President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress next month after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) formally invited him.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that Biden accepted the House speaker’s invitation, according to a statement issued by the administration late last week. It would be the first time Biden addressed a divided Congress as president and McCarthy’s first State of the Union address as speaker, following Republicans’ midterm wins in the House.
“We have received Speaker McCarthy’s kind invitation, and the president has accepted it and looks forward to delivering the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023,” Jean-Pierre said in the statement….