Biden takes his pitch for infrastructure spending on the road and into prime time
President Biden traveled to Ohio to pitch his infrastructure plan Wednesday evening. But throughout a prime-time televised town hall, he at times found himself on the defensive about rising numbers of coronavirus cases and his opposition to abandoning the Senate’s filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.
If Senate Democrats try to end it, he said, “you’re going to throw the entire Congress into chaos and nothing will get done. Nothing at all will get done. And there’s a lot at stake.” In the network appearance, Biden touted the economic impact of the $1.9-trillion pandemic relief package he signed into law in March and addressed questions about his two-part infrastructure plans, consisting of the roughly $600-billion bipartisan proposal and a $3.5-trillion, multiyear budget blueprint covering other domestic initiatives that Republicans don’t support — including programs to assist working families, expand Medicare and promote green energy projects.
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