Friend,

Yesterday, near my birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania, I announced my Build Back Better plan to create millions of new jobs right here in America. Good jobs that provide a choice to join a union.

I am grateful to so many -- including my friend Elizabeth Warren, labor unions, and other progressive partners for their help in putting together this bold new set of policies aimed at healing our economy and ensuring good, dignified jobs for American workers. These policies have always been important, Friend, but in the face of Donald Trump's egregious mismanagement of the public health and economic crises, there has never been a more important moment to reinvest in good-paying jobs for workers across our country.

My plan starts with a pretty basic idea -- when we spend taxpayer money, we should buy American products, support American businesses, and create American jobs.

Trump says "Buy American" every chance he gets -- but he's spent years undermining our American businesses and threatening the livelihoods of our workers. The rate of federal contractors offshoring jobs more than doubled in his first 18 months. U.S. manufacturing was in a recession before COVID.

Friend, Senator Warren and I stand side by side in our goal of ensuring the future is made in America by all of America’s workers.

In direct response to the crisis we now face, when I'm president I'll invest $400 billion over four years in federal purchases of products made by American workers. My plan would create over 5 million new jobs, a surge in American manufacturing, and investments that will significantly benefit communities of color -- all while strengthening union rights and collective bargaining, implementing a $15 minimum wage, and eliminating the tipped minimum wage that relegates some workers to as little as $2.13 an hour. This proposal in its entirety is more ambitious than any federal plan since World War II, and focuses on key areas like clean energy, infrastructure, and refilling our strategic pandemic stockpile.

I'm honored to share this plan with you today. If you're with me on these big ideas, will you add your name today to become a public supporter of my Build Back Better plan?

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The history of this nation teaches us that it’s in some of our darkest moments of despair that we’ve made some of our greatest progress.

We need bold solutions. I hope you'll be by my side as we take this important step toward a bold, more progressive future for our country.

Joe Biden