Biden Counters Trump’s ‘America First’ With ‘Build Back Better’ Economic Plan

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, seen here at a campaign event in June, is scheduled to give a speech in Dunmore, Pa., Thursday to outline his economic policy.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, plans to lay out a key plank of his economic vision for the country — dubbed “Build Back Better” — in a Thursday speech, offering a competing version of economic nationalism that President Trump has trumpeted in recent years.

Biden’s campaign says his vision begins with “further immediate relief” to families, small businesses and communities struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Beyond that, the proposal Biden will detail Thursday in Dunmore, Pa., centers around remaking “American manufacturing and innovation so that the future is made in America by all of America’s workers,” according to a fact sheet from the campaign.