{"id":976624,"date":"2021-11-06T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=976624"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:59:13","slug":"joe-biden-celebrates-infrastructure-deal-after-failure-to-pass-multitrillion-dollar-entitlement-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-celebrates-infrastructure-deal-after-failure-to-pass-multitrillion-dollar-entitlement-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Celebrates Infrastructure Deal After Failure to Pass Multitrillion-Dollar Entitlement Bill"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-celebrates-infrastructure-deal-after-failure-to-pass-multitrillion-dollar-entitlement-bill%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=976624&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\">President Joe Biden celebrated the final House passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill at the White House on Saturday, 88 days after it passed the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally. Infrastructure week!\u201d Biden chuckled, parroting a Washington, DC, joke about former President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated failed attempts to get an infrastructure package passed in Congress.<\/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>\u201cWe did something that\u2019s long overdue, that long has been talked about in Washington but never actually been done,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris also attended the event but did not speak:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18633266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-Biden-Kamala-Harris-after-infrastructure-bill-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18633266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-Biden-Kamala-Harris-after-infrastructure-bill-getty.jpg\" alt=\"US President Joe Biden gestures after delivering remarks on the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and the rule that will allow the passage of the Build Back Better Act as US Vice President Kamala Harris looks on in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC on November 6, 2021. - The President and the First Lady will then travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for the weekend. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT \/ AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden gestures after delivering remarks on the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and the rule that will allow the passage of the Build Back Better Act as US Vice President Kamala Harris looks on in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC on November 6, 2021 (ROBERTO SCHMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The president said he would not sign the bill passed late Friday night so that more members of Congress could attend the signing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not doing it this weekend because I want people who work so hard, Democrats and Republicans, to be here,\u201d Biden said, referring to the senators who helped hammer out the deal in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The president plans to leave later today to spend the rest of the weekend at his home in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Biden hinted at Democrat losses in the elections on Tuesday, admitting that the message sent by voters was that they wanted Democrats to get things done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people have made clear one overwhelming thing \u2026 all the talk about the elections and what do they mean. They want us to deliver. They want us to deliver,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite supporting congressional leftists and their struggle to approve more spending, Biden ultimately abandoned his efforts to get his multitrillion-dollar entitlement bill passed in tandem.<\/p>\n<p>The president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally pushed the bill across the finish line on their third attempt to get it through the Democrat-led House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18198026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/biden-pelosi-thumbs-up-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18198026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/biden-pelosi-thumbs-up-getty.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Leftists in the House Progressive Caucus finally caved after weeks of holding the infrastructure legislation hostage until Biden\u2019s entitlement bill passed.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, six leftist Democrats still voted against it as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) described the process as \u201cbullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>But 13 Republicans helped bail out Pelosi and Biden by supporting the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/566590-cbo-says-infrastructure-bill-would-add-256-billion-to-deficit-over-10-years\">projected<\/a> that Biden\u2019s infrastructure bill will add $256 billion in deficits over ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The future of Biden\u2019s entitlement bill remains even more in doubt as leftists no longer have any leverage to push it through the House.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden tried to signal optimism, calling it \u201cfiscally responsible\u201d and saying the bill would not add to the deficit \u201cby a single penny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear: We will pass this in the House. And we will pass it in the Senate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what gave him confidence that the bill would pass, Biden grinned broadly and replied, \u201cMe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden celebrated the final House passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill at the White House on Saturday, 88 days after it passed the Senate. \u201cFinally. 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