A freshman Democratic representative from Illinois, the first Latina to represent the state in Congress, called on Joe Biden to remember what he ran on during her response to the State of the Union address for the progressive Working Families Party on Tuesday.
Rep Delia Ramirez spoke in a 20-minute virtual address that touched on issues that many Democrats likely consider out of reach now, including aspects of the president’s signature Build Back Better plan that did not make it into law when that bill died in the Senate in 2021.
