First Lady Dr. Jill Biden was accompanied by her granddaughter Naomi Biden on her visit to Africa. President Joe Biden’s wife and eldest grandchild arrived on Wednesday, Feb.
08.02.2023 - 04:37 / deadline.com
With a potential showdown looming over raising the debt ceiling, President Joe Biden plans to use part of his State of the Union speech tonight as a call for unity.
“To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together in this new Congress,” Biden plans to say, according to remarks released by the White House. “The people sent us a clear message. Fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict gets us nowhere.”
The comments are out of a typical SOTU playbook, but they take on new resonance amid concerns that a protracted standoff over the debt limit could rattle markets and send the economy into a nosedive.
Biden met with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) last week, as Republicans are demanding spending cuts, as yet undefined, before raising the ceiling again. Democrats don’t want conditions attached to raising the debt limit as a way to pay back spending that has already been incurred.
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Much of tonight’s speech is expected to be devoted to the administration’s accomplishments, as Biden is bolstered by a recent blockbuster jobs report.
“Jobs are coming back, pride is coming back because of the choices we made in the last two years,” Biden plans to say, according to the released remarks. “This is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America and make a real difference in your lives.”
He also plans to declare that “Covid no longer controls our lives” and that democracy “remains unbowed and unbroken.” The latter is a reference to the January 6th attack on the
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden was accompanied by her granddaughter Naomi Biden on her visit to Africa. President Joe Biden’s wife and eldest grandchild arrived on Wednesday, Feb.
"Parks and Recreation" star Aubrey Plaza said she had a bone to pick with President Biden, detailing the rocky relationship the two have shared over several years. The 38-year-old Delawarean actress told The New Yorker's Tyler Foggat in an interview published Friday that she and Biden had crossed paths multiple times throughout her life, and the instances she described were unsavory. "I have [met him].
told the New Yorker. “They shuttled us from room to room, and there was a different speaker in each room, and it was all leading up to this climax where we were going to sit in the auditorium, and Joe himself was going to get up on stage and give his speech.”According to the “White Lotus” star, she was “really angry” about the event because she felt that the students present weren’t given enough time to voice their complaints. “I had a stare-down with Joe Biden from the audience, because he asked how it went, and I raised my hand immediately,” said Plaza.
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The veneer of bipartisan civility didn’t last long tonight at Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address – – and that looks to alright with the President and Democrats