'The death of this legislation was mildly premature,' President Biden said during a speech at the White House. 'After years and years of 'Infrastructure Week,' we are on the cusp of an infrastructure decade that I truly believe will transform America.'
President Joe Biden celebrated the Senate's passage of a historic, sweeping $1.2 trillion bipartisan package on Tuesday, a step toward fulfilling a key item in his legislative agenda that also amounts to the biggest bipartisan win of his presidency so far.
"The death of this legislation was mildly premature," Biden said during a speech at the White House Tuesday afternoon."After years and years of 'Infrastructure Week,' we are on the cusp of an infrastructure decade that I truly believe will transform America."Biden, standing alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, said that he"never believed" critics who have characterized his calls to implement policies in a bipartisan way"a relic of an earlier age.
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