Biden, at an event in Cleveland, slammed Trump repeatedly during his remarks unveiling new regulations governing assistance intended to bolster multi-employer pension plans. He said the former president kept Republican lawmakers from voting for the legislation that funded the program.
Trump, Biden told assembled union workers, “didn’t have a commitment to you.”
The president has largely avoided addressing his predecessor by name, and in previous speeches had obliquely attacked Republican congressional candidates as “ultra MAGA” — a reference to Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan — without mentioning him directly.
But on Wednesday, Biden repeatedly called Trump out by name, even joking as a mobile phone rang that the former president was calling to complain. The president also criticized Republican senators, saying South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham had a plan to cut Social Security, while Florida’s Rick Scott had proposed a “shameful” plan that would require Congress to reauthorize programs like Medicare and Social Security every five years.
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