SCRANTON, Pa. — The White House reports that President Biden will make several stops in Pennsylvania next week.
According to his campaign office, Biden will be in Scranton on Tuesday, April 16, the day after tax day, to deliver “a major address” on the nation’s tax code.
The president will then travel to Pittsburgh on Wednesday and Philadelphia on Thursday.
Biden's campaign said in an announcement on Friday the upcoming speech on the day after Tax Day in the U.S. would “drive home a simple question: ‘Do you think the tax code should work for rich people or for the middle class?’ The President has made it clear what he thinks the answer is, and so has Donald Trump."
Biden, who talks a lot about his middle-class upbringing and the kitchen table concerns of Americans, has proposed a minimum tax for billionaires of 25%. He has said over 10 years it would raise $500 billion.
The president, a Scranton native, returns to the area frequently and often refers to his childhood in the Electric City during remarks and speeches.
"Everything my sister Valerie and I learned came from Scranton. Scranton sort of creeps into your heart and never leaves you," Biden said during a campaign visit in 2019.
The president's last visit to our area was in August of 2023 for the funeral of Ellen Casey, the former first lady of Pennsylvania.
In 2022, President Biden held a town hall meeting at Wilkes University on the problems of violence and crime in our cities.