Biden told lawmakers ‘declining superpower’ US needs ‘massive’ infrastructure spending

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President Joe Biden told a bipartisan group of lawmakers Monday the United States must pass a massive infrastructure bill to revive its declining rank in the world hierarchy.

“He thinks, and he says that we’re a declining superpower, the United States is no longer No. 1,” Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, said after the meeting with Biden.

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