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President Biden name-checks Pittsburgh in speech to Congress

Patrick Varine
Patrick Varine
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Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stand and applaud as President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress on April 28.
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President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh in March 2021. The president referenced Pittsburgh in his April 28, 2021, speech to a joint session of Congress.

President Joe Biden invoked the Steel City in his speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, asking why wind turbine blades can’t be made in Pittsburgh rather than Beijing, China — essentially challenging U.S. businesses to bring manufacturing jobs back from overseas.

Local reaction came from a wide variety of sources.

From Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald:

From North America’s largest electrical workers’ union:

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accused Biden of taking away American jobs with the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline project:

The Pennsylvania branch of the Republican National Committee also accused Biden of pursuing policies that “destroy American jobs,” including the Keystone cancellation as well as:

• Blocking new oil and gas drilling on federal lands.

• Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement.

• Proposing an infrastructure package which the nonprofit Tax Foundation estimates could eliminate up to 159,000 jobs.

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto weighed in:

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said Biden has squandered his first 100 days in office catering to left-wing “wish lists” and ignoring bipartisanship.

“Tonight’s announcement of a new, dramatic, and costly expansion of the welfare state — paid for by massive tax increases — is yet another example of this hyper-partisan approach that the Biden administration has deployed since January,” Toomey said in a news release.

And journalist Matthew Yglesias took issue with Biden’s sentence structure on Twitter:

Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.

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