President Biden taunted Senate Minority Leader McConnell for acknowledging Kentucky will receive money from the American Rescue Plan, despite not having voted for it.
"So you're gonna get a lot more money. I didn't vote for it. But you're gonna get a lot more money," he said." My advice to members of the legislatures and other public officials is spend it wisely, because hopefully this windfall doesn't come around again."
"This is not going to be done on a bipartisan basis. This is going to be a hell of a fight over what this country ought to look like in the future and it's going to unfold here in the next few weeks. I don't think we've had a bigger difference of opinion between the two parties," McConnell said.Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell listens during a news briefing after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol June 22, 2021 in Washington, DC.
In remarks following a tour of McHenry County College, Biden expressed hope that the nation addressing infrastructure will not just drag on and become a running joke as it has been in the past."God willing, we're not gonna have 40 -- 40 weeks of, 'this is infrastructure week.' Do you remember those?" he said, referring to events during the Trump administration.