President Biden seemed a little confused Monday when discussing the Inflation Reduction Act, saying it funds healthcare “and God knows what else.”
While touring flood damage in Lost Creek, Kentucky, Biden misstated the size of last year’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“We’ve never done this before, but because of a number of things we got done on a bipartisan basis — like a billion, 200 million-dollar infrastructure project — like what we’re doing today, we passed yesterday, helping take care of everything from health care to God knows what else,” he said.
Speaking off script, Biden continued to say “What we’re going to do is — we’re going to see, for example, they got to put a new water line in in the community.”
“There’s no reason why they can’t at the same time be digging a line that puts in a whole new modern line for Internet connections. Why? Why can’t we do that? So it’s going to be different. We’re going to come back better than before,” the president added.
During his four-minute speech, Biden even suggested that it may become possible to control the weather, before joking it was time to “run laps.”
“We’re all Americans. Everybody has an obligation to help. We have the capacity to do this. It’s not like it’s beyond our control. The weather may be out beyond our control for now. But it’s not beyond our control,” he said.
Biden’s comments did not go unnoticed, as social media users criticized his addressing of inflation and noted his alleged cognitive decline.
“‘God knows what else’ means whatever the far left wanted in the Bill and all the extra pork [Democratic Sens. Joe] Manchin [of West Virginia] and [Kyrsten] Sinema [of Arizona] needed to get to Yes,” said NY Rep. Claudia Tenney.
The Inflation Reduction Act passed through the Senate on Sunday and is expected to pass the House of Representatives as early as Friday.