JUST IN: President Biden Hammers Trump While Giving Remarks On His Agenda In Wisconsin
President Biden delivered remarks on Wednesday in Wisconsin on his investing in America agenda.
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00:00Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, Wisconsin. Nick, thanks for that introduction. Look,
00:12before I get started, I want to set the record straight. Please sit down. I went to a Catholic
00:23high school in Delaware taught by the Norbertine priest from St. Norbert's College. You know,
00:30a little kind of little team called Green Bay. Now, here's the deal. We were the only
00:39high school in Delaware, but overwhelmingly rooted for Green Bay. Not a joke. I'll tell
00:47you why. Every single Sunday. I don't have great teams at the time. I still do. But not
00:55only that, my theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Riley, last
01:04name. And he had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers. And he decided to become a priest
01:12before that. So he didn't go. But every single solitary Monday at Green Bay one, we got
01:21the last period of the day off. Now, we Catholics call that indirect bribery. But it worked.
01:34It's always great to be with one of the best governors in America, Tony Abbott. I think of Tony, I mean it. I think of one word, integrity. You're a man of absolute integrity. And what I'm really doing, I'm really auditioning for a job with a little company that's going to build something.
02:04Thank you for the comments you made about what we're doing together. Well, look, while she couldn't be here, I want to thank the best, one of the best U.S. senators in the United States of America, a good friend of mine, Tammy Baldwin.
02:19Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, thank you for your partnership, for showing how we can get things done and big things done in America. And thank you for your friendship.
02:46Thank you for all you do benefit American union movement. You know, I get called the most pro union president American history. I make no apologies for it. I'm serious. Middle class build America, but unions built the middle class.
03:13Folks, I'm here to talk about a great comeback story in America. I'm sure you remember racing was once a manufacturing boomtown all the way through the 1960s.
03:26Power companies invented a manufacturing Windex for portable vacuum cleaners and so much more and powered by middle class jobs. And then came trickle down economics, cut taxes for the very wealthy, the biggest corporations.
03:41Again, in the 60s, we shipped American jobs overseas because labor was cheaper. We slash public investment, education, innovation and result. We hollowed out the middle class. My predecessor in his administration doubled down on that failed trickle down economics, along with the trial of broken promises.
04:03Look, my dad used to have an expression. He said, Joey, John, I mean, sincerely, my dad was a well read man, never got to go to college, but he was a good man all across the board. And he'd say, Joey, remember, jobs a lot more than about more than a paycheck. It's about your integrity. It's about your dignity. It's about being treated with respect. It's about being a look at kidney and say, honey, everything's going to be OK.
04:29In fact, six years ago. When my predecessor came to Racine with the promise of quote reclaiming our country's proud manufacturing legacy.
04:43Well, we had an infrastructure day every week, every week for four years, didn't build a damn thing. He administration promised a 10 billion dollar investment by Foxconn to build new manufacturing complex, create 13000 new jobs. In fact, he came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the eighth wonder of the world.
05:08Are you kidding me?
05:11Look what happened.
05:13They dug a hole.
05:15Those golden shovels. And then they fell into it.
05:20Look, they didn't shovel other dirt. They did shovel some dirt. One hundred homes were both were bulldozed. They wasted hundreds of millions of dollars. Your state and local tax dollars to promise a project that never happened.
05:35Foxconn turned out to be just that, a con.
05:39Go figure. In just four years under his administration, instead of creating 13000 jobs in Racine, my predecessor and a hundred thousand manufacturing jobs rather than creating them, a thousand manufacturing jobs left Racine.
05:56Eighty five thousand five. Eighty three thousand five hundred total jobs left Wisconsin during my predecessor's term.
06:03But that's not on my watch. We're determined to turn it around. Thus far, since we've come to office, we've created and with the governor's overwhelming leadership, we created over 178000 jobs in Wisconsin. We're going to create more here in Racine and big time.
06:25Some of my friends in the far right have criticized my investing in America agenda by which includes my bipartisan infrastructure law, the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act.
06:41A lot of businesses are supported as a key to economic growth that we're seeing now. Remember here you're going to recession next week, recession next week. No soft landing.
06:51In fact, I've asked business leaders like Brad a simple question. When the United States decides to invest considerable resources in the new industry that we need to build, does that encourage or discourage them engaging?
07:05The answer overwhelming is it encourages business investment. That's what we're seeing now with our administration. My investing in America agenda is fueling historic boom and rebuilding our roads and bridges, developing and deploying clean energy, revitalizing American manufacturing and so much more.
07:24So far we've created $866 billion in private sector investment nationwide, almost a trillion dollars. Historic amounts in such a short time. Now it's literally creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, building new semiconductor factories, electric vehicles and battery factories and so much more.
07:44You're all here in America. Today, it's another example of the private sector optimism. Microsoft, as the president already pointed out, is investing $3.3 billion to build a new data center here in Racine.
07:59That's going to help operate one of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the world. And I've gone around the world literally, not figuratively, meeting with the leading architects of AI. It's going to result in 2,300 union construction jobs.
08:15It's to build a new facility. And 2,000 permanent workers to work in the data center. In addition, we're also providing a pipeline to train these new jobs. A pipeline that starts right here at this very spot.
08:37Microsoft has partnered with Gateway Technical Community College right here to train and certify 200 students a year to fill high-demand, good-paying jobs in data and IT at Microsoft's new AI data center here in Racine.
08:52That's not all. In addition, Microsoft is continuing a pipeline going to high schools in nearby Mount Pleasant to train high school students for jobs of the future. As the boss pointed out, it's going to create 100,000 jobs over time.
09:06It's all part of Microsoft's broad plan to build an artificial intelligence ecosystem right here in Racine. And it's going to be transformative. Not just here, but worldwide.
09:17It's not only a significant investment in the infrastructure of Racine, but for the people of Racine.
09:23It means folks are getting trained. Folks are getting trained in new, high-paying, high-skilled jobs that don't require a four-year college degree and don't require you to leave home.
09:33You know, where I come from, that really matters. I know what it's like when your parents have to move the family in search of work because there's no jobs.
09:44What it does to the family's dignity. My wife, Jill, who teaches full-time at a community college, cares a lot about this as well.
09:52Last year, she announced our first five workforce hub sites to build a pipeline of workers and industries that create the new hometowns in Phoenix, Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio, Augusta, Georgia, building everything from semiconductors to electric vehicles.
10:11Last month, I announced four new hubs to continue to train workers for the jobs of the future.
10:18One of which is in Milwaukee, that trains workers to help replace every poisonous lead pipe in America in a decade and funded by the infrastructure law.
10:27And by the way, Buy America has been the law of the land since the 30s, but it's been ignored by most administrations.
10:41Past administrations, including my predecessor, failed to buy America. Not anymore.
10:45Here's how it works. When the Congress sends something to the president to build something, whether it's a road, a highway, a deck of an aircraft carrier, whatever it is, that president is backed by law that's passed in the 30s.
11:00It's supposed to hire American workers to build it and use American products.
11:05Well, on my watch and Tammy's leadership, federal projects like the Bluntnick Bridge here in Wisconsin, it's going to cost a billion dollars, but it's all American made, all American products and all American workers, and it's going to create 10,000 new jobs.
11:22In addition, the roads and highways and so much more will be made with American products built by American workers, creating good paying American jobs.
11:38What's happening in Racine is really important for another reason. We'll see more technical community colleges, technical changes needed in the next 10 years than we saw in the last 50.
11:50AI is already driving that change in every part of American life from how we teach and learn to how we solve the biggest challenges from curing cancer to climate change.
12:00America is a global leader in AI and American companies lead the world in AI innovation and a lot of what we're going to see here in Racine.
12:10Because of our initiatives, American workers will power that innovation here in America.
12:17But look, to get the full benefit of all these safeguards, we need safeguards. That's why, as the president pointed out, I signed the landmark executive order on which the most significant action any government has taken anywhere in the world has ever taken for AI safety, security and trust.
12:36This order helps make sure workers have a seat at the table in determining how these technologies are developed and used.
12:44For real.
12:49And we'll support workers in every industry by defending the right to a fair wage to organize as these technologies emerge across the board. And we're going to happen.
12:59Folks.
13:03During the previous administration, my predecessor made promises which he broke more than kept, left a lot of people behind in communities like Racine.
13:12On my watch, we make promises and we keep promises.
13:18And we leave no one behind.
13:20Since I took office, we've added nearly 4,000 jobs in Racine. As I said earlier, we've added 178,000 in the state of Wisconsin.
13:31The unemployment rate has hit a record low in Racine. Racine has seen some of the strongest new business growth in all of Wisconsin.
13:39And it's only just beginning. We're seeing a great American comeback story all across Wisconsin and, quite frankly, the entire country.
13:47The bottom line is, we're doing what's always worked in this country.
13:52Giving people a fair shot, leaving nobody behind, and growing the economy from the middle out to the bottom up, not the top down.
13:59When that happens, everybody does well. Everybody does well.
14:08Let me close with this.
14:10When folks see a new factory being built here in Wisconsin, people going to work making a really good wage in their hometowns,
14:18I hope they feel the pride that I feel. Pride in their hometowns making a comeback.
14:23Pride in knowing we can get big things done in America still.
14:28Folks, I've never been more optimistic, and I've only been around a couple years, I know.
14:34I know I don't look it, but I'm on 40 plus two types of antibiotics.
14:40But I've never been more, I swear to God, I've never been more optimistic about our future.
14:44We just have to remember who on earth we are.
14:46We're the United States of America, and there's nothing beyond our capacity when we work together.
14:52Nothing. I mean that. Nothing.
14:56The rest of the world looks to us.
14:59So keep it going. God bless you all, and may God protect our troops. Thank you, thank you.