Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told members of the National Education Association’s (NEA) assembly that the longer schools remain closed due to COVID-19, the more low-income “students of color” will suffer learning losses.

However, his message may not have been what many teachers wanted to hear since it was the teachers’ union leaders and their members who have criticized President Donald Trump’s plans for reopening schools.

Biden said that he saw the coronavirus crisis early on and called out President Trump to address it as early as January. But according to Sleepy Joe, he believes that the president failed to take any action that would get teachers and students back in the classroom.

Just like his fellow Democrats, to Biden, the only way to reopen schools is to provide even more federal funding.

He then accused Trump of not offering coronavirus aid to state and local governments to make sure “educators’ salaries don’t get cut, and educators don’t get fired.”

Many of the states asking for more federal funding are all Democrat-led states. Following this, Republican senators urged the president to reject a blank check bailout to states and local governments that were already having financial problems prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “We’re not interested in borrowing money from future generations to send down to states to help them with bad decisions they made in the past unrelated to the coronavirus epidemic.”

Like President Trump, Sleepy Joe insisted schools must reopen, but promised he would deliver funding to fulfill every Democrat education wish.

” The longer schools are closed and classes are remote, the more students, especially low-income students and students of color, fall behind,” Biden said.

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten told USA Today that she did not agree with Trump’s belief that schools should reopen as soon as possible. She even told her members to “scream bloody murder” if schools reopen without the go signal of medical experts. Weingarten added that if a second wave comes in the summer, “all bets are off” for sending students back to school.