4/6/2023 0 Comments The biden optimism![]() ![]() ORDOÑEZ: You know, Rachel, that idea of competition and the need to defend democracy was really a strong theme throughout this speech. Twelve years is no longer enough today to compete with the rest of the world in the 21st century. He instead made the economic case about how these programs would impact people's lives, like universal pre-K and free community college.īIDEN: If we were sitting down and we set a bipartisan committee together and said, OK, we're going to decide what we do in terms of government providing for free education, I wonder whether we'd think, as we did in the 20th century, that 12 years is enough in the 21st century. But he was not framing the education and child care parts, for example, as a form of, quote, "human infrastructure," as the White House had done before. He talked about traditional infrastructure from roads and bridges to water pipes and broadband. It was actually kind of interesting how he shed the framing that everything was about infrastructure. That's the new piece of his agenda that he was pitching. ORDOÑEZ: Yeah, the focus was on both the American Jobs Plan, which he had unveiled earlier - that's more about infrastructure and fighting climate change - and also the American Families Plan, which focused on child care and education. What did we learn about what he plans to do? The president's main focus was laying out his economic agenda for the country. Good morning to you both.ĭOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Good morning.įRANCO ORDOÑEZ, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel. For more on what the president laid out, we are joined now by NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez and NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro. MARTIN: The president talked about America moving past the pandemic, an economic crisis and the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, where he spoke last night. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: We have to prove democracy still works, that our government still works and we can deliver for our people. President Biden has been in office for 100 days, and in his first speech to Congress last night, he gave lawmakers a challenge.
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