President Biden is reviving the practice of directly talking to the public in a weekly address.
Across the official @POTUS social media accounts, the White House dropped the inaugural edition of Biden’s take on a presidential confab on Saturday. In the roughly two and a half-minute video titled “A Weekly Conversation,” the president talks over the phone with Michele, a woman from California who lost her job at a clothing company because of the pandemic.
Biden offers his assurances to Michele and outlines his policy priorities to assist renters and homeowners as well as workers and businesses left in dire straits by the coronavirus. A theme throughout the video is Biden as a listener who empathizes with ordinary Americans.
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