President Joe Biden To Visit Atlanta Next Week On 100th Day

ATLANTA — President Joe Biden will mark his first 100 days in office with a visit to Atlanta to promote his infrastructure and jobs plan with a drive-in rally.

“On Thursday, April 29, the President and the First Lady will travel to Atlanta,” a statement from the White House said. The trip comes a day after Biden’s first address to the joint houses of Congress in The U.S. Capitol.

The White House also announced that Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Baltimore on that day celebrating the administration’s landmark.

In Georgia, 11 Alive news reports that Biden will attend a car rally next week to celebrate his administration’s accomplishments, which include the passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue that distributed $1,400 payments to middle-class and low-earning citizens.

His first visit to Atlanta in March was intended to be a victory lap to celebrate that first milestone, but a deadly mass shooting that targeted three massage parlors in the Metro area changed the trip into a mission to console the nation’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community -- six of the eight people killed were Asian American women -- and to decry a growing spate of hate crimes against people of Asian descent too often scapegoated for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

While in Atlanta, he also spent time with community leaders and lawmakers from the Asian American and Pacific Island community.

One of Biden’s next top priorities is a massive $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, which provides funds to update the nation’s infrastructure, shift to green energy and expand caregiving options for older and disabled Americans.

His second visit comes as Georgia's controversial new voting law has put the state's election system in the spotlight. Biden has called the law “Jim Crow in the 21st century” and “a blatant attack on the Constitution," and said the Justice Department is taking a look at it.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.