‘Never lifted a finger’: Biden knocks Trump in speech to IBEW labor conference
By
Christian Datoc
April 19, 2024 1:06 pm
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President Joe Biden took a number of shots at his opponent in the 2024 general election, former President Donald Trump, during his Friday speech at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Construction and Maintenance Conference.
Biden and Trump are chasing union endorsements ahead of the general election in 2024, with both men relying on support from blue-collar workers in battlegrounds to secure their respective presidential victories. IBEW endorsed Biden in 2020 and again in 2023, just after he announced his reelection bid.
On Friday, the president said he added “tens of thousands” of good-paying union jobs to the economy over the past four years while simultaneously claiming Trump “never lifted a finger” to help labor groups while in office.
“Matter of fact, he lifted a finger to put a thumb on it,” he said. “Not only that, he put union busters on the National Labor Relations Board. The people I’ve appointed to the National Labor Relations Board actually care about American workers.”
Biden continued to attack Trump and Republicans for opposing his efforts to extend student loan debt relief to millions of people and rewrite the Trump-era tax cuts before closing with a summary of his and Trump’s differing views on the economy.
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