Biden Touts $8 Billion in Rail Investments, Including New High-Speed Route, While Critics Seize on Apparent Verbal Stumble
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Biden gave a speech in Las Vegas touting over $8 billion in railroad investments, including a $3 billion high-speed rail project.
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Biden appeared to flub some spending figures from his 2021 infrastructure bill, initially saying "Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars."
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Critics characterized Biden's remarks as a gaffe and accused the White House of smoothing out the language in the official transcript.
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The infrastructure bill's actual total spending figure is typically stated as $1.2 trillion or rounded down to $1 trillion.
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Biden emphasized union jobs that would be created by the rail investments, citing figures like 35,000 construction jobs and 1,000 new rail worker jobs.