{"id":108590,"date":"2025-01-20T21:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/biden-gives-farewell-remarks-were-not-leaving-the-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:04:33","slug":"biden-gives-farewell-remarks-were-not-leaving-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/biden-gives-farewell-remarks-were-not-leaving-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden gives farewell remarks: ‘We’re not leaving the fight’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(WASHINGTON) — Former President Joe Biden told his staffers, “We’re not leaving the fight,” during farewell remarks following Trump’s inauguration on Monday.<\/p>\n

Biden referenced President Donald Trump’s inauguration remarks, which offered a scathing rebuke of the Biden administration while laying out Trump’s immediate plans upon returning to office.<\/p>\n

“We have a lot more to do. We heard the inaugural address today,” Biden said in his remarks at Joint Base Andrews before getting on a plane with former first lady Jill Biden.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a lot more to do,” Biden continued, before making the sign of the cross to laughs.<\/p>\n

The former president urged his staffers to stay “engaged,” whether that’s in the public or private sector, academia or running for office themselves.<\/p>\n

“We’re leaving office, but we’re not leaving the fight,” Biden said. “You’re smart, you’re skilled, you’re passionate and the country needs you again.”<\/p>\n

He said his dad taught him that a measure of a person is how quickly they get back up after getting knocked down.<\/p>\n

“That’s what we have to do right now. We’ve always done our best as Americans. We never, never, never give up, ever,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said he hopes his staffers look back on the past four years with “the same pride I have of all you’ve done.”<\/p>\n

“You did it upholding core values of honesty, decency, integrity,” he said. “You represent the best of who we are as Americans. And that’s not a joke. That’s real.”<\/p>\n

Biden also expressed optimism that their term wouldn’t be undone.<\/p>\n

“Just as I’ve said of the laws we’ve enacted, our seeds are gonna grow and bloom for decades to come,” he said.<\/p>\n

He closed by expressing his gratitude for his staffers and their families and the chance to serve with them.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been doing this for 50 years, you\u2019re the best group of people,” Biden said to cheers. “It’s been the honor of my life to serve as your president.”<\/p>\n

He also quoted from the Seamus Heaney poem, “The Cure at Troy,” saying, “Once in a lifetime, the longed-for tidal wave of justice will rise up and hope and history rhyme.”<\/p>\n

“You made it rhyme louder than it’s rhymed in a long time,” he said. “We’re on the cusp of real change, so let’s help hope and history rhyme.”<\/p>\n

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