President Biden has accepted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s invitation to ship the State of the Union handle on Feb. 7, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned Friday.
“The president is grateful for and accepts Speaker McCarthy’s prompt invitation to address the peoples’ representatives in Congress,” she mentioned in a press release. “He looks forward to speaking with Republicans, Democrats, and the country about how we can work together to continue building an economy that works from the bottom up and the middle out, keep boosting our competitiveness in the world, keep the American people safe, and bring the country together.”
McCarthy despatched a proper invitation to the president on Friday. It might be Mr. Biden’s second State of the Union handle. A president’s first speech to a joint session to Congress, quickly after inauguration, isn’t formally a State of the Union handle.
“The new year brings a new Congress, and with it, a responsibility to work towards an economy that is strong, a nation that is safe, a future that is built on freedom, and a government that is accountable,” McCarthy wrote in his invitation. “The American people sent us to Washington to deliver a new direction for the country, to find common ground, and to debate their priorities. In that spirit, it is my solemn obligation to invite you to speak before a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, so that you may fulfill your duty under the Constitution to report on the state of the union.”
The handle comes after a prolonged House speaker election final week, in addition to the announcement this week of a particular counsel inquiry into paperwork marked labeled that have been discovered at Mr. Biden’s residence and former workplace at a Washington assume tank bearing his title.
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