WATCH: White House holds news briefing as Biden meets with first union to endorse him in 2020

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held a news briefing on the day that President Joe Biden made a speech before at the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters Conference.

Watch the briefing in the player above.

The IAFF were the first union to endorse Biden in his 2020 presidential campaign, Bloomberg News reported. According to the union he is the first sitting president to address them.

Biden’s trip to Philadelphia on Thursday was a sign that the president’s budget proposal will be a form of political messaging, not just an outline of the government’s finances for the upcoming fiscal year.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Pennsylvania is very “close to Biden’s heart” and that the president, who was born in Scranton, sees it as a “second home” after Delaware, where he served as a senator.

When Biden travels to Pennsylvania and elsewhere, Jean-Pierre said, “It’s an opportunity for the president to talk directly to the American people.”

Democrats and Republicans are jockeying now to show the public which party is the most fiscally responsible. It’s a key test as the White House and Congress will need to agree to raise the government’s borrowing authority this summer, or else the U.S. could default and send the economy into a severe recession.