Biden on the economy

Here, let's begin the debate. And let's start with the issue that voters consistently say is their top concern, the economy. President Biden. Inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. Since you took office, the price of essentials has increased. For example, a basket of groceries that cost $100 then now costs more than $120.00. And typical home prices have jumped more than 30%. What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your presidency than they were under President Trump? We got to take a look at what I was left when I became president and what Mr. Trump loved me. We had an economy that was in freefall. The pandemic was so badly handled, many people were dying. All he said was not that serious. Just inject a little bleach into your arm, you'll be all right. The economy collapsed. There were no jobs. Unemployment rate rose to 15%. It was terrible. And So what we had to do is try to put things back together again. And that's exactly what we began to do. We created 15,000 new jobs. We brought out another position where we have 800,000 new manufacturing jobs. But there's more to be done. There's more to be done. Working class people are still in trouble. I come from Scranton, PA. I come of household where the kitchen table, if the things weren't able to be met during the month, it was a problem. Price of eggs, the price of gas, the price of housing, the price of a whole range of things. That's why I'm working so hard to make sure I deal with those problems. And we're going to make sure that we reduce the price of housing. We're going to make sure we build 22 million new units. We're going to make sure we cap rents so corporate greed can't take over. The combination when I was left with the corporate greed is the reason why we're in this problem right now. In addition to that, we're in a situation where if you had to take a look at all that was done in his administration, he didn't do much at all. By the time he left there, things were in chaos, literally chaos. And so we put things back together. We created, I said those jobs. We make sure we had a situation where we now we brought down the price of prescription drugs, which is a major issue for many people, to $15.00 for for a insulin shot as opposed to $400.00. No senior has to pay more than $200 for any. Drug all the drugs, they conclude beginning next year. In a situation is making, we're gonna make that available to everybody, to all Americans. So we're working to bring down the price of around the kitchen table and that's what we're gonna get done.