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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sparred with Fox News' Peter Doocy on how Americans think President Biden's mental sharpness is declining.
"On my watch, instead of Infrastructure Week America's having an Infrastructure Decade," Biden said, touting his own infrastructure investments — but stumbling over the specifics. "Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!"
Biden's description of infrastructure spending figures in a recent speech was called out as a gaffe by some online.
President Biden appeared to invent a vast new number in a bungle that the White House sought to erase in its official transcript.
“Not a joke, folks,” President Joe Biden likes to say to punctuate points in speeches that few would mistake for jokes.