have they been doing this in the past? of course. can they now do it better and smarter because of a.i.? absolutely. somebody mentioned is great and light, what he didn't mention also is the massive disinformation campaigns that that will be launched to get people not to vote or it was compromised. host: you talked about cisa, on jan of this year, a.i. capabilities impact the landscape, election officials are in position to mitigate these potential threats. they are already familiar with risks like phishing and foreign influence operation and disinformation that can be amplified by generative a.i. many of the best measures for generative a.i. and enhanced threats are the same cybersecurity, best practice that is have been recommended for years. and may be in place. what do you think? guest: true. that doesn't deal with the voter piece of it. meaning, if you are a voter and

getting -- >> i'm a proud childcare worker. yes. do we have any other childcare workers in the building? [applause] >> let me take you on a quick journey. i have been working as a nanny for 15 years. i love my job. but like many of you i lost my job during the pandemic. and then i was in a terrible car accident. suddenly i found myself without a job and chronic back pain. so i moved home. had surgery. and my parents cared for me. that's when i realized in a whole new way how important care is. it's a constant in my family. my grandmother relied on the care of my aunt who was a pillar

of strength. but in 2022, my aunt tragically passed away. so my mom stepped up. even as she was grieving her sister, she took on the role of caring for her mother. care doesn't wait for you to finish grieving. my mom's dedication and selflessness was inspiring. we all have someone in our lives who inspires us with their dedication. but i want us to pause for a moment because in my story that person is my mom. . in onepoint to yourselves becu are all someone's hero. [applause] care is fundamental aspect of

our humanity. that's why we are here today. to make the care we all need a reality and not a dream. come on. it is my great honor to introduce to you today our care champion in chief. he brought the care agenda to the forefront of our nation's economic agenda. he honors the essential work of care workers like myself and he is ready to fight alongside us for the care we need and deserve in our country. ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome president joe biden. [cheers and applause]

♪ president biden: hello, hello, hello. as my father would say, god love you all. thank you for sharing your story. and a simple truth. folks, you know, there's no better place for me to -- last year this day i declared caregiver and caretaker, care givers month. and i could think of no better place to celebrate it today than here at this station. [applause] for 36 years i commuted from the state of delaware to here every single day. and over a million -- a lot of times. the reason i did is i think i

understand a little bit what many of you have gone through and what you're trying to help with. you know, when i got elected i was 29 years old. wasn't old enough to be sworn in. i was down hear hiring staff before i was sworn in. i got a call saying my wife and daughter were dead. my two boys were badly injured. and so i wasn't going to come down. but i had to thank god i had a family and a lot of friends and older members like me, 45, 50. [laughter] who helped me out. but all kidding aside. i had just started a law practice, i didn't have any money. i made a living but i didn't have any money. but i trade to do is figure out how i was going to raise my boys. no, i'm serious. and i tell you what, i wondered, why is it i commute every single day? over a million miles round trip by the time i was in the united

states senate. and the reason i did, i couldn't afford a house down here without selling my house at home and i couldn't afford care giving. god's truth. no possibility, none whatsoever. but i'm lucky i had a family. my mother, my father, my sister, my brother, all moved in, helped me take care of my kids. but then we ended up with mom getting sick and dad getting sick and we took care of them. so-called families generation. you care workers represent the best of who we are as americans. [cheers and applause] we lack out for one another in america. we hraefb nobody helped -- leave nobody behind. nobody helped. all the heroes, you're our heroes. you're the heroes of so many individuals. you really are. and you respect so many people who do it and do it out of love and concern. not because of the pay. because you're not getting the pay you need at that matters. as your president i hear the

simple message. i give you my word, i have your back. [cheers and applause] i want to thank the family whose widow rachel and her son, carl, are here backstage. i just met with them. their family embodies why care matters. it's critical to the dignity of care. the dignity of all caregivers and workers. my dad used to say, my job's about a lot more than a paycheck. it's about your dignity. it's about respect. no, it really is. it's about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, honey, it's going to be ok. care givers are critical to you are families -- critical to families and the entire economy. i was determined to turn things around. we made progress but there's so much more that we have to do. so much more. we want the best economy in the world, we have to have the best care giving economy in the world. [cheers and applause] we really do. they're not inconsistent,

they're consistent. but the cost of care is too high. and pay for care workers is much too low. take child care. a typical family spends $11,000 a year on childcare per child. per child. if you live in a big city, that can be $17,000 for each child. more than their college tuition, in god willing you're able to get there. a lot of parents do the math and realize they can't afford to go to work. because child care can sometimes literally cost more than they earn, more than they earn. you know, take home care, the cost of long-term care for aging loved ones and people with disabilities rose 40% in the last decade. medicaid offers help but it can't meet the demand. you know, there are 700,000 seniors waiting in line, 700,000 waiting in line, people with disabilities are stuck on medicaid home care waiting lists for as long as 10 years if they

survive to qualify. it's amazing. think about it. family members like ours and yours often spend their own retirement saves to pay for the care of a loved one. others leave their jobs to care for them. millions are the so-called sandwich generation, take care of both their kids and their aging parents at the same time. at least that's been the experience of the biden family. it's overwhelming. take paid leave. we're the only -- wear the only -- we're the only advanced economy in the world not to guarantee paid leave. we're going to change that. [cheers and applause] it means to help a loved one, many folks have to leave work to find out later that they've been fared. in the united states of america, no one, no one should choose between caring for a parent who raised them, a child who depends on them, or a paycheck that they need.

that's not the way it should be. no, i'm serious. [applause] you wonder whether i feel strongly about this, i do. look, more often than not, a childcare and elder care is lack of paid leave, it's women who bear the brunt, women who bear the brunt. you saw that during the pandemic when two million women left their jobs to help take care of their families. it hurts our whole economy to lose so much talent in the workplace and it keeps women from earning equal pay because they deserve. look, the fact that care workers are predominantly women as well. women of color and immigrant workers who are underlooked and over-- overlooked and underpaid. we have to pay then for what they're doing. [cheers and applause] to invest in our care economy, as soon as i came to office i signed the american rescue plan. not a single republican voted for it, i meet add.

not one. it made our nation's biggest investment in child care ever. [cheers and applause] for example, it set 225,000 childcare working centers open, giving parents an opportunity to get back to work. i tell you what, you want to come make a speech or shush up, ok? [laughter] i'm not -- he looks like he could take it. ask me. look, it expanded the child care tax credit. cutting child poverty in america in half. that's what it did. it cut it in half. overall, my administration increased funding for nearly 50%, by 50% for child care. in the coming weeks we plan to release a new rule that strengthens staffing standards and nursing homes, to get health

care workers a bigger share of medicaid payments. [cheers and applause] that's not going to be enough. i want to do more. we can do more. my budget for next year makes key commitments to children, seniors and people with disabilities and to care givers who look after their loved ones. [cheers and applause] first, for small children we're going to guarantee affordable, quality childcare. [cheers and applause] most families will pay less than $to 10 a day per child -- $10 a day per child, saving folks more than $7,000 a year. that's a lot of breathing room for young families who need it badly. we'll also restore the expanded child care tax credit. lifting millions of children out of poverty. by the way, this helps the economy, it doesn't hurt the economy, it helps the economy.

our republican friends let that expire. we got to expire a couple of them politically. together we're going to bring it back. second, seniors and people with disabilities, we're going to expand medicaid home care services and reduce that 700,000-person backlog. [cheers and applause] that will mean more folks can live and work in their own communities with dignity and independence. more home care workers will start getting a better pay and benefits and digfullyity they deserve -- dignity they deserve. [applause] by the way, if anybody's listening besides all of us, we agree, this is really -- we're deadly earnest. this is not a joke. this matters. third, for everyone caring for a loved one, my budget with a finally, finally create a national paid family and medical leave program.

[cheers and applause] up to 12 weeks of care for newborns, a sick loved one or yourself without losing your income. look, it's past time america caught up with the rest of the world on paid leave. [cheers and applause] and folks, all this helps families and it gross the economy -- grows the economy. it grows the economy. and we can afford to do it we can't afford not to do it. look, i'm a capitalist but i want to make sure if you make a million bucks, great. just start paying your fair share of taxes. [cheers and applause] let me ask you. does anyone here think the tax code is fair? raise your hand. i don't either. the last administration enacted a $2 trillion tax cut. overwhelmingly benefiting the very wealthy and the biggest corporation, they exploded the

federal deficit more than any other president has. we cut the deficit, by the way. it added more to the national debt than any presidential term in history. and it's due to expire next year. and guess what, i hope to be president because it expires, it's going to stay expired. stay expired. [cheers and applause] our administration has already cut the deficit by $1 trillion. i'm going to cut even more by making big corporations and the very wealthy begin to pay their fair share. under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 a year will pay an extra penny in taxes. [cheers and applause] we're not trying to beat people but there are a thousand billionaires in america. from 750 to a thousand. you know the average tax rate those billionaires pay?

8.2%. i'm serious. anybody want to trade that tax rate? look, that's far less than the vast majority of americans pay. no billionaire should pay lower tax rate than a teacher or firefighter or care worker. [cheers and applause] that's why i propose a minimum tax of millionaires that's 25*dz% 25%. it's more fair. but it also gets -- over 10 years it would raise $500 billion. and it wouldn't hurt anybody. i'm a capitalist. you can make a million bucks, wonderful. pay your fair share. [cheers and applause] imagine what we can do, imagine what we can do for america. look, imagine a future with affordable child care, home care, elder care, paid leave. but, folks, our republican

friends have a different vision. the republicans in the house of representatives, and rosa delauro was here, i'm told she was a hell of a champion for you all. [cheers and applause] they just released their budget, the republicans. that cuts care giving programs by 1/3. the ones that exist. cuts them by 1/3. for example, it would mean 260,000 fewer kids in child care. my predecessor and his maga friends want to -- i love the phrase, the language they use, they want to terminate the affordable care act. terminate it. guess what. killing millions of americans by taking them off of health care insurance and stripping others of services like home care, folks, by the way, you know how many times they've tried to take out obamacare or the affordable care act? 49 times they've tried. they can keep trying but they're not going to get it done.

[cheers and applause] look. when it comes to social security and medicare, my predecessor said, there's a lot you can do in terms of cutting. god love him. right on cue, the house republicans released their budget that would raise the retirement age of social security, the budget they submitted for next year, and slash medicare while they cut taxes for the very wealthy again. i got a better idea. i'll protect social security and medicare and make the very wealthy pay their fair share to make it work. [cheers and applause] look, let me conclude where i started by thanking all of you. as crystal say, i mean this sincerely, you're all somebody's hero. that's what i see in our nation's caregivers. heroes. we need you. not a joke. we need you. [cheers and applause] and together i know we can do

this. i've never been more optimistic about our future. remember who we are. we're the united states of america, there's nothing beyond our capacity. nothing. [cheers and applause] if we do it together. let's stay to work, get to work, keep working and god bless you all and may god bless our troops. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪

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