Biden turns to direct attacks on Trump as midterms near

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.

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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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