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Amtrak Joe: A brief look at President Biden’s long history of supporting America’s railroad

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When President Ronald Reagan in 1981 moved to trim $884 million from a budget used by Amtrak, Senator Joe Biden was the only member of the Senate Budget Committee to vote against Reagan’s plan.

“You can’t come back next year or the next year and change it,” Biden said, according to a report from United Press International. “Those railroads will have gone.” 

Now, four decades later, Biden’s in the seat once held by Reagan. And he’s announced a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, which would include $80 billion for Amtrak. The money would go toward expanding details ⇒

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