In climbing and shows no signs of slowing down. And just the last few days 19 states, 19 states reported record cases, including florida which sought more than 15000 new cases in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths to the most concerning indicators of trumps failed response are already high and they are rising. It has gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public and im glad he made the shift. Mr. President is not enough. We wont be able to turn the corner and get 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, protecting our economy. All it does is endanger our recovery on both fronts and 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 out of work and incredible pain inflicted on Small Businesses in communities of color and we cant deal with the Climate Crisis that could cost us and cast us into an even darker, more permanent shadow who move 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 a great, helpless and resistance that characterizes who we are and thats 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. For the first plank of that plan rejects the defeatist view that automation and globalization, meaning we cant ensure our future, is made america with americans pain good paying union jobs here at home making it in america. We clearly can and today i am here in wilmington to talk about a second plan and 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 of 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 and 5 miles of our highways are still in quotes, Poor Condition according to the american of engineers. 10000, actually tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair and 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 and to get our people to work and our kids to School Safely and to get our kids to market safely, to Power Clean Energy revolution in this country we need to modernize americas infrastructure despite this overwhelming need, this president and revolving in congress has simply failed to act. There is no other way of saying it. They continue to break the promises they made to the American People and donald trump promised a big infrastructure bill when he ran in 2016. He promised it again in 2017 and then in 2018 and again in 2019. And now he is promising one again. Seems like every few weeks when you need a distraction to allay these charges of corruption and his staff for the conviction of high ranking of his administration and political apparatus the white house announces its infrastructure reform. How many times have you heard him say that . But he has never delivered. He is never really even tried. I know how to get it done. In 2009, president obama and i inherited an economy in freefall. We prevented another great depression. We enacted the largest infrastructure planet since president eisenhowers highway system. Not only creating good paying jobs but approving the safety and security of people on our roads and we made the largest investment in clean energy in the history of the United States of america, 90 billion. To put us on a path toward a thriving, Clean Energy Economy powering new Economic Growth and reducing energy costs. We are in economy in crisis but with an Incredible Opportunity. Do not just to build back to where we were before but better, stronger, more resilient and more prepared to the challenges that lie ahead. There is no more consequential challenge that we must meet in the next decade than the onrushing Climate Crisis. Let them check is an exit essential threat to the health of our planet and to our very survival. Thats enough for dispute, mr. President. When Donald Trump Thanks 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 pain, union jobs that put america to work making the air cleaner for our kids to breathe, restoring our crumbling roads and bridges. Making a faster, cheaper and cleaner to transport American Made goods across the country and around the world. Jobs to build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways which we will build a crosscountry which not only will help america and the american Automobile Industry lead the world and manufacturing with electric vehicles but also 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 pollution but commute times and open up infested areas connected to metropolitan centers for the first time. When Donald Trump Thanks about Renewable Energy he sees windmills somehow causing canc cancer. When i think about these windmills i see american manufacturing, American Workers raising to dominate the Global Markets and i see the steel that will be needed for those windmill platforms, towers and ladders which could be made in small manufacturers like the Mcgregor Industries up in scranton last week and i see the union chain certified men and women who will manufacturer and install and i see the ports that will come back to life and the longshoremen and the shipbuilders and the communities they supports when donald trump talks about improving efficiency by retrofitting Lighting Systems with led bulbs and remember what he said . He said he doesnt like led because quote, the lights no good. I always look orange and of quote. The lights no good. I always look orange. When i think about Energy Retrofitting for lighting i see the incredible projects like here in the chase center. I see Small Business like preferred electric to design and install awardwinning Energy Conservation measures and the consumption of electricity and save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy cost per year. Icy master electricians and Union Workers going through Union Apprenticeships that start off with good wages and quality benefits and grow from there. These investments are a win, win, win for this country creating jobs, Cutting Energy costs or protecting our climate and that is why today i release my plan to mobilize millions of jobs by building sustainable infrastructure and inequitable clean energy future. To my first four years we will give 4 million buildings all across this country the same Energy Makeover that you get here at chase at the chase center. It will create 1 million jobs in construction, engineering and manufacturing in order to get it done. It will make places in the places where we work, live and learn healthier, improving Indoor Air Quality and Water Quality and 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 but we will give the direct support to help families do the same thing for their homes and we will offer cash rebates and lowcost financing to upgrade energy inefficient appliances and windows and that will cut their Monthly Energy bills over time save them thousands of dollars a year. If we will make a major investment to bill 1. 5 million new Energy Efficient homes and Public Housing will benefit from communities all the communities three times over by alleviating Affordable Housing crisis by increasing in efficiency and reducing the racial wealth gap link to home ownership. 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 Auto build industry as well. The United States owns and maintains an enormous fleet of vehicles. We will convert these government fleets to electric vehicles made and sourced right here in the United States of america for the government provided the demand and the grants to retool factories that are struggling to compete. The u. S. Auto industry and its deep bench of suppliers will step up expanding capacities for the United States not china leads the worlds in clean vehicle production. We will 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 fuelefficient vehicles for a new plane made in america vehicle. Saving hundreds of billions of barrels or millions of barrels of oil on an annual basis. This will mean 1 million new good paying jobs in the Automobile Industry and its supply chain and associated infrastructure needed to get it done. We also know the transforming American Electrical sector could prevent power without Carbon Pollution and electrifying increase share of our economy will be the greatest spurring of job creation and economic competitiveness of the 21st century. That is why we will achieve Carbon Pollution free sector by 2025. We need to get to work on it right away and we will need the sciences of the national lab, the clan grant universities hbcus to improve and innovate technology needed to generate, store and transmit this clean energy. We need the engineers to design this and the workers to manufacture this and iron workers and welders to install it and we will become the Worlds Largest exporter of these technologies creating even more jobs and we know how to do this. Our administration help to retool and made solar energy the same cost as Traditional Energy and more than 1 million homes we will do it again but this time bigger and faster and smarter. 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 foreign borrowing level communities so often black and brown and native american communities. Polluted air, polluted water, toxins raining down from communities with environmental and health burdens that shared none of the prophets. Growing up, its poison. It is partly why there is such an incredible rates of childhood asthma and black and brown communities. It is why black americans are almost three times more likely to die of asthma related causes than white americans. Its cancer ally alley in louisiana and the cancercausing cluster, along route nine right here in delaware. That is why today i am 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 but we have to make sure that the first people who benefit from this are the people that are most hurt by it historically in the last century by the structural disparities that exist. And setting a goal to make sure these frontline and fence line communities, whether rural or center cities, receive 40 of the benefit from the investments we are making in housing and pollution reduction in Workforce Development and in transportation across the board. We are also going to great jobs for people by cleaning up the environmental hazards that are now been abandoned and we saw in the front page of the times two days ago, all these places that are going bankrupt except for the benefit going millions and minds of dollars going to the ceos, more than a corner million jobs right away do things like plugging millions of abandoned gas oil that exists all across country posing daily threats to the health and safety of our communities and we will hold accountable those ceos and accountabilities of decades of subsidies that just walked away from their responsibilities to these communities leaving the wells to leak, pollutants to continue to spew and Greenhouse Gases flowing into the air and water. We will repeal those subsidies and gold after those golden parachutes the ceos gave themselves before declaring bankruptcy to make sure the workers receive the benefits and retirement they were promised. Lets create new markets for our family farmers and our ranchers. A new modernday civilian climate core to heal our public lands and 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 the climate responsibilities and put millions of skills of workers on the job and markedly better for the American People all at once and benefit the world in the process. The alternative continue to ignore the facts to deny reality, focus on technology of the last century instead of inventing the technology that will define this century. Just plain unamerican not to. This is all that donald trump and republicans offer, backward looking policies that will harm the environment, make communities left healthy, hold back economic promise and other countries race ahead. Its a mindset. It doesnt have faith in the American People to compete, innovate and when. Its never been a good bet to bet against the American People. When you do, it will exact a deadly cause. I know better. I know you do as well. I know the American People are capable of and i know what American Workers can accomplish with given the room to run. I note the Climate Change is a challenge that will define our american future and i dont meeting the challenge will be a onceinalifetime opportunity to jolt new life into our economy, strengthen our Global Leadership and protect our planet for future generations. If i had the honor of being elected president , we will just not dink around the edges but make historic investments that will seize the opportunity to meet this moment in history. We will get to work and deliver results right away on day one we will reverse trumps rollback of 100 Public Health and bar mental rules and then forge a path to greater ambition. We welcome back into the paris agreement, back into the business of leading the world and we will lock in progress that no future president s can rollback or undercut and take us backward again. Science requires a timetable for measuring progress on climate that is that three decades or even two. Science tells us we have nine years before the damage is irreversible. My timetable results is my first four years as president that the jobs will create and the investments we will make and the irreversible receptors we take to mitigate and adapt to the Climate Change and put our nation on the road to net zero emissions no later than 2050. Lets not waste any more time. Lets get to work now. Now. Thank you. Any questions . Online coverage continues at 3 30 p. M. Eastern with susan rice, former Obama AdministrationNational Security advisor and u. S. Ambassador to the un. She talks with Washington Post columnist jonathan, they discuss u. S. China relations and her potential to be a running mate for joe biden. At 4 00 oclock eastern doctor Anthony Fauci director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases held discuss, 19 at an event hosted by georgetown university. You can watch all of those events online as well at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Tonight, special addition of book tv during week nights this. Starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern john bolton, President Trumps former National Security advisor, talks with Washington Post about his book, the room where it happened. Then David Horowitz offers his thoughts on how President Trump can win reelection in 2020. Later, State University of new york economics professor Stephanie Kelton and huff post Senior Reporter zachary carter, talk about modern economic theories and whether they still hold up. Enjoy book tv on cspan2. 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