{"id":576758,"date":"2021-06-29T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576758"},"modified":"2021-06-29T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T21:20:18","slug":"biden-pushes-infrastructure-package-touts-promise-of-jobs-during-wisconsin-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pushes-infrastructure-package-touts-promise-of-jobs-during-wisconsin-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Pushes Infrastructure Package, Touts Promise Of Jobs During Wisconsin Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fbiden-pushes-infrastructure-package-touts-promise-of-jobs-during-wisconsin-trip%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=576758&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-29-at-4.32.54-PM-e1625000631674.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden touted the bipartisan infrastructure package \u2013 and highlighted the promise of accompanying jobs should it pass \u2013 during remarks in Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/biden-manchin-infrastructure-deal\/\">announced<\/a> the nearly $1 trillion deal on June 24 following months of negotiating. The package&nbsp;has $579 billion in new spending and focuses on infrastructure like roads, bridges and sewer pipes, among other items.<\/p>\n<p>The president visited La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to tour its Municipal Transit Utility and then gave a speech focused on infrastructure. Biden propped up the bipartisan aspect of the deal as he spoke in one of the states <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-madison-wisconsin-7aef88488e4a801545a13cf4319591b0\">he won<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter months of careful negotiation, of listening, compromising, together and in good faith moving together, with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they forged an agreement to move forward on the key priorities of my American Jobs Plan,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, this is a generational investment, a generational investment to modernize our infrastructure, creating millions of good-paying jobs \u2026 millions of good paying jobs, and positions America to compete with the rest of the world in the 21st century, because China is way outworking us in terms of infrastructure,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden highlighted struggling infrastructure in Wisconsin, such as hundreds of bridges that he said are in desperate need of repair, CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-infrastructure-speech-wisconsin-watch-live-today-2021-06-29\/\">noted<\/a>.&nbsp;He also brought up climate change and ridiculed those who disagree with it being a threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 116 degrees in Portland, Oregon,\u201d Biden exclaimed. \u201cOne hundred and sixteen degrees! But don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s no global warming. It doesn\u2019t exist \u2014 it\u2019s a figment of our imagination. Seriously.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/joe-manchin-supports-democrat-only-joe-biden-infrastructure-bill\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Joe Manchin Comes Out In Support Of Democrat-Only Infrastructure Bill)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president mentioned lead in drinking water during Tuesday\u2019s speech and declared&nbsp;that the bipartisan infrastructure package \u201ccontains the largest investment in clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters prior to Biden landing in Wisconsin that the president chose to visit the state because its people \u201cwould hugely benefit from the components of the bipartisan infrastructure package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan bill almost <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/27\/this-week-sarah-isgur-biden-infrastructure-ultimatum-may-backfire\/\">unraveled<\/a> after Biden told reporters \u2013 just hours after announcing a deal with the group of 10 senators that developed the package \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/joe-biden-bipartisan-infrastructure-package-without-reconciliation-bill\/\">that&nbsp;he has no<\/a>&nbsp;plans to sign a bipartisan infrastructure package unless it\u2019s accompanied by a reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n<p>These comments <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/26\/biden-infrastructure-vow-veto-bipartisan-deal\/\">were walked back<\/a> on Saturday when the president issued a new statement claiming the \u201cveto threat\u201d was \u201cnot my intent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Psaki declined to definitively say whether Biden would sign the infrastructure package without the reconciliation bill during Monday\u2019s press conference, instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=maOpu3iBXZc\">simply noting<\/a> that \u201cthe president looks forward to and expects to sign each piece of legislation into law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s focused on selling this package to the American people, both package I should say. That\u2019s what he\u2019ll be doing \u2026 in Wisconsin, and we\u2019ll be working closely with leaders in Congress to move both of these pieces of legislation forward,\u201d Psaki said Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden touted the bipartisan infrastructure package \u2013 and highlighted the promise of accompanying jobs should it pass \u2013 during remarks in Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon.Biden announced the nearly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313683,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-29-at-4.32.54-PM-e1625000631674.png","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Pushes Infrastructure Package, Touts Promise Of Jobs During Wisconsin Trip","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-29-at-4.32.54-PM-e1625000631674.png","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Pushes Infrastructure Package, Touts Promise Of Jobs During Wisconsin Trip","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}