The november president ial election. The vermont senator made the remarks at his first in person political event since ending his 2020 democratic president ial campaign. Held in washington, d. C. , this is half an hour. Let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon. This country faces an unprecedented set of crises where struggling with a pandemic that has already cost us over 200,000 lives. We have an economy in which we have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, where the middle class today is being decimated, where millions of workers have lost their jobs cant half of our people continue to work paychecktopaycheck, we are living in the moment when Climate Change is imaging this planet is ravaging this fires in theng to west coast, drought, and unprecedented levels of extreme weather disturbances across the globe. Only major country unearthed not to guarantee health air to all people as a human right. Over 90 million americans are uninsured or underinsured, and w
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Of the nba. 52 tar heel players have been drafted. Go, heels you are standing in the Carolina Basketball Museum in the building immediately adjacent to where the carolina Mens Basketball Team plays its games. Dean smith, our legendary hall of fame basketball coach, has donated his entire collection of basketball memorabilia to the university. This Basketball Museum is sort of the one place that houses that history. We decided we wanted to start off with how the uniforms have evolved. One thing people get a kick out of is the number 10 jersey, the National Player of the year in 1957 when we won the championship. People are stunned to see there is red and the jersey. Frank maguire was the coach at the time and wanted to jazz up the uniforms, so he put red trim in and people were surprised. Throughout the years, there is not much red in the carolina uniforms. That is the color of our arrival, nc state, so now our uniforms are blueandwhite and that is it. It came out of a couple literary s
Action with great regret because it is clear the massive deficits our government runs is one of the root causes of our profound economic problems. Too many years, this process has come too easily for us. We have lived beyond our means and then financed our extravagance on the backs of the American People. A clear message i received in the Election Campaign is that we must gain control of this inflationary monster. Let me briefly review for the American People what we have already done. Within moments of taking the oath of office, i placed a freeze on the hiring of civilian employees on the government. Two days later, i issued an order to cut down on government travel, reduce the number of consultants to the government, stop the procurement of certain items, and call my employees to exercise restraint in their own offices. Yesterday, i announced the elimination of remaining federal controls on marketing p at today, i am announcing two more actions to reduce the size of the federal gover
Questions. Theerday, secretary of treasury, donald reagan, sent to the treasury a request to raise the debt ceiling. This represents a dramatic jump of 50 billion over the previous debt ceiling. The administration took this action with great regret because it is clear the massive deficits our government runs is one of the root causes of our profound economic problems. Too many years, this process has come too easily for us. We have lived beyond our means and then financed our extravagance on the backs of the American People. A clear message i received in the Election Campaign is that we must gain control of this inflationary monster. Let me briefly review for the American People what we have already done. Within moments of taking the oath of office, i placed a freeze on the hiring of civilian employees on the government. Two days later, i issued an order to cut down on government travel, reduce the number of consultants to the government, stop the procurement of certain items, and call