WASHINGTON (NEWSnet/AP) — President Joe Biden is setting out Monday on a Western itinerary as he seeks to showcase his administration’s accomplishments on conservation, clean energy and veterans' benefits.

Biden's first stop will be the Grand Canyon, where he's expected to announce plans for a new national monument to preserve more than 1 million acres and limit uranium mining.

The Democratic president will be in Albuquerque on Wednesday and will talk about how fighting climate change has created new jobs, and he'll visit Salt Lake City on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the PACT Act, which provides new benefits to veterans who were exposed to toxic substances.

He'll also hold a reelection fundraiser in each city.

"You can expect to us to highlight more groundbreakings of projects, more ribbon cuttings and opportunities to show the American people how these investments and jobs are reaching their communities and their neighborhoods," said Natalie Quillian, the White House deputy chief of staff.

The White House has been pushing to demonstrate the impact of Biden's policies, hoping to harness lower inflation numbers and strong employment figures to alleviate the president's sagging poll numbers.

Biden’s senior adviser on clean energy, John Podesta, said the president would talk about “the investments that we need to ensure that we are building a resilient society going forward in the face of what is becoming a challenging situation.”

Biden will be fresh from more than a week of vacation in Delaware, where he stayed at family homes in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington. His activities included going to a fish restaurant with first lady Jill Biden, attending a screening of the movie “Oppenheimer” and taking a moonlit walk across the beach.

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