President Biden delivers the State of the Union handle to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 7, 2023.
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President Biden delivers the State of the Union handle to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 7, 2023.
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Home Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday invited President Biden to deal with a joint session of Congress on March 7.
“On this second of nice problem for our nation, it’s my solemn responsibility to increase this invitation so that you can handle a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, March 7, 2024, so that you could be fulfill your obligation beneath the U.S. Structure to report on the state of our union,” Johnson wrote in a letter to Biden.
It might be Johnson’s first time to sit down behind the president as speaker throughout a joint session. The Louisiana Republican was elected to the speakership in October.
The addresses are normally delivered in January or February, however in 2022, Biden gave his State of the Union on March 1.
With potential federal shutdowns looming, Congress faces two authorities funding deadlines, Jan. 19 and Feb. 2, in addition to calls by the president to offer navy support to Ukraine and Israel.
