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President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that the United States is at risk of losing its edge in the global economy if the Congress does not approve its economic plans for infrastructure and financial aid .
Biden traveled to Michigan to promote the $ 1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan, which is stalled in the Lower House because Democratic progressives want to see the $ 3.5 billion financial aid plan approved earlier in Congress , and then consider the approval of the infrastructure bill that has already been approved in the Senate.
The president argued that the United States had “taken its foot off the gas” in investing in infrastructure and education, when he presented his agenda to an audience of Democratic legislators in Michigan, according to The Hill.
“These bills are not about left versus right or moderates versus progressives or anything that pits Americans against each other”, said Biden in a speech at the training facility of the International Union of Local Operational Engineers 324, in Howell, Michigan.
“It’s about opportunity versus complacency. It’s about opportunity versus decline. It’s about leading the world or continuing to let the world pass us by. Supporting these investments is creating a rising America, ” added Biden , before offering a warning to opponents from your schedule. “To oppose these investments is to be complicit in the decline of the United States.”
Biden is at a key moment in his economic agenda
The president’s statements were produce in a key moment of its economic agenda for the country, when the infrastructure plan and the social spending plan must go ahead, it must be raised the nation’s debt ceiling and legislators from both parties in Congress are in seldom seen disagreement.
Congress must raise the debt ceiling in the next few days or risk the country defaulting on its debts, and Democrats are haggling over the details of a large financial aid package, hoping to pass that bill bill and a bill of infrastructure containing $ 579 billion in new expenses at the same time and at the end of the month.
Biden tried to eliminate what he described as “hyperbole” in Washington on Democratic infighting over his agenda, while highlighted aspects of both projects. of law , including money to make the infrastructure more resilient, expand access to child care, provide free pre-kindergarten and community college, and extend the expansion of the child tax credit.
Biden also emphasized that the two bills would run throughout 10 years and insisted that the larger package it would be paid by raising taxes on the rich and corporations, thus seeking to counter Republican attacks on their “taxes and spending” agenda.