President Biden touted a serious legislative victory on Saturday, calling the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure invoice “a monumental step ahead as a nation.”
“Yesterday, I do not suppose it is an exaggeration to counsel that we took a monumental step ahead as a nation,” Biden mentioned from the State Eating Room on Saturday, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We did one thing that is lengthy overdue, that lengthy has been talked about in Washington however by no means truly been performed. A Home of Representatives handed an infrastructure funding and jobs act. That is a flowery manner of claiming a bipartisan infrastructure invoice. A once-in-a-generation funding that may create hundreds of thousands of jobs, modernize our infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, our broadband, all vary of issues,” he continued, saying the investments will put the nation on a path to win the financial competitors of the twenty first century.
What’s subsequent: Biden mentioned he received’t be signing the invoice into regulation this weekend however will accomplish that “quickly,” when he can host members of Congress from each events on the White Home for a proper signing ceremony
The President touched on the “sausage-making” course of that’s passing main laws, thanking Home Democratic management and Democrats and Republicans who labored collectively to cross the infrastructure invoice, noting the bipartisan nature of its passage, one thing increasingly rare in Washington lately.
“I wish to rapidly thank members of the Home who labored so laborious to get a few of this performed. Speaker Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn. Progressive leaders, average leaders, Democrats, Republicans, they in truth labored collectively,” he mentioned.
