Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Virginia Democrat blasts Trump's 'appalling' remark about COVID-19 deaths in 'blue states' The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE seemed to knock President Trump's call for a border wall during a ceremonial bill signing Wednesday for New York state's tuition-free college program.

“We don’t need to be building walls, we need to be building bridges," Clinton said to applause, seemingly referring to the president’s proposed plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

“And the best bridge to the future is a good education, my friends," she added during her appearance at LaGuardia Community College.

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Clinton joined New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to tout legislation passed in New York over the weekend to let residents in low-income families attend four-year public colleges and universities tuition-free.

New York's program echoes a plan that Clinton proposed during her presidential bid last year to eliminate college tuition for most families.

The state program provides free tuition for the State University of New York system for families earning less than $100,000 a year in 2017, increasing it to $110,000 in 2018 and $125,000 in 2019.

It will require the students who receive the scholarship to stay and work in New York after graduation for the same number of years that they received the scholarship.

She called the plan "an idea whose time has come," according to reports, and called for other states to follow New York's lead.

“I am so proud that [Cuomo] has produced this and look, I hope it’s the first of many states,” Clinton said. “I think Andrew and I would be delighted if other states say ‘Well we don’t want New York to be the only state providing tuition-free college for the middle class. We're going to do it.'

"But until they do, I want every young person to America to understand: You move to New York, you make your commitment in New York, you can get an affordable college education."