America’s First Lady is out to push her husband’s Stimulus/Rescue package….
Along the way?
She is showing her teaching skill’s and ‘hands on’ connection to education….
This was the first lady’s second stop at a reopened school this week as part of the White House’s travel and public relations frenzy to promote President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package. She was there to talk about $1,400 direct payments, child-care tax credits and how the administration planned to deliver on President Biden’s promise to safely return students to classrooms within his first 100 days of office, or by the end of April….
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“It sends a really big message” to have Jill Biden on this tour, says Anita McBride, director of the First Ladies Initiative at American University and former chief of staff to Laura Bush. “Listen, she is the closest person to the president. She is a champion of his efforts and his initiative. He relies on her.”…
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“As a teacher who taught for, gosh, over 30 years, I feel most at home in the classroom,” she said in her speech. She’d actually spent the whole previous day teaching at her community college job.
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