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On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan to stump for the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, also known as the Build Back Better Act.
Biden told the Michigan audience that “we’re at an inflection point” and “we risk losing our edge as a nation” and being surpassed by other nations if the investments are not made.
“America is still the largest economy in the world,” said Biden. “We still have the most productive workers and the most innovative minds in the world. But we risk losing our edge as a nation.”
“These bills are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive or anything that pits Americans against one another. These bills are about competitiveness versus complacency. They’re about opportunity versus decay,” Biden said during a visit to Howell, Michigan, a state he flipped from red to blue with a narrow victory in 2020.
The Senate has already passed the infrastructure bill, but the legislation has been slowed in the House by progressives who are using it as leverage for the larger spending package, which contains the majority of Biden’s social and economic agenda.
“We risk losing our edge as a nation. Our infrastructure used to be the best in the world, literally, not figuratively,” he said. “Today, according to the world economic forum, we rank 13th. … All those investments that fueled a strong economy, we’ve taken our foot off the gas. The world has taken notice, by the way, including our adversaries and now they’re closing the gap in a big way.
“To oppose these investments is to be complicit in America’s decline,” the president added.
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As congressional Democrats extended their self-imposed deadline for passing the two bills to Oct. 31, Biden is traveling to pitch the packages to the American public.
