Biden calls unemployed person due to pandemic on first direct contact

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, began his Saturday day with conversations with citizens in which he called a woman who had lost her job as a result of the pandemic, with the aim of organizing her “direct” contact with her fellow countrymen.

Today, the White House is launching a new move for the president to communicate directly with the Americans on a regular basis, their information services announced.

Because of COVID-19, these conversations have provisionally taken the form of a phone call from the Oval Office to Michele, a mother of Roseville, California, who lost his job at a start-up as a result of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.

This woman had written to Joe Biden to tell him about this “difficult period” and her search for a new job.

‘As my father used to say, a job is much more than a salary. It’s a matter of dignity, of respect, of place in society, ” the 78-year-old president told him by phone, according to the video released by the White House on Saturday.

The Democratic president also took the opportunity to work with her to promote the $ 1.9 billion stimulus plan his party is about to approve in Congress, despite the lack of support from Republicans, and the vaccination campaign that he has promised.

“We are so glad they take care of that”, Michele, whose last name was not disclosed, replied, who also said her parents they had just been called to get vaccinated against covid-19.

With these communication actions Biden wants to underline his empathy and mark the break with his predecessor, Donald Trump, accused by his opponents of being uninterested in the plight of the millions of Americans affected by the health and economic crisis.

The president’s calls are intended to be a modern version, in the age of social networks, of the famous fire talks inaugurated by his former predecessor in the 1930s Franklin Delano Roosevelt to enter American homes.

Trump sporadically resumed this tradition in the form of videos recorded and posted on Facebook.

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