Remarks by President Biden at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference

In January, I was in Raleigh, North Carolina, where we’re investing $3 billion to connect the entire state for affordable high-speed Internet to end—by the end of the decade.  And we’re doing it in all 50 states. It’s critical for children to be able to do their homework, small businesses to be able to sell their products, folks to have access to telemedicine when they’re driving—without driving to see their doctors if they live in the countryside. We’ve already saved 23 million families $75 a month on Internet bills.  Congress needs to reauthorize that program now, by the way.  I need your help. Let me close with this. On March 7, I delivered my State of the Union Address, where I said—where I stated what I believed to be the empirical truth: The state of the Union is strong and getting stronger.  That’s what I see.