By Maegan Vazquez, CNN

President Joe Biden and senior administration officers are embarking on a journey swing this week, showcasing what they see as successful measures to rebuild America’s ailing infrastructure.

In what’s been described as a preview of a few of the messaging for subsequent week’s State of the Union handle, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Cupboard secretaries are all hitting the highway to highlight the implementation of the landmark laws signed into legislation throughout the president’s first two years in workplace. Amongst these accomplishments are the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Chips and Science Act, and the Inflation Discount Act.

The president traveled to Baltimore on Monday to showcase the implementation of his policies, and later this week, he’ll head to New York Metropolis and Philadelphia for comparable remarks.

The journeys are happening within the lead as much as Biden’s State of the Union speech in Washington subsequent week — a nationwide platform the place he’s anticipated as an instance how his insurance policies are efficiently going into impact — and a potential reelection announcement within the coming months. Biden’s method is predicted to be centered on touting the rebound of the American financial system and taking intention at Republican proposals — whereas nonetheless underscoring his need to work throughout the aisle.

In Baltimore on Monday, he mentioned how the infrastructure legislation will fund change the 150-year-old Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, addressing the biggest bottleneck for commuters on the Northeast Hall between Washington, D C, and New Jersey. The brand new tunnel will probably be named in honor of civil rights chief and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Talking from a presidential podium set to the backdrop of an American flag and an Amtrak prepare on the tracks, Biden recalled that he’d made a thousand journeys via the tunnel and walked via it within the Eighties.

“When people discuss how badly the Baltimore tunnel wants an improve, you don’t want me to inform you. I’ve been there and also you’ve been there, too,” Biden stated.

“You should get inside and see,” he remarked, discussing his tour of the tunnel a long time in the past. “It is a 150-year-old tunnel. I’m wondering how within the hell it’s nonetheless standing.”

“The construction is deteriorating. The roof is leaking. The ground is sinking. That is the USA of America, for God’s sake. We all know higher than that,” he continued.

When the undertaking is finished, Biden stated, trains will roll via the tunnel at 110 mph as a substitute of 30 mph, shortening regional MARC prepare commutes from Baltimore to Washington to half-hour.

At Monday’s undertaking kickoff, the president introduced an settlement between the state of Maryland and Amtrak, which features a $450 million dedication for the tunnel alternative undertaking, in line with the White Home. A undertaking labor settlement between Amtrak and the Baltimore-DC Constructing and Building Trades Council was unveiled to cowl the primary part of the undertaking. And he additionally introduced an settlement between Amtrak and the North American Builders’ Commerce Union “that ensures Amtrak’s giant civil engineering building initiatives managed by Amtrak will probably be carried out below union agreements,” in line with the White Home.

This system is predicted to price roughly $6 billion, of which Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation funding may contribute as much as $4.7 billion, the White Home stated. Biden was joined by labor leaders, state and native officers, in addition to members of Congress and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

On Tuesday, Biden travels to New York Metropolis to debate how Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation funding will enhance the Hudson River Tunnel, which sees 200,000 passengers passing via every weekday on Amtrak and New Jersey Transit.

On Friday, Biden and Harris are scheduled to journey to Philadelphia to debate how Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation funding is eradicating lead pipes and making certain clear water throughout Philadelphia and the nation, the official instructed CNN.

In response to the White Home, the pair “will focus on the progress we’ve got made and their work implementing the Biden-Harris financial agenda that continues to ship outcomes for the American folks.”

Housing and City Growth Secretary Marcia Fudge will even journey to Chicago to debate progress made to handle homelessness on account of provisions throughout the American Rescue Plan, in line with the official.

Whereas Biden has usually launched into home journeys to focus on his insurance policies in motion, these stops have served as a big messaging platform since Republicans took management of the Home of Representatives this 12 months.

In a speech at a union corridor in Virginia, Biden, for instance, sought to contrast his economic policies with Home Republicans’ effort within the debt restrict standoff.

He requested the group, “(Why) in God’s identify would People hand over the progress we’ve made for the chaos they’re suggesting?”

“MAGA Republicans,” he added, “are actually selecting to inflict this ache on the American folks.”

Regardless of that heavy emphasis on his warnings about GOP plans, Biden this week is predicted to hone in on his means to work throughout the aisle to push laws into legislation. Particularly, in a preview of the journey, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre underscored Biden’s “success (in) bringing Republicans and independents and Democrats collectively to go the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.”

In Baltimore on Monday, the president brought up his recent trip to Kentucky, the place he stood alongside Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell to herald the implementation of the large $1.2 trillion infrastructure invoice that McConnell and 18 different Senate Republicans supported.

The coverage messaging journeys additionally carry extra weight because the prospect of a presidential reelection marketing campaign looms giant over the White Home.

Biden has been working intensively on his State of the Union Speech speech — together with over the weekend — which his staff views as a launching pad for the reelection bid. His speeches across the East Coast week will supply a preview of his message as he touts new infrastructure initiatives.

Behind the scenes, aides are build up a marketing campaign infrastructure and the West Wing is within the means of restructuring for a politically intense two years.

Peppered in between stops to go to initiatives funded although the proposals which have been the bedrock of his 2020 presidential marketing campaign, Biden will take part in occasions which can be a part of an intense fundraising push forward of the marketing campaign announcement.

The journey comes as Biden additionally contends with a lot of simmering points in Washington — Home Republican probes, investigations into classified documents discovered at his residence and former workplace and the debt ceiling standoff. The US Treasury is already taking extraordinary measures to maintain the federal government paying its payments after the US hit the debt ceiling set by Congress.

Whereas the president is in Washington on Wednesday in between journey stops, he’s scheduled to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

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CNN’s Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.