President Joe Biden is set to stop in Westchester County on Wednesday for a speech about the partisan standoff over the nation’s debt limit and the economic crisis that will occur if it isn’t resolved within weeks.
Biden is expected to speak after 1 p.m. at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, in what will be his fourth trip to New York and third to the Hudson Valley since October. He plans to attend campaign fundraisers in New York City afterward.
The speech comes with a looming deadline of around June 1 for Congress to raise the debt limit and avert a catastrophic default on past borrowing. Republicans who took control of the House in January after winning a narrow majority have demanded domestic spending cuts and GOP policy concessions in return for lifting the debt ceiling.
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Biden has thus far insisted Congress raise the $31 trillion limit without conditions. He was set to meet Tuesday with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the other congressional leaders from both parties, though no resolution or even progress was expected.
Biden was last in the Hudson Valley in November. He came then to the campus of Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers to speak at a final campaign rally for Gov. Kathy Hochul and other New York Democrats, a get-out-the-vote push two days before the mid-term elections.
One month earlier, the president had stopped at an IBM manufacturing site in Poughkeepsie to cheer the company’s $20 billion expansion plans for its Hudson Valley operations. The IBM project was enabled by a federal law Biden had recently signed to spur microchip manufacturing in the U.S.
Biden’s Westchester visit on Wednesday falls on the edge of the congressional district of Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican freshman from Rockland County who unseated five-term Democratic Rep. Sean…
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