Pelosi sets March 1 date for Biden's State of the Union address

Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited President Biden to the Capitol to ship the State of the Union handle on March 1, a date which is later than typical, because the COVID-19 Omicron variant swamps Washington, D.C., and the nation. 

"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 get better from the pandemic however Construct Again Higher," Pelosi stated in her letter to the president, referring to the social spending invoice that has stalled within the Senate. "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."

Final yr, the president delivered an handle to Congress in late April. It was by invitation solely to a smaller in-person viewers within the Home Chamber due to the pandemic. 

The president has but to publicly settle for Pelosi's invitation. 

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