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13 Key Quotes From President Joe Biden’s First Speech to Congress
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President Joe Biden laid out a vision of the United States that overcomes the COVID-19 pandemic, confronts the climate crisis, and reduces inequality in his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
Today on the Show: Greg Palast continues his front line fight for the people’s right to vote in Georgia, ahead of the contested Senate Race coming up. And we’ll rebroadcast our interview on the nomination of Native American, New Mexico Rep. Debra Haaland to be his Secretary of the Interior. will Speak to June Lorenzo, legal council for the International Indian Treaty Council and a long time friend of Rep Haaland and And Bill Means, co-founder of AIM, The American Indian Movement
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Today on the Show: President-elect Joe Biden named New Mexico Rep. Debra Haaland to be his Secretary of the Interior Department. Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo people, is the first Native American to be named to a cabinet position. We’ll devote most of the show to this history breaking appointment: w’e’ll Speak to June Lorenzo, legal council for the International Indian Treaty Council and a long time friend of Rep Haaland and And Bill Means, co-founder of AIM,
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country, it adds up. and so the total cost of this thing that they are passing tonight will be nearly $1.5 trillion added to the debt and the deficit. and this is the least popular major legislation in more than 30 years. new polling just came out today from nbc. the total proportion of americans who believe that this tax bill is designed to benefit the middle class is 7%. and that includes like, you know, republicans who like the bill for partisan reasons and people who don t know what the bill means. a grand total of 7% of americans think this is designed to help the middle class. and that s because 93% of americans are smart. but it remains an interesting tale to be told about why republicans don t care about how unpopular this bill is. i mean they voted on it a couple of weeks ago. it was really unpopular. then they spent two additional
education, but the more loans a student can take out, the more money these students could potentially soak out of them. the more eligible you are as a student for loans, the more beautiful you are as a marketing target for these schools, and so if you are a post-9/11 veteran eligible for the post-9/11 g.i. bill, for these schools, you are a very, very beautiful target indeed. since the post-9/11 g.i. bill took effect almost three years ago right now, eight of the ten colleges collecting the most money have been for-profit schools. as taxpayers, we are paying for veterans higher education. that s what the g.i. bill means. we have a national interest in doing that, and these schools are marketing aggressively to veterans to our federal taxpayer money is going to them, the for-profit schools. it s $4,600 to pay for a ve tan to go to public school. it s more than $10,000 for that same veteran to go to a for-profit school, and at that