US President Joe Biden answers questions from the press following his remarks regarding lowering cost for American families within the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Constructing on Thursday January 12, 2023.
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President Joe Biden has accepted an invite from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 7, the White House said.
“We’ve received Speaker McCarthy’s kind invitation and the president has accepted it and appears forward to delivering the State of the Union address,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday.
McCarthy earlier Friday tweeted out his invitation to Biden, writing it was his “solemn obligation” to accomplish that.
“Your remarks will inform our efforts to deal with the priorities of the American people,” McCarthy wrote.
The speech might be Biden’s first State of the Union since Republicans won back control of the House, ending two years of unified Democratic government in Washington. As Biden outlines his priorities to lawmakers next month, he’ll face a latest reality that each one of his legislative goals would require Republican support.
During Biden’s first two years in office, Democrats passed key pieces of the president’s agenda without GOP support.
