President Biden was in Maine on Friday to sign an Executive Order to prioritize America’s policy of “invent it here, make it here,” which is intended to benefit American workers and boost global supply chain resilience.
During his speech, the President joked that Republicans would have to find something else to criticize him for now that inflation is coming down, “Maybe they’ll decide to impeach me because it’s coming down.”
“We’re growing faster. We’re economically more advanced than every other major country in the world. It’s down from 9% to 3%, and it’s going to continue to go down. While there’s more work ahead, earlier this week the Washington Post suggested, Republicans may have to find something else to criticize me for now that inflation is coming down. Maybe they’ll decide to impeach me because it’s coming down. I don’t know. I’d love that one. Well anyway.”
Biden got big applause when he said, “Made in America. Made in America!”
The President touted his executive order to “invent it here and make it here” and new procurement rules to buy American-made products, which a fact sheet from the White House pointed out is meant to counter the fact that “many innovative technologies have ended up being manufactured elsewhere, even when the research behind those inventions has been funded with taxpayer dollars and can be manufactured domestically.”
“Instead of exporting American jobs, we’re creating American jobs, and we’re exporting American products,” the President said.
“You see they don’t think we have an environmental crisis,” Biden said, of Republicans. “Like I said in my State of the Union, I’ve seen them at the groundbreakings,” Biden said of Republicans who voted against the IRA, but have touted its projects in their areas, noting “the senator from Alabama.”
Biden Jokes: Maybe Republicans Will Impeach Me Because Inflation Is Coming Down (politicususa.com)