President Biden’s emphasis on infrastructure appears to be a bridge too far for his former chief of staff.

Ron Klain has said his old boss is putting too much focus on bridges rather than kitchen table issues that are top of mind for voters, according to leaked audio reported by Politico.

“I think the president is out there too much talking about bridges,” Klain grumbled at a Tuesday event hosted by “Democracy: A Journal of Ideas”. “He does two or three events a week where he’s cutting a ribbon on a bridge.”

Klain, 62, added that making progress on infrastructure is “a positive thing,” but he wanted it to be less of a focus of the president’s re-election campaign.

“I think it’s kind of a fool’s errand. I think that [it] also doesn’t get covered that much because, look, it’s a f—ing bridge,” he went on. “Like, it’s a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It’s a little interesting but it’s not a lot interesting.”

“The president’s most effective economic message is contrast around whose side are you on, and compassion for the [pinch] of family budgets, and his agenda to bring down costs and raise incomes.”

Biden, a famous train buff with a knack for touting infrastructure investments, visited Baltimore, Md. last week to tour the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed March 26 after a container ship lost power and crashed into it.

The bridge spanned the entrance to the Port of Baltimore, which fielded about 1.1 million containers carrying a record 52.3 million tons of foreign cargo last year.

Biden, 81, vowed to marshal federal resources to clean up the damage and rebuild the bridge, which could cost $400 million, according to The Associated Press.

Biden has campaigned in states such as Arizona, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and more to tout progress on issues such as semiconductors, the Affordable Care Act, student loans, and more.

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates countered that Biden and Klain are on the same page about the need to focus on kitchen table issues.

“Like Ron says, President Biden is crisscrossing the country building on his State of the Union message, highlighting that he is fighting to grow the middle class and lower costs like prescription drugs while blocking the trickle-down agenda Republican officials have proposed on behalf of rich special interests, including Medicare cuts and tax giveaways to big corporations,” Bates told Politico.

Klain has previously bemoaned the economic outlook under Biden and contended that there’s much more work to do to lower the cost of living for the working class.

“Although inflation has moderated, prices are still high, the price of gasoline is still high, other prices are still high, and people feel that pinch,” Klain told MSNBC’s “All In” last week.

“I think the president needs to make more progress on that.”

Annual inflation swelled to 3.5% for March, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While White House chief of staff, Klain earned a reputation as a politically scrappy operative who touted the economy under Biden every chance he could.

In December 2021, while still chief of staff, Klain fronted a 60-second White House video breaking down positive stats about the post-COVID economy under Biden.

Shortly after Klain left the administration in February 2023, the White House mounted an aggressive campaign to voters touting “Bidenomics,” which Klain was promoted at the time.

“The economy is getting more productive with Bidenomics!” he posted on X Nov. 2.

He had hailed the president’s message during last month’s State of the Union address as “very strong” and called for it to be his “economic message overall.”

Polls have pegged Biden with a disadvantage against former President Donald Trump on the economy issue ahead of their rematch in November.

Last week, a Wall Street Journal poll showed Biden lagging behind Trump by 20 percentage points on the economy (54% to 34%) among registered voters in seven vital swing states.

Klain’s public grousing comes as Democrats wrestle over how to message Biden’s economic record, with some wanting to aggressively push the message of a robust recovery — while others are wary of coming off as out-of-touch to Americans struggling with high prices for food, energy and other essentials.

The latter view was expressed by Michael LaRosa, a former press secretary to first lady Jill Biden, in an October op-ed published last year by MSNBC.

“Part of the problem with the president boasting of ‘Bidenomics’ is that the economy has not fully recovered and still remains uncertain,” LaRosa wrote, “making the celebration of ‘Bidenomics’ the political equivalent to claiming ‘Mission Accomplished.’”