Posted on 12/09/2023 1:45:26 AM PST by Libloather
Joe Biden botched his big announcement about rail investment on Friday, declaring that the federal government would spend 'over a billion, three hundred million, trillion, three hundred million dollars'.
The president was in Las Vegas, unveiling $8.2 billion in new federal funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country. Among them is a new line from the Nevada city to Los Angeles, which when completed - potentially as soon as 2028 - can carry over 11 million passengers a year, powered entirely by renewable energy.
Biden mocked his predecessor for repeatedly promising Infrastructure Week, but failing to deliver.
'Trump just talks the talk. We walk the walk,' said Biden, speaking at a hall for unionized carpenters.
'He likes to say America is a failing nation. Frankly, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. I see shovels in the ground, cranes in the sky. People hard at work rebuilding America together.'
But he stumbled over the cost of the project, tripping over the millions and billions in his speech.
He also repeated his oft-told story about how frequently he traveled on Amtrak.
Biden spent years commuting between his Delaware home and Washington DC, and told how a member of the train crew told him he had read that Biden reached the million-mile mark on Air Force Two.
But, the employee, Angelo Negri, said, they knew he had actually traveled further on Amtrak.
Biden told the crowd: 'He said, 'Big deal, Joey.' He said, 'We just had a retirement dinner in Newark, New Jersey… You know how many miles you've ridden?'
'I said, 'No, Ang.'
'And he said, '1,000,327 miles. I don't hear any more about the Air Force.'
'Well, guys, I — I'm a rail guy, not a joke.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
no no no, it was a $BAZILLION...
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