Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterPresident Joe Biden urged Congress on Wednesday to pass trillions in spending on infrastructure and social services, saying that the country faces an urgent test for democracy.Biden invoked the insurrection that shook the Capitol on Jan.
6 at the outset of his speech, calling it “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” He also said that assault posed an “existential crisis — a test of whether our democracy could survive.”He said the country passed that test, but that Congress now needs to show that the government can take action.“We have to prove democracy still works,” Biden said.
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