Biden Bits: Will Stop Them…

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It’s Monday.

For this President’s Day Monday, President Biden will depart D.C., to head to Warsaw, Poland.

10:00 AM Official ScheduleThe President receives the President’s Daily Brief
Closed Press
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Joint Base Andrews Visitor Center Overhang Out-of-Town Pool
6:15 PM Pool Call TimeIn-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
6:40 PM Official ScheduleThe President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
South Lawn Open Press
7:00 PM Official ScheduleThe President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Warsaw, Poland
Joint Base Andrews Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will gaggle aboard Air Force One en route Warsaw, Poland

Just kidding–he first paid a surprised visit to Ukraine. As a result he’s got a lot of tweets so far for Monday.

Monday’s Tweeting Total so far =’s 7 tweets and 0 retweets.

President Biden issued the following statement this morning:

As the world prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, I am in Kyiv today to meet with President Zelenskyy and reaffirm our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

When Putin launched his invasion nearly one year ago, he thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided. He thought he could outlast us. But he was dead wrong.

Today, in Kyiv, I am meeting with President Zelenskyy and his team for an extended discussion on our support for Ukraine. I will announce another delivery of critical equipment, including artillery ammunition, anti-armor systems, and air surveillance radars to help protect the Ukrainian people from aerial bombardments. And I will share that later this week, we will announce additional sanctions against elites and companies that are trying to evade or backfill Russia’s war machine. Over the last year, the United States has built a coalition of nations from the Atlantic to the Pacific to help defend Ukraine with unprecedented military, economic, and humanitarian support – and that support will endure.

I also look forward to traveling on to Poland to meet President Duda and the leaders of our Eastern Flank Allies, as well as deliver remarks on how the United States will continue to rally the world to support the people of Ukraine and the core values of human rights and dignity in the UN Charter that unite us worldwide.

White House.gov. 02/20/2023.

The White House posted an on the record call by Senior Admin Officials on President’s Biden’s trip to Ukraine.

MS. WATSON:  Good morning, everyone.  Thanks for joining our call on short notice.  This is Adrienne Watson with the NSC.

To kick things off, we just want to go over the ground rules really quickly.  This call is on the record.  The contents of the call are embargoed until the call ends.  To ask a question, just raise your hand.

Our speakers today are White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer. 

With that, that I’ll turn it over to Kate.

MS. BEDINGFIELD:  Great.  Thanks, Adrienne.  Hi, everyone.  Thanks for jumping on, on short notice.  So I just wanted to do a little table set at the top here, and then I’ll turn it over to Jake and Jon for some additional points.

But, you know, so this trip today was a bold and strong move on President Biden’s part in the face of extreme difficulty, the extreme difficulty of making this trip as President of the United States.  It was logistically complicated and difficult, and it sends an incredibly powerful message that President Biden has faith in the Ukrainian people and is unwavering in his commitment to stand by them.

You know, a visit from a U.S. President to an active warzone like this is historic and unprecedented and, as I say, required a great deal of careful planning.

Unlike previous visits from Presidents to warzones, like Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. obviously does not have a military presence on the ground in Ukraine, which made a visit from a sitting President all the more challenging.

But this was a risk that Joe Biden wanted to take.  It’s important to him to show up, even when it’s hard, and he directed his team to make it happen, no matter how challenging the logistics.  He wanted to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with President Zelenskyy and remind the world, as we approach the one-year anniversary of the invasion, that Kyiv still stands and the United States will not be deterred from standing with Ukraine.  And he wanted to demonstrate the strength of his commitment to his strategy of holding the West together in a united front against Putin.

So it was bold, it was risky, and it should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that Joe Biden is a leader who takes commitment seriously, and the U.S. is committed to continuing to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.

So with that, I’m going to turn it over to Jake Sullivan for some additional thoughts.

MR. SULLIVAN:  Thanks, Kate.  And hi, everybody.  And I hope I’m able to stay on the call for as long as I can, given access to cell service.

Let me just start by reiterating something Kate said, which is that this was a historic visit, unprecedented in modern times, to have the President of the United States visit the capital of a country at war where the United States military does not control the critical infrastructure.

And that required a security, operational, and logistical effort from professionals across the U.S. government to take what was an inherently risky undertaking and make it a manageable level of risk.

But, of course, there was still risk and is still risk in an endeavor like this.  And President Biden felt that it was important to make this trip because of the critical juncture that we find ourselves at as we approach the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And what he wanted to do in Kyiv was to send a clear, unmistakable message of enduring American support for Ukraine; a clear, unmistakable message of the unity of the West and (inaudible) international community in standing behind Ukraine and standing up to Russian aggression; and also to be able to stand there next to President Zelenskyy in a free Kyiv to not just tell but to show the world, through a powerful demonstration, that Ukraine is successfully resisting Russian aggression and Russia is suffering strategic failure in Ukraine.

And as I said, though, the impending one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion really presented a crucial moment to do this.  One year ago this week, as the President said in his remarks in Kyiv, he spoke with President Zelenskyy as Russian forces were moving across the border, and President Zelenskyy said to him, “I’m not sure when we’re going to be able to speak again.”

So, one year later, the two men were face-to-face standing together in Kyiv, in a free and independent city, in a free and independent country.  And President Biden made clear in his remarks that there will be difficult times ahead, that a portion of Ukraine is under Russian occupation, that Russia continues to brutalize civilian populations across the country.

And so this was not a celebration but an affirmation of commitment of the resilience of the Ukrainian people, of the courage and bravery they’ve shown, and also an affirmation of the fact that the United States and our allies and partners have mobilized unprecedented levels of military, economic, and humanitarian support to provide the Ukrainian people with the tools that they’ve needed to defend their country, their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence.

In Kyiv, President Biden had the opportunity to meet the President and the First Lady, and then to sit in an extended session with President Zelenskyy to talk about all aspects of the ongoing war.  They spent time talking about the coming months, in terms of the battlefield, and what Ukraine will need in terms of capabilities to be able to succeed on the battlefield.

They talked about Ukraine’s needs in terms of energy, infrastructure, economic support, humanitarian needs.  And they also talked about the political side of this, including the upcoming U.N. General Assembly session on Ukraine, as well as Ukraine’s Peace Formula and Ukraine’s efforts to rally international support for a just and sustainable and durable peace built on the principles of the U.N. Charter, chief among them sovereignty and territorial integrity.

President Biden also had the chance to get briefed by a number of members of President Zelenskyy’s team and, you know, to have a detailed discussion of the types of steps that are going to be required in the weeks and months ahead from the United States and from our international partners in the G7 and NATO and elsewhere to ensure Ukraine has what it needs to sustain the level of effort going forward that we have seen over the course of the past year, and then some.

And President Biden also had the opportunity to pay his respects to the fallen, to those who have given their lives and paid the ultimate sacrifice in service of defending Ukraine.  He also had the chance to stand, as I said, next to President Zelenskyy and send a clear message that the United States will be with Ukraine for as long as it takes and the United States will continue to hold the international community and, in particular, this large and diverse coalition of countries together that has been supporting Ukraine for these past many months.

Finally, President Biden really reinforced a point that he will make again when he speaks in Warsaw tomorrow, which is that President Putin thought that Ukraine would cower and that the West would be divided, indeed that the West would be weak.  And he got the opposite of that across the board.

And this visit today was really an effort, again, as I said before, to show and not just tell that we will continue to stand up and stand strong and that we will do so, as I said, for as long as it takes.

So with that, let me — let me turn it over to Jon, and we’d be happy to take your questions.

White House.gov. 02/20/2023.

When the post was posted for Friday, President Biden had tweeted 1 time. He added 6 tweets giving him a Friday Tweeting Total of 7 tweets and 0 retweets.

I’m gifting the article published by the Washington Post on 02/17/2023…

Snips:

As news zipped across Florida that the governor had threatened to eliminate Advanced Placement classes, some parents discussed moving out of the state to protect their children’s chances at a good education. And high school students, some of them enrolled in AP classes, tried to fathom what was happening.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) warned Tuesday that he may withdraw state support for AP programs, intensifying his ongoing conflict with the College Board, which oversees all AP classes, including an African American studies course the DeSantis administration says leans left and lacks “educational value.” Earlier this month, the College Board said it was revising the course to eliminate lessons on Black Lives Matter and the reparations movement.

After the College Board said Florida’s criticism of its AP African American studies course amounted to “slander,” DeSantis suggested his state might drop AP classes from its schools. Instead, he said, schools could expand alternatives, such as the International Baccalaureate and Cambridge Assessment programs, which, like AP classes, permit students to earn college credit by passing an exam.

It remains unclear what the governor can do to nix AP classes, although he may be able to halt Florida’s practice of paying AP exam fees ($97 per test) for public school students. If DeSantis follows through, hundreds of thousands of students will be affected: Over 199,000 Florida students took AP classes in the 2020-2021 school year, The Washington Post has reported, and roughly 366,000 AP tests were administered statewide at the end of that year.

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Asked about critiques of the stance DeSantis has taken on AP classes, press secretary Bryan Griffin referred to his previous remarks on the subject. Griffin noted that DeSantis had promised at his Tuesday news conference that Florida students would still have a chance to shine academically should AP courses go away. “I don’t think anyone should be concerned about, somehow, our high school students not having an opportunity for” college credit in high school, the governor said. “They absolutely will. And it is just a matter of what is the best way to do it.”

Washington Post via my tweet. 02/17/2023.

H.R.5–Equality Act passed the House in March 2021:

The summary:

This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. Specifically, the bill defines and includes sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation.

The bill expands the definition of public accommodations to include places or establishments that provide (1) exhibitions, recreation, exercise, amusement, gatherings, or displays; (2) goods, services, or programs; and (3) transportation services.

The bill allows the Department of Justice to intervene in equal protection actions in federal court on account of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The bill prohibits an individual from being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual’s gender identity.

Congress.gov.

Actions:

DateActions Overview
02/25/2021Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 224 – 206 (Roll no. 39). (text: CR H634-637)
02/18/2021Introduced in House

“Our new law” =’s the Inflation Reduction Act..

The $159 billion total can be found via a fact-sheet the White House posted on 02/15/2023; The Congressional Republican Agenda to Increase the Debt by Over $3 Trillion

Congressional Republicans proposed [Congress.gov H.R.812 Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act] repealing—and are even running ads [Washington Examiner 02/20/2023] attacking—reforms President Biden signed to lower prescription drug costs. Repealing these policies would increase the amount of money Medicare pays Big Pharma, raise costs for seniors, and add $159 billion [Committee for Responsible Federal Budget.org blog post 09/22/2022] to the debt.


This is a recurring theme as both sides fight it out over the debt ceiling. I could find the numerous times since the State of the Union he’s said similar. But I’ll spare us both the reading…

Just cycle back to Biden Bits from 02/07/2023 to Friday 02/17/2023


Thursday, President Biden offered an update on the UFO’s that have been traveling U.S. air space (it’s not aliens). The YouTube is 9 minutes and 27 seconds long. His full remarks can be found here.

The video snip is 39 seconds long…

President Biden: I want to be clear: We don’t have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky.  We’re now just seeing more of them, partially because the steps we’ve taken to increase our radars — to narrow our radars.  And we have to keep adapting our approach to delaying — to dealing with these challenges. That’s why I’ve directed my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward, distinguishing — distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not. But make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will take it down.  I’ll be sharing with Congress these classified policy parameters when they’re completed, and they’ll remain classified so we don’t give our roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses.


Saturday’s Tweeting Total =’s 6 tweets and 0 retweets.

From the White House 03/28/2022; President’s Budget Rewards Work, Not Wealth with new Billionaire Minimum Income Tax

For too long, our tax code has rewarded wealth, not work, and contributed to growing income and wealth inequality in America. Under current law, when an American worker earns a dollar of wages, that dollar is taxed as they earn it. But when a billionaire earns income because their investments increase in value, that gain is too often never taxed at all.

America’s imbalanced tax code means that many millionaires and billionaires end up paying lower tax rates than middle class workers. In 2021 alone, America’s more than 700 billionaires saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion, yet in a typical year, billionaires like these would pay just 8 percent of their total realized and unrealized income in taxes. A firefighter or teacher can pay double that tax rate.

President Biden is a capitalist and believes that anyone should be able to become a millionaire or a billionaire. He also believes that it is wrong for America to have a tax code that results in America’s wealthiest households paying a lower tax rate than working families. President Biden has long called for taxing capital gains as ordinary income and for eliminating the stepped-up basis loophole that enables the capital gains of the very wealthy to go untaxed forever. As part of his fiscal year 2023 budget, President Biden is calling on Congress to pass legislation requiring the wealthiest American households to pay a minimum of 20 percent on all of their income, including unrealized investment income that currently is untaxed.

President Biden’s Billionaire Minimum Income Tax will make America’s tax code fairer and reduce the deficit by about $360 billion in just the next decade. This will put the United States Government on firmer financial footing, building on the progress the Administration has made to reduce the deficit by over half by the end of this year compared to President Trump’s last year in office. Through the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax and other measures, the President’s budget will reduce the deficit by another $1 trillion over the decade.

The Billionaire Minimum Income Tax will require America’s wealthiest households to pay as they go, just like everyone else:
The Billionaire Minimum Income Tax will ensure that the very wealthiest Americans pay a tax rate of at least 20 percent on their full income, including unrealized appreciation. This minimum tax would make sure that the wealthiest Americans no longer pay a tax rate lower than teachers and firefighters.

The tax will apply only to the top one-one hundredth of one percent (0.01%) of American households (those worth over $100 million). Over half of the revenue will come from households worth more than $1 billion.

If a wealthy household is already paying 20 percent on their full income – standard taxable income plus unrealized income – they will pay no additional tax under this proposal. If tax-free unrealized income allows a wealthy household to pay less than 20 percent on their full income, they will owe a top-up payment to meet the 20 percent minimum. As a result, this new minimum tax will eliminate the ability for the unrealized income of ultra-high-net-worth households to go untaxed for decades or generations.

The proposal allows wealthy households to spread initial top-up payments on unrealized income over nine years, and then five years for top-up payments on new income going forward. Stretching payment over multiple years will smooth year-to-year variation in investment income, while still ensuring that the wealthiest end up paying a minimum tax rate of 20 percent. Illiquid taxpayers may opt to pay later with interest.

In effect, the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax payments are a prepayment of tax obligations these households will owe when they later realize their gains. This approach means that the very wealthiest Americans pay taxes as they go, just like everyone else, and eliminates the inefficient sheltering of income for decades or generations.

White House.gov. 03/28/2022.

Twitter users added context…

  • CNN.com fact check by Daniel Dale 02/17/2023; there are more statements checked by Dale. I just copied the one about billionaires and taxes…

Billionaires and taxes

Biden reprised an inaccurate figure he used in the Virginia speech in late January. He said of billionaires in the United States: “You know what their average tax they pay is? About 3%.”

Facts First: Once more, Biden’s “3%” claim is incorrect. For the third time in less than a month, Biden inaccurately described a 2021 finding from economists in his administration that the wealthiest 400 billionaire families paid an average of 8.2% of their income in federal individual income taxes between 2010 and 2018; after CNN inquired about Biden’s “3%” claim in the late-January speech, the White House published a corrected transcript of that speech to make it “8%” instead. Also, it’s important to note that even the 8% number is contested, since it is an alternative calculation that includes unrealized capital gains that are not treated as taxable income under federal law.

“Biden’s numbers are way too low,” Howard Gleckman, senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute think tank, told CNN in late January – though Gleckman also said we don’t know precisely what tax rates billionaires do pay. Gleckman wrote in an email: “In 2019, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabe Zucman estimated the top 400 households paid an average effective tax rate of about 23 percent in 2018. They got a lot of attention at the time because that rate was lower than the average rate of 24 percent for the bottom half of the income distribution. But it still was way more than 2 or 3, or even 8 percent.”

Biden has cited the 8% statistic in various other speeches, but unlike the administration economists who came up with it, he tends not to explain that it doesn’t describe tax rates in a conventional way. And regardless, he said “3%” in this speech and the Virginia speech – and “2%” in another January speech.

CNN.com. 02/17/2023.
  • Politifact 06/13/2022; they rated this statement: “Billionaires in America — there’s 789 or thereabouts. You know what average federal income tax they pay? 8%,” Biden said July 6. “Every one of you have a job (in which you pay) more than 8% (in taxes) — every single one of you. If you’re a cop, a teacher, a firefighter, union worker, you probably pay two to three times that.”, as false.

• Today, the richest Americans pay an effective tax rate of more than 20% on the income the government counts under the current tax code. Biden’s 8% figure compares their tax payments to an amount that includes income that is not currently taxed under law. This makes it a theoretical figure.

• Among households earning $50,000 to $100,000 a year — a category that would include most of the rank-and-file taxpayers Biden mentioned — the vast majority paid effective tax rates of between zero and 15%, which is not two to three times the rate that the richest pay. See the sources for this fact-check

Politifact. 06/13/2022.
  • White House 09/23/2021: CEA Blog. Written by By Greg Leiserson, Senior Economist (CEA); and Danny Yagan, Chief Economist (OMB)

It’s too long to copy and paste the whole thing over.

Snip:

How the wealthy enjoy low income tax: preferred rates on an incomplete measure of income

The wealthy pay low income tax rates, year after year, for two primary reasons. First, much of their income is taxed at preferred rates. In particular, income from dividends and from stock sales is taxed at a maximum of 20 percent (23.8 percent including the net investment income tax), which is much lower than the maximum 37 percent (40.8 percent) ordinary rate that applies to other income.

Second, the wealthy can choose when their capital gains income appears on their income tax returns and even prevent it from ever appearing. If a wealthy investor never sells stock that has increased in value, those investment gains are wiped out for income tax purposes when those assets are passed on to their heirs under a provision known as stepped-up basis.

Analyzing a more comprehensive measure of income

Preferred tax rates on income from stock sales (“realized capital gains income”) and from dividends feature prominently in commonly cited tax rates as well as in our analysis.

An important feature of our analysis that is less common in existing estimates of tax rates is that we include untaxed (“unrealized”) capital gains income in our more comprehensive income measure as they accrue.[3]  

Measuring income in this more comprehensive manner matters relatively little for estimating most families’ tax rates, as most families have few investment assets.[4] However, it matters greatly for the wealthiest families for whom such unrealized and thus untaxed gains are a large share of their income. Like all other forms of income, unrealized capital gains income can be tapped to finance consumption and can improve financial wellbeing.

A common reference point for defining income in economics is known as Haig-Simons income.[5] Pre-tax Haig-Simons income equals families’ change in wealth, plus taxes and consumption. We define our income measure as families’ change in wealth plus easily estimable taxes. Our definition of income is more limited than the Haig-Simons definition because it excludes consumption and other taxes, but it is a simpler way to include a substantial share of capital gains in income and can be implemented with publicly available data.[6]

White House.gov. 09/23/2021.

State of the Union 02/07/2023:

President Biden: Doug, we’re with you. Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.  Big–[(Cross-talk in the audience.) AUDIENCE MEMBERS:  Order! THE PRESIDENT:  Big — you got it.  AUDIENCE MEMBER:  (Inaudible) China! AUDIENCE MEMBER:  It’s your fault!]  So let’s launch a major surge to stop fentanyl production and the sale and trafficking.  With more drug detection machines, inspection cargo, stop pills and powder at the border.  (Applause.)  Working with couriers, like FedEx, to inspect more packages for drugs.  Strong penalties to crack down on fentanyl trafficking.  (Applause.)


Again I could post every time he’s said this recently. This again is campaigning for public support in raising the debt ceiling. Which for me is just “ugh” inducing cause they will do it. Both sides will claim a victory and we will be having this “fight” again in 2025…


State of the Union 02/07/2023:

President Biden: Make no mistake about it: If Congress passes a national [abortion] ban, I will veto it.  (Applause.)


State of the Union 02/07/2023:

President Biden: And if drug prices rise faster than inflation, drug companies are going to have to pay Medicare back the difference.  (Applause.) 


H.R.812–To repeal the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was introduced in the House on 02/03/2023.

There has been no further action on the introduced bill.


Sunday’s Tweeting Total =’s 9 tweets and 0 retweets…

State of the Union 02/07/2023:

President Biden: We’ve written a bill to stop it all.  It’s called the Junk Fee Prevention Act.  We’re going to ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill.  Those fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren’t even resorts.  (Laughter and applause.)


The photo was taken on 02/08/2023 when President Biden visited Wisconsin.


State of the Union 02/07/2023:

President Biden: And let’s restore the full Child Tax Credit — (applause) — which gave tens of millions of parents some breathing room and cut child poverty in half to the lowest level in history.

FYI: He means allowing tax payers that qualify for the Child Tax Credit to have the ability to get that money monthly versus all at once during tax season. The program was started under the American Rescue Plan.. But ended I believe in December 2021…

You can find out more @IRS.gov.



Former President Jimmy Carter announced Saturday that with the support of his family he has decided to enter hospice care.

Here are some tweets I found that I bookmarked…

Former President Carter is 98 years old.


From the White House posted on 10/17/2022:

To lower the price of hearing aids and expand access, President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make hearing aids available over the counter, without a prescription. That is now reality. Starting today, hearings aids are now on store shelves across the country—for thousands of dollars less than they previously cost.

Specifically, today, under a final rule issued by the FDA, adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss can buy hearing aids at a store or online without a prescription, exam, or audiologist fitting. FDA estimates this could lower average costs by as much as $3,000 per pair—providing significant breathing room for the nearly 30 million Americans with hearing loss, including nearly 10 million adults under age 60.

Retailers across the country are now selling over-the-counter hearing aids. Options available today or coming soon include: 

White House.gov. 10/17/2022.
  • Starting today, Walgreens is selling hearings aids at stores nationwide and online for $799 per pair. According to Walgreens, comparable models sold by specialists range from $2,000 to $8,000 a pair.
  • Starting today, CVS will start selling over-the-counter hearing aids on CVS.com, with varying options on model and price point. CVS will also offer hearing aids in select CVS Pharmacy locations beginning in November.
  • Starting today, Walmart will offer an assortment of over-the-counter hearing aids on Walmart.com, SamsClub.com, and in over 1,000 Vision Centers in Walmart stores across Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas, as well as 474 Sam’s Club Hearing Aid Center locations. Available products will range in price from $199 to $999 per pair, while according to Walmart, comparable prescription hearing aids are priced at $4,400 to $5,500 per pair.
  • Starting this week, Best Buy will offer nearly 20 different hearing devices online. By the end of October, it will offer hearing aids in nearly 300 stores across the country. Devices will range in price between $200 and $3,000.
  • Starting this week, Hy-Vee will sell over-the-counter hearing aids online and in 34 locations across Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Hy-Vee plans to offer hearing aids in 100 locations by the end of the year. Hy-Vee will offer four models ranging in price from $499.99 to $999.99.

Economic remarks from Lanham, Maryland 02/15/2023:

President Biden: You know, there’s a law that passed in 1933 that most Presidents — including Democrats and Republicans — didn’t pay much attention to. It said that if a President is spending the taxpayers’ dollars to hire somebody to do something — whether it’s putting a deck on an aircraft carrier or a railing in a public building — every federal project is supposed to be built by American workers — every one — using American products, creating American jobs. Well, guess what? I announced new standards to require all construction material used in a federal infrastructure project be material made in America. (Applause.) Made in America. And that includes the lumber, the glass, the steel, the drywall, the fiberoptic cable. American roads and bridges and highways made with American products. (Applause.)


*insert bumper sticker gif here*



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