{"id":1016690,"date":"2021-11-15T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016690"},"modified":"2021-11-15T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:58:50","slug":"white-house-introduces-kamala-harris-at-infrastructure-signing-ceremony-please-welcome-heather-kurtenbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-introduces-kamala-harris-at-infrastructure-signing-ceremony-please-welcome-heather-kurtenbach\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Introduces Kamala Harris at Infrastructure Signing Ceremony: \u2018Please Welcome Heather Kurtenbach\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-introduces-kamala-harris-at-infrastructure-signing-ceremony-please-welcome-heather-kurtenbach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016690&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The White House infrastructure signing ceremony was disrupted Monday after Vice President Kamala Harris took the podium and was introduced with the wrong name.<\/p>\n<p>Harris exited the White House with Biden on one side and ironworkers union organizer Heather Kurtenbach on the other as the president prepared to sign his $1.3 trillion infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>But after Harris took the podium, the White House announcer said, \u201cPlease welcome Heather Kurtenbach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet,\u201d Harris said, laughing awkwardly as she began her remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Harris was not chosen to introduce the president, as the White House selected Kurtenbach to do the honors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18762106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/Joe-and-Heather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18762106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-and-Heather-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden reacts as as Heather Kurtenbach, Organiser and Political Director of Iron Worker local 86, speaks during a signing ceremony for H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on November 15, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN \/ AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The moment was one more example of how the Biden White House and Harris have an awkward relationship, after CNN reported Sunday multiple struggles between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also began the ceremony joking that Harris\u2019s husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jill Biden\u2019s \u201csecond husband\u201d after stumbling over his rhetoric while introducing the second gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. I\u2019m joking. These guys travel all over the country together. I\u2019m getting worried, you know?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Even during the ceremony, Biden nearly signed the infrastructure bill without her, as she struggled to push her way to the front of the group for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted Monday that Harris was a \u201ckey partner,\u201d a \u201cbold leader,\u201d and a \u201cvaluable member of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president relies on the vice president for her advice and her council,\u201d she said during the White House press briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House infrastructure signing ceremony was disrupted Monday after Vice President Kamala Harris took the podium and was introduced with the wrong name. 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