US President Joe Biden will address Republicans who question his legitimacy and a public concerned about the direction of the country in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, which is expected to serve as a blueprint for a 2024 re-election bid.
In what will be his first speech to a joint session of Congress since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, Biden is expected to explain how he’s trying to reshape the post-pandemic economy, highlighting the massive infrastructure and health laws inflation passed in 2022, and point out that a bitterly divided Congress can still make laws next year.
“I want to talk to the American people and let them know about the situation… what I’m looking forward to working on from this point forward, what we’ve been doing,” Biden told reporters Monday after returning from Camp David retreat. , where he spent the weekend working on the speech.
Biden aides say the primetime speech, which will draw millions of viewers and perhaps the president’s largest TV audience of the year, is an important milestone ahead of the second presidential campaign he is expected to launch in the coming weeks.
Biden turned 80 in November and, if re-elected, he will turn 82 at the start of a second term, a figure that worries many Democratic voters, recent polls show.
One area where he will ask Congress to work together is tightening regulations in the tech sector, including what the administration deems necessary for greater privacy protections, an aide said.
Biden will face a rowdy and fragmented gathering of Republican lawmakers eager to put their conservative stamp on US politics after four years of Democratic control of the House.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will sit behind Biden for the first time. The two are at odds over the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, which must be raised in the coming months to avoid a default.
Source: Terra
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