US President Joe Biden speaks through the League of Conservation Voters 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 occasion of his 2024 reelection marketing campaign with a union rally, highlighting boosts for the center class by way of his financial agenda.
Biden introduced an early endorsement from AFL-CIO, a federation of 60 unions worldwide, representing 12.5 million staff. “I am proud to be essentially the most pro-union president in American historical past,” he informed the gang in Philadelphia.
Biden spoke in regards to the laws enacted throughout his first time period, akin to pandemic reduction, final 12 months’s sweeping local weather, well being and tax bundle and the latest 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 begin paying their fair proportion,” Biden stated, however he once more burdened his pledge that nobody making lower than $400,000 pays extra in federal earnings taxes.