Top White House officials are heading back out on the road this month, taking Congress’ August recess to tout President Joe Biden’s agenda in states across the country, according to an administration official. 

The new travel blitz will mark the anniversaries of what the White House sees as some of Biden’s biggest legislative accomplishments. Those include the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS and Science Act and PACT Act, which were all signed into law by Biden in August of last year. 

What You Need To Know

  • Top White House officials are heading back out on the road this month, taking Congress’ August recess to tout President Joe Biden’s agenda in states across the country

  • The new travel blitz will mark the anniversaries of what the White House sees as some of Biden’s biggest legislative accomplishments, including the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS and Science Act and PACT Act 

  • Next week, Biden himself will make stops in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah
  • Vice President Kamala Harris and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will travel to Wisconsin to talk broadband

Next week, Biden himself will make stops in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, where the administration official said he will focus on clean energy and manufacturing. The president last week announced steps to address extreme heat and signed an executive order seeking to boost manufacturing in the U.S. 

The official said Biden will also host a White House event to mark the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on Aug. 16 – the same day the president signed the sweeping climate, health care and tax reform bill into law one year prior. 

Since Biden took office, private companies have announced more than $500 billion in manufacturing and clean energy in the U.S., according to an administration official. 

The fresh messaging endeavor kicks off this week when Vice President Kamala Harris and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will travel to Wisconsin to talk broadband, according to the official. 

In late June, Biden rolled out his administration’s plan to distribute more than $42 billion to deliver broadband across the country, calling high-speed internet an “absolute necessity” and pledging that every household in the U.S. will have access by 2030. That announcement launched its own White House travel spree that coincided with Congress’ 4th of July break. 

According to an administration official, this week will also see the Secretaries of Agriculture, Energy, Transportation, Health and Human Services, Education and more make stops in about 10 different states in total. Those states include: Oregon, Michigan, California, Maine, Texas, Nevada, Illinois, Wisconsin and Maryland. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will also travel to Puerto Rico to talk about energy costs, the administration official said. 

The president’s top officials will look to highlight the economy, including GDP topping estimates in the second quarter, according to the official. The administration has been in a full-out effort to push the president’s economic agenda, embracing the term “Bidenomics.”