'It's infrastructure week again?': Trump mocked for trying to re-pass Biden bills
Donald Trump's new White House said he'll have a major announcement on infrastructure Tuesday afternoon. Throughout his first presidency, Trump was ridiculed for frequently claiming to be having an "Infrastructure Week" while failing to pass any legislation or funding for new infrastructure products.
After Trump's first term ended, former President Joe Biden sign a bill passed in November 2021 that allocated $1 trillion in funding for projects across the country. These included updating water and sewer lines, connecting high-speed internet to rural areas, modernizing rail travel, and repairing roads and bridges.
Trevor Higgins, senior vice president for energy and environment at the Center for American Progress, explained on Blue Sky that upon coming into office on Monday, Trump "ordered a halt all investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. That caught me by surprise. There are still 15 R Senators and 6 R Representatives who voted for those programs – more than the Republican margins of control in either chamber."
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Grassroots political organization Really American questioned on X if the White House announcement was "gaslighting propaganda" by "trying to pretend President Biden didn't sign the largest infrastructure bill in history among dozens of other consequential bills."
According to Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt, "We have truth on our side..."
Decoding Fox News founder Juliet Jeske posted, "I guess that bipartisan Infrastructure bill that Biden signed was just a dream."
ActBlue communications strategist Carter Christensen shared the video of Leavitt with a photo of the North Korean state media host. Others used a "Groundhog Day" meme.
Democratic consultant Tim Hogan said, "We are stuck in the worst possible time loop."
"Trump is expected to make an announcement this morning on infrastructure, despite being the punchline to his own joke," cracked writer and legal analyst Amee Vanderpool on Blue Sky.
Engineer Charlie Gerten, who specializes in transmission power systems, remarked on Blue Sky that Trump appears to be trying to take credit for the Biden bill.