• 6 months ago
President Biden delivered remarks at a union event on Wednesday where he spoke about

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00:00 (applause)
00:02 So it's either Scranton values or Mar-a-Lago values.
00:05 These are competing visions of the economy
00:08 at the heart of this election --
00:11 competing visions of what we look at and see as America.
00:13 Folks, one of the reasons I ran for president
00:16 was to rebuild the backbone of the middle class.
00:19 And we have.
00:21 We're following my blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America.
00:24 And guess what? It's working. You're building that America.
00:27 You're in this room. We're building that America.
00:30 For example, thanks to my bipartisan infrastructure law,
00:33 more than 51,000 new manufacturing projects
00:36 have been announced so far, and we're just beginning.
00:39 It's just beginning. We're just starting.
00:42 (applause)
00:47 Roads, bridges, ports, airports, clean water systems,
00:51 available high-speed Internet all across America
00:53 and built by the building trades.
00:56 (applause)
01:05 Remember when President Trump promised us --
01:07 I got to be careful.
01:11 He promised us infrastructure week.
01:15 Well, I tell you what, it took four years.
01:18 He never built a damn thing. Nothing.
01:21 I'm serious. Are you surprised?
01:26 (applause)
01:29 I'm sure -- I'm making sure --
01:32 the projects like project labor agreements
01:34 so highly skilled workers have a voice on the job.
01:36 But even before Trump was President,
01:39 Trump preferred nonunion workers than his real estate projects.
01:43 And I don't want to get into the stories, but anyway.
01:46 Even he -- even that, he didn't keep his word.
01:49 He just asked contractors, vendors, and small businesses.
01:52 And if you're reading the press, if any of it's true,
01:55 he never paid them -- a whole hell of a lot of them.
01:58 The guy has never worked a day in a working man's boots.
02:02 By the way, he gave me a pair of boots as a gift, by the way.
02:05 (laughter)
02:06 I know how to put them on. I still sometimes cut the yard.
02:10 But they don't -- the Secret Service
02:13 doesn't let me do it anymore.
02:14 (audience laughing)

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