President Joe Biden on Friday accepted an invitation from House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy to deliver the annual State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress Feb. 7.
The Democrat president’s second State of the Union address to the nation will be held, as is the custom, in the chamber of the House of Representatives, where Republicans last week took majority control after November’s midterm elections.
The annual address will be an opportunity for Biden to lay out his legislative goals midway through his four-year term and possibly even tease out broader themes for an expected 2024 run for re-election. The speech gives him a national audience and thus an opportunity to shore up support among Democrats, some of whom are concerned about his age and other issues.
[Posted here merely as a PSA. SOTUs are meaningless campaign events now, accompanied by imperial trappings that would make a Roman caesar blush and which should embarrass the co-equal branch of government that hosts them. — Ed]
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