US President Joe Biden speaks throughout the League of Conservation Citizens Annual Capital Dinner, at The Anthem in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2023.
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President Joe Biden on Saturday marked the primary main tournament of his 2024 reelection marketing campaign with a union rally, highlighting boosts for the center magnificence thru his financial time table.
Biden introduced an early endorsement from AFL-CIO, a federation of 60 unions international, representing 12.5 million staff. “I am proud to be probably the most pro-union president in American historical past,” he advised the gang in Philadelphia.
Biden spoke in regards to the law enacted throughout his first time period, similar to pandemic aid, ultimate 12 months’s sweeping local weather, well being and tax package deal and the new bipartisan debt ceiling deal.
He additionally renewed his name for tax reform, which has been a problem throughout his first time period, even amongst some Democrats. He additionally as soon as once more referred to as for a minimal tax on billionaires.
“It is about time the tremendous rich get started paying their fair proportion,” Biden stated, however he once more stressed out his pledge that no person making lower than $400,000 pays extra in federal source of revenue taxes.
