{"id":116081,"date":"2021-03-11T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=116081"},"modified":"2021-03-11T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:55:32","slug":"president-biden-at-signing-of-the-american-rescue-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=116081","title":{"rendered":"President Biden at Signing of the American Rescue Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you for coming in.  In the weeks that this bill has been discussed and debated, it\u2019s clear that an overwhelming percentage of the American people \u2014 Democrats, independents, our Republican friends \u2014 have made it clear \u2014 the people out there have made it clear they strongly support the American Rescue Plan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLwz03hwD1g\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, with the final passage of the plan in the House of Representatives, their voices were heard and reflect- \u2014 reflected in everything we have in this bill.  And I believe this is \u2014 and most people, I think, do as well \u2014 this historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving people in this nation \u2014 working people and middle-class folks, the people who built the country \u2014 a fighting chance.  That\u2019s what the essence of it is.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m going to have a lot more to say about that tonight and in the next couple of days, and be able to take your questions. <\/p>\n<p>But in the meantime, what I\u2019m going to do is sign this bill, and make the presentation tonight.  And then there\u2019s going to be plenty of opportunities where we\u2019re going to be on the road, not only talking about \u2014 what I\u2019m talking about tonight is the impact on the virus and how we\u2019re going to end this pandemic.  And we\u2019re going to talk all the elements of the bill, beginning Friday, Saturday, and through the week. <\/p>\n<p>So, thank you for being here. <\/p>\n<p>(The bill is signed.)<\/p>\n<p>Got it.  Thank you all.  Appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Thank you for coming in. In the weeks that this bill has been discussed and debated, it\u2019s clear that an overwhelming percentage of the American people \u2014 Democrats, independents, our Republican friends \u2014 have made it clear \u2014 the people out there have made it clear they strongly support the American Rescue Plan. Yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fullscreen-capture-3112021-45407-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}