After a pause, Biden and Harris accelerate campaign cash dash

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is raising money again.

The commander in chief plans to accelerate his campaign cash dash after the White House paused overt political activity during debt-limit negotiations with Congress. That put his fledgling re-election campaign and the party a little bit behind the eight ball with the end of the second fundraising quarter coming June 30.

In recent weeks, Republicans have dominated 2024 election news — from former President Donald Trump turning indictments in New York and Miami into a rallying point for his base to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis touring early states.

But Biden will be hitting the hustings — and donors’ wallets — harder over the next couple of weeks, according to a schedule of upcoming fundraising events provided to NBC News by a Democratic fundraising operative.

The Biden re-election calendar has 20 fundraisers planned in the last half of June, most of which will be headlined by Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The plan has always been to really push an aggressive fundraising blitz toward the end of the quarter,” said a campaign official.

The still-skeletal Biden campaign apparatus has a joint fundraising agreement with the DNC and all of the state parties that are allowed to tap donors for more than the $3,300 contribution limit that governs the president’s principal campaign committee.

On June 26, for example, top donors will be asked to pay $100,000 to sponsor the Harris-headlined DNC LGBTQ gala on Park Avenue in New York — a price that brings with it two “platinum” tables, passes to a VIP reception and an invitation to the photo line. A single seat at the dinner costs $1,500, and there are several giving thresholds between the top and bottom levels that are accompanied by various levels of access.

The ramp up is certain to haul in millions of dollars to support Biden and fellow Democrats, but it may not entirely put to bed the concerns of allies who worry that the debt-limit freeze on political events caused harm and that too much emphasis has been put on filling the DNC’s coffers.

Some Biden loyalists have been particularly concerned about the absence of fundraising infrastructur