President Joe Biden is about to ship his 2024 State of the Union speech on Thursday, March 7.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) despatched the customary invitation on Saturday, inviting the president to handle a joint session of Congress to meet his constitutional obligation.
“Looking forward to it, Mr. Speaker,” Biden responded on X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter.
Johnson famous that it was “a moment of great challenge for our country” in his brief letter.
Biden used final 12 months’s State of the Union to announce that the Democratic Party was, underneath his management, returning to its decades-old roots as a champion of labor rights and the center class.
This 12 months’s speech comes forward of a extensively anticipated showdown between Biden and former President Donald Trump, who has solely intensified his divisive rhetoric since leaving workplace within the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault.
Johnson, a Trump supporter, despatched his transient invitation simply someday after Biden made a fiery marketing campaign speech skewering Trump.
“As we begin this election year, we must be clear: Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot,” Biden mentioned from Valley Forge, a key Revolutionary War battle web site.
“Donald Trump’s campaign is about him. Not America. Not you,” Biden mentioned. “Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy to put himself in power.”
