Less than a year after delivering his first State of the Union address,
President Biden is set to speak to a joint session of Congress again,
this time under different circumstances.
Biden marked his first year in office on March 1, 2022,
with Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate.
While Republicans were unable to usher in the “red wave” they expected in November,
the midterms gave the GOP the majority in the House of Representatives and
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) the gavel.
With a divided Congress, Biden will have to work in a bipartisan manner to get his agenda passed and will have a chance to voice what he wants to get done in the coming year.
Biden will speak to both chambers of Congress on Feb. 7, with plenty of issues, including gun violence, police reform, the economy and the war in Ukraine, at the forefront of many Americans’ minds.
The speech is set to begin at 9 p.m. ET with the Republican response set to follow afterward. Republicans have not announced who will speak. The announcement comes as a new Marist poll shows that more than 60 percent of Americans believe the state of the union is not strong.
What is the State of the Union?
The State of the Union Address is a speech given by the president every year to a joint session of both chambers of Congress. The president will report on the state of the country and outline his policy priorities for the coming year.
How long have past SOTU speeches lasted?
Past State of the Union addresses have typically lasted more than an hour but sometimes have been under 60 minutes. The longest State of the Union President Clinton’s last, on Jan. 27, 2000. He spoke for an hour and 28 minutes, according to Forbes.
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Six lies Biden will tell in his State of the Union
Opinion by Stephen Moore •
When President Joe Biden stands before Congress and issues his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he will proclaim victory on the nation’s economy.
Most Americans are going to wonder what country he’s talking about.
Yes, the job market is strong, and that’s good news. But sorry, Mr. President:
The American economy is not strong. It isn’t even good.
The last two years have been pretty rotten on almost every metric: the squeeze on family finances, inflation, immigration, declining test scores in schools, the budget deficit and debt, out-of-control government. Here are six fibs you’re very likely to hear the president recite Tuesday night. They should be tagged with the label of the left’s favorite word this year: “disinformation.”
1) Biden has reduced the budget deficit by $1.4 trillion.
Actually, no president in modern times even comes close to Biden in terms of fiscal recklessness. In his first two years, the national debt has risen by more than $4.2 trillion. That’s more than in any two-year period in American history. U.S. National Debt Clock: Real Time (usdebtclock.org)
The deficit shot into the fiscal stratosphere of $2.8 trillion in his first year in office, and
in 2022 it was still at one of history’s highest levels, $1.4 trillion. Last year, our debt as a share of our gross domestic product hit an all-time high of 129%. Biden is like a schoolkid celebrating an improved report card because the first semester he got an F but the second semester a D-.
Biden will likely take credit for falling gas prices — despite prices
surging since he took office. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
2) Biden inherited an economy in freefall.
Wrong. When COVID hit these shores in early 2020, the economy was shut down in the face of the once-in-a-half-century pandemic. But by 2020’s second half, the economy soared by more than 20%, and millions of Americans were moving back into their jobs. This was a historic recovery.
One week after the election, thanks to Operation Warp Speed, the COVID vaccine was announced, which set the table for an even stronger recovery. Instead, the economy has been limping forward with a weakling economic growth rate last year of 1.5%.
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3) Inflation was high when Biden entered office. see also
Huh? The average inflation rate during the Trump presidency was 2%,
and in January 2021, the month Biden entered office, inflation was 1.4%.
Eighteen months later, in summer 2022, inflation rose above 9% — the highest in 40 years. It ended the year at 6.5%. Food prices are still so high that CNBC just reported: “Amid food inflation, more shoppers turn to dollar stores for groceries.”
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4) Biden has brought down gas prices.
When President Donald Trump left office, the gas price was $2.59 a gallon nationally.
In June 2022, it was nearly double, a modern-day high of $5.004 a gallon.
Today gas is $3.48 a gallon — roughly $1 a gallon higher than when Biden entered office. And according to Gas Buddy, which provides real-time prices and projections, gas at the pump is expected to rise back to $4 a gallon this year.
Biden’s border policies have caused record setting border encounter
totals the last two years. Photo by REBECCA NOBLE / Getty Images.
5) Biden is doing all he can to secure the border.
This may be the whopper of them all. Since Biden took office, he’s issued some 90 executive orders undoing Trump’s successful border-enforcement policies — most notably stopping wall construction on the southern border and even suspending the successful “Stay in Mexico” policy (a move so wrongheaded he was recently forced to reverse it).
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6) Biden is increasing domestic oil and gas production.
Wrong. A 2022 Committee to Unleash Prosperity study by the University of Chicago’s Casey Mulligan found that oil production would be 2 to 3 million barrels a day higher if Biden had simply followed the Trump energy plan.
America would have produced nearly $200 billion more oil last year if not for
Biden’s war on fossil fuels. We wouldn’t have had to release one teaspoon of oil from our strategic reserve. Trump issued permits for drilling on 100 million acres of federal land.
Biden has issued fewer drilling permits than any president since World War II’s end.
We’ll see how many of these fact-free statements
Biden repeats in his State of the Union speech.
But it’s highly likely the best GOP response
by Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be:
“Liar, liar, pants on fire.”
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump.
Source: Six lies Biden will tell in his State of the Union (msn.com)
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs,
and the Revolution in the Americas.
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A timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerational trauma, Robert Lovato’s memoir and cultural critique reflects on multifaceted life and examines many of the self-serving myths underlying modern American culture.
The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s California.
Joining a gang in his teens, he witnessed a friend take a bullet to the face in a coke deal gone bad and survived his own shooting. He eventually traded the violence of the streets for wartime El Salvador where he joined the guerilla movement against its corrupt, fraudulent military government.
As a child. Roberto endured beatings and humiliations driven by his
father Ramón’s anger—a rage rooted in his own childhood in El Salvador.
Raised in extreme poverty in the countryside during the time of La Matanza—in which tens of thousands of indigenous peoples were killed in the span of a few months—young Ramón also spent time in a brothel and as the leader of a small band of thieves on the streets of San Salvador.
Roberto looks back to the pain of his father’s youth and examines both how he survived a life straddling intersecting underworlds of family secrets, traumatic silence, and criminal black-market goods and guns, and how these forces impacted his father’s life and subsequently Roberto’s own.
Returning from El Salvador, Roberto channeled his own pain into activism and journalism, focusing his attention on how intergenerational trauma affects individual
lives and societies.
In Becoming Américan, he makes the political personal, interweaving his story and that
of his father with wider social issues, including gang life—notably that of MS-13—and the immigration crisis, to reveal the profound ties between El Salvador and the United States that have fueled the rise of both of these issues.