on that darkest of days, we all saw with our own eyes, the insurrectionistts were not patriots, they'd come to stop the peaceful transfer of power to overersturn the will of the people. january 6th, lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election posed a great, gravous threat to us democracy since a civil war, but they failed. america stood. america stood strong and democracy prevailed. we must be honest, the threat to democracy must be defended. my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. i will not do that. this is the moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. here's the simple truth. "you can't

love your country only when you win, as i've done ever since being elected to office, i ask all of you without regard to party to join together and defend democracy, remember..." growth of office to defend against all threats, foreign and domestic, respect, respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place, no place in america, zero place. again, it's not, it's not hyperboly to suggest. history is watching or watching,

your children and grand children will read about this day and what we do. history is watching another assault on freedom. join us to light is the toy of beasley, social work from birmingham alabama. 14 months ago, 14 months ago, she and her husband welcome to baby girl thanks to the miracle of ivf. she scheduled treatments to have that second child, but the alabama supreme court shut down ivf treatments across the state. unleashed by supreme court decision overturning rovy wade. she was told her dream would have to wait, but her family got through should never have happened, unless congress acts it could happen again. so tonight, let's stand up for families like hers. to my friends across the al, don't keep this waiting any longer. guarantee the right to avf, guarantee nation wide.

like most americans, i believe rowe raid got it right, i thank vice president harris for being incredible leader defending reproductive freedom and so much more. my of predecessor came to office determined to see. weight overturn, he's the reason was overturned, and he brags about it. look at the chaos that is resulted. join us tonight is kate cox, the wife and mother from dallas. she's become pregnant again and had fetus of fatal condition. her doctor told kate that her own life and her ability to have children of children in the future were at risk if she didn't act, because texas law... banned her

ability to act, kate and her husband had to leave the state to get what she needed. what her family got through should have never happened as well, but it's happening in too many others. there are state laws banning the freedom to choose, criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states to get the treatment they need. many of you in this chamber, and my predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom. my god, what freedom else would you take? away, look, it's a decision to overturn roe v, the supreme court majority wrote the following, and with all do respect justices, women are not without electoral electoral power, excuse me, electoral or political power, you're about to realize just how much clearly.

clearly those bragging about over. turning r weight have no clue about the power of women, but they found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot we won in 2022 and 2020 and we will again in 2024. if you, if you, the american people, send me a congress to supports the right to choose, i promise you, i'll restore roby weight as the law of the land again. folks, america cannot go back. i'm here to tonight to show what i

believe the way forward, because i know how far we come. four years ago, next week, before i came to office, the country was hit. the worst pandemic and the worst economic crisis in the century, remember the fear, record losses, remember the spikes and crime and the murder rate raging virus, it took more than one million american lives of loved ones, millions left behind, a mental health crisis of isolation and loneliness, a president, my predecessor, failed, the most basic presidential duty that he owes to american people, the duty to care, i think that's... unforgivable, i came to office determined to get us through one of the toughest periods in the nation's history. we have, it doesn't make new, but news in a thousand cities and towns, the american people are writing the greatest comeback story never told. so let's tell the story

here, tell it here and now, america has come back. is building the future of american possibilities, building economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, investing in all america, and all americans, to make every sure everyone has fair shot, we leave no one, no one behind. the pandemic no longer controls our lives. the vaccines that saved us from covid are now being used to beat cancer, turning setback into comeeback. that's what america does. that's what america does. folks, my inherited economy is on the brink, now our economy is literally the envy of the world, 15 million new jobs in just three years, a record, a

record, unemployment at 50-year loads. record 16 million americans are starting small businesses and each one is a literal act of hope with historic job growth and small business growth for black and hispanics and asian americans, 800,00 new manufacturing jobs in america and counting. where is it written we can't be the manufacturing capital the world? we are and we will, more people have health insurance today, more people have health insurance today than everybody. four, the racial wealth gap is as small as it's been in 20 years, wages keep going up, inflation keeps coming down, inflation has dropped from 9% to 3%, the lowest in the world and tending lower, the landing is and

will be soft, and now instead of importing, importing foreign products and exporting american jobs, we're exporting american. and creating american jobs right here in america where they belong. and it takes time, but the american people are beginning to feel it. consumer study show consumer confidence is soaring. by america has been the law of the land since the 1930s. past administrations, including my predecessor, including some democrats as well in. past fail to buy american, not anymore, on my watch, federal projects that you fund like helping build american roads, bridges and highways, will be made with american products and built by american workers, creating good paying

american jobs, and thanks to our chips and science act, "the united states is investing more in research and development than ever before, during the pandemic, a shortage of semiconductors, chips that drove up the price of everything from cell phones to automobiles and..." by the way we invented those chips right here in america, well, instead of having to import them, instead of we private companies are now investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in america, creating tens of thousands of jobs, many of those jobs paying $100,000 year and don't require a college degree. in fact, "my policies have attracted $650 billion dollars in private sector investment, in clean

energy, advanced manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of jobs here in america, and thanks and thanks to our bipartisan infrastructure law, 46,00 new projects have announced all across your communities, and by the way, i noticed some of you..." strongly voted against it or they're cheering on that money coming in. i like it. i'm with you. i'm with you. if any of you don't want that money in your district, just let me know. modernize our roads and bridges, ports and airports, public transit systems. removing poisonous lead pipe so every child can drink clean water without risk of brain damage. "providing affordable, affordable high-speed

internet for every american, no matter where you live, urban, suburban or rural communities, in red states and blue states, record investments in tribal communities, because of my investment in family farms, because i invested in family led by my sector agriculture knows more about this than anybody i know, we're..." able to stay in the family for the those farms and their children and grandchildren want have to leave, leave home to make living, it's transformative. the great comeback story is belvadir illinois, home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years, before i came to office, the plant was its way to shutting down, thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods, hope was fading, then i was elected to the office and we raised the belvader repeatedly with auto companies knowing. and unions would make all the difference, the uaw worked like hell to keep the plan open and get these jobs back,

and together we succeeded, instead of auto factory shutting down, auto factories reopening, the new state of the art battery factories being built, the power those cars there at the same folks, the folks of... say, instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again, because instead and watching auto jobs of the future, go overseas, 4,000 union jobs with higher wages are building the future in belvadeer right here in america. here tonight is uaw president sean fay, a great. fanting a great labor leader sean, where are you? stand up

and and dawn and dawn sims a third generation worker, uaw worker at belvadier, sean, i was proud to be the first president to stand in the picket line, and today dawn has a good job in her hometown providing stability. for her family and pride and dignity as well, showing once again, wall street didn't build america, they're not bad guys, they didn't build it though, the middle class built the country and unions built the middle class. i say to the american people, when america gets knocked down, we get back up. we keep going, that's america, that's you, the

american people, it's because of you, america's coming back, it's because of you, our future is brightest, because of you, that tonight, we can probably say, the state of our union is strong and getting stronger. tonight, tonight, i want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together, a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks, and by the way, i understand corporations, i come from a state that has more corporations invested than every one of your states in the state

united states combined, and i represented for 36 years, i'm not anti-corporation. but i grew up in a home where trickle down economics didn't put much on my dad's kitchen table, that's why i determined to turn things around, so middle class does well, when they do well, the poor of the way up and the wealthy still do very well, we all do well, and there's more to do to make sure you're feeling the benefits of all we're doing. americans pay more for prescription drugs than anywhere in the world, it's wrong, and i'm ending it. with a law that i propose and sign, not one of your republican buddy's work voted for it, we finally beat big farma, instead of paying $400 a month or their abouts for insulin with

diabetes, and it only costs 10 bucks to make, they only get paid 35 a month now and still make healthy profit. and i want to, so what to do next? i want to cap the cost insul $35 a month for every american in egypt, everyone. for years, people have talked about it, but finally we got it done, gave medicare the power to negotiate lower prices on prescription and drugs, just like the va is able to do. for veterans, that's not just saving seniors money, it's saving taxpayers money. we cut the federal def by a $160 billion dollars, because medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to big farma. this year, medicare is negotiating

lower prices for some of the costliest drugs on the market to treat everything from heart disease to arthritis. it's not. time to go further and give medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for 500 different drugs over the next decade, they're making lot of money guys, and they'll still be extremely profitable, will not only save lives, it will save taxpayers another $200 billion dollars. starting next year, the same law caps total prescription drug cost for seniors. medicare at $200 for $200 year, even for expensive cancer drugs that cost 10, $12, $15, i want cap prescription drug cost of $2,00 year for everyone, folks, i'm going to get in trouble for saying that, but you want

to get an air force woman and fly to toronto, berlin, moscow, i mean excuse me, and in moscow, probably, and bring your prescription with you, and i promise you, i'll get it for you for 40% the cost you're paying now, same company, same drug, same place, folks, the affordable care act, the old obamacare, it's still a very big deal. over 100 million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of preexisting condition, but my predecessor, many in this chamber want to take the prescription drug away by repealing affordable care act. i'm not going to let

that happen. we stopped you 50 times before and stop you again. in fact, i'm not only protecting it, i'm expanding it. the we the enacted tax credits of $800 per person per year, reduce healthcare costs for millions of working families. that tax credit expires next year. i want to make that savings permanent. women are more than half our population, but research on women's health has always been underfunded, that's why we're launching the first ever white house initiative on women's health research led by jill. doing incredible job as first lady,

the past my plan for $12 billion of transfer women's health research and benefit millions of lives all across america. i know the cost of housing is so important to you, if inflation keeps coming down, mortgage rates will come down. as well, and the fed acknowledges that, but i'm not waiting. i want to provide annual tax credit that will give americans $400 a month for the next two years as mortgage rates come down to put toward their mortgages when they buy their first home, or trade up for a little more space, just for two years. "and my administration is also eliminating title insurance on federally backed mortgages, when you refinance your home, you can save $1,00

or more as a consequence. for millions of renters were cracking down on big landlords who use anti-trust law, using anti-trust, break anti-trust laws by price fixing and driving up rents, we've cut red tape so..." builders can get federally financing, which is already helping build a record 1.7 million new house housing units nationwide. now pass, now pass and build and renovate two million affordable homes and bring those rents down. to remain the strongest economy in the world, we need to have the best education system in the world, and i like i suspect all of you,

want to give a child, every child a good start by providing access to preschool for three and four years old. you know, i think i pointed out last year. "i think i pointed out last year that children coming from broken homes where there's no books and not read to, not spoken to very often, start school kindergarten or first grade, hearing having heard million fewer words spoken, well studies show the children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school, go to earn a two and 40 degree, no matter what their background is. i met year and a half ago with the leaders of the

business roundtable, they were mad that i, they were angry, i think, well, they were disgusting why i wanted to spend money on education, i pointed out to them, as vice president, i met with over eight, i think it was 182 those folks, don't hold me the exact number. and uh i asked them what they need most, the ceos and you've had the same experience to both sides, they say better educated workforce, right? so i looked at them, and i say, i come from delaware. depont used to be the eighth largest corporation in the world, and every new enterprise they bought, they educated the workforce to that enterprise, but none of you do that anymore. why are you angry with me providing you the opportunity for the best? educated workforce in the world, and they all looked at me and said, i think you're right, i want to expand high quality tutoring and summer learning to

see that every child learns to read by third grade. i'm also connecting local businesses in high schools, so students get hands on experience in a path to good pain. job, whether or not they go to college, and i want to make sure the college is more affordable. let's continue increasing the pelgrants to working in middle class families and increase record investments in hbcus and minority serving institution, including hispanic institution. and i was told i couldn't universally just change the way in which we did that with student loans. "i fixed two student loan programs that already existed to reduce the burden of student debt for nearly 4 million americans, including nurses, firefighters and others in public service."

like keanen jones, the public educator from minnesota, who's here with us tonight? keane and we're are you? being thank you, he's educated hundreds of students so they can go to college, now he's able to help after death forgiveness, get his own daughter to college, and folks, such relief is good for the economy because folks are now able to buy a home, start a business, start a family. while we're at it, i want to give public school teachers raise.

by the way, the first couple of days we cut. the deficit. now let me speak to the question of fundamental fairness for all americans. i've been delivering real results and triskally responsible ways. we've already cut the federal deficit, we've already cut the federal deficit over a trillion dollars. i signed the bipartisan deal to cut another trillion dollars in the next decade. it's my goal to cut the federal defice of another three trillion by making big corporations of very wealthy, finally beginning to pay their fair share. look, i'm a capitalist, if you want to maker can make million or millions of bucks, that's great, just pay your fair share taxes. a fair tax code is how we invest things to make this country great, healthcare, education, defense, and so much more, but here's the deal, the... pas

administration enacted a $2 trillion dollar tax cut, overwhelmingly benefit the topping 1%, the very wealthy and the biggest corporations and exploded the federal deficit. they added more to the national debt in any presidential term in american history. check the numbers. folks at home, does anybody really think the tax code is fair? do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need? another $2 trillion dollar tax break? i sure don't. i'm going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair. under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 year will pay additional penny in federal taxes. nobody, not one penny, and they haven't yet. in fact, the child tax credit i passed during the pandemic.