Transcript - Remarks: Joe Biden Tours McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois - July 7, 2021 | Factba.se

Joe Biden

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Hey, everybody.

Clint Gabbard

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Joe Biden

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I'm going in. That's not my exit.

Clint Gabbard

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Joe Biden

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That's my exit.

Heather Zaccagnini

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Jason Boring

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Joe Biden

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Clint Gabbard

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Um, President Biden, we are excited to have you here, and I want to introduce you to, uh, Heather Zaccagnini, one of our instructors at the college.

Heather Zaccagnini

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It's my great pleasure to meet you.

Joe Biden

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A pleasure to meet you.

Clint Gabbard

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Uh, Heather's been here for 23 years. She's going to introduce a student --

Joe Biden

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You got here when you're seven.

Heather Zaccagnini

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Thank you. Yeah.

Jason Boring

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Heather Zaccagnini

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This is Jason Boring, one of our students.

Jason Boring

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Very nice to meet you.

Joe Biden

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Hey, Jason. How are you, man?

Jason Boring

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Joe Biden

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Good to see you.

Clint Gabbard

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Heather, tell, um, the president a little bit about our programs.

Heather Zaccagnini

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So you are standing in our manufacturing lab. This lab was remodeled about six years ago to make it bigger and allow room for more machines, more equipment. We are in the process of designing our new building. So this is the baby version of what we will have. Please come back and visit.

Joe Biden

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Was that -- you have -- you're building a new building?

Heather Zaccagnini

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We are building a new building.

Clint Gabbard

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Fifty thousand square feet, uh, a -- advanced technology innovation will be doing this stuff --

Joe Biden

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You're kidding.

Heather Zaccagnini

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I would now take [Inaudible]

Clint Gabbard

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Plus welding and air conditioning and all those things.

Joe Biden

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Heather Zaccagnini

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And it's going to be, um, a partnership with the state of Illinois, and we're really excited about it. So we're going to take this and the jobs that we help students work into, work toward. And we're going to take these programs and make them even bigger and better. And these are living-wage jobs. These are good jobs.

Heather Zaccagnini

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People can own homes. They can raise families and they're in a good environment.

Joe Biden

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And you join unions to make a real wage.

Clint Gabbard

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Mmm hmm. [Laughter]

Heather Zaccagnini

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Clint Gabbard

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Yep. Tell the president a little bit about your story.

Jason Boring

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Yeah. So I've worked in the industry for a long time. In 10 years, I spent servicing equipment like this. And now, with my engineering technology degree from McHenry County College, I get to design and build this type of equipment.

Joe Biden

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Good for you, man.

Jason Boring

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Um, which I just wouldn't have been able to get there on experience alone.

Joe Biden

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Jason Boring

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You know, the education that I've gotten here has really gotten me to the next level of my career.

Joe Biden

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My wife is a community college professor and, uh, --

Jason Boring

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Joe Biden

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She still teaches full time now.

Heather Zaccagnini

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Joe Biden

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And it's amazing that what a degree can do. I mean, it makes a gigantic difference. Opened doors give you opportunities. And, you know, there's no reason -- we used to invest more in research and development in any country in the world three decades -- four decades ago. Now, we're No. 8. We were No. 1. China's No. 2. They were No. 9. That's why this program -- and we talk a little bit about where we can invest significantly more money in research and development to own the 21st century.

Joe Biden

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We're the best folks in the world, and we're just not investing that kind of money we should.

Clint Gabbard

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So some of these students are working while they're going to school. Some of them work for Scot Forge. Scot Forge has the largest forgery -- forging the largest pieces of steel in the world. In fact, when the Mars rover touched down, it had -- was it the -- what part of the Mars rover came?

Madison Loewe

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They made the tires.

Clint Gabbard

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They made the tires. So they're getting access to one of the greatest companies in the world doing Defense Department contracts, and they're going to school and working at the same time. It's a great model for these folks.

Joe Biden

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It's great. Are all these working now as well?

Unidentified

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Yeah. I'm a high school teacher, and I'm -- I do career and technical education. And I'm --

Joe Biden

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Oh, good for you.

Unidentified

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[Inaudible] manufacturing in classes with my students. Eventually these students here [Inaudible]

Joe Biden

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Good for you. [Crosstalk]

Unidentified

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Unidentified

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Note

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[Break in video. Biden moves to a different part of the tour.]

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Hey, everybody.

Unidentified

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Lisha Linder

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Joe Biden

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[Inaudible] here. Hi, how are you?

Lisha Linder

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I'm doing well. How are you?

Joe Biden

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What's your name?

Lisha Linder

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Joe Biden

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Lisha Linder

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I'm the director of the center.

Joe Biden

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Lisha Linder

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This is -- my student.

Britny Quintana

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Hi, Mr. President. Such an honor. A pleasure to meet you.

Joe Biden

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What's your name?

Britny Quintana

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Joe Biden

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Hey, Britny. Who's this?

Lisha Linder

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Unidentified

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Lisha Linder

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Joe Biden

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Hi, how are you doing?

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Good. How old are you, 14?

Unidentified

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Lisha Linder

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Joe Biden

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Four. I know [Inaudible] four somewhere.

Britny Quintana

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Lisha Linder

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Joe Biden

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Good to see you, guys.

Britny Quintana

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Lisha Linder

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We're so happy to have you.

Joe Biden

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Well, I'm happy to be here.

Britny Quintana

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Joe Biden

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How's it going?

Unidentified

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We're excited you're here.

Lisha Linder

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Joe Biden

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I'm excited to be here.

Clint Gabbard

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So, Lisa, tell the president a little bit about what we do here.

Lisha Linder

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OK. So this is the Children's Learning Center. We've been here about 30 years. We primarily meet the needs of our student parents offering child care from 15 months up through age six. And we also have children of MCC employees who bring their children to the center. And then, we are a lab site training facility for early childhood education students.

Joe Biden

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You got it all.

Lisha Linder

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Yeah. And so then we send these really well-prepared early childhood teachers out into the community. And most of the area centers are actively looking for our graduates. We're very proud.

Joe Biden

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How many parents are here? Pretty good, huh.

Lisha Linder

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Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Well, I tell you what, we were talking about earlier. Senator Durbin and I, you know, the idea that, uh --

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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That's OK. He gets to do it again. He can do it -- he can do whatever he wants. But, you know, I personally was a single parent for five years after my wife and daughter were killed -- my two little boys. And I was a U.S. senator. I was 29 years old -- 30 years old, U.S. senator. And I could not afford child care, but I had a family to help.

Joe Biden

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I had, uh, my best friend in the world is my sister. My -- she and her husband moved into my home and help me raise my kids -- my brother, my mom. But people can't make it by themselves. And this is really important. And by the way, being able to -- if you're working in the child care center, being able to learn more skills and raise your standards, your ability in the jobs you have is really a big deal.

Joe Biden

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And this woman here, hang on to her, man.

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Hang on to her. She knows what she's doing it. She knows what she's doing. Well, I'll be darned. You know, one of the things that all of us are trying to do is we have a provision that if any business does that you guys are doing here, they get to write off the cost of setting up the child care center. And so it's an encouragement.

Joe Biden

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And all the data shows if you're able to take your child to work, particularly in the ages you're talking about, you get increased productivity from the parent, people stay in their jobs. This kind of forgot more about this and most of us know, but it really makes a gigantic difference in terms of generating economic growth as well.

Joe Biden

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It's a win-win. And by the way, you know, those of you who are moms, depending on what, uh, in here and tell you what your income is, you know, you're about to get a big check.

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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No, no, not a joke. Because of these people right here, I was able to get past the -- it's a child care tax credit. And it's about time -- I have nothing against the wealthy. I want to be a millionaire, a billionaire -- wonderful. But everybody got to pay their fair share. It's time you guys get a tax break.

Joe Biden

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So guess what? Starting at the end of this month, for every child you have under the age of seven, you're going to get $3,600 a year for that. And if you have a child over -- seven to 17, you're going to be able to get $3,000. It used to be when you file your taxes, you get to write off $2,000 and, you know, against the tax if you owed $10,000, you had two kids as dependents, you get to write off for that, so you only owe six.

Joe Biden

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Well, a lot of people don't have that much money if they're making minimum wage or even twice the minimum wage right now. There's not enough income tax to pay, so it's not -- it doesn't come to you. Now, the check will actually come to you. So guess what? But before the month is over, those of you who qualify, you're going to get a check for $600 a month between now and the end of the year, and then the remainder of the year, you're going to get another $600 until the next tax day.

Joe Biden

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And we're trying to get it extended, so we do it.

Tammy Duckworth

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Joe Biden

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Tammy Duckworth

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Joe Biden

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Anyway -- and by the way, you know what? We've got to take care of mommy, right? Yeah, I know. How old are you, 12?

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Joe Biden

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Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Oh, four. Oh, great, great. Well, anyway, I don't mean to interrupt everything, but thank you.

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Thanks [Inaudible]

Question

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Mr. President, how [Inaudible] you're in for a heck of a fight on this one?

Joe Biden

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Mitch McConnell loves our program. Do you see what Mitch McConnell said? He told me he wasn't going to get a single vote in order to allow me to get with the help of everybody here at one $1.9 trillion tax cut. I mean, excuse me, a program to -- for economic growth. Look it up, man. He's bragging about it.

Joe Biden

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Kentucky, it's a great thing for Kentucky. It's getting $4 billion to help the poor. It's amazing. Check out Mitch McConnell, you even seen him on TV. Anyway, thanks.

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Unidentified

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Mr. President -- [Crosstalk]

Unidentified

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[Inaudible] please start moving the camera.

Unidentified

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Joe Biden

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Thank you. Thank you.

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