Joe Biden to deliver first State of the Union address on March 1

President Joe Biden will ship his first State of the Union handle on March 1, the White Home confirmed Friday, after Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi despatched the president a proper invitation to talk to Congress and the American public one 12 months into his time period.

It can mark the newest any president has delivered a State of the Union handle.

The speech is generally timed for January, and sometimes for February. The delay is pushed partly by a busy legislative calendar, a winter spike in COVID-19 instances from the extra transmissible omicron variant and the upcoming Winter Olympics, which ties up broadcast community time.

The final State of the Union handle was delivered by then-President Donald Trump on the eve of his acquittal by the Senate in his first impeachment trial.

Biden first addressed a joint session of Congress in April 2020, about 100 days into his time within the White Home, which he used to advertise twin infrastructure and home spending payments.

Biden signed a slimmed-down and bipartisan model of the infrastructure proposal into regulation final 12 months in crowning first-year legislative achievements.

The bigger growth of the social security web handed the Home, however Biden has struggled to safe sufficient Democratic assist within the Senate for passage.

“Thanks to your daring imaginative and prescient and patriotic management which have guided America out of disaster and into an period of nice progress, as we not solely recuperate from the pandemic however Construct Again Higher!,” Pelosi wrote in her letter to Biden.

“In that spirit, I’m writing to ask you to handle a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, March 1, to share your imaginative and prescient of the State of the Union.”