Whispering Joe repeats debunked claim his spending plan will cost nothing – and tells false Amtrak story for the SIXTH time

President Joe Biden on Monday pushed to get a deal done on his multi-trillion social spending plan before he heads for Europe later this week by repeating his debunked claim it costs nothing and painting the child tax credit as a ‘tax cut’ for the middle class.

‘We need to get this done,’ Biden said in remarks at the NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex in Kearny, New Jersey.

Biden is pushing to get a deal between moderates and liberals on legislation that provides trillion in funding for childcare, education, heathcare and fighting climate change,

The president’s focus on Monday was on the childcare aspect of his legislation and included a stop at a New Jersey elementary school that has a pre-K program for four and five-year olds. Biden’s plan includes two years of free pre-K education.

‘Under my plan, no middle class family will spend more than 7% of their income on childcare,’ he said.

Then Biden did as he always does when he wants to emphasize a point – he leaned forward to whisper into the microphone that the childcare provision, which includes an expansion of the child tax credit, is a ‘tax cut.’

‘I view it as a tax cut for middle class families,’ he whispered. ‘A tax cut.’

Then his voice rose as he argued: ‘This is a tax cut that changes the lives of the American people.’

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