President Joe Biden on Friday mocked conservative Republicans who in the past slammed his infrastructure program as “socialist” and voted in opposition to it — however who’ve since requested his management for grants from it.
“I didn’t know there have been that many socialist Republicans,” Biden deadpanned all over a speech at a Volvo automotive plant in Hagerstown, Maryland.
The president, mentioning a CNN file from this week, famous how Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have been amongst a lot of Republicans who had lambasted this system in public however then asked money to fund initiatives of their states.
“Other people, glance, you’ll’t make these items up. You’ve were given to mention, and I’ve were given to mention, I used to be stunned to peer such a lot of socialists within the Republican caucus,” Biden cracked.
He then warned, “If Republicans take keep watch over of the Congress, those historical victories we simply received for the American persons are going to be taken away” — a connection with the passage of each his infrastructure legislation closing yr and the Inflation Relief Act in August.
Republicans have in the past tried to take credit score for different investment they’d voted in opposition to, comparable to Biden’s COVID-19 aid regulation. The president has up to now mocked such heel turns, announcing the ones lawmakers have “no disgrace.”