President Joe Biden traveled to Wisconsin on Thursday to announce billions in new infrastructure investments, including $1 billion to repair the John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge connecting Wisconsin to Minnesota.

Biden visited the Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, where he sought to sell the virtues of “Bidenomics” in a swing state crucial to his 2024 reelection bid. He touted Thursday’s strong GDP report showing the economy grew 2.5% in 2023, far outpacing projections, and attacked former President Donald Trump, the likely 2024 Republican presidential nominee, for joking about a possible economic crash ahead of the election.

“The economic growth is stronger than we had during the Trump administration. My predecessor recently said he was actually hoping for the economy to crash, his quote, hoping for the economy to crash,” Biden told the crowd. “He hopes it happens soon, while I’m still president. That’s what he’s hoping for. Well, thanks to the American people, America now has the strongest growth, lowest inflation rate of any major economy in the world.”

The new investments, totaling $5 billion allocated across 11 different projects, were appropriated through Biden’s infrastructure law.

To date, the White House has directed more than $400 billion in funding appropriated through Biden’s legislative packages to infrastructure projects across the country, and the president opened his remarks in Wisconsin by claiming the funds will bring “work, opportunity, and hope” to communities across the country.

Biden’s remarks come just one day after securing a coveted endorsement for 2024 from the United Auto Workers, and on Thursday, he claimed that the Blatnik project would bring 10,000 new union jobs to Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Biden’s speech was not interrupted by pro-Gaza activists like his previous two engagements this week. On Wednesday, protesters calling for a ceasefire interrupted Biden’s remarks at the UAW conference in Washington, D.C., just one day after scores of protesters took over his abortion rights rally in Manassas, Virginia.

Still, reporters traveling with the president say that a group of pro-Palestinian protesters were located near the entrance to the brewery prior to Biden’s remarks.

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“When you see the shovels in the ground and cranes in the sky and people hard at work in these projects, I hope you feel a renewed sense of pride,” the president concluded. “I’ve never been more optimistic about the future of this country. Just remember who in God’s name we are. We’re the United States of America, and there’s nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together. Let’s start working together, for God’s sake.”

You can watch Biden’s remarks in full below.