a another four years in the white house. in just a few moments you are going to hear him tell me why he wants to continue leading the nation, and why he is the best person for the job. this afternoon i sat down with the president at the white house and we talked about where he wants to take the country next, since taking office a major focus of biden s has been the economy, and rebuilding our infrastructure, he pushed through the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the science act along with the inflation reduction act, with all that biden s economic plan improves his investing america agenda, to make all that legislation absolute reality. today s jobs report showed the economy is still going strong, but the question is, is all of this enough to send biden back to the white house? we talked about that and a whole lot more in this first interview since officially announcing that he is running for reelection. mister president, there is a lot we can cover, but i want to start with
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. president biden is now asking voters for another four years in the white house. in just a few moments, you are going to hear him tell me why he wants to continue relieving the nation, and why he is the best person for the job. this afternoon, i sat down with the president at the white house and we talked about where he wants to take the country next. since taking office, a major focus of biden s has been the economy, and rebuilding our infrastructure. the chips and science act, along with the inflation reduction act. with all of that, biden s economic plan includes his investing in americas agenda to help make all of that legislation an absolute reality. today s jobs report showed the economy is still going strong, but the question is, is all of this enough to send biden back to the white house? we talked about that and a whole lot more in this first interview since officially announcing that he is running for reelection. mist
here s the deal. take the debt limit, pass it like you did three, four times, when trump was president, and he increased the whole national debt by 40%. republicans would argue that donald trump, at the very least, they d say, played ball. you re not willing to play ball. play ball? play ball. he ballooned the debt, he created unemployment look, when i came to office, we had incredibly high unemployment. we were in a situation where we had very little movement on anything going on. look, look at the employment right now. just today, 250,000 new jobs. highest participation in 75 years of women in the job market. lowest unemployment rate for african americans. things are moving. as i said, you have a good economic recovery story. this is a very volatile congress. there were members of congress that might be okay with a stifel dane, because they think it could hurt you more politically given that, are you prepared to invoke the 14th amendment and blow through the debt ce
in the white house. in just a few moments, you are going to hear him tell me why he wants to continue relieving the nation, and why he is the best person for the job. this afternoon, i sat down with the president at the white house and we talked about where he wants to take the country next. since taking office, a major focus of biden s has been the economy, and rebuilding our infrastructure. the chips and science act, along with the inflation reduction act. with all of that, biden s economic plan includes his investing in americas agenda to help make all of that legislation an absolute reality. today s jobs report showed the economy is still going strong, but the question is, is all of this enough to send biden back to the white house? we talked about that and a whole lot more in this first interview since officially announcing that he is running for reelection. mister president, there is a lot we can cover, but i want to start with maybe your most ambitious agenda item,
slashing teachers right after two and a half years of learning loss. well, you are right. we have to explain the details to people. for example, under the infrastructure plan with the biden administration brought to us, my state maryland got two and a half billion dollars that we ve been able to put into the baltimore tunnel and the protection of the chesapeake bay and my county, mcdermott county, has the largest electric school bus fleet in the united states of america. for the republican philosophy is that government is an instrument for private to self enrichment for the president, it is, family and a handful of corporations that put him into office. donald trump is of course the cartoonish example of, that he does not even pretend to stand for public interest. he could never make statements like joe biden just made about investing in the roads and highways and the streets and ports and airports. i sat there for four years in congress on the loan, trump we had in infrastructure we