#shorts On 12/1/22, a reporter asked President Joe Biden, “do the freight rail workers deserve more than one day of paid sick leave, like millions of Americans have? And if so, why didn’t you negotiate for that when you were helping to negotiate that contract that you now want Congress to impose?

PRESIDENT BIDEN: I love you guys. I negotiated a contract no one else could negotiate. The only thing that was left out was whether or not it was paid leave. You know I’ve been trying to get paid leave not just for rail workers, for everybody. But that other team — they’re called the Republicans — they voted against it. They said we couldn’t do it. We’re one of the few nations in the world that don’t have paid leave for our workers. And so, what we’re doing is — we can’t afford to have — and, by the way, in the meantime, they got a 43 — 45 percent increase in salary, et cetera. There’s a lot of good things that happened in that. And if, in fact, this shuts down over the question of one to five paid — or seven or nine or whatever the number is that’ve been negotiating — of paid leave days …

On 12/1/22, President Joe Biden afternoon held a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room.

other clips of this published longer video is here:
https://youtu.be/aZurjExAo9c
Ever seen press conference where the president has an earpiece? Always blame someone else GOPs