President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made their first joint public look Thursday since Biden stepped apart on July 21 and Harris turned the Democratic Celebration’s presidential nominee. The 2 appeared at Prince George’s Group School in Maryland to announce and have a good time decrease drug costs because of the primary Medicare value negotiation.
The Biden-Harris administration obtained some well-deserved credit score for its work to start lowering the exorbitant price of medication. However the rally was additionally an emotional occasion, as chants of “Thank you, Joe,” rang out repeatedly.
“It’s my everlasting and nice, nice, nice honor—I’ve to let you know,” Harris mentioned whereas introducing Biden, “to serve with this most extraordinary human being, and American, and leader. Our President Joe Biden.”
The president didn’t disappoint. He was feisty, feeding off of an enthusiastic crowd, and predicting Harris can be “one hell of a president.”
“I served within the Senate for 270 years,” Biden joked. “I know I only look 40, but I’m a little bit older. For the longest time, I was too damn young because I was only 29 when I got elected. Now I’m too damn old.”
Biden framed the reducing of drug costs as a crowning achievement of his decades-long political profession, noting that his first try to take action got here in 1973, when he was a freshman senator.
“I thank God that in the last three months I’m president of the United States, I was able to finally get done what I tried to get done when I was a young senator of 30 years old,” Biden mentioned. “Thank you, God, thank you.”
