White House revives weekly address to push Biden agenda
Source: The Hill
The White House has launched a weekly address from President Biden, reviving a presidential tradition that was paused under former President Trump that seeks to offer another tool to advance the administration's agenda.
The first installment was released Saturday morning on social media, with the president using the opportunity to tout the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package he is trying get pushed through Congress.
"We're putting together a plan that provides for emergency relief to people who are in desperate need now," he said in the taped segment. "Everything from mortgage payments to unemployment insurance to rental subsidies to food security for children. It provides for small, medium-sized businesses to be able to open."
Biden's inaugural address featured a conversation between the president and a woman identified as Michele Voelkert, 47, who lives in Roseville, Calif., and lost her job at a start-up clothing company due to the pandemic. She had written a letter to Biden to discuss her dismissal, which she said was the first time she'd ever been laid off.
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I listened to Pres. Obama's every single week for 8 years - and I remember the jackass news radio station here, that used to play Shrub's weekly address at ~10:05 am (after they did the quick headlines and traffic), decided to (purposefully IMHO) move Obama's to air at 6:00 am when he started them during his first term (which is probably when they send it out over the satellite for stations to air/record).
I know these are on their Youtube channels but I like sitting there listening on the radio while I am doing other things (the beauty of radio).
