Cox support cspan as a Public Service along with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next President Biden promotes initiatives for Renewable Energy technologies and semiconductors as part of his economic plan during a visit to a milwaukee wind and Solar Energy Production plant. The president also addressed the recent wildfires in maui and announced that he and the first lady are planning to visit the Hawaiian Island in the near future. Please welcome ibew local 2150 member valentino. [applause] good afternoon everyone. My name is valentino and i am proud to be a member of ibew local 2150. [applause] yes, let us go. Ive worked here for 10 years establishing and repairing wind and turbine generators. It is hard to believe im standing here right now, i am so nervous. [applause] the presenting workforce that is helping build americas clean energy future, born and raised in the philippines, i immigrated here when i was just nine years old. Like so many immigrants my parents envisioned a better life for me. They believe that in america with hard work, a little faith, anything is possible. [applause] yes today, i am fulfilling their hopes and dreams and not only building a better life for myself but for my wife jennifer and our five beautiful children. My journey getting here represents the promise of america, the greatest country in the world. I am grateful to support along the way i had a lot of support i received from ibew. Think part of the union means everything to me. It has given me opportunity, stability and most importantly the security of a good job to raise my family on. Americas Union Workforce is the backbone of this country. [applause] yes and that is something President Biden understands at his core. When it comes to creating jobs, rebuilding the middle class and respecting the dignity of workers, joe biden has delivered to the American People. He has delivered for me and my family and for so many families like mine. It is now my honor to introduce the most prounion president in American History, the champion of working people across this great nation, president joe biden. [applause] [music] President Biden hello, milwaukee. [applause] please have a seat, if you have one. [laughter] i said that once early in my presidency and the press wrote they did not know if anybody could stand or sit. [laughter] thank you, valentino, for the introduction. I have said it many times. Middle america but the unions built the middle class. [applause] governor evers, mayor johnson, county executive crowley, thank you for your warm welcome. Tammy baldwin, you are the best. If i had 10 of you, we could rule the world. Thank you for all you do. I appreciate it very much. Nobody does more to create jobs in america. A very quiet, laidback congresswoman. [laughter] who, thank god, is on my side. Glenn moore never stops fighting for wisconsin. [applause] i used to work for the county. I used to be a county councilman when i was 26. I ran for the senate because it was too hard being an county counsel. [laughter] you wonder what we do . They do a hell of a lot and your mayor is doing a hall of a job hell of a job. [applause] i try very hard to keep my speeches between 15 and 18 minutes. But i got to talk about hawaii. I was on the phone with the governor coming up here and let me address the devastating wildfires, some of which are still burning in hawaii. They have claimed the lives of 99 people so far and they have not cleaned up yet. The deadliest wildfire in more than 100 years. A whole city destroyed. Generations of native hawaiian history turned into ruin. I have spoken to governor josh green and we assured him the state would have everything it needed from the federal government. I approved the governors request for a major disaster declaration. That is a fancy word of saying anything you need, you will get. That will get a into the hands of people aid into the hands of people who need it. All that area they have got to plow up, they cannot do it because they do not know what is left. Imagine being a mom or dad and wondering where your child is. A husband, wife, mother, father, it is tough stuff. Almost 500 personnel have been deployed to maui to help survivors get back on their feet. Fema, searchandrescue teams sifting through the ashes within that five mile area you have seen on television. This painstaking work takes time and is nerveracking. Most of the debris cannot be removed until it is done. My wife and i are going to travel to hawaii as soon as i can. I do not want to get in the way. But i want to go and make sure they have everything they need. I want to be sure we do not disrupt the ongoing recovery efforts. Griswold is on the ground this weekend. I talked to her this morning. I have directed her to streamline the process to register survivors who need federal assistance. To date, fema has approved 50,000 mal liters of water, 10,000 blankets, and other supplies for survivors. Fema also authorized onetime payments of 700 per household to those who have been displaced so they can do the immediate things of taking care of medications and prescriptions they so badly need. We are working with the state to make sure survivors that lost their homes have a place to call home until we can rebuild. We are also sending federal personnel to the state to help the firefighters and first responders, many of whom lost their own homes and properties to save other people. How many are still working aroundtheclock to put the fires out and evacuate survivors and find the missing . I have ordered all available federal assets on the island to assist local crews including the local coast guard, the navy third fleet, and u. S. Army. In the immediate aftermath the navy and coast guard assist in operations. The Army Helicopters helped with Fire Suppression on the big island, not the one you see on television. Fema has deployed over 480 search and rescue personnel as well. The red cross is helping survivors find missing loved ones. Cell phone providers making sure they can respond to emergency calls. Commercial airlines evacuated tens of thousands from the island. The list goes on. The Small Business administration has dozens of staff on the island and has made disaster loans available to help them begin to rebuild. We are going to continue to coordinate with the people on the ground and make sure the critical work continues. In the meantime, you always hear this phrase and i have been to so many disasters in my career it is almost hollow. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of hawaii. Milwaukee to talk about bringing manufacturing back home. It is about building an econom asset, every asset they need will be there for them and we will be there in maui as long as it takes. As long as it takes. I mean that sincerely. But today i have come to milwaukee to talk about bringing manufacturing back home. It is about building an economy from the middle out and the bottom out, not the top down. That trickle down economics. But when the middle works and the bottom has a shot the wealthy do very well. If you can make 1 billion, make it. I mean it. Just pay a little more taxes. [laughter] 8 does not cut it. [applause] i came to office determined to move away from trickle down economics and focus on the middle class. I said when the middle class does well everybody does well. The Financial Times and the wall street journal started calling my plan bidenomics, but guess what . It is working. [applause] i am serious. We are investing in america. According to Morgan Stanley and goldman sachs, my plan is leading to a boom in manufacturing as we are seeing in this factory. Over 13. 4 million new jobs. 150,000 new jobs in wisconsin. [applause] nearly 800,000 new manufacturing jobs nationwide. More than 20,000 new manufacturing jobs in wisconsin. [applause] we have added more jobs in two years than any president has an American History in a fouryear term. [applause] unemployment has been below 4 for the longer stretch in over 50 years. Wisconsins Unemployment Rate is just 2. 5 . That is lower than it was every single month prior to this administration. [applause] we have recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic and added millions more. People are coming off the sidelines and getting back into the workplace. They were saying biden allows people not to work and get paid. Guess what . The highest percentage of American Workers working than ever before. [applause] while unemployment is down, in case you have not noticed, inflation is down and going lower. [applause] remember the experts said to get inflation under control you needed lower wages and higher unemployment. That is the economic mantra. To get inflation under control fewer jobs, more unemployment, that is number one. And making sure that you do not have to deal with what caused inflation. I never thought the problem was too many people working or working people making too much money. One reason we have seen inflation fall by two thirds without losing jobs is corporate profits are coming downtoearth. We have done we have more to do with inflation. Just about 3 now and predicted to go lower. We are near the lowest point in over two years and at the same time, we pay for lowwage workers, growing at the fastest rate. Wages are growing faster than inflation. That is bidenomics. It is about growing the economy by strengthening the middleclass. [applause] making things in america again. It is in stark contrast to the republican maga view which is focused on corporate profits. They say we should the rationale had been lets find the cheapest placed in the world to make our product. Lets shut down the operation in america and send it overseas, and then send the refined product back to americans. That is the philosophy. You know who believes that . Your significant senator ron johnson. He believes outsourcing manufacturing jobs is a great thing. He is on record as saying he does not agree this is what he said, American Workers should not manufacture products that to a lot of labor. Let the billions of people around the world do that. You wonder why we got ourselves in trouble. [laughter] we have been letting them do that for too damn long. It is time to build American Products in america. [cheering and applause] you can see how ron johnsons rationale worked out. Between 2000 an january 2021, wisconsin alone lost more than 136,000 manufacturing jobs alone. I would like to see senator johnson talk to those 136,000 people and say it does not matter if you manufacture things at home or overseas. It sure as hell does matter. [applause] not only for those 136,000 people that lost their jobs but their families and communities and the Economic Growth it generated here at home. Lets look at how the johnson velocity plate philosophy played out in real time. Kenosha, 40 miles from here, there used to be people assembling automobiles and making a living for their families until american motors closed in 1988. Look at milwaukee, known as the manufacturing powerhouse. When i got to the senate i have been around 200 years [laughter] milwaukee was the manufacturing powerhouse. Not a joke. Not a joke. I do not have to tell this audience how hard people here work. All of you, all you have done to keep this city strong. By early 2000 milwaukee had lost two out of three factory jobs. 80,000 jobs were gone. Those jobs were lost in Something Else was lost as well, pride, a sense of dignity. My dad i swear to god this was the expression he was well read and worked like hell. He did not get the chance to go to college. He said, joey, life is more about than just a paycheck. It is about dignity. It is about respect. It is looking your kids in the eyes and say, it is going to be ok and you mean it. That is what a job is about. [applause] when the breadwinner loses their job, they lose their pride and the sense of dignity that goes with that. People like ron believe it is a good thing. All you need to look at is the bottom line. That is not my bottom line. From the day i took office i was determined to turn around the economy. That is why i fought hard to get passed the chips and science act. [applause] we used to put more into science and research than any country in the world. Almost 2 of our Gross Domestic Product we invest. We are the best engineers in the world. We are the best scientists in the world. We have the best researchers in the world. What the hell are we doing . That act has generated 3231 billion in 231 billion in the last 18 months making semiconductors in america. [applause] by the way, we invented those semiconductors. We invented them. We went to the moon. The small computer chips aside at the tip of your finger affecting cell phones, automobiles, and weapons systems. Let me give you one example. I met with the chairman of the largest chipmaker in south korea, sqk. They are investing 22 billion in america. Why . Why america . He said, number one, there is no safer place in the world to have my investment than the United States of america. Number two, you have the best workers in the world and he is right. [cheering and applause] that is the truth. It is about time ron johnson understood that. Look, i would not be standing here without you. Ibw think the average american they are not being mean you say, i want to be an electrician and you get a card. Four to five years of apprenticeship. It is like going back to college. Four to five years. You get paid but not nearly what you get paid when you get your card. We have to talk about what it takes to get it done. People are not trying to be mean. They just do not know. I sure as hell downed. Dont. [laughter] we used to produce chips here in america and we are bringing them back home. [applause] Tammy Baldwin championed five american policies leading to the resurgence of manufacturing in wisconsin across the country. You have heard me say it before. Where in gods name is it written that america cannot lead in manufacturing . Where is that written . Nowhere, you got it. Since i took office we have attracted more than 1 trillion 1 half trillion in manufacturing. Spending it on construction of manufacturing plants that need to be built. Nearly doubled the last two years. That is not just the permanent jobs. We are generating Economic Growth. Construction jobs do that as well. We have added 600,000 good paying construction jobs since i took office and they build these plants to build these chips. They are as long as football fields. They are gigantic. Guess what . The people who work there, do you know with the average salary is . 116,000 and you do not need a college degree. What the hell are we talking about . [applause] instead of exporting american jobs or creating american jobs and exporting american product, they are being built here in wisconsin and places factories have been shut down. Look what you are doing here. One year ago tomorrow i signed a significant piece of Clean Energy Legislation combating climate change. The single largest investment anywhere in the world. Without one member of the other team voting for it. I reauthorized those tax credits and expanded them. As a result, this Company Predicts that demand for the wind turbine generators which they are making in this facility will double next year. [applause] since i took office the private sector has announced more than 3 billion in investments. Not million, billion, in investments in Wind Manufacturing in america. By the way, it is cheaper, cheaper, cheaper than fossil fuels. [applause] that is not all. Until this year this company did not think it made sense to make charges for electric vehicles. But then when i signed the bipartisan infrastructure law which ron johnson voted against that law invests 7. 5 billion to build thousands of chargers stretching across the country, including i94. Over 500,000 of these charging stations, that is real jobs, that is real money. By the way, my grandpa biden died young. I was born six days after. He worked for the american oil company. His job was to go town to town expanding the oil company, building new gas stations. What happens if you build the gas station . You end up with a 7eleven or a doughnut shop. It generates Economic Growth. We are going to be building these facilities across america so you can plug in and go the width of the country. You can travel coasttocoast without running out of power. Every single one of these charges must be installed by workers certified by the iebw plant. [applause] every single one must be made in america. [cheering and applause] there is a provision of law that i thought i knew a fair amount. I did not realize maybe you did, tammy but in the 1930s they passed a law that if Congress Passes a law to spend money in the president wants to spend it, they have to spend it on American Workers and american product. Most president s, including democrats, did not Pay Attention to that. But i did. [laughter] [applause] now we use the nonamerican product and you have to prove to me you can get it from an american product. This company concluded that it was an opportunity for them as well and now they are making fast chargers and ev chargers right here in wisconsin. [applause] the goal is to manufacture 13,000 highspeed chargers every year. Guess what . To the chagrin of your senator, and the other senators, it is going to add 100 good paying jobs. [applause] folks, this is happening across the state. It is a direct result of those Clean Energy Investments i signed into law a year ago. As i have said for a long time, when i think climate, i think jobs. Not a joke. When i think climate, i think jobs. That is the future. By the way, the state of texas has a very enlightened governor. They have the highest number of wind and solar facilities of any state in the nation. It is cheaper than fossil fuel. He wants to shut them down. Isnt that enlightened .