It’s Sunday.
No, the time change did not send us right to Monday, it really is Sunday (well, honestly, it’s Saturday night), but when it posts tomorrow; it really will be Sunday…
Here’s the skinny; President Biden has a lot of tweets and my grandbaby is staying the night. Last time she did that, she woke at 3 a.m., and didn’t go back to sleep until 5-ish a.m..
So, in order to save my sanity on more than one front, I’ve decided to slip in an extra Biden Bits on Sunday in order to split the length of Monday’s Biden Bits…
Onward…
As of Saturday night and probably Sunday morning, President Biden does not have a schedule posted. His trip to his beach house in Delaware was postponed from Friday with President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden departing D.C., on Saturday.
President Biden has tweeted 2 times so far for Sunday; I will be sharing them down thread.
When Biden Bits was published for Friday, President Biden tweeted 4 times. He added 3 tweets giving him a Friday Tweeting Total of 7 tweets and 0 retweets.
On Friday President Biden offered remarks on the October Jobs Report. Two of his added three tweets focus on those remarks. The YouTube is 11 minutes and 40 seconds long. His full remarks can be found here.
President Biden: We laid the foundation for this recovery with my American Rescue Plan that Congress passed at the beginning of my term. It put money in working families’ pockets. It gave families with kids a tax cut each month. It helped keep small businesses going in the dark days earlier this year. And it provided the resources needed to launch one of the fastest mass vaccination programs ever.
SUNDAYS 2ND TWEET:
President Biden: Thanks to the economic plan we’ve put through in Congress earlier this year and a successful vaccine deployment, America continues to add jobs at a record pace. In this historically strong recovery, unemployment rate has fallen again today down to 4.6 percent. This included a substantial drop in unemployment for Hispanics, which was much needed. Our economy is on the move. This morning, we learned that in October, our economy created 531,000 jobs — well above expectations. We also learned that job growth over the prior two months, August and September, was nearly 250,000 more jobs than previously thought. In total, the job creation in the first full nine months of my administration is about 5.6 million new jobs — a record for any new President. That’s a monthly average of over 60,000 [600,000] new jobs each month — 10 times more than the job creation at three months before I took office. New unemployment claims have fallen every week for the past five weeks, are down by more than 60 percent since I took office, and are now at the lowest level since the pandemic started. And people continue to move from unemployment rolls to work. Unemployment has decreased this year by more — more than any other year since 1950. So any year since 1950, unemployment has decreased more in this year than since 1950. And not only are more Americans working, working Americans are seeing their paychecks go up. Weekly pay went up in October with an average hourly earnings up almost 5 percent this year.
*The Build Back Better Framework; I forgot to link it above so…
The White House published the following statement:
I am urging all members to vote for both the rule for consideration of the Build Back Better Act and final passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill tonight.
I am confident that during the week of November 15, the House will pass the Build Back Better Act.
White House.gov. 11/05/2021.
I’d have to dig back through my articles; President Biden’s tweets don’t rate an archive of their own, but I think if I recall the 1,846 tweets and retweets correctly, this is only the second or maybe third time the tweet and statement matched in text and length exactly. I think.
For Saturday President Biden tweeted 11 times and retweeted 0 times.
As seen in Saturday’s Coffee Talk; spoiler alert, the House did pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act…
The below tweet was posted at 12:53 a.m. D.C., time (9:53 p.m. my time) which is how come it counts as a Saturday tweet…
Tonight, we took a monumental step forward as a nation.
The United States House of Representatives passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a once-in-generation bipartisan infrastructure bill that will create millions of jobs, turn the climate crisis into an opportunity, and put us on a path to win the economic competition for the 21st Century.
It will create good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced. Jobs that will transform our transportation system with the most significant investments in passenger and freight rail, roads, bridges, ports, airports, and public transit in generations.
This will make it easier for companies to get goods to market more quickly and reduce supply chain bottlenecks now and for decades to come. This will ease inflationary pressures and lower costs for working families.
The bill will create jobs replacing lead water pipes so every family can drink clean water.
It will make high-speed internet affordable and available everywhere in America.
This bill will make historic and significant strides that take on the climate crisis. It will build out the first-ever national network of electric vehicle charging stations across the country. We will get America off the sidelines on manufacturing solar panels, wind farms, batteries, and electric vehicles to grow these supply chains, reward companies for paying good wages and for sourcing their materials from here in the United States, and allow us to export these products and technologies to the world.
It will also make historic investments in environmental clean-up and remediation, and build up our resilience for the next superstorms, droughts, wildfires, and hurricanes that cost us billions of dollars in damage each year.
I’m also proud that a rule was voted on that will allow for passage of my Build Back Better Act in the House of Representatives the week of November 15th.
The Build Back Better Act will be a once-in-a-generation investment in our people.
It will lower bills for healthcare, child care, elder care, prescription drugs, and preschool. And middle-class families get a tax cut.
This bill is also fiscally responsible, fully paid for, and doesn’t raise the deficit. It does so by making sure the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations begin to pay their fair share and doesn’t raise taxes a single cent on anyone making less than $400,000 per year.
I look forward to signing both of these bills into law.
Generations from now, people will look back and know this is when America won the economic competition for the 21st Century.
White House.gov. 11/06/2021.
The YouTube is 31 minutes and 59 seconds long. His full remarks can be found here. Some of the tweets are not direct quotes to tweets, but are similarly worded.
President Biden: The House of Representatives passed an Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. That’s a fancy way of saying a bipartisan infrastructure bill — a once-in-a-generation investment that’s going to create millions of jobs modernizing our infrastructure — our roads, our bridges, our broadband, a whole range of things — to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity. And it puts us on a path to win the economic competition of the 21st century that we face with China and other large countries and the rest of the world.
President Biden: Let me be clear: We will pass this in the House, and we’ll pass it in the Senate. The Build Back Better Act will be a once-in-a-generation investment in our people — getting America back to work by reducing the costs of childcare and eldercare and getting millions of women back on the job who have to stay home because they cannot afford the childcare or the healthcare for their parents; providing universal pre-K for every three- and four-year-old child in America and increasing their academic achievement potential significantly — significantly; making healthcare more affordable; lowering prescription drugs costs; and tax cuts for working people and the middle class so that folks have just a little — as my — I know you’re tired of hearing me saying — my dad used to always say, as a middle-class guy, “We just need a little breathing room — a little breathing room.”
President Biden: Vice President Harris and I look forward to having a formal signing ceremony for this bipartisan infrastructure soon. Because — but everybody is not — I’m not doing it this weekend because I want people who worked so hard to get this done — Democrats and Republicans — to be here when we sign it. But we’re looking more forward to having shovels in the ground to begin rebuilding America.
President Biden: It’s going to create jobs replacing lead and — lead water pipes so every American, every child can drink clean water, improving their health and putting plumbers and pipefitters to work. How long have we been talking about that? It’s a gigantic issue. Jobs making high-speed Internet affordable and available everywhere in America. And you heard me say this before, and I apologize for repeating myself, but no parent should have to sit in a parking lot of a fast food restaurant so their child can do their homework because they have no Internet connection except to go off of what’s going on at — with — with that Internet connect from the fast food restaurant.
President Biden: It’s going to create more jobs –- good-paying jobs, union jobs that can’t be outsourced –- and they’re going to transform our transportation system with the most significant investments in passenger rail — the most significant investment in 50 years; in roads and bridges — the most significant investment in 70 years; and more investment in public transit than we’ve ever, ever made. Period.
President Biden: Good morning, folks. Well, finally: Infrastructure Week. (Laughter.) I’m so happy to say that: Infrastructure Week. (Laughs.) Folks, yesterday — I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to suggest that we took a monumental step forward as a nation. We learned that our economy created 5.6 million jobs since we took office on January 20th, reached an unemployment rate of 4.6 percent — two full years earlier than the vast majority of economists projected that would happen. And we’re just — we’re just getting started. We did something that’s long overdue, that long has been talked about in Washington but never actually been done. The House of Representatives passed an Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. That’s a fancy way of saying a bipartisan infrastructure bill — a once-in-a-generation investment that’s going to create millions of jobs modernizing our infrastructure — our roads, our bridges, our broadband, a whole range of things — to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity. And it puts us on a path to win the economic competition of the 21st century that we face with China and other large countries and the rest of the world.
President Biden: Vice President Harris and I look forward to having a formal signing ceremony for this bipartisan infrastructure soon. Because — but everybody is not — I’m not doing it this weekend because I want people who worked so hard to get this done — Democrats and Republicans — to be here when we sign it. But we’re looking more forward to having shovels in the ground to begin rebuilding America.
President Biden: And for all of you at home who feel left behind and forgotten in an economy that’s changing so rapidly, this bill is for you. The vast majority of the thousands of jobs that will be created don’t require a college degree. They’ll be jobs in every part of the country –- red states, blue states, cities, small towns, rural communities, Tribal communities. This is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America. And it’s long overdue.
SUNDAYS TWEET:
President Biden: We did something that’s long overdue, that long has been talked about in Washington but never actually been done.
President Biden: So, I spent a lot of time, as you probably heard, with a lot of people — both political parties and within my party — saying, “Look, let’s — if we move on what’s here in this bill — that is the infrastructure bill — it is a game changer in a half a dozen ways. The fact that it has too much of what you don’t want or more than you — and not enough where you don’t want — just, let’s — let’s be reasonable. Let’s take a look at this. Let’s do what we all agree, at a minimum, is in the interests of the American people. And if you want to add more, we can fight about it later, or you want to subtract some of it.”
The below tweet is just a sales pitch tweet…
Secretary Pete Buttigieg: Hey, it’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. This is a great day. We had a fantastic night last night as Congress moved on a bipartisan basis to deliver a big infrastructure bill. That means better roads and bridges coming to your community. It means the biggest investment we’ve ever made nationally in transit. Better ports and airports, getting lead out of the pipes that take drinking water to children, more internet access, a better grid, more electric vehicles. So many good things in this package and we couldn’t be more (sorry, Andrew, that was what he said), excited. I would also say it means one more thing. It means that even in today’s Washington, it is possible to deliver big things, something that the President has believed in from day one. And we’re so proud of this and ready to get to work, making sure we put those dollars to work to deliver in your community in every part of the country.
This is an Open Thread.
