SCRANTON — President Biden’s schedulers did not publicly announce his second stop Tuesday during his visit to his hometown, but it came as little surprise that he’d end up at the gray house with black shutters where he spent the earliest years of his life. He even nodded to the visit in a speech that mixed his biography with his thoughts on tax policy.
Biden will further stress that contrast Wednesday when he travels to Pittsburgh to address the United Steelworkers and unveil a raft of new trade protections for the steel industry. The president will call for a, as well as increased pressure to prevent China from shipping steel to America through Mexican ports.
“No billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher,” he said, citing Trump as part of the problem.Biden in recent months has struck a populist tone in other ways. He has criticized big corporations for raising prices and imposing— hidden costs that companies like banks and airlines tuck into their consumer prices.