Biden laments GOP attacks on infrastructure backers

President Joe Biden lamented the state of politics in America on Tuesday, in remarks to a virtual grassroots event for the Democratic National Committee.

He was commenting on reports of moves to strip Republicans, who voted for his administration's infrastructure bill, of their committee chairmanships in Congress.

"I've never seen it like this before," the president said. "It has got of stop, for the sake of America."

The House of Representatives backed the bipartisan infrastructure package late Friday.

Biden's team is moving straight ahead in promoting the possible benefits from the broader infrastructure package, though they've largely shied away from claiming that Americans could see clear and demonstrable changes to their lives before the 2022 midterm elections. The focus, instead, has been on how the spending on roads, bridges and broadband will help the U.S. economy compete against the rest of the world.

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