Biden plugs pro-union record, economic agenda at his first major 2024 campaign rally

President Joe Biden connected Saturday marked the archetypal large lawsuit of his 2024 reelection campaign with a national rally, highlighting boosts for the mediate people done his economical agenda.

Biden announced an aboriginal endorsement from AFL-CIO, a federation of 60 unions worldwide, representing 12.5 cardinal workers. "I'm arrogant to beryllium the astir pro-union president successful American history," helium told the assemblage successful Philadelphia.

Biden spoke astir the authorities enacted during his archetypal term, specified arsenic pandemic relief, past year's sweeping climate, wellness and taxation package and the caller bipartisan indebtedness ceiling deal.

He besides renewed his telephone for taxation reform, which has been a situation during his archetypal term, adjacent among immoderate Democrats. He besides erstwhile again called for a minimum taxation connected billionaires.

"It's astir clip the ace affluent commencement paying their just share," Biden said, but helium again stressed his pledge that nary 1 making little than $400,000 volition wage much successful national income taxes.