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Biden tries to walk back comments on infrastructure bill to stem GOP defections
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President Joe Biden on Saturday tried to walk back remarks from earlier this week when he said he wouldn't sign a bipartisan bill on infrastructure unless it came paired with a reconciliation proposal for "human infrastructure," the latest in a series of cleanup efforts from the White House seeking to stem defections from the newly-announced bipartisan agreement.
Biden wrote in the Saturday statement that his comments "created the impression that I was issuing a veto threat on the very plan I had just agreed to, which was certainly not my intent." "The bottom line is this: I gave my word to support the Infrastructure Plan, and that's what I intend to do. I intend to pursue the passage of that plan, which Democrats and Republicans agreed to on Thursday, with vigor."More Related News

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