While the American presidential election will not take place until November 5, 2024, in just under 17 months, the campaign is well underway. And on Saturday, the current tenant of the White House chose to place the helm on the left. “It’s high time the very rich started paying their fair share,” Joe Biden said during a speech in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
In the Philadelphia conference center, in front of an audience made up of trade unionists, the American president launched to cheers that he was convinced that “this country is about to take off”. He has thus praised his economic choices since taking his place in the Oval Office.
Biden proud of ‘CHIPS’ and ‘Inflation Reduction Act’
“The investments we have made over the past three years have the power to transform this country in the next five decades,” he said, referring to the “CHIPS and Science Act”, a law that provides nearly 53 billion dollars for production and research in the electronic chip sector, and the “Inflation Reduction Act”, a pharaonic plan for investment in green energy. If the Republicans win in 2024, they “will go after your jobs” by reversing his reforms, he argued.
Courting the vote of the working classes, Joe Biden also attacked the richest. “I don’t mind that they are billionaires. They just have to pay their fair share! he exclaimed. “Simply put: it’s time for big business and the very wealthy to start paying their fair share.”
The AFL-CIO trade union confederation, which sponsored this meeting, officially gave him its support for 2024 on Friday. his rival Donald Trump was partly able to seduce.