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Joe Biden: My Republican friends say that it’s -- many of them say it’s too big. They say, 'Why not focus on traditional…

On the recordApril 7, 2021
My Republican friends say that it’s -- many of them say it’s too big. They say, 'Why not focus on traditional infrastructure, fix what we’ve already got -- the roads and the highways that exist and the bridges?' We are America. We don’t just fix for today, we build for tomorrow. In this recovery, the so-called -- before I became President -- this 'K-shaped' recovery, where billionaires made $300 billion more dollars during this period. Where’s the outrage there? I’m not trying to punish anybody. But damn it, maybe it’s because I come from a middle-class neighborhood, I’m sick and tired of ordinary people being fleeced.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

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Biden defends his infrastructure plan against Republican criticism regarding its size.

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