U.S. President Joe Biden warned union staff Wednesday concerning the state of the economy and the threats that House Republicans and their policies pose to rank-and-file members.
Wednesday’s speech to the the International Brotherhood of Electrical Employees Local Union 26 in Maryland is the most recent in a string of public addresses he’s given on his plan to, in his words, “construct an economy from the underside up and the center out.”
Biden has made some extent of chatting with union staff and highlighting jobs being created by his policies, just like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, that do not require four-year college degrees. The president visited a LIUNA Laborers’ Apprenticeship and Training Center in Wisconsin last week and a steamfitters hall in Virginia in late January.
The president bashed Republican policies in Wednesday’s speech, arguing the rival GOP plan would increase the debt by greater than $3 trillion over the following decade, specifically benefiting the richest Americans, corporations and pharmaceutical firms.
Biden argued that his budget won’t increase taxes on Americans making lower than $400,000 a 12 months and can ultimately cut the deficit by $2 trillion over the following decade. The president has yet to release his budget plan but has promised to accomplish that by March 9.