Biden's "Build Back Better" goes global
1 big thing
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, October 28th. I'm Margaret |
| 0:09.4 | Talif in Fernila, Boudou. Here's what we're watching today. A new law makes it |
| 0:14.3 | harder to hide money in art. Plus debate over the right to die movement in Latin America. |
| 0:19.7 | But first, today's one big thing. Biden's build back better goes global. |
| 0:31.0 | President Biden is heading to Rome today for the G20 summit. It will be the |
| 0:36.1 | first time most of the world's large economies will meet in person since the |
| 0:39.6 | pandemic began. Axios and Zach Basu joins us now with more details on how |
| 0:43.8 | Biden is bringing his build back better agenda to the global stage. Good |
| 0:47.7 | morning, Zach. Hey, Margaret. How's it going? Zach, President Biden is leaving |
| 0:52.0 | behind DC and the whole domestic drama around infrastructure and the big |
| 0:55.5 | social spending plan for a couple of days. But you say that there is a build back |
| 0:59.7 | better parallel on the world stage with the summit? Yeah, so I think a lot of |
| 1:03.2 | Western leaders have tapped into this same theme that President Biden identified |
| 1:07.3 | during his campaign. Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, actually uses the |
| 1:11.5 | same build back better slogan as Biden for his domestic agenda. The European |
| 1:16.8 | Union uses similar language for their green recovery plan. So there really is |
| 1:21.3 | this shared understanding that the world can take advantage of this terrible |
| 1:24.9 | pandemic and use it to confront another crisis, which is climate change. The G20, |
| 1:29.9 | which is made up of the world's largest economies and also a group that's |
| 1:33.9 | responsible for about 75% of global emissions. They're going to be addressing |
| 1:39.0 | these pressing issues that you'd expect from a global gathering like this, |
| 1:42.6 | you know, COVID and vaccines, climate change and the economic recovery. But the |
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