Joe Biden will take a swipe at Wall Street in his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, as he tries to build support among Americans for his multitrillion-dollar economic agenda.
According to excerpts of his remarks released by the White House on Wednesday, Biden will make a strong pitch for his $2.3tn infrastructure spending bill, which he wants to be funded with higher corporate taxes that have elicited a backlash from business.
“The Americans Jobs Plan is a blue-collar blueprint to build America,” Biden will say. “It recognises something I’ve always said: Wall Street didn’t build this country. The middle class built this country. And unions built the middle class.”