5 takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union speech.
on Tuesday at a perilous time for the United States and for his own presidency, facing his low approval ratings as his party braces for a tough midterm election this fall.
Later, when Biden discussed immigration, Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sought to get a “Build the wall!” chant going the chamber. It fizzled when others didn’t join. Biden warned that inflation is “robbing” families of the gains of higher wages and job growth, and said his “top priority is getting prices under control.”
He also called for boosting domestic manufacturing and passing the U.S.-China competition bill, saying it would make “record investments in emerging technologies and American manufacturing” and help fix supply chain problems. Manchin, notably, was sitting in the GOP section. His spokeswoman said he simply wanted to sit “with his colleague Senator Romney to remind the American people and the world that bipartisanship works and is alive and well in the U.S. Senate.”Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine put a finer point on one of Biden’s enduring themes: promoting democracy and defeating autocracy.
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