Joe Biden rallies with union workers in Philadelphia: ‘You built America’

President enlists support of union members against GOP tax cuts for the wealthy at first political rally of 2024 re-election campaign

At his first political rally since announcing his re-election campaign for president in April, Joe Biden told a crowd of labor union supporters: Wall Street didn't build America - you did."

If the investment bankers of this country went on strike tomorrow, no one would notice," Biden said on Saturday during a speech which alluded to his blue-collar childhood roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Renewing his longstanding vocal support for labor unions, he continued: If this room didn't show up to work tomorrow, the whole country would come to a grinding halt, so tell me - who matters more in America?"