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The Toughest Job In D.C. \u2014 Transcribing Biden\u2019s Remarks<\/a><\/p>\n

Watching President Joe Biden try to make his way through a speech is painful enough. Reading a transcript of it is worse. Not just because Biden\u2019s words are even more confusing in print, but because you start to feel a strong sense of pity for the person responsible for figuring out what he is trying to say, how much of it to transcribe verbatim, and which facts to correct.<\/p>\n

We looked through Biden\u2019s remarks from just this month and found 15 instances where the transcriber felt compelled to make corrections on things the president said.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example from one 11-minute speech he gave over the weekend\u00a0in Palo Alto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forty million \u2014 40 million Americans already drinking water that thousands of farmers rely on for \u2014 for\u00a0integration<\/s>\u00a0[irrigation].\u00a0 And 40 million count on that river and so do the farmers\u2026.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Folks, flood mitigation: $3.5\u00a0million<\/s>\u00a0[billion] to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings, plus $1 billion in funding mitigation measures to increase community resilience, like supporting adaptations of hazard-resistant building codes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And maybe most important, I\u2019ve committed by\u00a02020<\/s>\u00a0[2030], we will have conserved 30 percent of all the lands and waters the United States has jurisdiction over and simultaneously reduce emissions to blunt climate impacts.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other examples from this month as they appear in the official White House transcripts:<\/p>\n