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Biden To Open Week Of Messaging On 'Bidenomics' With Internet Investment

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11:45 ET 16:45 BST: President Biden is shortly due to deliver remarks at the White House launching a USD$42 billion investment to expand high-speed internet nationwide.

  • Livestream: LINK
  • The Washington Post reports that the money, “which the administration plans to parcel out to states over the next two years, serves as the centerpiece of a vast and ambitious campaign to deliver reliable broadband to the entire country by 2030.”
  • Today's event will be the first in a week of engagements which White House says is a major push to promote “Bidenomics,” and reverse negative voter sentiment on the Biden administration’s handling of the economy.
  • Biden will headline a fundraising event in in Chevy Chase, Maryland tomorrow, and give a speech in Chicago on Wednesday outlining the positive impacts of his economic agenda.
  • Senior Biden advisers Anita Dunn and Mike Donilon said in a memo: “In the weeks and months ahead, the President, members of his Cabinet, and senior Administration officials will continue fanning out across the country to take the case for Bidenomics and the President’s Investing in America agenda directly to the American people.”

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