Mr. Biden hello, hello, hello. Since i am socially distanced, i am allowed to take my mask off, they tell me. But i promise i will put it back on. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Secretary kerry, and mr. President , i like the sound of that. Thank you, pal. Thanks for the welcome. It is great to be here in michigan with the united auto workers. As they say in parts of my state, i got brought up on 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. But i have got to tell you, i am waiting for that electric one you made that goes 210 miles per hour. But 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 heart of the American Automobile industry, we never forget everything we owe the unions. Unions, as youve heard me say times, built this country. Unions built the economy, the economic engine has driven america, manufacturing dynamism. And literally, literally in the case of the autoworkers, you are the ones who did it. So i want to thank you again, uaw region one, for hosting me today. It is great to see senator stabenow see senator , my good friend. Got 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 in the United States senate. She was a great partner to me when i was vice president. We worked in lockstep to get the people of michigan back on their feet. We were joined by the best and brightest and hardest working governors around, my friend governor gretchen witmer. If you are wondering what strong 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. You have been rock solid. You have listened to the experts , and you have led with science. You 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. It was much more deadly than the flu. He knew and purposely played it 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. While this deadly disease ripped 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 acted just one week sooner, 36,000 people would have been saved. If he acted two weeks sooner back in march, 54,000 lives would have been spared in march and april alone. His failure has not only cost lives, it has sent our economy in a tailspin. It 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 the last one, at home . How many parents feel abandoned and overwhelmed . How many frontline workers are 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. It is a dereliction of duty. It is a disgrace. We are going to hear a lot more about this, im sure, not just for me, but from the news media and a lot of others. But i want to ask you one simple question. What is the value of a promise . What is the worth of a woman or mans word . Of a president s word, if it is not matched by action . In 2016, thencandidate trump came here to warn, just a few days before the election, he said, if i am elected, you will not lose one plant. You will have plants coming to this country. You are going to have jobs again. You 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 offshoring 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 enforce every last buying american provision on behalf of the American People. What makes his wild claims in he now hopes we do not notice what he said or wont remember, and when he doesnt follow through or does follow through 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 since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression to see the number of jobs in our economy go down, not up, while being president. Our economy is down 4. 7 million jobs since he took office. 4. 7. Even before President Trumps failed response to covid19 crashed our economy, his reckless and chaotic trade policies had thrown American Manufacturing into recession. It was already contracting in 2019. Even when covid19 hit before it hit, trump was creating an average of 500,000 jobs fewer per year in the last three years an when president obama and i were in office. And when the gm transmission plant in warren closed last year, i bet the workers around the workers werent all that comforted by trumps empty promises. Under donald trump, michigan lost auto jobs even before covid hit. And what about offshoring . Has trump delivered on stopping companies from shipping jobs overseas, american jobs . You already know the answer. Of course not. The rate of offshoring by federal contractors there are people that get federal dollars from the federal government to do things. To do things, offshoring. Big companies being paid by u. S. Taxpayers has doubled under trump. Those contracts, federal contracts with your tax dollars. They have doubled the number that have been offshored. 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. Under President Trump, the u. S. Trade deficit has grown. It has hit an alltime high. Let me say that again. The u. S. Trade deficit is that is at an alltime high under trump in the last three years. President trumps answer is the same as his answer to everything Corporate Tax giveaways. ,you heard me right. Offshoring, giveaways that reward offshoring. If you offshore, you get more tax breaks. His 2017 tax bill slashed taxes on companies that sent 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 off of trumps offshoring 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. And then sending those same foreignmade drugs back to american consumers. All while raising their prices on prescription drugs that Union Families and working people have to rely on. And in the process, by the way, he is trying to do away with all health care in america. During a 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 american . Like the rest of President Trumps promises, it has nothing to do with reality. It is all 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. To recap, one, trump has not stopped companies from closing plants and sending jobs overseas. Two, he has rewarded companies that have cut jobs and failed to invest here at home with billions of dollars in tax breaks. Three, he is awarding more and more federal contracts to Foreign Companies. President trump has broken about every promise he has ever made to the american worker, and he has failed. He has failed our economy and our people. But look, would you really expect anything different from this guy . From someone who called those of you and those serving in uniform, who have given their lives to the country, losers and suckers . Let me tell you something. My son beau was a u. S. Attorney and volunteered to go to kosovo to help them set up a government in the middle of a war. I know im being proud here, 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 then, as attorney general, volunteered 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. But would you expect anything different from someone who could stand next to the father of a cemetery andr at a , what was inget it it for them . What was in it for them . Donald 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. Lies, selfishness, read. Greed. Selfishness, yes donald trump and i have a , pretty different philosophy when it comes to giving our word. Mine means something. When i tell the American People im going to do something, i follow through. You know thats true. In 2009, barack and i inherited an economy in freefall and millions of americans, including so many in michigan, lost their jobs, homes, and savings. With the help of debbie breaking her back, 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 and senator stabenow and thinking every single day about the folks on the factory line busting their legs trying necks tryingeir to put food on the table. A lot of folks were already ready to count detroit out, the automotive industry, but i knew what debbie knew. I have known always that never it is a good bet to bet against the american worker. So when we promised to stand with the American Auto industry, we delivered. We did not do it to help the investors or to pad bonus checks for ceos. 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 as well. When detroit declared bankruptcy , i was right here working alongside city leaders to get on, tohts turned back revitalize the future of detroit. While nearly 20,000 auto manufacturing jobs have been lost in michigan 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. And now 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 that is what it is all about. It starts right here with you and the union halls across america. Back in july, i made the first plank of my agenda to modernize American Manufacturing and technology to ensure that the future is made in america. By all of you. And today, i am announcing some additional steps to make this plank even stronger. First, we are going to impose a tax penalty on companies that avoid paying u. S. Taxes by offshoring u. S. Jobs in manufacturing, only to sell those goods back to the american consumer. [applause] your big Corporate Strategy is to boost your 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 are going to add a 10 offshoring 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. That is what this is about. [applause] uaw workers, steel workers, ibew workers, you are 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 offshoring, there will be rewards and incentives for creating good paying jobs here at home. Today i am announcing my new American Made in america tax credit, a 10 advancable tax credit for companies that invest in the United States and American Workers to accelerate the recovery under our build back better agenda. If your company revitalizes a closing facility, like the transmission plant that closed last year, we will take care of 10 of the investment that Company Makes to reopen it. If you retool a manufacturing facility to make it more competitive, for example, 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 for you. [applause] we are going to make sure you get a tax credit. If you reshore jobs that were previously sent overseas, expand operations in the United States, or increase wages for manufacturing jobs, we will make an even smarter strategic decision 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 that he created in 2017 with his tax cut to reward companies with ,ig tax breaks for offshoring that is going to 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 almost a 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. But President Trump has only ever treated it like it was a weak suggestion. Agencies in the federal government can require can waive the requirement, and trump and offer explanations that trump does not even bother to get act on other to kick back on. We are 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 to fulfill 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 en thean and tight rules for Public Infrastructure projects. Roads, 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. And 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 of america. With the government providing the demand to retool factories that are suggesting their struggling to compete, the United StatesAutomobile Industry will set up expanding the capacity to the United States, not china, to lead the world in clean energy vehicles. I cant wait to get behind that. All electric corvette that goes 210 miles per hour. You think i am kidding. I mean it. [laughter] last year, that converted corvette set a speed record of 210 miles an hour for an electric vehicle, so dont tell me that we do not still make the best cars right here in the United States, and trucks. We are going to make it easy for consumers to switch to electric vehicles. We are going to build on all the new infrastructure. We are going to build a network of 500,000 charging stations providingrica, prevailing wage jobs for the uaw and jobs for other craftsman across the country. By offering rebates and incentives to swap older, fuelefficient vehicles for clean americanmade models, saving hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. Together this will mean listen to me now one million new jobs in the American Automobile industry. One million. [applause] it is supply chain as well as 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 worker in who, when the transmission plant closed, and im quoting him, getting a gm job was like winning the lottery. I was trying to start a family. I was able to buy a house. I went to disney world. Think about that. A job that felt like winning a lottery because it opened the door to a life that you wanted for yourself. Because it gave 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 absolute expectation for everyone. I dont accept the defeatist view that the forces of automation and globalization mean we cant keep good paying union jobs here in america and create more of them. I dont buy for one second the vitality of American Manufacturing is a thing of the past. We have the most qualified workers in the world. [applause] American Manufacturing, as you as the oldnt expression you heard your grandp op say, was the arsenal of democracy in world war ii. Guess what . It will be part of the engine of american prosperity now and in 2021. We are going to make it happen with american grit, american determination, and American Union workers. [applause] look, folks, that is my promise to you. Keep in mind, you know when, back in the 1930s, they set up a law relating to unions that said the government should encourage unions to increase [applause] you are going to have the best , 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. We can 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 that lists, every single day, the number of troops lost in afghanistan and iraq. The number wounded. This is my schedule. The back of the schedule is always a black box. You cannot really see it. The press may be able to. It says, daily u. S. Updates. Troops died in iraq and afghanistan, 6922. 6922, everyone of those men and women left behind an entire that relied on them. U. S. Troops wounded, 53,188. U. S. Covid infected in america , 6,344,700. U. S. Covid deaths, 189,506. Military covid infected, 118,984. Military covid deaths, 6114. Folks, every one of these lives matters. Every one of these lives left somebody behind, grieving. Evernt ever forget them, ever forget them. , i thank you all. God bless you, and god protect may our troops. Thank you. [applause] we the people, together got to make the world go round got to make the world go round we the people got to make the world go round got to make the world now what you give is what you get a on cspan, House Speaker nancy pelosi holds her weekly news conference. Then at noon, the governors of new mexico, minnesota, kansas, and guam testify before the House Financial Services committee about providing Financial Aid to states and territories during the coronavirus pandemic. On cspan2, the senate is back to vote on whether to move forward with a scaled down Economic Relief bill that republicans introduced in response to covid19. Coming up on washington journal, we will discuss the approval process for a potential vaccine with dr. Jesse goodman who served as chief