President Joe Biden confronted a heckler who interrupted his speech at the D.C. train station and then joked that the man could probably beat him in a fight.
Biden immediately became enraged after touting provisions of his American Rescue Plan that included the “largest investment ever in child care.”
At that point, a man briefly interrupted his comments, linked to “care worker recognition month.”
‘I’ll tell you what: you want to come make a speech or shut up, okay?’ Biden then added, “He looks like he could beat me,” drawing laughter from the crowd of supporters.
He quickly moved on and continued with his comments.
President Joe Biden said it was time to “time out” Republican lawmakers who allowed an expanded child tax credit to expire.
Biden couldn’t help but make comments about the station he used to travel to his Delaware home of 36 years, where he said it was time to “expire” Republicans who allowed an expanded child tax credit to lapse.
Biden held an official event at Union Station, which is down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, where he praised home care workers and criticized Republicans for going after the Affordable Care Act.
Biden couldn’t resist a train during his remarks at the colossal station. “For thirty-six years I traveled from the state of Delaware to here every day,” he said.
“When I was elected I was 26, 29 years old,” Biden, 81, said, telling the tragic story of the deaths of his wife and daughter. “Thank God she had a family and many friends, older relatives like me” who could help take care of her children.
Biden spoke about investments in the ‘care economy’ at Union Station, which he used to commute to his Delaware home for decades.
‘I couldn’t afford to take care of someone. God’s truth,” Biden said. ‘Look, care workers represent the best of who we are in America. We leave no one behind,’ he stated.
Biden criticized congressional Republicans for allowing an expanded child tax credit to expire. He is attributed reduce child poverty.
“Our Republican friends let that expire,” he said. —Well, we have to politically expire a couple of them.
He also criticized them for trying to repeal the ACA.
‘They want to end the Affordable Care Act. Finish it. Guess what? “Killing millions of Americans, accepting health insurance, stripping others of services like home care,” she said. ‘By the way, do you know how many times they have tried to eliminate Obamacare? Forty-nine times. “They can keep trying, but they won’t succeed.”