Ahead of today's procedural vote in the Senate on infrastructure (which is expected to fail as legislation is still being hashed out), Biden will deliver remarks in Ohio @ IBEW/NECA Electrical Training Center. The focus? Union jobs & how his $4T economic plan will buoy workers.
Biden will keep up the stump for his Rescue Plan but will lean hard into infrastructure. OH received a C- on its "Infrastructure Report Card" and that's no small thing when the state's roads and bridges carry the 3rd highest freight volume in the nation.
infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/upl…
So far, under the pandemic relief plan passed this spring, OH has received $5.5B from the feds for state relief and $4.6B for local assistance. Unemployment has dropped as well in the Buckeye state by nearly half since June (WH reports: 10.3% to the current 5.2%)
After his speech at the union training center, Biden heads to a town hall hosted at Mt. St Joseph University in Cincinnati. It will be aired on CNN tonight. You can expect him to offer a status update on the pandemic, the economy, and of course, infrastructure.
Where things go later today in the Senate on infrastructure will likely keep the president's team quite busy editing, revising and reorganizing their bullet points for tonight's town hall.
Today also marks six months since Biden took office, and he's expected to play up the pandemic response under his administration. Though Covid is ticking upward nationally among the unvaccinated, case rates in Ohio, for example, have dropped by 93% since 1/20.

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