How The Right Wing Noise Machine Buries Biden's Historic Accomplishments
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg explained to CNN, ABC and NBC news the extraordinary and historic accomplishments the Biden administration has delivered to the country in two short years, just before the president gives his SOTU speech on Tuesday.
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked why so many of these accomplishments have not helped Biden's poll numbers.
"Let's go to the President's State of the Union," Todd said. "Look, he's got a lot of things to tell. Why do you think that it has not penetrated the American public?"
"When you think back in historic terms to what it means to inherit one of the toughest situations faced by any president since FDR, pass the most significant legislation on our economy in many ways since FDR, while facing the largest land war in Europe since Truman, achieving the second-most-important health care bill since LBJ, and the most important infrastructure bill since Eisenhower," Buttigieg explained.
"As Ron [Klain] put it, 'and that was just the beginning of the list of accomplishments.' But one of the things that we found is that this is happening simultaneously with some of the toughest circumstances ever," he continued. "We recognize that. And there continue to be a lot of issues that Americans are facing every day, even as we see extraordinary economic news: up 500,000 jobs just created in the last month."
Speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN, Buttigieg said.