Thread by @RevDrBarber

.@POTUS Biden, please be honest. The reality is the economy is not well, especially when it comes to poor and low-wealth people. But it’s not your fault. Layout what you are doing to undo what Trump did and to meet this moment. Talk about what you did in the rescue plan, but ...

also talk about what else you wanted to do that Republicans Manchin & Sinema blocked. Layout what must be done now w/Build Back Better, voting rights, and living wages. Remember, you campaigned on raising the minimum wage. Talk about how each part will help millions of Americans.

Go back to your original $3 trillion Build Back Better plan, what it would have done, and then be clear why you can’t go lower than that amount, because you care about essential workers and their families.

Return to your brother John Lewis’ original For The People Act for voting rights. If Manchin wouldn’t even end the filibuster to pass his own bill, why should you be bound to keep it on the table?

Then say that you are going to keep fighting, and you are calling on the people who need the things you are trying to pass to keep fighting also. Call on them to put pressure on their congresspeople. Go to West Virginia and talk to people there. Go to Arizona.

Call on Americans to vote like never before, because the people who have been blocking everything will only get worse if they stay in office. And do this, Mr. President, while being surrounded by low-wealth Americans, religious leaders, and economists with you at the podium.

Mr. President, we respectfully call on you not to let the backers of corporate interest, Republicans, and Manchin and Sinema control the narrative. The poll numbers you are seeing now are b/c your handlers are not allowing you to shape the narrative, to tell what you have done,

to properly blame who has blocked, to put a face on all the people who are being hurt by the forces that are blocking your agenda. Your poll numbers are down because the truth is not being told. Most people don’t even know what you are fighting for in Build Back Better

and how it would impact their lives. They think it’s just a philosophical battle over money between you and Manchin. They don’t really understand what the Child Tax Credit will do and how it will help families in Mississippi and Montana, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

They don’t see themselves, and your team is failing you by only having you meet with corporate leaders and not with the people whose lives would be impacted by BBB, by voting rights protections, etc. and how your policies would help the entire American economy.

I’m praying for you even as you make hard decisions about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. May God keep you.