Joe Biden just gave his first big presidential address to Congress. These were the key takeaways

Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress laid out some of what the US President considered were his major achievements from his first 100 days in office along with his vision for the future.

Democrats were quick to praise his speech while Republicans criticised the plan for being “boring but radical”.

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Here are the key takeaways.

Biden’s message of hope: America’s back

Joe Biden began by reflecting on the situation he walked into when he took the Presidential oath in January, saying he “inherited a nation in crisis”.

“The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” the President listed, with the latter a reference to the…