{"id":1031098,"date":"2024-05-02T15:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1031098"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:56:01","slug":"reminder-nc-maga-republicans-voted-against-president-bidens-historic-infrastructure-investments-for-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-nc-maga-republicans-voted-against-president-bidens-historic-infrastructure-investments-for-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: NC MAGA Republicans Voted Against President Biden\u2019s Historic Infrastructure Investments for North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As President Biden visits North Carolina to highlight funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, <\/em>DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump didn\u2019t get the chance to lie about his embarrassing infrastructure record in North Carolina at his canceled rally last month, but President Biden is visiting the state to tell the facts: President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law during his first year in office \u2013 investing more than $9 billion to modernize North Carolina\u2019s infrastructure. Meanwhile, Donald Trump promised for years to secure an infrastructure deal, and instead only managed to succeed in turning \u2018infrastructure week\u2019 into a joke. North Carolinians will head to the polls in November knowing President Biden is the clear choice in this election when it comes to fighting for hardworking American families.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to President Biden, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law continues to deliver historic infrastructure investments that are helping to rebuild North Carolina\u2019s roads and bridges, provide access to clean drinking water, modernize transportation systems, and improve access to affordable high-speed internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cPresident Joe Biden signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law Monday before a bipartisan, celebratory crowd on the White House lawn, declaring that the new infusion of cash for roads, bridges, ports and more is going to make life \u2018change for the better\u2019 for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Finally, infrastructure week!\u2019 Biden says, cheering $1 trillion bill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC11<\/a>: \u201cBiden announces $3B investment in high speed internet for rural communities during NC visit\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBiden revealed his administration would invest $3 billion to build and fund internet connections in North Carolina. The administration estimates that an additional 300,000 state residents will be able to access the internet by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a more immediate push, Biden said his administration would spend $82 million in North Carolina to help connect 16,000 new households and businesses to high-speed internet, delivering an election-year pitch about policies he says are \u2019just getting started\u2019 at improving the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPart of the $3 billion investment will go to expanding the fiber optic networks expected to power the internet for the next generation. Biden said he also plans to create subsidies for low-income residents to help them gain access to this resource.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winston-Salem Journal<\/a>: \u201cBiden allocates $361M for NC’s essential water infrastructure\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS17<\/a>: \u201cNC set to receive billions for roads, bridges, high-speed internet access as part of Biden\u2019s infrastructure bill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, MAGA Republicans in North Carolina gave weak excuses for why they voted against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is delivering for their constituents. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raleigh News & Observer<\/a>: \u201cThe lame excuses NC Republicans had for opposing the infrastructure bill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEight House GOP counterparts said a collective \u2018no\u2019 in the late Friday vote that sent the bill to President Biden. They opposed an infrastructure package that will bring nearly $9 billion to North Carolina over the next five years. North Carolina\u2019s five House Democrats voted in favor of the bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis familiar partisan split in the state\u2019s U.S. House delegation should remind North Carolina voters what is at stake as Republican state lawmakers have passed new congressional redistricting maps that could give Republicans an 11-3 advantage. Gerrymandering has given ideologues and blind followers of former President Trump a lopsided advantage in the state\u2019s U.S. House delegation to the disadvantage of North Carolina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReps. Ted Bud, Dan Bishop, Virginia Foxx, David Rouzer, Patrick McHenry, Madison Cawthorn, Greg Murphy and Richard Hudson opposed spending that will repair the state\u2019s roads and bridges, expand broadband, improve mass transit, take lead out of drinking water and make the state more resilient to flooding related to climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd why did these N.C. honorables object? Well, we know why \u2013 the spending will boost the agenda of a Democratic president. But pure partisanship can\u2019t be an official explanation, so they once more raised flimsy or false objections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThey opposed the infrastructure law. Now, some in the GOP court its cash.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNearly two years after Congress finalized the first in a series of measures to improve the nation\u2019s aging infrastructure and combat climate change, some of the GOP lawmakers who originally tried to scuttle the spending are now welcoming it. They have privately courted newly available federal money to improve their local roads, bridges, pipes, ports and internet connections, and publicly celebrated when their cities and states have secured a portion of the aid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Donald Trump\u2019s presidency he failed to deliver after promising to get an infrastructure deal done, and in the process managed to turn \u201cinfrastructure week\u201d  into a joke. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a>: \u201cAdministration officials claim that [Trump\u2019s] new infrastructure plan will support $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment, but his 2019 budget reveals that that number\u2019s a mirage: the President would cut annual federal support for infrastructure in the long run and shift costs to states, cities, and private individuals. As we previewed here, it likely would mean cuts to some of the areas in which new infrastructure investment is needed most \u2014 while providing a potential windfall for private investors.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s 2016 campaign pledges on infrastructure have fallen short, creating opening for Biden\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cHow \u2018Infrastructure Week\u2019 Became a Long-Running Joke\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt this point in the Trump presidency, \u2018Infrastructure Week\u2019 is less a date on the calendar than it is a \u2018Groundhog Day\u2019-style fever dream doomed to be repeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRoughly two years after the White House first came up with the idea of discussing, for all of seven days, the pursuit of a bipartisan agreement to rebuild the nation\u2019s roads, bridges and broadband networks, President Trump more or less torpedoed those plans on Wednesday in a Rose Garden speech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cLike the Bermuda Triangle or Spinal Tap\u2019s new drummer, the words \u2018Infrastructure Week\u2019 seem to be cursed. No fewer than seven times \u2013 including this very week \u2013 has Trump\u2019s White House declared that its chosen theme of a week would be infrastructure \u2013 only to see those plans thwarted, often by the President himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump was humiliated by his inability to deliver any infrastructure deal for the American people, so after he lost his reelection bid, he pathetically tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to tank President Biden\u2019s historic infrastructure bill that has since delivered billions to improve North Carolina.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump tried and failed to pass an infrastructure bill so many times over the course of his presidency that his attempts were reduced to a punchline. Now out of office, Trump is trying to ensure that his successor, Joe Biden, suffers the indignity of the \u2018infrastructure week\u2019 jokes as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe former president has sounded off repeatedly in the past week about the negotiations taking place between Senate Republicans and Democrats on the Hill and in the White House. He\u2019s encouraged GOP lawmakers to abandon the talks and criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for even entertaining them. Senate Republicans have said, in interviews, that they have directly asked the former president not just to tone down his criticism but to actually support the infrastructure deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As President Biden visits North Carolina to highlight funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush released the following statement:  \u201cDonald Trump didn\u2019t get the chance to lie about his embarrassing infrastructure record in North Carolina at his canceled rally last month, but President Biden is visiting the state to tell the facts: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nREMINDER: NC MAGA Republicans Voted Against President Biden\u2019s Historic Infrastructure Investments for North Carolina - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-nc-maga-republicans-voted-against-president-bidens-historic-infrastructure-investments-for-north-carolina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-02T15:18:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T19:56:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-nc-maga-republicans-voted-against-president-bidens-historic-infrastructure-investments-for-north-carolina\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-nc-maga-republicans-voted-against-president-bidens-historic-infrastructure-investments-for-north-carolina\/\",\"name\":\"REMINDER: NC MAGA Republicans Voted Against President Biden\u2019s Historic Infrastructure Investments for North Carolina - 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