He’s not running for president, but Joe Biden is pushing the Democratic Party’s line on making college free.

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Biden Calls for 4 Years of Free College

When Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not run for president, his speech in the White House Rose Garden, flanked by President Barack Obama and his wife, Jill Biden, sounded more like a campaign stump than anything else.

Among the many lofty goals he said Democrats should prioritize during the 2016 election is a fresh look at the public education system, from kindergarten through grade 12 to pre-K through college.

“I believe we have to level the playing field for the American people,” Biden said. “And that’s going to take access to education and opportunity to work.”

“We need to commit to 16 years of free public education for all our children,” he said, adding two years to the president’s previous proposal of free community college for all.

“We all know that 12 years of public education is not enough,” Biden continued. “As a nation, let’s make the same commitment to a college education today that we made to a high school education a hundred years ago.”

In Obama’s 2016 budget proposal, he requested $60 billion for two years of free community college for low-income students.