President Joe Biden: (00:00)
I’m not sure which one I want to drive. That one? There’s one back in the corner you can’t see. It’s the biggest damn. Pickup truck you ever saw in your life. I tell you what. Please, everybody have a seat. Everybody have a seat. Carlo, thank you. And Carlo, I’m sorry about your mom. I really am so many, so many people, well over 630,000 Americans have lost their lives because of COVID. And the press keeps wanting me to talk about COVID, but I’m going to mention this one thing: we still have a lot of people not vaccinated. The pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So please, please, please, please, if you’re not vaccinated, protect yourself and the children out there, it’s important. And Carlo, having been a significant consumer of healthcare, myself, my family I’ve often said this, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart, thank your daughter for me. If there are any angels in heaven, they’re male and female nurses, that’s the God’s truth. Doctors let you live, they make you want to live. I spent a lot of time in ICU with my son on the table. Tell her thank you, thank you, thank you. I really mean it.
(01:27)
And I want to thank Congresswoman Wild for the passport into a district, where are you? Stand up. As they say up in Scranton, she’s bragging on y’all. Don’t say, “Y’all” up there, they say that in Delaware. You do because you got family from Alabama, and you’ve been a tireless champion for the working men and women and Lehigh Valley, helping us pass the tax cuts for families with children. People are seeing now in their bank accounts, showing up in their bank accounts every month and working with our administration to expand home care for seniors, we’ve got a generation that’s a sandwich generation between the child and a mom or dad needing help. And they need help. Provide better pay for caregivers. And I want to particularly thank Bobby Casey, he’s a great friend of mine who champions this cause in the United States Senate; elder care.
(02:32)
John Mack started this iconic American company in 1890, but things really didn’t get off the ground for four years later when he brought his brother, William now from a Scranton. So it goes to show, you want to get things moving, bring a guy from Scranton to get it going.
(02:56)
Mind if I take my coat off? I’m going to take my coat off. And folks, we’re getting things moving. We really are, you are. When I started my campaign for president and the Gov’s still right there., Gov, I didn’t introduce you. I apologize. No, you’re the governor of this state and you’re one of the best governors of the country. Thank you. You’re a good friend. When I said I was running, when I announced my campaign, not many people took it seriously. I said I was running for three reasons, one to restore the soul of this country, a sense of decency and honor. But secondly, to rebuild the backbone of the country; hard working middle class folks who built this country, and I’m going to point out unions built the middle class. It’s not a joke. Unions built the middle class. By the way, in case you regret anything, I just want you to guys and women in the union know that it weren’t for the UAW in 1972, I never would have won. You think I’m kidding? We’re the largest percentage of union workers in any state in the nation in Delaware back then, including Michigan, because we’re a small state, and we hadn’t big plants. So before you get upset, remember you’re to blame. Oh, I got you.
(04:36)
Look, folks, I think a lot of us come from similar backgrounds, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, family, people who get up every day, work hard, raise their families, paid their taxes, serve their communities and serve their country. And that’s why I moved so quickly to pass The American Rescue Plan shortly after I got elected. Because we needed to act quickly and boldly to save jobs, save businesses and save lives. And we did. We added more than 600,000 jobs per month since I’ve taken office. That’s over 3 million jobs, all told. It’s the fastest growth at this point in any administration on record, because of you all. We brought this economy back from the brink, checks and people’s pockets, shots in people’s arms, tax cuts for working families with children.
(05:43)
And we designed our strategy not only to provide a temporary boost, but to lay the foundation for a long-term boom that brings everyone along. Because when I arrived in office, it’s been long time since the federal government had worked hard for working people. Things have been great for big corporations, great for the very wealthy, folks at the top, those 55 major corporations for the past three years paid zero in federal taxes, making over $40 billion. They had no complaints. But when I put my hand in that Bible and January 20th took the oath of office, I made a commitment to the American people; we’re going to change the paradigm. So working people good to have a fighting chance again, to get a good education, to get a good job and a raise, to take care of that elderly parent, and afford to take care of their children and stop losing hours of their lives stuck in traffic because the streets are crumbling, or waiting for a slow, spotty internet to connect them to the world.
(06:58)
That’s what the economy we’re building is all about, because given half a chance, and think about this, I mean this is the bottom of my heart, given half a chance, ordinary Americans, the American people have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Just given half a chance. I mean it. You may have heard that in Washington now, just on the phone, it looks like you reached a bi-partisan agreement on infrastructure, a fancy word for bridges, roads, transit system, high speed internet, clean drinking water, cleaning and capping the orphan wells, over thousands of abandoned, and abandoned mines, and a modern, resilient electric grid to build. And guess what? A lot of those abandoned wells are leaking methane. And guess what? The same union guys had dug those wells, they can make the same union wage capping those wells. And I’m working with Democrats and Republicans to get this done because while there’s a lot we don’t agree on, I believe that we should be able to work together on the few things we do agree on. I think it’s important.
(08:23)
In addition to the physical infrastructure, I also put forward a thing called Build Back Better Plan with investments that are going to really… If I said to you, you could have the following: we’re going to be build you a lot of new roads and bridges, or I can make sure we’re going to educate your kids who are the best educated population in the world. What do you think would most impact on the growth of America? It’d be the most educated nation in the world. So I’m assisting the way of universal pre-kindergarten, two years of free community college. All the studies show, no matter what-
(09:03)
All the studies show, no matter what background the kid comes from, whether they’re a single mom or a single dad who was on what we used to call welfare or in trouble, or come from a middle-class household, the kid who comes in the background that’s deprived is going to hear by the time they get to first grade a million fewer words spoken, a million fewer spoken. What that means is they’re behind the eight ball from the start, and a lot more. But we found out you put kids in not [inaudible 00:09:39] but in school at age three, four, and five, it increases by 58% the chance, no matter what their background, they’ll make it through high school and qualify to go on to community college.
(09:53)
Folks, we need more affordable childcare. There are a lot of women not working today because they can’t go back to their jobs because they have no one to take care of their children. They can’t afford it. I was a single dad for five years when my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident and my two little boys were badly banged up. I commuted back and forth to Washington because I couldn’t dare leave and move to Washington because I didn’t have my family to help me take care of my kids. I was making a good salary, $42,000 a year then. What? I couldn’t afford daycare for my children.
(10:42)
Elder care. How many of you know somebody as a mom or dad that needs help just because they’re getting older and maybe still has their home, would rather stay in their home, increase their mental state, put them in a position where it’s better for their health, but you can’t figure out how to keep mom home alone, how to do it, or dad? Well, elder care is a big piece of this. Paid leave. We’re one of the only industrial countries in the world you don’t get paid leave if you have a sick son, daughter, mother, father, wife, husband, to have some time to take care of that. Bring more people into the workforce, enhance our productivity, raise wages, and bring down the cost for working families.
(11:36)
I was born up in Scranton and my dad worked up in Scranton. He was actually from Baltimore, but he worked in Scranton and met my mom, [inaudible 00:11:46] moved there. And when Cole died, everything died in the valley. So we had to leave, look for a new job. My dad used to have an expression when we got down to Wilmington. First thing he did, he got a job scrubbing the inside of boilers for [inaudible 00:12:06] called The Kyle Corporation. We finally got to the place where we get to the place after five years we could afford to buy a small house, actually six years. My dad used to say, “Remember, Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in the community. I give my word,” is what he’d say. “And it’s about being able to look your kidney eye and say, honey, it’s going to be okay, and mean it.” Because we know the trickle-down economics has never worked, but when working families do well, everybody does well, including new wealthy. Everybody.
(12:59)
Today, I’m here to talk about a commitment that’s sacred to me, and central to our efforts to keep things moving. It’s a straight forward solution: support and grow more American-based companies. Put more Americans to work work in union jobs. Strengthen American manufacturing, and secure critical supply chains, and confront the climate crisis, which is all about jobs. I can sum it up in two words: buy American. Buy American. Most people don’t know, no matter how informed they are, most people don’t know that for literally almost a century, there’s been a law on the books in America called the Buy America Act. It’s supposed to make sure that when your government spends your tax dollars and buying goods, that they have to be goods that were built, purchased in America. But the previous administration didn’t take it so seriously, and previous ones, not just the last one. They were quick to say, “We have a lot of money to spend. We got to buy. The government’s going to buy everything from buildings to aircraft carriers, to trucks, to whatever it is. But we can’t find an American company that can do it all, so we’re going to have to issue a waiver. We’ll hire the American company, but that mirror a company is going to have a subsidiary overseas where Americans don’t work where it’s much cheaper, they can make more money, and they’re going to say, we have to have that as part of the chain of building the product.”
(15:11)
The result has been tens of billions of dollars didn’t go to jobs and businesses and communities like this one. In recent years, buy America’s become a hollow promise. But my administration is going to make buy American a reality. And I’m putting the weight of the federal government behind that commitment. Within the White House itself, we put in a made in America office to oversee, not in an agency, in the White House, to itself oversee these efforts. My first cabinet meeting, I told all the cabinet members, if their agency wants to issue a waiver, the forest department is buying trucks or hoses or whatever they need, they got to buy something that’s all of it that has been made in America.
(16:07)
And you can’t give exceptions. You can say, we can’t find one that has… They get their nozzles overseas because they don’t have anybody here can make them et cetera. I said, “If you’re going to give an exception, you got to tell the White House specifically why the exception. If they still want to waiver, they have to post the request publicly.” So American manufacturers all over the United States and businesses have a chance to look up now in a new facility and say, “Hey, they’re looking for companies that make nozzles. They’re looking for companies that make the following whatever. We make that. We make that.” And contact us. Then they can’t take the job overseas.
(16:53)
And today, we’re going to go further. We’re going to make the biggest enforcement changes to the Buy America Act in 70 years. Right now, if you manufacture a vehicle, I suspect you guys know about that, that gets purchased by the federal government, the law says that that… And there’s about 600,000 vehicles the federal government owns, by the way, and replaces and buys. That substantially all the vehicle, substantially all, should be made in America. Because of loopholes over time, you know what substantially all means today? If 55% of it was made in America, you can go ahead and get all the rest of it purchased to other places. To me, 55% is not substantially all. And this is actually a double whammy. First, 55% is not high enough. And second, contractors don’t have to tell us the total domestic contents of their products. They just have to tell us that they hit the threshold. Nobody’s checking. Well, they got a new sheriff in town. We’re going to be checking, and I’m serious. I am deadly earnest. Today I’m directing the Budget Office to issue a rule to raise the amount of domestic content required to be considered made in America from 55% to 75%. Substantially all is going to mean substantially all, and starting with critical products. Instead of taking contractors at their word that they’ve hit the threshold, we’re going to start making them give us the details so that we can do more to support American manufacturing. We want to be the ones making the innovative parts of every product, the ones that will support more jobs and more small businesses.
(18:58)
For example, I had a tour today, a lovely lady showing me the parts, were the second stop we made. She said, “Well, we’re having a little problem. We’re finding we don’t have the computer chips that we need to go into the engine, et cetera.” We basically don’t make them anymore in America, so I got together with a group of 20 Republicans and Democrats. We passed a new piece of legislation providing that South Korea and Taiwan open up plants here in the United States hiring American employees to make those computer chips, so we’re not held hostage.
(19:39)
In case you haven’t noticed, not only you, but Ford Motor Company said they’re going to have to stop producing certain vehicles. They couldn’t get the chips, couldn’t get the wafers, and so I’m directing my Budget Office to create new rules for critical product products, where we know we need stronger, more resilient, domestic supply chains. We’re talking about components like semiconductors, pharmaceutical ingredients, advanced batteries, among other things.
(20:15)
We saw during the early days of the pandemic that the supply chain disruptions can put Americans’ lives and livelihoods at risk. When we needed it the most, we were short on protective equipment, were short on ventilators, and other essential health equipment. We couldn’t get the job done. We couldn’t take care of people. We were short on basic equipment. I know a lot of you in this factory stepped up to make PPE at the time. That was a noble service, but it’s not a longterm solution. Yes, we’ll keep trading with our allies, but we need to have a resilient supply chain of our own so that we’re never again at the mercy of countries for critical goods ever again, ever.
(20:57)
You know exactly what I’m talking about right here. You’ve seen production slow down, as I said. You’ve had your hours cut because of the shortage of computer chips and semiconductors. These chips are more than just vehicles. They enable so much of our modern lives, our smartphones, our televisions, our medical equipment. That’s why we’re investing $50 billion to have the best chip manufacturing in the world come and build factories in the United States of America. It’ll pass the Senate. It’s called The CHIPS Act, and it’s part of my Build Back Better plan, and it is bipartisan, as many Republicans are concerned about it as Democrats. It’s not just semiconductors. With this rule, we’ll be able to buy medical products from companies like OraSure. They’re down the road in Bethlehem, or up the road in Bethlehem, I should say. I’m used to thinking from Scranton. Their COVID-19 tests are being made right here, bringing good jobs along with a meaning that we’re developing a home-grown capacity to respond to this pandemic, and help prepare for the next one.
(22:11)
By the way, when I say buy in America, I mean all America. You know, we’re going to include communities that have historically been left out of government procurement, when more contracts are going to go to black and brown communities, Native American, small business, every state and territory, every industry, to services and manufacturers, and also agriculture. Part of the problem is a lot of companies don’t even know these opportunities exist to be part of this, and we got to know …
(22:40)
I used to have a great friend, a friend who’s a great friend, who used to play for Providence College back in the days when they had great teams. His name was Pete McLaughlin, and he used to have an expression. God love him, he passed away. Needed a heart [inaudible 00:22:55], but anyway. The point is that what Pete used to say, and academics weren’t his thing, he used to say something very, very streetwise. Said, “Joe, you got to know how to know. You got to know how to know.”
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