Here are 7 times Biden went off-script at the State of the Union

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evening if I were smart I'd go home

now in November my team began serious

negotiation with a bipartisan group of

senators the result was a bipartisan

bill with the toughest set of border

security reforms we've ever

seen oh you don't think

so oh you don't like that bill huh

that conservatives got together and said

was a good bill I'll be darn that's

amazing that bipartisan would hire 1,500

more security agents and officers 100

more immigration judges help tackle the

backload of 2 million cases 4,300 more

Asylum officers and new policies so they

can resolve cases in 6 months instead of

6 years

now what are you

against 100 more Hightech drug detection

machines to significantly increase the

ability to screen and stop Vehicles

smuggling fentanyl into America that's

killing thousands of

children this bill would save lives and

then order the

Border it also give me and any new

president new emergency authority to

temporarily shut down the Border when

the number of migrants at the border is

overwhelming the border of Patrol Union

has endorsed this bill the federal

Chamber of Commerce is yeah yeah you're

saying L look at the

facts I

know I know you know how to

read I believe that giving the

opportunity for a majority in the House

and Senate would endorse the bill as

well the majority right now but

unfortunately politics has derailed this

bill so far I'm told my predecessor

called members of Congress and the

Senate to demand they block the bill he

feels political win he viewed be a

political win for me and a political

loser for him it's not about him it's

not about

me I'd be a

winner not really

I

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Lincoln Lincoln Riley an innocent young

woman who was killed by an illegal

that's right but how many thousands of

people being killed by

legals to her parents I say my heart

goes out to you having lost children

myself I understand but look if we

change the dynamic at the border people

pay people people pay these Smugglers

8,000 bucks to get across the border

because they know if they get by if they

get by and let into the country it's 6

to8 years before they have a

hearing and it's worth taking the chance

of the $8,000 but but if it's only six

month 6 weeks the idea is is highly

unlikely the people will pay that money

and come all that way knowing that

they'll be able to be kicked out quickly

folks

I would respectfully s to suggest my

friend my Republican friends oh to the

American people get this bill done we

need to act

now and if my predecessor is watching

instead of paying politics and

pressuring members of Congress to block

the bill join me in telling the Congress

to pass it we can do it together but

that's what he apparently hears what he

will not do I will not demonize

immigrants saying they are poison in the

blood of our

country I will

not separate

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families I will not ban people because

of their faith unlike my predecessor on

my first day in office I introduced a

comprehensive Bill to fix our

immigration system take a look at it as

all these and more secure the Border

provide a pathway to C for dreamers and

so much more but unlike my

predecessor I know who we are as

Americans we're the only nation in the

world with a heart and soul that draws

from old and new home to Native

Americans his ancestors have been here

for thousands of years home to people of

every play from every place on Earth

they came freely some came in Chains

some came when famine struck like my

ancestral family in Ireland some to flea

persecution to chase dreams that are

impossible Anywhere But Here in America

that's America and we all come from

somewhere but we're all

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Americans look

folks we have a simple choice we can

fight about fixing the Border or we can

fix

it I'm ready to fix

it send me the Border bill

now no billionaire should pay a lower

federal tax rate than a teacher a

sanitation worker or a

nurse

I propose a minimum tax for billionaires

of 25% just

25% you know what that would raise that

would raise

$500 billion over the next 10 years and

imagine what that could do for America

imagine the future with affordable child

care millions of families can get they

need to go to work to help grow the

economy imagine a future with paid lead

because no one should have to choose

between working and taking care of their

siick family member imagine imagine the

future of Home Care and elder

care and people living with disabilities

so they can stay in their homes and

family caregivers can finally get the

pay they

deserve tonight let's all agree once

again to stand up for

seniors many my friends

on the other side of I want to put

Social Security on The Chopping

Block if anyone here tries to cut Social

Security Medicare or raise the

retirement age I will stop

you the working

people the working people who built this

country pay more into Social Security

than Millionaires and billionaires do

it's not fair we have two ways to go

Republicans can cut Social Security and

give more tax breaks to the wealthy I

will that's the

proposal oh no you guys don't want

another $2 trillion tax cut I kind of

thought that's what your plan

was well that's good to hear you're not

going to cut another $2 trillion for the

super wealth that's good to

hear I'll protect and strengthen Social

Security and make the wealthy pay their

fair share

look too many

corporations raise prices to pad their

profits charging more and more for less

and less that's why we're cracking down

on corporations engag in price gouging

and deceptive pricing from food to

healthc care to housing in fact the

snack companies think you won't notice

if they change the size of the bag and

put a hell of a lot fewer same same siiz

bag put fewer chips in it no I'm not

joking it's called Shing flation pass

Bobby Casey's Bill and stop

this I really

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mean you probably all saw that

commercial commcial on Snickers

bars you get you get charge the same

amount and you got about I don't know

10% fewer Snickers in

it look I'm also getting rid of junk

fees those hidden

fees at the end of your bill that're

there without your knowledge my

Administration announced we're cutting

credit card late fees from $32 to

$8 Banks and credit card

companies are allowed to charge what it

cost them to in to instigate the the

collection and that's more a hell of a

lot like $8 and3 some dollars they don't

like it credit card companies don't like

it but I'm saving American families $20

billion a year with all the junk fees

I'm

eliminating in fact my policies have

attracted 600 50 billion in private

sector investment in clean energy

Advanced manufacturing creating tens of

thousands of jobs here in

America and

thanks and thanks to our bipartisan

infrastructure law 46,000 new projects

have announced all across your

communities and by the way I notice some

of you strongly voted against it or

they're cheering on money coming in I

like

it I'm with

you I'm with

you if any of you don't want that money

in your District just let me

know modernize our roads and bridges

ports and airports public transit

systems removing po poisonous lead pipes

so every child can drink clean water

without risk of brain

damage

folks I'm going to get in trouble for

saying that but any you want to get in

Air Force One and fly to Toronto Berlin

Moscow I mean excuse me and well even

Moscow

probably and bring your prescription

with you and I promise you I'll get it

for you for 40% the cost you're paying

now same company same drug same place

let me close with

this

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I know you don't want to hear any more

Lindsay but I got to say a few more

things I know it may not look like it

but I've been around a

while when you get to be my age certain

things become clearer than

ever I know the American story again and

again I've seen the contest between

competing forces in the battle for the

soul of our nation between those who

want to pull America Amica back to the

past those want to move America into the

future my lifetime has taught me to

embrace freedom and democracy a future

based on core values that defined

America honesty decency dignity

equality to respect everyone to give

everyone a fair chop to give hate no

Safe

Harbor now other people my age see it

differently the American story of

resentment revenge and retribution

that's not me I was born in mid World

War II when America stood for the

freedom of the world I grew up in scr

Pennsylvania in Claymont Delaware among

workingclass people who built this

country I watched in horror as two of my

heroes like many of you did Dr King and

Bobby CN were assassinated and their

legacies inspired me to pursue a care a

career in

service I left the law firm became a

public defender because my city of

Wilmington was the only city in America

occupied by the National Guard after Dr

King was assassinated because of the

riots

and I became a county councilman almost

by accident I got elected to the United

States Senate when I had no intention of

running at age

29 then vice president or our first

black president now president to the

first women vice

president

in my

career I've been told I was too

young by the way they didn't let me on

the Senate elevators for vote sometimes

not a

joke and I've been told I'm too

old whether young or old I've always

been known I've always known what

endures I've known our

Northstar the very idea of America is

that we're all created equal and

deserves to be treated equally

throughout our lives we've never fully

lived up to that idea but we've never

walked away from it either and I won't

walk away from it

now I'm

optimistic I really am I'm optimistic

Nancy

my fellow

Americans the issue facing our

nation isn't how old we are it's how old

are

ideas hate anger Revenge retribution are

the oldest of ideas but you can't lead

America with ancient ideas that only

take us back you lead America the land

of possibilities

you need a vision for the future and

what can and should be

done tonight you've heard

mine I see a future where defending

democracy you don't diminish it I see a

future where restore the right to choose

and protect our freedoms not take them

away I see a

future for the middle class has finally

has a fair shot and the wealthy have to

pay their fair share in

taxes I see a future where we save the

planet from the climate crisis and our

country from gun

violence above

all I see a future for all

Americans I see a country for all

Americans and I will always be president

for all Americans because I believe in

America I believe in and you the

American people you're the reason we've

never been more optimistic about our

future than I am now so let's build the

future together let's remember who we

are we are the United States of

America and there is

nothing nothing beyond our capacity when

we act

together God bless you all and may God

protect our troops thank you thank you

thank

you