Joseph Robinette Biden

“ So I look forward to working with Congress to advance these and other priorities. I think we’re going to be able to get — I’m hoping we will have some bipartisan support across the board. I’ve already spoken to some of my Republican colleagues about dealing with the infrastructure legislation we have up there, as well as other budget items. So we’re going to work on seeing if we can get some bipartisan support across the board here.
But that’s what we’re about to do now. We’re going to talk about our economic priorities, and we’ll get the brief from the team here. ”

“ That also includes the single-largest funding increase ever for Title I schools — schools for disadvantaged schools — to lift up the millions of children in low-income families. And it’ll put them in a position where all the data is — we’ve –I’ve talked a lot about this — the data shows that it puts a child from a household that is a lower-income household in a position, if they start school — not daycare, but school — at three and four years old, there’s overwhelming evidence that they are able to compete all the way through high school and beyond. ”

“ And so it doubles the funding as well for — for VAWA services, including resources to end the rape kit backlog. We’ve been working on this for a long, long time, and we still have a backlog on the rape kit. And — and the point is: A significant number of women who have been raped — and the person has not been found or convicted is because they’re sitting in jail. The average rapist rapes about six times. ”