Your Thursday Briefing
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President Biden delivered an address last night to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
‘A great inflection point in history’
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Biden last night called for investment in infrastructure, education, child care and scientific research, describing them as programs that would “propel us into the future” and allow the U.S. to win a global competition with China. Highlights from our coverage are here.
Hours before, Biden announced the third blockbuster domestic funding proposal of his presidency. The three proposals add up to about $6 trillion and reflect an ambition to restore the federal government to the role it had played during the New Deal and the Great Society.