U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility in La Crosse (Wisconsin), U.S.A, June 29, 2021.On Tuesday, President Joe Biden visited La Crosse in Wisconsin to promote his bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure framework.Biden visited the Municipal Transit Utility of the city and gave remarks about how the huge infrastructure package would benefit Wisconsin residents.Biden stated, "It's going make the world a better place for families here in Wisconsin."He stated that engineers have rated more than 1,000 Wisconsin bridges as structurally defective. "A thousand, just here in Wisconsin."This framework provides $579 billion for new road, bridge, rail, and railway spending, as well as public transit, electric vehicle systems, power, bandwidth, and water funding.Biden also spoke out in favor of rural broadband expansion, which the deal would finance if Congress approves it.Biden stated that the deal will ensure "high speed broadband" is available in all American homes, even for 35% of rural families. He noted that 82,000 Wisconsin children do not have reliable internet access.Biden also spoke in familiar terms about how the deal would help the United States win with China the technology and innovation race, and show that democracy can deliver better for people than autocratic government systems.Biden's comments in Wisconsin give a glimpse of his plans for selling the infrastructure deal across the nation in the coming weeks. He emphasizes how each state benefits from the deal and gives a preview of what he will do in the next week.Biden's next stop will be Michigan this weekend, where he will appear alongside Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan.However, Biden's optimistic speech in La Crosse was a deception. The bipartisan agreement in Congress is still a framework on paper. It has not yet been written into legislation.A group of 10 senators, five Republicans, and five Democrats worked out the deal over the last month. It was announced last week.Biden's announcement during that announcement that he could veto the framework if lawmakers don't also pass other Democratic priorities briefly threatened to endanger the deal.The president reassured some Republicans over the weekend by clarifying that he would be signing the bill if it was passed without his approval."It was very refreshing to see the president clarify his remarks, as it was inconsistent with all that we had been taught throughout the process," Sen. Rob Portman (Republican from Ohio), was an architect of this plan and spoke to ABC News on Sunday.
