Steve HermanPresident Biden, in a national address from the Oval Office, says the bipartisan budget agreement is vital to keeping the full faith and credit of the country and is a "crisis averted."
"No one got everything they wanted but the American people got what they needed," President Biden tells the nation.
"I want to commend Speaker McCarthy," adds President Biden. "Both sides operated in good faith."
President Biden says he'll sign the #budgetdeal bill tomorrow (Saturday).
President Biden, in a live televised address, says "more Americans are working today than ever in the history of this country."
"We're going to do even more to reduce the deficti" and control spending, says President Biden in a national address from the Oval Office.
"Right now the average billionaire in America pays just eight percent in federal taxes," according to President Biden. "No billionaire should pay less in federal taxes than a teacher or firefighter."
"Lower the temperature," says President Biden of the domestic political bitterness.
"May God bless you all and may God protect our troops," says President Biden in conclusion, after thanking people for taking the time to listen to his address.
Beeks@w7voa Our troops? We going to war soon? Our troops are mostly drinking and tiktoking from their barracks right now.
Anne Ominous@w7voa as always steve, i truly appreciate that we have a reporter covering the BS that is our country's politics on mastodon. thank you.
MisterStars@w7voa troops? Are we going to war again?
A Tattered Scrapbook@w7voa Uh-oh. Who’s getting invaded?
@w7voa how TF can someone still think this way after the GOP literally staged a GD insurrection. how much more has to happen before these people realize that asking a party of fascists to play nice isnt going to cut it!
Makyris@w7voa Exactly!
Airng4blu@w7voa
Can not do anything about tax cuts for #billionaires if we have #GOP majority in Congress or senate. The pro corporations gop will pass to increase taxes on the wealthy. #vote them out
Can not do anything about tax cuts for #billionaires if we have #GOP majority in Congress or senate. The pro corporations gop will pass to increase taxes on the wealthy. #vote them out
Mark Smith@w7voa is deficti derived from covfefe?
@w7voa start with the defense department and police or STFU
mark@rustoleumlove @w7voa ya. I didn't get what I needed. The sacklers are still free, cops kill without recourse, and the money that isn't even wanted by the military stayed protected.
OneEyedAlien@w7voa But anything Biden might propose would be simply a bargaining chip so he could get more money for police & defense.