reopening. Businesses are reopening. Grandparents are seeing their grandchildren in person,” she praised.
“We are delivering real, real relief and the American people are now able to breathe easier and sleep better. And we are not done. The president and I are ready to keep going and we are not going to take it slow. And we are not going to take it one step at a time,” Harris said with a caveat.
Scientific American
Climate remains in the background during talks about the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan
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In her first major economic address, Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday outlined what the White House billed as a “vision of the future.”
Conspicuously absent: talk of climate change, which scientists and economists say will define the 21st century.
Harris’ speech fits a pattern of the Biden administration keeping climate in the background of its $2 trillion infrastructure plan, even as the White House touts its clean energy promises to an international audience. President Biden will press other countries in a Washington summit this week to increase their climate ambitions. He’s expected to direct attention to his infrastructure plan as a sign of U.S. commitment.