Here are 7 times Biden went off-script at the State of the Union

Good evening, if I was smart, I would go home now in November. My team began serious negotiation with a bipartisan group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we have ever seen. Oh, you don't believe it. So, oh, you don't like that bill, huh? The conservatives got together and said it was a good bill. I admit, it is incredible that the bipartisan party hires 1,500 more agents and security officers. 100 more immigration judges will help address the 2 million caseload. 4,300 More asylum officers and new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 years.

That you are against 100 more high-tech drug detection machines to significantly increase the ability to detect and stop vehicles smuggling fentanyl into the United States and killing thousands of children with this bill? would save lives and then get the border in order would also give me and any new president new emergency authority to temporarily close the border when the number of migrants at the border is overwhelming the Border Patrol Union has endorsed this bill the Chamber of Commerce federal is Yes, yes, you are saying look at the facts. I know you know how to read. I think giving the opportunity for a majority in the House and Senate would support the bill and the majority at this time, but unfortunately politics has derailed this. bill so far I have been told that my predecessor called members of Congress and the Senate to demand that they block the bill he feels a political victory that he considered a political victory for me and a political loser for him it is not about he's not about me I'd be a winner, not really me, Lincoln Lincoln Riley, an innocent young girl who was murdered by an illegal, that's true, but how many thousands of people were murdered by legal, their parents, I say my heart is with you, having lost my children, I understand that, but look, if we change the dynamic at the border, people pay people, people pay these smugglers $8,000 to cross the border because they know that if they manage get ahead and let the country in, it will be 6-8 years before they have a hearing and it is worth the risk for the $8,000, but if it is only six months and 6 weeks the idea is very unlikely that people pay that money and get t

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knowing that they can be expelled quickly. to suggest to my friend, my Republican friends, oh to the American people, that this bill be passed, we must act now and if my predecessor is watching instead of paying politics and pressuring members of Congress to block the bill, join me in telling Congress to pass it, we can do it together but that's what you apparently hear what you won't do I will not demonize immigrants saying they are poison in the blood of our country I will not separate families I will not ban people because of their faith unlike my predecessor in my first The day I took office I introduced a comprehensive bill to fix our immigration system.

Check it out, as all this and the safer border provide a path to C for dreamers and much more, but unlike my predecessor, I know who we are as Americans. You are the only nation in the world with a heart and soul that draws from the old and new home of the Native Americans. Your ancestors have been

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for thousands of years, home to people from all over the Earth. They came freely, some came in chains. came when famine hit like my ancestral family in Ireland some to chase fleas to chase dreams that are impossible Anywhere but here in America that is America and we all come from somewhere but we are all Americans look friends, we have a simple option we can fight for fix the border or we can fix it I'm ready to fix it send me the border bill now no billionaire should pay a lower federal tax rate than a teacher, health care worker or nurse I propose a tax minimum for billionaires of 25% just 25%, you know what that would raise, that would raise $500 billion over the next 10 years and imagine what that could do for America imagine the future with affordable child care that millions of families can get they need to go to work to help grow the economy imagine a future with paid lead because no one should have to choose between working and caring for their sick family member imagine imagine the future of home care and care for seniors and people who live with disabilities so they can stay in their homes and family caregivers can finally get the pay they deserve tonight, let's all agree once again to stand up for seniors, many of my friends on the other side want to put the Insurance Social on the chopping block, if anyone here tries to cut Social Security Medicare or raise the retirement age, I will stop them.

You, the workers, the workers who built this country, pay more to Social Security than the millionaires and billionaires, it is not fair, we have two paths to follow. Republicans can cut Social Security and give more tax breaks to the rich. I that's the proposal, oh no. You don't want another $2 trillion tax cut. I thought that was his plan. Well, it's good to know that they're not going to cut another $2 trillion for the super wealth, good to hear. I will protect and strengthen social networks. It seems like security and making the rich pay their fair share is too many corporations raising prices to increase their profits by charging more and more for less and less.

That's why we're cracking down on corporations that engage in price gouging and misleading pricing, from food to healthcare to housing. in fact, the snack food companies think you won't notice if they change the size of the bag and put way fewer bags of the same size, they put less chips in it, no, I'm not kidding, it's called Shing flation pass, Bobby Casey's Bill . and stop this, I really want to say that everyone probably saw that commercial on Snickers bars, they charge you the same amount and you got, I don't know, 10% less Snickers in it. Look, I'm also getting rid of junk fees. hidden charges at the bottom of your bill that are there without your knowledge my management announced that we are reducing credit card late payment fees from $32 to $8 Banks and credit card companies can charge you what it cost them instigate the charge and that's more like a lot like $8 and $3 some dollars, they don't like it, the credit card companies don't like it, but I'm saving American families $20 billion a year with all the junk fees I'm eliminating, in effect, my policies have attracted 600.50 billion in private sector investments in clean energy.

Advanced manufacturing has created tens of thousands of jobs here in America and thanks to our bipartisan infrastructure bill, 46,000 new projects have been announced across your communities and, by the way, I notice some of you strongly voted against or are applauding the money that enters. I like it. I'm with you. I'm with you. If any of you don't want that money in your district, let me know. Let's modernize our roads and bridges. and airport public transportation systems eliminate poisonous lead pipes so that all children can drink clean water without risk of brain damage, friends, I'm going to get in trouble for saying that, but anyone who wants to get on the Air Force One and fly to Toronto, Berlin, Moscow.

I mean, excuse me and well, even Moscow will probably bring your pre

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ion and I promise I will get it to you for 40% of the cost you are paying now. Same company, same drug, same place, let me close with this YY. I know. You don't want to hear any more Lindsay, but I have to say a few more things. I know she may not seem like it, but I've been here for a while. When you get to my age, certain things become clearer than ever. American history over and over again I have seen the contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation between those who want to take America Amica back to the past those who want to move America into the future my life has taught to embrace freedom and democracy a future based on the fundamental values ​​that defined America honesty decency dignity equality respecting everyone giving everyone fair treatment giving hate no safe harbor now other people my age see it differently different the American history of resentment revenge and retribution that is not I was born in the middle of World War II, when the United States defended the freedom of the world.

I grew up in Pennsylvania, in Claymont, Delaware, among working-class people who built this country. I watched in horror as two of my heroes, like many of you, did it, Dr. King. and Bobby CN were murdered and their legacies inspired me to pursue care and a career in service. I left the law firm and became a public defender because my city of Wilmington was the only city in the United States occupied by the National Guard after the assassination of Dr. King due to the riots and I became a county councilman almost by accident. I was elected to the United States Senate when I had no intention of running at age 29, then vice president or our first black president, now president, and the first female vice president in my career.

I've been told I was too young because of the way they wouldn't let me get on the Senate elevators to vote, some

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it's no joke, and I've been told I'm too old, whether young or old. I always knew that I always knew what lasts. I have met our North Star. The very idea of ​​America is that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. We have never lived up to that idea, but we have never strayed from it. neither and I won't walk away from it now I'm an optimist I really am I'm an optimist Nancy, my fellow Americans, the problem facing our nation is not how old we are, but how old the ideas are, the hate, the anger, the revenge, Retribution is the oldest of ideas, but you can't lead America with old ideas that only set us back, you lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and It must be done tonight, you have heard mine, I see a future where by defending democracy you do not belittle it.

I see a future where we restore the right to choose and protect our freedoms, not take them away. I see a future where the middle class finally gets a fair shot and the rich have to pay their fair share of taxes. I see a future where we save the planet from the climate crisis and our country from gun violence, above all. I see a future for all Americans. I see a country for all Americans and I will always be president for all Americans because I believe in America. I believe in and you, the American people, you are the reason we have never been more optimistic about our future than we are now, so let's build the future together, let's remember who we are, we are the United States of America and there is nothing, nothing . beyond our capacity when we act together God bless you all and may God protect our troops thank you thank you thank you