Joe Biden will ‘work like hell’ for infrastructure plan ahead of Senate vote

United States President Joe Biden continued to give his infrastructure plan one of the final pushes before it is taken up by the Senate for voting this week. Biden said he will “work like hell” to clear the legislative hurdle.

The legislation has triggered intense debate in both, the Senate and the United States House of Representatives between Republican and Democrat lawmakers.

Biden’s said at his address at a union training center in Michigan, “For a long time, America set the pace across the entire globe…But then something happened. We slowed up, we stopped investing in ourselves”, according to reports from ABC News.

In what looked like a dig at Senate’s Democratic lawmakers Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, Biden said, “We can bring the moderates and progressives together very easy if we had two more votes. Two. Two people”, ABC News reported.

Both Sinema and Manchin previously said that they would not be pitching in support for the package due to its  $3.5 trillion price tag.

In a tweet posted around Biden’s address in Michigan, he wrote, “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and my Build Back Better Agenda are not about moderate versus progressive. These bills are about competitiveness versus complacency. Opportunity versus decay.”

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement, “The President and his team will continue close engagement with Members of both the House and the Senate through the weekend. And he looks forward to not only welcoming members to the White House next week, but also traveling the country to make the case for his bold and ambitious agenda”, according to reports from ABC News.

The president was joined by Slotkin during a visit to a union training center in Howell, Michigan, a reflection of the importance of securing moderates’ votes.

Biden, she said, understands “that if we’re going to make these investments we have to be able to pay for them.”