The president took a victory lap celebrating Democrats' legislative accomplishments while pledging to work with Republicans.
— President Biden took a victory lap Tuesday to celebrate Democrats' legislative accomplishments while pledging to find common ground with Republicans in his second, speaking before a divided Congress for the first time since the GOP took control of the House.
Most of the speech was received politely by the assembled lawmakers and guests, but his remarks at times drew heckles from a vocal contingent of House Republicans, including repeated interruptions by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who at one point audibly called him a"liar." "To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can't work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well," he said toward the beginning of the speech, adding that they had"proved the cynics and the naysayers wrong" through 300 pieces of bipartisan legislation he signed in the first two years of his term.
"These projects will put hundreds of thousands of people to work rebuilding our highways, bridges, railroads, tunnels, ports, airports, clean water, high-speed internet across America," he said."Urban. Rural. Tribal. And folks, we're just getting started." As part of his push on infrastructure, Mr. Biden also announced that all construction material used in federal infrastructure projects must be made in the U.S.After saying his economic agenda is about"investing in places and people that have been forgotten," Mr. Biden turned to provisions in the more divisive Inflation Reduction Act, a law that included many of Democrats' top priorities on climate change, health care and taxes and passed Congress without Republican support.
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