President Joe Biden is flanked by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, aft arriving connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, to talk astatine a ceremonial marking the 1 twelvemonth day of the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the Capitol by supporters loyal to then-President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden volition present his archetypal State of the Union code connected March 1, the White House confirmed Friday, aft House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the president a ceremonial invitation to talk to Congress and the American nationalist 1 twelvemonth into his term.

It volition people the latest immoderate president has delivered a State of the Union address. The code is usually timed for January, and occasionally for February. The hold is driven successful portion by a engaged legislative calendar, a wintertime spike successful COVID-19 cases from the much transmissible omicron variant and the upcoming Winter Olympics, which ties up broadcast web time.

The past State of the Union code was delivered by then-President Donald Trump connected the eve of his acquittal by the Senate successful his archetypal impeachment trial.

Biden archetypal addressed a associated league of Congress successful April 2020, astir 100 days into his clip successful the White House, which helium utilized to beforehand duplicate infrastructure and home spending bills. Biden signed a slimmed-down and bipartisan mentation of the infrastructure connection into instrumentality past twelvemonth successful crowning first-year legislative achievements. The larger enlargement of the societal information nett passed the House, but Biden has struggled to unafraid capable Democratic enactment successful the Senate for passage.

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“Thank you for your bold imaginativeness and patriotic enactment which person guided America retired of situation and into an epoch of large progress, arsenic we not lone retrieve from the pandemic but Build Back Better!," Pelosi wrote successful her missive to Biden. “In that spirit, I americium penning to invitation you to code a Joint Session of Congress connected Tuesday, March 1, to stock your imaginativeness of the State of the Union.”

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