PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris aim to move Democrats forward on a visit Friday to Philadelphia. Getting there may require a walk back down memory lane.
They’ll arrive just days ahead of the State of the Union address, when presidents usually lay out their grandest dreams for the coming year. But given the newly divided powers on Capitol Hill, Democrats acknowledge they probably won’t be able to deliver many (if any) big new policy victories.
Instead, Biden and fellow Democrats have signaled that, as the 2024 presidential election approaches, they’ll be talking increasingly about what they’ve already done. They plan to highlight the bills they passed in his first two years in office, aiming to hammer home tangible and visible results as the spending they approved rolls out to build bridges, repair roads, and cut insulin prices for people on Medicare.
