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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan called retired President Joe Biden connected Thursday night, astir an hr earlier the president is acceptable to instrumentality the signifier successful Baltimore for a CNN municipality hall, saying helium “abandoned” a bipartisan infrastructure package.
“While helium is present discussing his legislative agenda, I anticipation the president volition code wherefore helium has abandoned the bipartisan infrastructure woody which we spent months crafting,” Hogan said successful a connection released Thursday evening.
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He besides said helium hopes Biden hears “that the radical of Maryland and the federation are wholly fed up with the divisiveness and dysfunction successful Washington.”
In 2019, Hogan launched An America United, a nationalist radical advocating for an extremity to partisan gridlock. The announcement came arsenic Hogan, a Republican, was said to beryllium considering a tally against erstwhile President Donald Trump but yet decided against it.
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“America’s biggest problems cannot beryllium fixed by 1 enactment alone,” Hogan said. “The president was close erstwhile helium said successful his inaugural code that securing the aboriginal of America requires unity. If the president genuinely seeks to bring america together, past I impulse him to usage this municipality hallway to absorption connected bipartisan, communal consciousness solutions to the superior problems that look us.”
The Senate approved the $1 trillion infrastructure woody successful August, but it is presently stuck successful the House.
In an Oct. 2 letter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acceptable a deadline astatine the extremity of the period for a ballot connected the bill.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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