President Joe Biden to visit Cleveland, Ohio next week, his first visit to the largely Black major American city since becoming president....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black and alternative digital news leaders
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher
Clevelandurbannews.com and-Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Joe Biden will visit Cleveland on Thursday, May 27 for a speech on the economy, his second trip to Ohio since assuming office as president in January and his first to the largely Black major American city of Cleveland since last year’s first presidential debate.
Cleveland is a Democratic stronghold and so is the county it sits in, Cuyahoga County, a 29 percent Black county, and the second largest of Ohio's 88 counties, behind Franklin County, which includes Columbus, the state capitol and the state's largest city by population.
And all of the 17 members of Cleveland City Council are Democrats as is Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's four-term Black mayor, a relatively popular mayor who has opted not to seek reelection this year to an unprecedented fifth term.
Then the Democratic nominee, Biden visited Cleveland last September for the first presidential debate with then-president Donald Trump, whom he unseated last November during a contentious election.
He visited Ohio State University's Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in March of this year, but as president.
More specifics on the president's visit to Cleveland next week are forthcoming, the Biden campaign said in a press release on Wednesday, a visit that comes as the president and his administrative team are visiting select cities nationwide as part of his “Getting America Back on Track" tour, a duel effort to promote his American Rescue Plan and an infrastructure bill that Congressional Democrats support that is part of an ambitious $7 trillion economic agenda that he wants a divided Congress to approve.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is Biden's $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill, a bill passed by Congress in March in response to the economic, physical and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed the lives of over a half million Americans, and even more worldwide.
First proposed in January of this year, The American Rescue Plan builds upon many of the measures in the CARES Act from March 2020 and in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, from December.
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