Biden just claimed that Medicare could save “hundreds of billions of dollars” by negotiating drug prices. This isn't even close to reality. The CBO has concluded “providing broad negotiating authority by itself would likely have a negligible effect on federal spending.” https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55270
Biden says “health care should be a right, not a privilege in America.”
Particularly brazen rhetorical move to suggest that what we need to win the competition with China is to spend trillions of dollars on every single Democratic domestic priority
John McCormack notes Biden did not use comments on education deficits to advocate for school reopenings:
Missed opportunity to urge all school districts to provide in-person instruction to children five days a week: https://t.co/tyLb8TX70S
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) April 29, 2021
Biden went off-script to thank Senator Mitch McConnell:
Biden thanking McConnell for naming the cancer research bill after his son Beau, who died from brain cancer, was not in his remarks. He went off script.
— Ginger Gibson (@GingerGibson) April 29, 2021
As Biden tries to revive universal pre-K, just a reminder that Head Start was an abysmal failure https://www.cato.org/commentary/head-start-tragic-waste-money
Biden proposes creating an Advanced Research Projects Agency for health. There technically was an Advanced Research Projects Agency, that played a big role in the creation of the Internet; ARPA became DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in 1971. Then they changed the agency's name back to ARPA in 1993… and then they changed it back to DARPA in 1996. (Make up your mind, guys.)
There is also already an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy.
Biden with a thinly-veiled threat to Republicans willing to negotiate with him:
“I welcome those ideas. But the rest of the world isn’t waiting for us. I just want to be clear: From my perspective, doing nothing is not an option.”
Biden says “it’s within our power” to “end cancer as we know it.”
I suppose that if you're a politician you have to stand for the claim that it's within our power to end cancer, even though it's obviously ridiculous.