It’s Monday…
President Biden’s public schedule for 07/10/2023:
| 3:15 AM | Out-of-Town Pool Call Time (8:15 AM Local) Winfield House, London Out-of-Town Pool |
| 5:45 AM | The President meets with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom (10:45 AM Local) 10 Downing Street, London Out-of-Town Pool Spray |
| 7:15 AM | The President departs London, United Kingdom en route to Windsor Castle (12:15 PM Local) Winfield House, London Out-of-Town Pool |
| 7:35 AM | The President arrives at Windsor Castle (12:35 PM Local) Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| 7:45 AM | The President participates in a Ceremonial Arrival and Inspection of the Honor Guard with His Majesty King Charles III (12:45 PM Local) Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Open Press |
| 8:05 AM | The President meets with His Majesty King Charles III (1:05 PM Local) Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Closed Press |
| 8:30 AM | The President participates in a climate engagement with His Majesty King Charles III and philanthropists and investors (1:30 PM Local) Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Restricted Out-of-Town Pool Spray |
| 9:55 AM | The President departs Windsor Castle en route to London Stansted Airport, Stansted, United Kingdom (2:55 PM Local) Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Out-of-Town Pool |
| 10:35 AM | The President departs London, United Kingdom en route to Vilnius, Lithuania (3:35 PM Local) London Stansted, Essex, England, United Kingdom Out-of-Town Pool |
| 12:55 PM | The President arrives in Vilnius, Lithuania (7:55 PM Local) Vilnius International Airport, Lithuania Open Press |
C-SPAN posted a YouTube of President Biden’s arrivle to Windsor Castle to meet with King Charles III. It’s 9 minutes and 56 seconds long.
“Investing in America” the Tour Tweets
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Thursday President Biden delivered remarks on “Bidenomics” from South Carolina. The YouTube is 28 minutes and 54 seconds long. President Biden begins his remarks at the 7 minute and 4 second mark. His full remarks can be found here.
President Biden:
And when I say every job in America should be a good job, including a free and fair choice to join a union, I mean it. (Applause.) Every — every venture to manufacture clean energy technology would be made stronger by collective bargaining relationships. But that’s up to you do decide.
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(the video clip shared in the tweet is 43 seconds long):
Every Republican member of the Congress voted against the Inflation Reduction Act. Every one. Every Republican member of the House in this state voted to repeal the clean energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that — that attached — attracted all these jobs.
You know, and then, after that effort failed, the Republican Study Committee, which includes over three quarters of the House Republicans, just released a plan to go at trying to repeal it all again. That hasn’t stopped them, though, from claiming credit — (laughs) — now that billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are coming to the United States.
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In fact, some analysis have said that the laws I’ve signed are going to do more to help red America than blue America. Well, that’s okay with me, because we’re all Americans. Because my view is: Wherever the need is most, that’s the place we should be helping. And that’s what we’re doing. Because the way I look at it, the progress we’re making is good for all Americans, all of America.
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When I ran, I promised we would not continue down the trickle-down path. But here’s the simple truth about trickle-down economics: It re- — it — it represented the moment when we walked away from how this country was built.
Bidenomics is just another way of saying “restoring the American Dream.” Forty years of trickle-down limited that dream to those at the top. But I believe that every American willing to work hard should be able to get a good job no matter where they live — in the heartland, in the small towns, in every part of this country — to raise their kids on a good paycheck and keep their roots where they grew up.
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Yesterday, we announced that since I took office, we have attracted a half a trillion dollars — $497 billion — in private investment in American manufacturing, both here and around the world. It’s historic, and it’s Bidenomics in action. Instead of expor- — exporting jobs to cheaper labor costs — what we did for decades — we’re creating jobs here and exporting American product. Product, not jobs.
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But over time, we went from producing nearly 40 percent of the world’s chips down to less than 10 percent. That’s why we designed and I signed the CHIPS and Science Act — all these names don’t mean much until you know what they produce — because I knew we had to reclaim America’s leadership.
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Under my predecessor, Infrastructure Week became a punchline. Every — every — every month — anyway. It’s just — I won’t get into it. (Laughter.)
On my watch, we’re making infrastructure a decade headline. A decade.
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Now, all over the country, semiconductor companies are investing a record hundreds of billions of dollars to bring chip production back home in Ohio, New York, Arizona, all across the — like — like outside Columbus, Ohio, Intel is investing, in a a thousand acres outside of Ohio, $20 billion. Twenty billion. It’s going to take 7,000 people to build the two — they call them “fabs” — factories. And it’s going to take 5,000 permanent workers.
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The middle class — the middle class — this is a gamechanger, where Investing in America agenda is about bringing supply chains home, a clean energy future, made in America.
White House.gov. 07/06/2023.
The video clip is 1 minute and 14 seconds long. The titled the video “On The Road With President Biden”. It was filmed prior to his remarks in South Carolina. I will not be transcribing the video.
Lowering Healthcare Costs for Americans Tweets
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Friday President Biden delivered remarks on Lowering Healthcare Costs for Americans. The YouTube is 21 minutes and 49 seconds long. His full remarks can be found here.
President Biden:
To deny Americans — to deny Americans access to the Affordable Healthcare Act — on my watch, healthcare is not a privilege in this country. It should be a right.
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On too many nights, too many Americans lie in bed staring at the ceiling worrying what will happen if their spouse gets seriously ill; what will happen if something else happens to them. Do they have enough insurance? Will they have to — will they have to — how are they going to pay their medical bills? Will they have to sell their home?
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And so, you know, for all of you out there, I just want you to know: I get it. We get it. We have your back, and we’re never going to stop fighting for you. And I promise you that.
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Over the past few months — over the past few months, my administration has cracked down on junk fees across different industries: banking, hotels, concerts, tickets, airlines, cable, Internet — and the Internet.
And today I’m pleased to announce that we’re making some progress on healthcare.
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Today, the Department of Health and Human Services released the report showing that when these provisions go into effect — it’s not — they don’t go into effect until 2025 — one in three Medicare beneficiaries — that’s nearly 19 million people — will save an average of $400 a year.
Seniors with the highest drug costs will save an average of $2,500 a year. This is going to reduce out-of-pocket spending by Americans — by Americans by nearly $7.5 billion annually. And guess what? (Applause.) It matters.
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In January 2022, we ended surprise medical billing so hospitals that are in-network can’t send you a surprise bill for an out-of-network doctor that you did not choose or even know he was consulted.
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Today, my administration is closing these surprise — surprise billing loopholes. Evading the law and playing games to charge patients outrageous prices has to end. It has to end. (Applause.)
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But what we’re going to — we’re going to see this through. We’re going to keep standing up to Big Pharma.
And we’ll also stand up to MAGA Republicans who have been trying for years to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. They’ve tried 70,000 times, I think. (Applause.)
To deny Americans — to deny Americans access to the Affordable Healthcare Act — on my watch, healthcare is not a privilege in this country. It should be a right.
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Forty years of trickle-down economics limit the dream to those at the top. I believe that every American willing to work hard should be able to get a good job, afford good healthcare no matter where they live, in every part of the country, if they’re willing to work.
That’s the American Dream. That’s Bidenomics.
White House.gov. 07/07/2023.
HHS press release can be found here.
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