Biden visits Illinois to sell voters on families agenda

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday turned his focus to pitching his proposed investments in families and education, using a visit to a community college in an Illinois swing district to highlight how his spending on so-called human infrastructure would boost the economy.

The president toured McHenry County College, a community college in Crystal Lake with a workforce development program and a child care center. He’s trying to sell voters on his vision to invest in child care, health care, education and other important aspects of everyday life for Americans, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday on Air Force One.

Biden toured a metals lab at the community college, where he emphasized the need to invest in research and development to bolster manufacturing jobs.

“We’ve got the best folks in the world, we’re just not investing the kind of money we should,” he said.



President Joe Biden speaks to a child as he tours a children's learning center at McHenry County College, Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in Crystal Lake, Ill. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, R-Ill., left, and President of McHenry County College Clint Gabbard look on. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)


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[Budi]

1. K & R

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I Didn't Know Tammy D Was Going To Be With Him

Makes sense, but I just didn't know she was in on the visit.

[Deminpenn]

3. Education, good schools, child care -

these are all issues that affect Americans of all political stripes. There are scads of poorly funded small schools in rural or semi-rural areas that need financial help so their students can compete with students in richer districts. There are plenty of single-parent households where having financial help with child care or caring for disabled or diminished family members is the difference between being able to work and not.

Americans want government that works for them. This is what Biden is promoting. If the Dems resisting filibuster reform would remove themselves from their DC coccoon, this would smack them right across the face.

[drray23]

4. Why is senator Duckworth identified as republican

In the picture caption ?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I Missed That

Good catch. Been a while since we had an R senator.
That's a pretty big mistake.