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Competitiveness versus complacency. it's about expanding opportunity, not opportunity to deny. it's about leading the world. we're letting the world pass us by. today, with my democratic colleagues, we have a framework for my build back better initiative. here's how it will fundamentally change the lives of millions of people for better. millions of you are in a so-called sandwich generation who feel financially squeezed by raising a child and caring for an aging parent. about 820,000 seniors in america, people with disabilities, have applied for medicaid but they're on a waiting list right no...

Impacts significantly on how they'll finish. we can't be competitive in the 21st century global economy if we continue to slide. that's why i've said all along we need to build america up from the bottom up and the middle out, not from the top down, with the trickle-down economics that's always failed us. i can't think of a single time the middle class has done well that the wealthy haven't done very well. i can think of many times when the wealthy and super wealthy do very well and the middle class don't do well. that's why i proposed the investments congress is now considering in two critica...

We can't be competitive in the 21st century global economy if you continue this slide. that's why i've said all along we need to build america from the bottom up and the middle out. not from the top down with the trickle down economics that's always failed us. i can't think of a single time when the middle class hasn't done well that the wealthy hasn't done very well. that's why i propose the investments congress is now considering. in two critical pieces of legislation. positions i ran on as president, positions i announced when i laid out in a joint session of congress what my economic agend...

Opposition the white house is going to the lengths of having the former president barack obama issue a statements moments ago urging democrats to please get behind the president. at the white house event says time is up. we've been talking for months. it's critical to make a fundamental rewrite of the social safety net and the president says this shouldn't be about politics. >> these are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive or anything else that miss americans against one another. this is about competitiveness versus complacency, competitiveness versus complacency. it's a...

Package. i mean, you're talking about a bill that was supported with 69 votes in the senate back in early august to fix our roads, our bridges, our water, broadband, help us fight climate change, right. this is a historic once in a century package, and he asks us to support it, the speaker has asked us to back t.obviously right now the white house and our leadership is working the votes and at the same time, you know, we put out a framework for the other package which is also really important. as you know, that includes child care and helping us fight climate change and reinstating the state a...