While Republicans in Washington D.C. and across the country are doing their best to do what is worst for the American People, President Joe Biden and the Democrats are busy trying to enact programs that will help them and move the country in a forward direction.
Yesterday, President Biden visited Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio touting his American Rescue, Jobs, and Families Plans. Reminding the audience that, unlike Republican supply-side economic plans, the Biden/Harris model is one that trickles up and expands the middle class by investing in high-paying blue-collar jobs in the emerging clean energy sector while providing investments in infrastructure and human capital like free pre-kindergarten and community college.
Hannah Goss of the Arizona Democratic Party noted that Biden's policies in the passed American Rescue Plan and the pending Jobs and Families Plans would greatly benefit Grand Canyon State Children in need.
She stated in a May 28, 2021 Press Release:
"President Biden’s proposal would:
Aid the 215,000 Arizona children who are considered poor and bolster financial security in Arizona by reducing taxes on middle-class families.
Extend the American Rescue Plan’s Child Tax Credit and provide direct payments of $3,000 per child over the age of six and $3,600 per child under the age of six to working Arizona families.
Make the Child Tax Credit fully refundable on a permanent basis, so that low-income families—the families that need the credit the most—can benefit from the full tax credit.
Reduce child poverty in Arizona by 51 percent and cut child poverty in half nationwide."
She further stated that:
"GOP lawmakers continue to vote in favor of tax cuts for their big-money donors and wealthy corporations, yet they are rallying against a plan that would cut child poverty in half simply because it was crafted by a Democratic administration. Reducing child poverty should not be a partisan issue—and every Republican member of the Arizona congressional delegation should go on the record and explain to their constituents why they’ll vote against cutting Arizona’s child poverty rate in half.”
While Republican lawmakers have voted in unison against the Biden American Rescue Plan, some of them, sounding like they supported the two trillion dollar measure, can not help but praise some of its provisions.
That caught President Biden's attention and he had a moment of fun in his Cleveland Address when he pulled out a list of Republican Congressmen, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who boasted about American Rescue Plan policies that they voted against.
The President said:
"Even my Republican friends in Congress, not a single one of them voted for the rescue plan. I’m not going to embarrass any one of them, but I have here a list of how back in their districts, they’re bragging about the rescue plan. They touted the restaurant revitalization fund. They touted the fact that we’re in a situation where they’re dealing with touted grants to community healthcare centers. I mean, some people have no shame. But I’m happy. I’m happy they know that it benefited their constituents. That’s okay with me. But if you’re going to try to take credit for what you’ve done, don’t get in the way of what we still need to do. The bottom line, the bottom line is this. The Biden economic plan is working."
Earlier today (May 28, 2021,) the Biden-Harris Administration released its proposed federal budget blueprint which incorporates the funding from the American Jobs and Families Plans.
This approximately six trillion-dollar proposal calls for "Congress reinvest (ing) robustly in areas like public health, education, basic science, and clean energy."
The budget, in addition to the American Jobs and Families Plans, provides for record investments in Title One Schools, the Center for Disease Control, and combatting Climate Change.
It is truly a peoples first budget that addresses the challenges the country faces.
Bernie Sanders called the Biden/Harris blueprint "the most significant agenda for working families in the modern history of our country."
Republicans of course cried foul, repeating the tired old discredited talking points that the Democratic proposals will explode the debt (like their policies,) propel inflation, hurt national defense, and stifle business competitiveness.
Those arguments were big lie fecal matter when they made them in the Clinton and Obama Presidencies and they are still big lie fecal matter now.
The American People, judging by consistent polling that shows support for the Biden/Harris Economic Policies, know which political party and leadership are working for them and which ones are working for themselves.
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