But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership.
About this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation, and how we move forward together.
I was disillusioned and angry, and I nearly failed out of school.
This past year, I’ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up.
Congress supported our hospitals, saved our economy, and funded Operation Warp Speed, delivering vaccines in record time.
They spent almost $2 trillion on a partisan bill that the White House bragged was the most liberal bill in American history! Only 1% went to vaccinations.
Republicans support everything you think of when you think of ‘infrastructure.’ Roads, bridges, ports, airports, waterways, high-speed broadband — we’re all in! But again, Democrats want a partisan wish list.
Experts say, when all is said and done, it would lower Americans’ wages and shrink our economy.
Tonight we also heard about a so-called “Family Plan.” Even more taxing, even more spending, to put Washington even more in the middle of your life — from the cradle to college.
I remember, every morning, at the kitchen table, my grandfather would have the newspaper in his hands.
Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family’s poverty was actually privilege because a relative owned land generations before my time.
Last year, after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform proposal.
A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic — and if they looked a certain way, they were inferior.
And so do voters! Big majorities of Americans support early voting, and big majorities support Voter ID — including African Americans and Hispanics.
The state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting; preserves no-excuse mail-in voting; and, despite what the President claimed, did not reduce Election Day hours.
The coronavirus is on the run! Thanks to Operation Warp Speed and the Trump Administration, our country is flooded with safe and effective vaccines.
Just before COVID, we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime.
We passed Opportunity Zones, criminal justice reform, and permanent funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities for the first time ever.
And we get to live in the greatest country on Earth.
Because generations of Americans, in their own ways, have asked for grace — and God has supplied it.