We are praying for president campbell and his family members. Now i would like to knowledge our host today. Region one director, franks doing frank staulin. Assistant director james harris and our region one members. We welcome you here today. I would also like to welcome our members at the Uaw International executive board. Vice president cindy estrada. Carrine. Ident gerald director steve dobbs. And laura dickerson, assistant director of region one a. We are also honored to host here today our michigan governor, gretchen whitmer. Seven. Ted states senator president ron bieber. And also the members and staff of region one. [applause] we are so proud to have you here today, is the Vice President. The uaw was one of the first to back you you ran for the United States senate and you have been a loan friend. I would like to share a short story about joe biden and his commit and to autoworkers. You see, there is a plant here in flint, michigan that to this day flourishes because of your work on the auto recovery. You were tasked to run that program. And there was a Provision Requiring that gm could not leave u. S. Autoworkers unemployed while outsourced vehicles to other countries did similar work. Flint, 1000ou, in u. S. Jobs came back from mexico to build trucks. Jobs that are there this day with a third shift was added to that plant. [applause] only walked the walk, but he talked the talk. And that is why we are here today. Those flint workers in so many others whose jobs he saved. It is a great honor to welcome you and i would like to introduce at this time, our very 5960resident of uaw local four purposes of introduction. Thank you. [applause] these welcome to the stage 60, lewis of local 59 roche. Good afternoon. Roche. Is luis proud to represent our members here today as we introduce former Vice President joe biden. These are challenging times. Facedan industry have unprecedented challenges and worked together during this pandemic to continue making our products and keep america and the economy moving. We understand adversity and we know that joe biden does too. He understood during our industrys darkest days that the dignity of work is what sustains america. And that our Manufacturing Industry is key to the american economy. He ran the ottawa calvary he ran the auto recovery. That in timesands of crisis like we have now, steady investment in the manufacturing and jobs will keep our economy moving and growing as we find our way out of this pandemic. He understands that our industry has changed that the future of electric vehicles and those jobs being here, are important. He also understands that many of the products our brothers and sisters make in the region will change as technology changes. We need to plan for those jobs of the future. That is why we welcome joe biden today. He will fight to keep our jobs here, on our soil. And he will fight for future jobs to be right here as well. Introduce the to next president of the United States, joe biden. A friend to autoworkers and hardworking americans. A leader who is on of us. Thank you. Is one of us. O thank you. [applause] we take care of our own hello, hello, hello. Since i am socially distance, i am allowed to take my mask off, they tell me. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Secretary kerry and mr. President , i like the sound of that, where is my president . There you are. Thank you, pal. Thanks for the welcome. It is great to be here in michigan and with the united auto workers. As they say in parts of my up on, i got brung General Motors. My father ran the General Motors agency he didnt own it, but he ran it. Cars are cars are cars. By the way, i still have my 1967 corvette. It was new. I still keep that. Gotta tell you, the electric one that goes 110 miles per hour, thats a different story. Earlier this week and the reason we are a little bit late here we found out, the press asked me a legitimate question i did not have the background on, because it occurred on the plane. Earlier this week we celebrated labor day, and here in the middle of the Automobile Industry we never forget everything we owe the unions. Unions this country. Unions built the economy, the economic engine has driven america, manufacturing dynamism. Literally in the case of the autoworkers, you are the ones who did it. I want to thank you again, uaw region one, for hosting me today. It is great to see senator stabenow. Get a chance to spend some time with the governor. Senator stabenow and i worked together on a lot a lot of matters over the years. She was a great partner to me when i was Vice President. We worked to get the people of michigan back on their feet. We were joined by the best and brightest governors around, governor russian witmer. If you are wondering what executive leadership looks like in the covid19, just look at this executive right here. [applause] governor, you have done an incredible job steering the people of michigan through a turbulent time. Much of it is brought on by Donald Trumps lack of leadership. Have been rock solid. You have listened to the experts and you have led with science. He put the needs of the people who are hurting first, helping them get through this crisis. Meanwhile, on the day we hit 190,000 dead in the United States because of covid19, we just learned from the Washington Post columnist bob woodward that the president of the United States has admitted on tape in february, he knew about covid19 , that it passed through the air. He knew how deadly was. He knew and purposely played down. Worse, he lied to the American People. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He had the information. He knew how dangerous it was. Rippedhis deadly disease through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose. It was a life and death betrayal of the American People. Experts say that if he had asked just one week sooner, 36,000 people would have been safe. If he acted he w weeks sooner back in march, 54,000 lives would have been spared in march and april alone. Has noture is not only cost lives, it has sent our economy in a tailspin. Cost millions more in american livelihoods. This is a recession created by Donald Trumps negligence and he is unfit for this job. How many schools are not open right now . How many kids are starting a new school year the same way they ended last one . At home . Feel abandoneds and overwhelmed . How many frontline workers have exhausted and pushed to their limits . And how many families are missing loved ones at their dinner tables tonight because of his failures . It is beyond despicable. Duty. A dereliction of it is a disgrace. We are going to hear more about this, im sure, not just for me, but from the news media and from a lot of others. But i want to ask you one subquestion jack simple question what is the worth of a woman or mans word . , if it isdents word not matched by action . Warn,6 trump came here to just a few days before the election, he said, if i am elected, you will not lose one plant. You will have plans coming to this country. You were going to have jobs again. He wont lose one plant, i promise you, i promise you. That is what he said. Donald trump makes a lot of promises. He promised that he alone could stop the off shoring in jobs. He promised he would bring back jobs, stop companies from leaving. He can do what nobody else could do it but him. He promised that his administration would force every g american provision on behalf of the American People. What makes his claims in hopes, now hopes we do not notice what he said or wont remember. And when he does follow through or doesnt do with followthrough the exact opposite. Hes hoping we just have poor memories. He doesnt give us much credit. But the American People are smart, honest, decent, and they are hardworking. We expect our president to be straight with us. To do what he or she says they are going to do. Lets look at the reality of Donald Trumps economy. What exactly his promise to the American People and workers are worth. He is on track to be the first president sent Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression to see the number of jobs in our , while go down, not up being president. Our economy is down 4. 7 million jobs since he took office. Before president trumps failed response to covid19 crashed our economy, is reckless and chaotic trade policies had thrown American Manufacturing into recession. It was already contracting in 2019. Beforecovid19 hit it had, trump was creating an average of 500,000 jobs fewer per year in the last three years when president obama and i were in office. And when the gm transition plant in warren closed last year, i bet the workers around not all that comforted by trumps antipromises. Under donald trump, michigan lost auto jobs even before covid hit. And what about off shoring . As trump delivered on stopping companies from shipping jobs overseas, american jobs . You already know the answer, of course not. The rate of off shoring by federal contractors there are people that get federal dollars from the federal government to do things. The off shoring. Big companies being paid by u. S. Taxpayers has doubled under trump. , federaltracts contracts with your tax dollars. They have doubled the number that have been offshore. He invited companies to the white house to make what he called a pledge to American Workers. He couldnt even keep those firms from outsourcing. Many were given lucrative federal contracts, but then some of them turned around and shipped 7000 jobs overseas. U. S. President trumps trade deficit has grown. It has hit an alltime high. When me say that again. The u. S. Trade deficit is that an alltime high under trump over the last three years. President trumps answer is the same as his answer to everything Corporate Tax giveaways. You heard me right. Giveaways that reward off shoring. If you offshore, you get more tax break. His 2017 tax bill slashed taxes on companies send production and jobs overseas. Those corporations then make huge profits by shipping these foreignmade products back to the United States to sell to american consumers. And no industry has taken greater advantage of trumps offering tax loopholes than the pharmaceutical industry. Big pharma lobbied trump for a handout. That is exactly what they got from him. U. S. Pharma is building factories overseas instead of the United States, skipping out on having to pay u. S. Taxes. Samehen sending those foreignmade drugs act to american consumers. All while raising their prices on prescription drugs that Union Families and working people have to rely on. In the process, trying to do away with all health care in america. During the pandemic we are seeing not only the inequity of this policy, but the enormous vulnerability this creates for our own health security. Our security requires us to have supply chains of the necessary drugs based here, not overseas, not overseas, in times of crisis. What about trumps commitment to buy america . Like the rest of president trumps promises it has nothing to do with reality. It is a bunch of hot air. In fact, contracts awarded by u. S. Governments to Foreign Companies using american tax dollars went up 30 since he has been president. One, trump has not stopped companies from closing plants and sending jobs overseas. Two, he reported companies that cut jobs and failed to invest here at home with billions of tax breaks. Three, he is awarding more and more federal contracts to Foreign Companies. President trump has broken about every promise he has ever ever made to the American Worker and he has failed our economy and our people. Would you really expect anything different from this guy . From somebody who called those of you and those serving in uniform, who have given their lives to the country losers and suckers . My son is a u. S. Attorney and volunteered to go to kosovo to help them set up a government in the middle of a war. I am being proud, but he is the only foreigner that has a monument that they raised and built in service to him, thanking him for what he did. My son also is attorney general volunteer to go to iraq for one year. He was not a loser or a sucker. No one who served this nation has been a loser or a sucker. They are all heroes. Would you expect anything different from somebody who could stand next to the father of a fallen soldier and say, i do not get it . What was in it for them . What was in it for them . Trump does not understand what it means to serve something bigger than yourself. He does not understand duty, honor, country. He lives by a different code. Greed, yes,hness, donald trump and i have a different philosophy when it comes to giving our word. Mind means something mine means something. Tell the americanerica people im going to do something, i mean it. I inherited annd economy in freefall and millions of americans, including so many in michigan, lost their jobs, homes, and savings. With debbie breaking her neck president obama and i worked hard. He put me in charge of the recovery act. I spent a lot of time in michigan and detroit working with you thinking every single day about the folks on the factory line busting their legs trying to put food on the table. A lot of folks were already ready to count detroit out, the automotive industry, but i knew it debbie knew. I have known always that never it is a good bet to bet against the American Worker. We promised to stand with the auto industry. We delivered. We did not do it to help with the investors or pad bonus checks. We did it to save an iconic american industry. A testament to the skills and ingenuity of American Manufacturing and the jobs of hundreds of thousands of American Workers, the lifeblood of communities across the midwest and used to be, in my state of delaware. When detroit declared bankruptcy i was working alongside city leaders to get the lights turned back on. Revitalize the future of detroit. Nearly 20,000 auto manufacturing jobs have been lost under trump nearly 80,000 were created during the obamabiden administration. I have got a long history of not just talking about what im going to do, but delivering results for michiganders. We need to do it again. We need to do the hard work not only to recover, but build the economy back for the future once more. That is why my build back better agenda is all about. It starts right here with you and the union halls across america. Back in july i made the first modernizey agenda to American Manufacturing and technology to ensure that the future is made in america. By all of you and today i am announcing additional steps to make this plank stronger. To oppose ae going tax penalty on companies i mpose a tax penalty on companies that send them offshore just to sell them back to the american consumer. [applause] if you are a big corporate strategy, boosting shareholder profits, your ceos bonuses by moving jobs out, well, we are going to make sure you not only pay full u. S. Taxes on those profits, but we are going to guarantee. We add a 10 off shoring penalty tax to your bill. No more deductions for writing off expenses for the cost of sending jobs overseas which is a big deal. That could be done here at home by qualified American Workers. I am not looking to punish american business, but there is a better way. Make it in michigan. Make it in america. Invest in our communities and the workers in places like warren. [applause] workers, steel workers, youre the best craftsman and women in the world and youre right here. Youre ready to make it in america and just like there are consequences for off shoring there will be rewards and incentives for creating good paying jobs at home. Today i am announcing my new American Made in america tax credit. Creditdvanced fulltext for companies that invest in the United States and American Workers to accelerate the recovery. If your company revitalizes closing a facility, like the transmission plant that closed last year, we will take care of 10 of the investment that Company Makes to reopen. If you retool a manufacturing facility to make it more competitive by shifting to help build a new fleet of clean american vehicles made by uaw members, we will make sure it is more than affordable. [applause] we are going to make sure you get a tax credit. If you reinstate jobs that were sent overseas, increase wages for manufacturing jobs, we will make it even smarter for your company because we will make sure you get a tax credit. You know, these two steps on top of my plans to close each and every one of the trump loopholes he created with his tax cut, to reward companies, big tax breaks for off shoring will end. If you are going to want to build things in the United States, because under our administration, it is going to deliver on the promise to buy american. It has been the law for a musty century, but we have never lived up to it. The idea is simple. Today, the u. S. Government spends about 600 billion of taxpayer money on federal contracts annually. That money should go to support american jobs and american businesses. President trump has only ever treated it like it was a weak suggestion. Agencies in the federal government can require, can trumpthe requirement, and does not bother to kick back on that. I am going to change that when i am president. In my first week i will sign a series of executive actions to make sure we enforce buy america and direct the full purchasing power of the federal government difficult its promise starting by closing those loopholes immediately. [applause] i promise you i will use the full power of the defense production act to enforce buy american and titan Public Infrastructure projects. Rhodes, bridges, canals, airports. [applause] i am going to crackdown on companies that label products as made in america even if they are coming from china or elsewhere. We found out on trumps watch a Company Selling deployment bags to activeduty troops being deployed falsely claimed the product was made in america when in fact it was made mostly in china. Trump did not do anything to respond. I am not going to let that happen on my watch. We are going to have an office at the white house dedicated to making sure everyone is playing by the same made in america rules. One more thing. When i say we are going to use the purchasing power of the federal government to reinvigorate domestic manufacturing, i mean it. We are going to do that with the Automobile Industry as well. The United States government owns and maintains an enormous fleet of vehicles. We are going to convert those government vehicles into electric vehicles, made in america, sourced right here in the United States. Demandernment provided to retool factories that are suggesting their struggling to compete. The United States Automobile Industry will set up expanding capacity to the United States, not china, to lead the world in clean energy vehicles. I cannot wait to get upset behind that. All electric corvette that goes 210 miles per hour. You think i am getting. Am kidding. [laughter] maket tell me we do not the best cars right here in the night states. United states. We are going to build on all the new infrastructure. We are going to build a network of 500,000 charging stations across america, providing an prevailing with jobs for other craftsman across the country. By offering rebates and incentives to swap older, fuelefficient vehicles for clean americanmade models, sitting hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. Together this will mean listen to me now one million new jobs in the american Automobile Industry. [applause] as supply chain as well associated infrastructure. We can do this. We can do this. We can revitalize our Industrial Base as the heart of the american middle class. Think about the workers in warren, when the transmission plant closed, and im quoting job was like a gm winning the lottery. I was try to start a family, i was able to buy a house, i went to disney world. Think about that. A job felt like winning a lottery because it opened the wanted a life that he for yourself because it give you dignity, allowed you to provide for your family. Getting a good job in 2020, right here in america, should not be a lottery. It should be an expectation for everyone. The defeatistt view that the forces of automation and globalization means we cannot keep good paying union jobs and create more. I do not buy for one second the vitality of a ma American Manufacturing is a thing of the past. We have the most qualified workers in the world. [applause] American Manufacturing, as you heard your grandfather say, was artificial democracy in world war ii. Guess what . It will be part of the engine of american prosperity now and 2021. We are going to make it happen with american grit, american determination, and American Union workers. [applause] folks, that is my promise to you. When,n mind, you know back in the 1930s, they set up law relating to unions that said , the government should increase ions to [applause] you are to have the most Friendly Union president in the history of United States of america when i am in the white house. [applause] i want to thank you all for all you do. Do not give up hope. Do not give up hope. We can come back, come back stronger than we were before. I want to thank you all. I carry with me i gave it to my staff but i carry with me, in my pocket do i have that around . Where is my staff . I gave it away. Anyway, i carry a schedule in my pocket. A list every single day of the number of troops lost in afghanistan and iraq. This is my schedule. The back of the schedule is always a black box. You cannot really see it. It says, daily u. S. Updates. Troops died in iraq and afghanistan 6922. 6922, everyone of those men and women left behind. An entire group of people relied on. 88. Troops wounded 53,1 u. S. Covid infected in america 763,000. U. S. Covid deaths 176,000. U. S. Military infections 117,000 military deaths 6114. Everyone of these lives matters. Every one of these lives left somebody behind, grieving. You cannot ever forget them. Ever, ever forget them. I thank you all. God bless you. May god protect our troops. Thank you. [applause] make the world go round. Got to make the world go round. What you give is what you get. Dont let our world go wild. Bidens record is a shameful roll call of the catastrophic betrayals and blunders in our lifetime. [applause] he has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history. Our current president has failed in his most basic duty to the nation. He has failed to protect us. He has failed to protect america and my fellow americans, that is unforgivable. Announcer the first president ial debate between donald trump and joe biden is tuesday, september 29 at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Watch live coverage on cspan. Watch Live Streaming and ondemand at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Today, the Senate Intelligence committee holds an open hearing discussing declassification policy and possible changes to the process. Live coverage begins at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Thank you, senator. The reason we are investing in not one but six different vaccines is because of the expectation they will not all work, although it would be lovely if they did. To have a clinical hold, as has been placed on astrazeneca because of a single adverse event, is not at all unprecedented. This happens in any largescale trial where you have tens of thousands of people invested in taking part in some make it ill. You always have to try figure out is that because of the vaccine or were they going to get that anyway . With an abundance of caution you put a clinical hold, you investigate carefully to see if anybody else who received that vaccine, or any other vaccine, might have had a similar finding of a spinal cord problem. This ought to be reassuring to everybody listening when we say we are going to focus first on safety and make no compromises. If it turns out that is a real consequence and can be shown to because and effect, all the doses currently being manufactured will be thrown away. We do not want to issue something that is not safe. Announcer National Institutes of health director, dr. Francis collins, testified on vaccines before the senate health, education, and Pensions Committee along with dr. Jerome adams. You can watch the hearing tonight starting at 9 00 eastern on cspan. Announ
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