Biden hails clean energy investments, swipes at ‘MAGA’ Republicans in Minnesota
Christian Datoc
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President Joe Biden traveled to the Cummins alternative power manufacturing center in Fridley, Minnesota, on Monday, the latest stop on the soft rollout of the president’s 2024 reelection campaign.
In particular, Biden took credit for investing in new, clean energy projects and “bringing the supply chain back to America” through the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act, and his remarks closely resembled speeches the president has recently delivered in Maryland, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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“When the United States government makes considerable resources available for new industries, what does that do to businesses?” Biden asked Monday. “The answer every single time is that encouraging them to get in the business encourages investment. Federal investment attracts private investment. It creates jobs and industries, and it demonstrates we’re all in this together.”
“I’m here to talk about what we’re doing to invest in America, invest in Minnesota, and the progress we’ve made in building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up,” he said. “When it comes to the top down and my dad’s kitchen table, not much dropped on that kitchen table from the top down. When you build it the other way, everyone does well, and the wealthy do very well as well.”
The president, as he has on recent trips, also took swipes at “MAGA” Republicans for “refusing to pay America’s bills.”
“They said they’re not going to pay the bill which would, for the first time, America would default on its debt, which would throw us not only in recession, but would be a disaster for the economy,” he said. “Basically, what we know so far is their plans would explode the deficit.”
Biden has significantly ramped up his national travel in recent weeks, and White House officials say that Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her husband Doug Emhoff will travel to 20 states to “show how the President’s Investing in America agenda is impacting communities across the country.”
The president’s visit coincided with an announcement that Cummins is allocating $1 billion in new investments for its manufacturing facilities in Indiana, North Carolina, and New York “to upgrade those facilities so they can manufacture low- to zero-carbon engines, helping decarbonize the nation’s truck fleets,” the White House said.
White House officials estimate that incentives included in Biden’s economic packages have led to $2 billion in investments in Minnesota businesses, “unleashing a manufacturing and innovation boom, building a clean energy economy, and creating good-paying jobs in communities like Fridley and across the country.”
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Cummins previously announced in October 2022, just two months after Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, that it would begin manufacturing electrolyzers in the U.S. for the first time at the Fridley facility.
You can watch Biden’s remarks in full below.
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