President Joe Biden repeated prior commitments and expanded on his broad agenda that involves investing heavily in America’s research and technology landscape during his first formal address to Congress on Wednesday night.
The administration’s recently proposed American Jobs Plan includes the biggest increase in nondefense research and development on record, he noted.
“We will see more technological change in the next 10 years than we saw in the last 50—that’s how rapidly artificial intelligence and so much more is changing. And we’re falling behind in that competition with the rest of the world,” Biden said. “Decades ago, we used to invest 2% of our [gross domestic product in America] on research and development. Today, we spend less than 1%. China and other countries are closing in fast. We have to develop and dominate the products and technologies of the future: advanced batteries, biotechnology, computer chips and clean energy.”
Under that plan, billions of dollars would be put toward basic research, federally focused innovation and increasingly critical technologies. Calling it “a blue-collar blueprint to build America,” Biden said the proposal would produce jobs to grow America’s economy and upgrade its transportation and communications infrastructure.
“It creates jobs connecting every American with high-speed internet, including 35% of rural Americans who still don’t have it,” he noted, adding, “this will help our kids and businesses succeed in a 21st-century economy.”
Jobs to lay thousands of miles of transmission lines needed to build a resilient and fully clean grid would also be prompted by the plan, the president noted, adding that he’s asked Vice President Kamala ..
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