Fear. We are still a country in crisis. The pandemic has affected more than 3 million americans. It has cost more than 135,000 lives and climbing and shows no signs of slowing down. In just the last few days, 19 states 19 states reported record cases, including florida, which saw more than 15,000 new cases in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths, two of the most concerning indicators of trumps failed response, are already unacceptably high and they are rising. It has gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public. Im glad he made the shift. But mr. President , its not enough. We wont be able to turn the corner and get the American People back to work safely without president ial leadership. Mr. President , open everything now isnt a strategy for success. It is barely a slogan. Quit pushing the false choice between protecting our health and protecting our economy. All it does is endanger our recovery on both fronts. Mr. President , please listen to your Public Health experts instead of denigrating them. Do your job, mr. President , because if we cant deal with the Public Health crisis, we cant deal with the economic crisis or deal with almost 18 million americans who are out of work and incredible pain inflicted on Small Businesses and communities of color. We cant deal with the Climate Crisis that could cost us and cast us into an even darker and more permanent shadow that would loom over the country in the world for a long time. We wont be able to do what americans have always done, come back stronger than ever before, with the grit, toughness, and resilience that characterizes who we are. That is what i want to talk about today. Last week, i shared the outlines in my plan to build back better. A bold plan to build an economy of the future, not an economy of the past. The first plank of that plan rejects the defeatist view that automation and globalization mean we cant ensure our future is made in america, with american, goodpaying union jobs here at home making it in america. We clearly can. Today, i am here in wilmington to talk about a second plan, how we can create millions of high paying union jobs by building a modern infrastructure and a clean energy future. These are the most critical investments we can make for the longterm health and vitality of both the American Economy and the physical health and safety of the American People. Even if we werent facing a pandemic and an economic crisis, we should be making these investments anyway. One in five miles of our highways are still in, quote, Poor Condition according to american engineers. 10 thousands, tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair, some on the verge of collapse, presenting a clear and present danger to peoples lives. Tens of millions of americans lack access to highspeed broadband. To get our people to work and our kids to school safely, to get our kids to market swiftly, to power clean entergy energy revolution, we need to modernize americas infrastructure. Despite this overwhelming need, this president and Republican Congress has simply failed to act. There is no other way of saying it. To continue to break the promises they have made to the American People. Donald trump promised a big infrastructure bill when he ran in 2016. He promised it again in 2017. Then, in 2018, and again in 2019. Now, he is promising one again. Seems like every few weeks, when he needs a distraction from the latest charges of corruption in his staff or the conviction of highranking members of the administration, the white house announces it is infrastructure week. How many times have you heard him say that . But he has never delivered. He has never really even tried. I know how to get it done. In 2009, president obama and i inherited an economy in freefall and we prevented another great depression. We enacted the largest infrastructure plan since president eisenhowers interstate highway system. Not only creating good paying jobs and improving the safety and security of people on our roads, we made the largest investment in clean energy in the history of the United States, 90 billion. That put us on a path towards a thriving clean energy economy, powering new Economic Growth and reducing energy costs. Here we are now with an economy in crisis, and with an Incredible Opportunity, not just to build back to where we were before, but better, stronger, more resilient. And more prepared for the challenges that lie ahead. And there is no more consequential challenge that we must meet in the next decade than the onrushing Climate Crisis. Left unchecked, it is literally the next existential threat to the health of our planet and our very survival. That is not up for dispute, mr. President. When donald trump thinks about Climate Change, the only word he can muster is hoax. When i think about Climate Change, the word i think of is jobs. Good paying union jobs that will put americans to work making the air cleaner for our kids to breathe, restoring our crumbling roads and bridges and ports, making it faster, cheaper, and cleaner to transport American Made goods across the world. Jobs, jobs to build and install a network of 500,000 carding stations along our existing and new highways we build across the country. Which will not only help america and american Automobile Industry lead the world in manufacturing and electric vehicles, it will save americans billions of dollars over time and the cost of gasoline for their vehicles. Jobs that lay the lines for the second Great Railroad revolution, which will not only slash pollution and commute times, it will open up areas connected to metropolitan centers for the first time. When donald trump thinks about renewable energy, he sees windmills somehow causing cancer. When i think about these windmills, i see american manufacturing, American Workers racing to dominate the global market. I see the steel that will be needed for those windmill platform towers and ladders that can be made in small manufacturers like Mcgregor Industries in scranton. I see the union trade and certified men and women who will manufacture and install it all. I see the ports that will come back to life, the longshoreman, the shipbuilders, the communities they support. When donald trump talks about improving efficiency by retrofitting Lighting Systems with led bulbs, remember what he said . He said he doesnt like led because, quote, the lights no good. I always look orange. End of quote. The light is no good. I always look orange. When i think about Energy Retrofitting for lighting, i see the incredible projects like the one right here in the chase center. I see Small Businesses like preferred electric that design and install awardwinning Energy Conservation measures that reduce consumption of electricity and save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs per year. I see master electricians and Union Workers who, through union apprenticeships, start off with good wages and quality benefits that only grow from there. These investments are a winwinwin for this country, creating jobs, Cutting Energy costs, protecting our climate. That is why today, im releasing my plan to mobilize millions of jobs by building sustainable infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy future. In my first four years, we are going to give 4 million buildings all across this country the same Energy Makeover that you get here at chase at the chase center. It is going to create at least one million jobs in construction , engineering, and manufacturing in order to get it done. It is going to make places, the places where we work, we live, we learn, healthier, improving indoor air quality, water quality. It is going to save tens of billions of dollars in energy costs over time. That is all real. We are not just going to focus on commercial spaces. We are going to give direct support to help families do the same thing for their homes. We are going to offer cash rebates and lowcost financing to upgrade Energy Efficient on energy inefficient windows at appliances to cut energy bills and save thousands of dollars per year. We will make a major investment to build 1. 5 million new Energy Efficient homes and Public Housing will benefit from communities by alleviating the affordable process crisis, and reducing the racial wealth gap linked to homeownership. Last week, i talked about using the purchasing power of the federal government to reinvigorate domestic manufacturing. That is what we will do with the american Automobile Industry, as thats what were going to do with the american Automobile Industry as well. The United States owns and maintains an enormous fleet of vehicles. And were going to convert these government fleets to electric vehicles, made and sourced right here in the United States of america, with the government providing the demand and the grants to retool factories that are struggling to compete. The u. S. Auto industry and its deep banks of suppliers will step up, expanding capacity so the United States, not china, leads the world in clean vehicle production. Were going to make it easier for American Consumers to switch to electric vehicles as well, not only by building 500,000 charging stations, but by offering rebates and incentives to swap older fuel efficient vehicles for new, clean, made in america vehicles, saving hundreds of millions of barrels of oil on an annual basis. Together, this will mean one million new, goodpaying jobs in the Automobile Industry and supply chain and the associated infrastructure needed to get it done. We also know that transforming the American Electrical sector to produce power without producing Carbon Pollution and electrifying an increased share of our economy will be the greatest spurring of job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century. Thats why were going to achieve a Carbon Pollution free electric sector by the year 2035. We need to get to work on it right away. Well need the scientists at the national labs, the landgrant universities, hbcus to improve and innovate technologies needed to generate, store, and transmit this clean energy. We need the engineers to design them, the workers to manufacture them. We need ironworkers and welders to install them. Well become the Worlds Largest exporter of these technologies, creating even more jobs. We know how to do this. Our administration rescued the Auto Industry and helped it retool, made solar energy the same cost as traditional energy, weatherized more than a million homes, and well do it again, but this time bigger and faster and smarter. And, as we do this work, we need to be mindful of the historical wrongs and the damage that American Industries have done in the 20th century, inflicting environmental harm on the poor and vulnerable communities, so often black and brown and native american communities. Polluted air, polluted water, toxins raining down from communities that bore the environmental and health burdens but shared none of the profits. Growing up breathing that in every day, its poison. And its partly why theres such incredible rates of childhood asthma in black and brown communities, why black americans are almost three times more likely to die of asthmarelated causes than white americans. Its cancer alley in st. James parish of louisiana. Its the cancer causing clusters along route 9 right here in delaware. And thats why today, im also releasing a state of the environment justice policies that build on my existing plan. This is an area of Incredible Opportunity for Economic Growth for our country. But we have to make sure that the first people who benefit from this are the people who were most basically hurt by it historically in the last century by the structural disparities that exist. Im setting a goal to make sure that these frontline and fence line communities, whether theyre in rural places or in center cities, receive 40 of the benefit from the investments were making in housing and pollution reduction, in workforce development, in transportation, across the board. Were also going to create jobs for people by cleaning up the environmental hazards that have now been abandoned. You saw the front page of the times two days ago. All these places that are going bankrupt, except for the benefit thats going, millions and millions of dollars, going to the ceos. More than a quarter million jobs right away to do things like plugging millions of abandoned oil and gas wells that exist all across the country, posing daily threats to the health and safety of our communities. Were going to hold accountable those ceos and corporations that benefit from decades of subsidies, then just walked away from their responsibilities to these communities, leaving the wells to leak, pollutants to continue to spew, Greenhouse Gases flowing into the air and the water. Were not only going to repeal those subsidies. Were going to go after those golden parachutes the ceos gave themselves before declaring bankruptcy to make sure that workers receive the benefits and retirement they were promised. Lets create new markets for our family farmers and our ranchers, a new, modern day civilian climate corp to heal our public lands, to make us less vulnerable to wildfires and floods. Look, these arent pie in the sky dreams. These are actionable policies that we can get to work on right away. We can live up to our responsibilities, meet the challenges of a world at risk of a climate catastrophe, build more climate resilient communities, put millions of skilled workers on the job, and make life markedly better and safer for the American People all at once and benefit the world in the process. The alternative, continue to ignore the facts, deny reality, focus only on technology of the last century instead of inventing the technology that will define this century. Its just plain unamerican not to. This is all that donald trump and the republicans offer, backwardlooking policies that will harm the environment, make communities less healthy, hold back economic promise, while other countries race ahead. Its a mindset that doesnt have any faith in the capacity of the American People to compete, to innovate, and to win. Its never been a good bet to bet against the American People. And, when you do, it will exact a deadly cost. I know better. I know you do as well. I know what the American People are capable of. I know what American Workers can accomplish when given the room to run. I know that Climate Change is a challenge thats going to define our american future. I know meeting the challenge will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to jolt new life into our economy, strengthen our global leadership, protect our planet for future generations. And if i have the honor of being elected president , were not just going to tinker around the edges. Were going to make historic investments that will seize the opportunity and meet this moment in history. Were going to get to work delivering results right away on day one. Were going to reverse trumps rollbacks of 100 Public Health and environmental rules, and then forge a path to greater ambition. Were going to get back into the paris agreement, back into the business of leading the world. Were going to lock in progress that no future president can roll back or undercut to take us backward again. Science requires a timetable for measuring progress on climate that isnt three decades or even two. Science tells us we have nine years before the damage is irreversible. So my timetable for results is my first four years as president , the jobs that well create, the investments well make, and the irreversible steps well take to mitigate and adapt to the Climate Change and put our nation on the road to net zero emissions no later than 2050. So, lets not waste any more time. 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Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren spoke to young voters on a Virtual Campaign fundraiser for her partys Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee joe biden, urging them to vote and answering questions. Symone i am excited to introduce you to some super amazing young folks. Before i do that i want to bring , it my friend stephanie. Thank you so much for all of the work you do. We are very excited to be partnering with you today. Give a warm welcome to stephanie taylor. Stephanie hello, everybody. Of progressiveer campaign committee, i am so excited to be here. I want to start by saying thank you to everyone on this call for getting involved in this election. We always say every election is the