i think that we are doing that look, joe biden made it fairly clear that he was not going to entertain any kind of increase in gasoline tax or anything else in middle income america. so it s a recognition of that fact. the problem is, i think you said it at the top of the program today, that the problem becomes the messaging. get that message out there as to what we ve really done. we had a $1.9 trillion rescue plan out there. and the only thing people talk about is the fact that we had the child tax credit. that was a small part of that. there s so much more there that we need to connect with the american people. all the rumors floating around several weeks ago, about us cutting hbcus. we d never cut any hbcus.
you look at the rescue plan in the last eight months, we wiped out the capital debt that hbcus had. we saw that covid-19 made it impossible for kids to come to school and therefore, we couldn t service the debts. we wiped it away. nobody talks about that. almost $6.5 trillion, $1 billion, invested in hgbcus and nobody talked about it. talking about the campuses, i hear you re cutting hgbcu, but they re not sure. at the end of the day, you have one leader of the party at a time. that leader is the president of the united states. he has more to do with this than anybody. what does he need to do? how do you recalibrate here? i think he will. i know joe biden real well.