Biden was at Camp David over the weekend working on the speech.
“It’s constantly being reworked and it will be until the very last moment,” Jean-Pierre said Thursday. The report also said Biden would in fact be touting what his advisers say are his wins on the economy. response to China’s military and economic influence. The Associated Press reported on Sunday that the speech would reference the balloon incident in the context of the U.S. airspace last week of an allegedly wayward Chinese balloon that was eventually shot down off the South Carolina coast Saturday. There’s also always the issue of the news of the minute, in this case the presence in U.S. Chinese balloon, economy mentions expectedĪlways in question is just how much of the speech will be directed at foreign policy, where there’s likely to be more common ground with Republicans especially when it comes to support for Ukraine’s ongoing efforts to respond to the invasion by Russia. The audience at a Democratic Party reception is of course unlike the scene the president will experience Tuesday night, looking out over the narrowly divided Congress and trying to deliver a message both to those in the chamber and to the national television audience. The strongest two years of growth in history by a long shot.” “We created more new jobs in two years than any President did in their entire term. “You know, as of this month, we've created 12 million new jobs,” Biden said. “We believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found, we are still bound together as one people that we share common hopes and a common creed that the dreams of a little girl in Tucson are not so different than those of our own children, and that they all deserve the chance to be fulfilled.”īiden got the chance to offer a prelude to his speech Friday, thanks to a strong jobs report that saw the unemployment rate dip to 3.4 percent and a scheduled appearance at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meetings in Philadelphia. “We are part of the American family,” Obama said.
That meant the speech lacked the familiar scene of lawmakers from an entire side of the room standing and applauding while those on the other side sat on their hands. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot at a constituent event outside a supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., leading House members and senators from both parties to break from the tradition of sitting on their respective sides of the House chamber during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. The last time a Democratic president was flanked by a newly minted Republican speaker for the first time was 2011. It doesn’t mean we’re going to agree, and fight like hell, but let’s treat each other with respect.” I think we got to do it across the board. That’s what Kevin and I are going to do. Not a joke,” Biden said after the breakfast. “Let’s start treating each other with respect. And they were together the next morning, seated side-by-side at the National Prayer Breakfast in the Capitol Visitor Center. Biden and McCarthy met at the White House on Wednesday, with each vowing to continue discussions on the debt limit and federal spending. McCarthy may well find plenty objectionable in Biden’s speech Tuesday, but not in the way that Pelosi opposed Trump. “This is a president that's incredibly optimistic, when he talks about the possibilities, he talks about not betting against the American people,” Jean-Pierre said. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that “there'll be no question that this is a Joe Biden, Joe Biden State of the Union speech.” The speaker said in a subsequent CNN interview that she didn’t enter the House chamber planning to do that, but she “realized that almost every page had something in it that was objectionable.” Trump’s second State of the Union to a Democrat-controlled House featured Pelosi rebuking Trump by tearing up his speech. This year, there’s no sign of the kind of animosity between Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy that was present between former President Donald Trump and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2020. The last time a president delivered a State of the Union speech with the House controlled by the opposite party, the Democratic speaker literally tore up a copy of the Republican president’s speech when it was over.
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