Heidi M. Przybyla

USA TODAY

A day after delivering a sweeping take down of Donald Trump on the economy, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday laid out her plan to spur growth, saying she wanted an economic system that “works for everyone” and not just the wealthy.

In a speech given not longer after Trump delivered a blistering critique of Clinton on a wide range of topics, the presumptive Democratic nominee presented a five-pronged plan that she cast as an antidote to congressional Republicans, who she said were in “the grips of a failed economic theory called trickle-down economics.”

“It has been proven wrong again and again,” Clinton told a rally in Raleigh, N.C. “There are still people in Congress who insist on cutting taxes for the wealthy instead of investing in our future,” she said. Clinton took another jab at the GOP by noting that twice Republican presidents have caused an economic “mess” and “a Democratic president has had to come in and clean it up.”

Within the first hundred days of taking office, Clinton said she would enact a massive jobs plan anchored by “the biggest investment in infrastructure in decades.” This would include not just rebuilding roads and bridges but also delivering broadband to every home by 2020 and “making American the clean energy superpower of the 21st century.”

Clinton’s speech was an attempt to balance her attacks on Trump with substance, as her campaign argues that the real estate mogul has offered little detail other than a plan to cut taxes, including for the wealthy, that would balloon the national debt.

She also pitched debt-free college, encouraged companies to share more of their profits with their workers and proposed that Wall Street corporations and the “super rich pay their fair share” of taxes, citing millionaires who pay a lower percentage in taxes than their secretaries.

Clinton focused most of the speech on her policy proposals, though near the end, she answered some of the attacks Trump lobbed hours earlier. Trump accused the Clintons of accepting donations via their public charity, the Clinton Foundation, from leaders of countries guilty of human rights abuses. He also questioned Clinton’s faith, saying “we don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion.”

“Donald hates it when anyone points out how hollow his sales pitch really is,” said Clinton, remarking that her Tuesday speech “must have gotten under his skin.”

“He’s going after me personally because he has no answers on the substance,” said Clinton. “All he can do is try to distract us,” she said. “That’s even why he’s attacking my faith, sigh, and of course attacking a philanthropic foundation that saves and improves lives around the world.”