Joe Biden should take more heat for using tax payer money to ride Amtrak to work. Partial interview from 2017.
CNN: This train is part of your personal story. Do you find yourself reflecting more while you are on here? What does it mean riding out?
Biden: What I used to do, literally, is: you ride along here at night going home. And you look out. You look in the windows and you see the lights on and think about – I always, I mean this sincerely – what is going on at that kitchen table? What are people thinking about? What are their real worries?
I have made over – they actually calculated it, the conductors – 8,200 round trips, over 2 million miles on Amtrak. Two hundred and fifty nine miles round trip a day, not everyday, but on average 217 days a year. This is my family and this is why I wanted to go home, the way I came.