Cherries and infrastructure for Biden in Michigan

President Joe Biden talked up his bipartisan infrastructure package and additional plans for investing in families and education during a visit Saturday to a Michigan cherry farm.

The president also pitched his immigration plans when chatting with two couples from Guatemala who were picking cherries.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined Biden in Traverse City, which is hosting the National Cherry Festival.

The two Guatemalan couples have been working on the farm for 35 years.

Biden told them he is proposing a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers.

He then picked a cherry from one of their baskets and ate it.

While shopping for items in the King Orchard farms store, Biden was asked about a ransomware attack that has paralyzed businesses around the world, a situation complicated in the U.S. by offices lightly staffed at the start of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Biden said he had just been briefed and was not sure if the Russians were responsible. He said he expected to know more by Sunday.

Biden also responded to questions about American champion Sha'Carri Richardson who cannot run in the Olympic 100-meter race after testing positive for a chemical found in marijuana.

"The rules are the rules, and everybody knows that the rules were going in," he said, "whether they should remain that that should remain the rule is a different issue."

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