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>> please welcome ray hill, director of historic king drive district. >> good afternoon.s i am rae hill and i have the pleasure and honor as serving as the executive director of the historic king drive business improvement district number eight. [cheering] >> andoday i stand before you not only, but also is the proud granddaughter as lawrence hill, a man whose spirit left a mark on our community. my grandfather honorably discharged from the navy opened his first restaurant in 1949 on 619 west walnut street, one

block away from are but because of racially charged urban renewal policies in the 1960's aimed at suppressing this community, his restaurant was demolished when 6th street was widened. he rebuilt his business later unguided by the tenacity that defined the community. president biden's investing in america agenda has given people with the spirit like my grandfather had shot. because of this reconnecting communities and neighborhood grant made possible by the president's agenda, a vibrant 6th street is on the return. [cheering] projects like complete sixth street transcends infrastructure. they are commitments to community, to safety, mobility, and equality. especially for the neighborhoods

that were burned by historical disinvestment and the freeway expansion. 75 years later, if my grandfather was alive, he would be proud. it is my distinct honor to introduce the individual leading this transformative charge with a vision centeredpeople rather g them, please join me in welcoming our president of the united states, president joe biden. [hail to the chief playing] ♪ >> we're going to leave this ra pres. biden: hello, hello.

good to see you all. [indiscernible] my father would say, excuse my back. i apologized. hello, milwaukee. thank you for sharing your family story with so many of us. your grandfather served our nation in uniform and started a family business only to see it de disconnected because of a new highway. disconnected because of a new highway. and never gave up, neither have you nor have the people of this community. i want to thank you. governor, my good friend, tnk you, governor, you're the best. i want to thank for you your partnership across the board to getting us through covid and rebuilding the economy and so much more.e same goes for greatr tammy baldwin and your incredible congressman gwen moore.

her son here? all right. well, she represents her hometown with such incredible integrity and tenacity. mayor johnson, one of the most impressive young mayors i've met and i met all of them, i mean i. i don't know where you're sitting. there you are. stand up, mr. mayor. tell everyr mayor and they know where you live and think they can solve all your problems. thank you for your support of the city and this project that i'm here to talk about. look, communities everywhere at this boys and girls i've been a gigantic supporter, the biggest in the country. when i was a senator i provided a lot of money when the crime spreesys and girls clubs. what you do is build confidence, you build spirit and a sense of

belonging and really matters. this project is for you, a future you really deserve. look, the story of brownsville here in milwaukee is one we see all country. our interstate highway system laid out in the 1950's was a ground breaking connection of our country from coast to coast was t ppo transform the way people live, work, and travel. instead of connecting communities, it divided them. these highways actually tore them apart. i come from a city, wilmington, delaware, where the same thing happened, we're in a situation where i-95 is four lanes going through a community that was all african-american and just split it and it's now about maybe 70 yards wide and i can't get that done yet, why did you get it first? i don't know. all kidding aside the same thing happened here and other citys across the country. there are cities all across the

country where the highways used along red lining -- along with red lining, they disconnected entire communities from opportunities. sometimes in an effort to that's what happened in milwaukee. more than a hundred years ago, brownsville was the home of a thriving hub of black culture and commerce, home for apartments owned by black families. black small businessmen, from and jazz clubs to restaurants like ray's grandfather. in the middle of the 20th century, tens of thousands of black americans migrated from the south to milwaukee and other cities in the north to get good paying manufacturing jobs. by the 1960's, the so-called urbantruction of i-94 and i-23 tore down roughly 17,000 homes and 1,000 businesses. ripping through neighborhoods and nearby roads. here on sixth street the road was widened displacing residents

and businesses so you could get downtown. today sixth street is a wide road without a path, ride lanes and bus lanes with limited access to green space. speeding and reckless drivingess average. all this locking people out of opportunities and leaving them more isolated from the socialiff the city. congresswoman moore told me when she was a child she lived a short walk from the public library, a safe place to read and learn where libraries who were given -- the librarian gave cake to children when they showed up to read. that's true, isn't it? but then a new plan disrupted the walk and made the.a library inaccessible. sadly too many communities across america face the loss of wealth, prosperity and the

possibilities that still reverberate today. imagine all those homes, mom and pop stores that could have been passed down from family to family, financial security, generational wealth would have resulted. imagine what they contributed to then and what they could have contributed all these years and what that would have meant for all of milwaukee and the communities across the country. for generations black, brown, and native american, asian■1 americans, native hawaiians, communities weren't fully included in our democracy or economy but yet by pure courage, heart, and grit they never gave up and pursued the full promise of america. today, we're recognizing that history toak i'm here to announce the first of its kind investment, $3.3 billion and 132 projects in 42 cities will help right a

historic wrong. [applause] the president: in the process delivering environmental j by reconnects neighborhoods and new opportunities for future prosperity and many possibilities. these investments advance my justice initiative to deliver at least 40% of all the benefits of clean transit, clean energy and climate investment to disadvantaged communities. that's a commitment i made and we're keeping. here in milwaukee will be $36 million■ iral funding to rebuild sixth street. [applause] the president: and a sidewalk for children walking to school, safer bike lanes for residents and visitor, dedicated bus lanes to get to worku3 faster, new trs to provide shade and modern infrastructure to prevent sewage from flowing into the milwaukee

river and lakeichigan. these of life changing improvements and will make it easier for historic black communities in the north and latino communities in the sou to access school, opportunities and entertainment. and from walking the bucks play to getting to the community college. my wife is a full time teacher to a community college. y'all think i'm kidding. i'm not. we're going to ensure good construction jobs go to members of the community, benefiting the very same projects. with the help of your congressional delegation, especially senator tammy baldwin who worked so hard for these funds are making sure the construction materials for this project are made in america. and if i can digress for one

second, look, you know, i've been very involved for a while. i know i look like i just arrived but all kidding aside, i didn't realize, though i was deeply involved initially in the civil rights movement that got me involved to run for the first place, i didn't in roosevelt's term when they were going for the fights to the unions to organize they had a provisional law not many presidents paid attention to that said the congress appropriates money and the president can spend on any project and he must ■'e american worker and he must use american material. folks, very few, very few live by that. very few presidents did that but not anymore. that's why we're creating jobs. look, folks, you've lived and felt the decisions made decades

ago. today we're making decisions to do this for decades to come and doing it all across ariaking int comes from two historic laws i signed with the support of tammy and gwen. my bipartisan infrastructure law, the most significant law to modernize our roads and bridges and so much more in generations, the most consequential investment. another law, the inflation reduction act which is the most significant investment to fighting climate change and events in the environment ever in history anywhere in the world. that's not hyperbole. and they're already making a difference. look, let me give you one example. back in december i was in milwaukee and met with a plumber named rashon. is he here? who owns his own small business, hero plumbing, with hundreds of lead pipes for children on the n

water comes out without the risk of brain damage. it was supposed to take the city 60 years to eliminate these pipes to do this work and because the infrastructure law is signed we're getting all of it done, city within 10 years, gone. i was proud to have as my guest at the state of the union address last week. we're on the way to delivering clean water to every american and ear we're on the way to delivering high speed internet to every american at low costs. the communities too often left behind. we're rebuilding the roads and filling in the cracks in the sidewalk and creating places to live and work and play safely and to breathe clean air and shop at a neby with health and -- healthy and fresh food. we're building more homes and

apartments to bring the everything we're doing is connecting people with opportunity, not disconnecting people from opportunity. and we're seeing through my american rescue plan we put checks in people's pockets to get them through the pandemic. we invested nearly $80 million in wisconsin for the state small business credit issue, helping countless small businesses grow. in milwaukee, small business applications are up 70% compared to before the pandemic. small businesses make up half of our economy. we talk about big corporations, it's true, they're gigantic but if you add up all the small businesses they make up half of all gross domestic product providing good paying jobs and opportunities and everyone who applies for a small business new loan, it's an act of hope and the share of black a latino

americans employed in milwaukee in 2022 is the highest in more than a6d decade. folks, wages are rising faster than prices and we have the lowest inflation rate of anyone in the country and we're fighting to lower it further and fighting for education costs to give a little more breathing room as my dad would to ordinary families like the one i grew up in. let's be clear, my predecessor is an ally including those in congress, senator ron johnson who voted -- he voted against the infrastructure law that funds this project. they want to undo everything i just talked about. predecessor t infrastructure week for four years and didn't get a single thing done, not one. ron johnson, every republican in congress voted against the inflation reduction act helping to fund these projects and wants to repeal it. look,ks your help, we

cut black and latino poverty in half because of the child tax cut through my america rescue plan. led by your senator ron johnson, every single republican in congress voted against that as well, every single one. i signed the law to beat big phrma by giving medicare the power to price prescription drugs and lower drug prices for seniors significantly. every republican voted against it as well. by the way, guess what? it lowered the federal defic bi. didn't just save money for seniors, it meant medicare didn't have to pay those exorbitant costs. for example, everybody knows somebody that needs insulin for diabetes. guess what? just lowering the price to $35 it only costs $10 to make, by the way, instead of $400 aovernl

that money. now they're trying to cut medicare and medicaid and social security. johnson called social security, get this one, i'm amazed, called social security a ponzi scheme. i'm serious, think abouit did you ever think you'd hear anybody say that? a ponzi scheme? give me a break. your week donald trump said cut the social security and medicare are on the table. when i asked if he'd change his position he said, quote, there's a lot we can do in terms of cutting, a tremendous amount of things we can do, end of quote. i want to assure you, i will never allow it to happen. i won't cut social security. i will not cut medicare. instead of cutting social security and medicare to give tax brks the superwealthy, i can spend social security and medicare and make the wealthy begino

look, folks, let me close with this, four years ago this week i came to office, our country was hit by the worstde and economic crisis in a century. remember the fear and anxiety everybody felt? record job losses, raging virus that would take more than one million american lives and for every life lost, it is estimate, children, mother, father, uncles, aunts. a mental health crisis of isolation and loneliness, a president my predecessor who failed the most basic duty every president owes the american people, just to to care. in my view that's unforgivable. i came to office to continue to uphold a duty to get us through one of the touest periods in our nation's history. we have. and now we're building the future of america full of possibilities, building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up and not the top

down. the top down stuff, not a lot landed on my dad's kitchen table growing up. investing in all of america and allo make sure everyone has a fair shot. we'll leave nobody behind. look, our plan is working. america is comin that's america. that's what this project is all about, the projects for jobs and justice and prosperity and unlimited possibilities. that's why i swear to god, i've never been more optimistic about america's future today, not because i'm president but because we're at a inflection poty, we really are. things are going to change no matter who is president in a big way, they'll change either for the better or much worse. all we have to do, folks, is remember who in god's name we are, we're the united states of america. the only major country in the world that's come out of every crisis stronger than when we went in. there's nothing

capacity. i mean this sincerely, think about it, there's nothing beyond america's capacity if we do it together. and that's what we're going to do. may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you so much. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪

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