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Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Druke.

Today, Thursday April 29th is the 100th day of the Biden presidency.

It's also the day after Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress.

Because of technicalities, it wasn't considered a state of the Union address,

but for all intents and purposes, that's what it was.

He focused on his three big spending plans, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan,

which has already become law, and then the more than $2 trillion American Jobs Plan,

and the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which he hopes to get through Congress.

He framed them as an investment in the middle and working class and described the US as a global competition with China.

Senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott, gave the Republican rebuttal. He criticized Democrats for keeping schools closed for too long during the pandemic,

and accused Democrats of stoking racial divisions in how they talk about racism in America.

Today, we're going to take a look at Biden's first 100 days in office, and review both what he, Biden, and Scott had to say in last night's speeches.

Here with me to do that is Senior Politics writer Perry Bacon Jr. Hey Perry.

Good to see you, Gail. You too. Also here thus is 530 contributor and Marquette University Political Science Professor Julia Azari,

her research focuses on the American presidency. Welcome, Julia.

Thanks for having me.

Great to have you. I also want to say before we get going that Perry has some exciting news that is also a little bit sad for us here on the podcast.

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