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US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his country will grow this year at the fastest rate in nearly four decades.

In the first speech of his mandate before both houses of Congress, he recalled in this regard the estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the country's economy will grow at a rate of 6% this year.

"America is moving,

forward, and we can't stop now," Biden said.

Biden defended his fight against the

covid-19 pandemic

in the first hundred days of his mandate, which are fulfilled this Thursday and asked all Americans this Wednesday to overcome doubts and get vaccinated as soon as possible, because "each puncture is a dose of hope ".

Biden also made a fierce defense of workers' organizations and the right to belong to a union and stressed that

"Wall Street did not build this country",

but was "the middle class."

"And the unions built the middle class."

"No president said these words before. It was about time."

The president of the United States began his speech before Congress on Wednesday with a tribute to the vice president of the country,

Kamala Harris

, and the president of the House of Representatives,

Nancy Pelosi.

It is the first time that a US president has addressed both houses of Congress

with two women behind him.

Harris and Pelosi are second and third in the line of succession, respectively.

"Madam President, Madam Vice President. No president has ever said these words from this podium. No president has said those words before.

It was about time,

" Biden said.

Although Pelosi had previously occupied that seat, it is the first time that the Vice President's seat has been occupied by a woman: Kamala Harris, who after the 2020 elections also became the

first black person to occupy that position

and the first of Indian or Asian origin to do so.

Upon entering the chamber, a reporter asked Harris about the meaning of her and Pelosi occupying those seats, to which the vice president replied trying to downplay it with a simple:

"(It's) normal."

During the presidency of

Donald Trump

(2017-2021), Pelosi used the visibility that seat gives to show her discontent with various gestures, including a sarcastic applause that gained huge popularity on social networks in 2019.

In 2007, Pelosi made history by becoming the first Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Then-President

George W. Bush

(2001-2009) recognized that this was a historic moment and affirmed that it was a "privilege" to be the first president to address Congress with a woman presiding over the Lower House.

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