- Show me your budget, I'll show you what you value.
No, I'm serious.
That was an expression my dad would use.
"Show me your budget.
I will tell you what you value."
Well, folks, let me tell you what I value with the budget
I'm releasing today.
I value everyone having an even shot, not just labor
but small business owners, farmers,
and so many other people who hold the country together
who have been basically invisible for a long time.
By the beginning of 2025, she'll not have to pay more
than $2,000 a year total amount for her drug.
$2,000.
So folks, folks, it's not just gonna save people's lives
and save people money
so they don't have to go bankrupt to try to stay alive,
it's gonna save the government, it's gonna reduce the deficit
$160 billion.
These guys keep saying, "How ya gonna cut the deficit?"
Well guess what!
If your tax dollars don't have to go up
paying all that exorbitant price for medicare to drug companies,
and it's rational,
it's gonna save $160 billion dollars in tax dollars.
We've now gotten to the point
where it's cheaper to generate electricity from wind
and solar than it is from coal and/or fossil fuels.
And I'm from Scranton, okay?
I'm not against coal, per say.
A lot of people made a living on that way,
but we're providing a sentence for folks
to make the transition.
That's not all, to support working parents,
my budget expands access to affordable child care
for millions of families,
and it's gonna invest in paid family and medical leave.
It's not only the right thing to do,
but it's cheaper on the tax payer.
All the things are gonna help folks go to work,
generate economic growth in our nation
and still take care of their families.
The point is every time I talk about things,
people talk about it like
this is an overwhelming burden on the tax payer.
It's gonna save money for the tax payers.
No, it really does save money for the tax payers
and generate growth, that's how the economy grows.
We're gonna spend $1.
2 trillion dollars over 10 years
to rebuild the infrastructure of this country.
How can you lead the world if you have second-rate ports,
highways, drinking water, etcetera.
Instead of infrastructure week
which became a punch line, remember?
Every year there's gonna be infrastructure week?
Well, we got infrastructure decade.
I wonder how many people
knew who talked about the "supply chain"
before the pandemic.
Everyone knows the supply chain is now.
And I've spoken with my European friend,
the heads of state, to make clear to them
we're not trying to deny them anything,
but here's what we're gonna do,
we're gonna be at the beginning of the supply chain,
not the end of the supply chain.
MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding the police departments
and defunding the FBI now.
That's a good one. I like that one.
These departments need more investment in this kind of help,
and we're gonna find proven strategies for accountable
and effective community policing so cops
can know the communities they serve
and the communities know them.
We gotta get cops back on the street.
Back on the street in the communities they know.
I'll not allow the cuts,
the needs of the intelligence community
or the military to help keep us safe.
We're the greatest fighting force
in the history of the world,
and I will not let the Republicans
diminish our capacity
to cut the benefits to our servicemen or veterans
and their families.
Well, folks, here's what I said,
"Instead of making threats about default,
which would be catastrophic, let's take that off the table."
As I said in the beginning, "Let's have a conversation about
how to grow the community, lower cost,
and reduce the deficit."
And if they say they want to cut the deficit,
but their plans would explode the deficit,
how they gonna make the math work?
What are they gonna cut?
If MAGA Republican and Congress
try to repeal the affordable care acts,
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
I'm not gonna let them.