HARTFORD, Conn. — President Joe Biden is set to visit Connecticut next week, the White House announced in an advisory on Friday morning.
The White House said the president would make the trip on June 16.
Biden is expected to join Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, among other dignitaries, at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford that day.
The summit will celebrate the first anniversary of the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first significant gun safety legislation signed into law in nearly 30 years.
The full-day summit will include keynote addresses by Biden, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It will also feature a panel discussion on the funding and implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the future of federal gun safety legislation.
The last time Biden visited Connecticut was in October 2021. He was in Hartford to promote his "Build Back Better" initiative and then went to UConn to attend the dedication of the Dodd Center for Human Rights.
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