In his first speech to Congress, President Biden on Wednesday night immediately and publicly recognized that the vice president and House speaker seated behind him at the podium were women, for the first time in U.S. history.
Biden promises to lift left-behind and forgotten Americans with his ambitious economic agenda
President Biden opened his first joint address to Congress by saying he inherited a nation in crisis, but in less than 100 days, his administration has begun to turn it around.
Posted: Apr 28, 2021 10:28 PM
Updated: Apr 29, 2021 1:00 AM
Posted By: CNN
President Joe Biden spoke directly to working- and middle-class Americans who feel left behind and forgotten in a rapidly changing economy in his first address to a joint session of Congress, promising that his ambitious economic and infrastructure plans amounted to a blue-collar blueprint to build America.
4 Takeaways From Bidenâs Address to Congress
President Biden struck a hopeful tone on the pandemic, and history was made with two women on the dais.
Little about President Bidenâs joint address on Wednesday looked like the speech has in the past, but lawmakers still lined up for fist bumps on the way in and extended small talk on the way out.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Published April 28, 2021Updated April 29, 2021, 12:36 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON â After four decades of seeking the nationâs highest office, Joseph R. Biden Jr. entered the presidency as a deadly pandemic and an economic crisis prevented him from doing any of the parts of the job that might typically be considered among its perks.