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used his annual State of the Union address to Congress to effectively kick-start the general election and go on the attack against his presumptive opponent, former Presidentthroughout his speech, sparring with GOP lawmakers from the podium when they jeered him. But Biden aimed most directly at Trump — who he referred to only as “my predecessor” — criticizing the policies he’d enacted as president and his inflammatory statements on the campaign trail.
And Biden continued. He called for Congress to pass protections for in vitro fertilization, after the conservative Alabama Supreme Court declaredby the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. He touted his policies to cut prescription drug prices, which Trump hadas president, and called for slashing prices on hundreds more drugs. He referenced the roads, bridges and other infrastructure now being built thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure law passed earlier in his term.
Biden responded to Greene’s interjection by holding up the pin and acknowledging the tragedy of Riley’s murder with a choice of words thaton the left, not least because he called her “Lincoln Riley.” The substance of his message, however, was to downplay the link between undocumented immigrants and violent crime.
“When you get to be my age, certain things become clearer than ever. I know the American story,” he said towards the end of the speech. “Again and again, I’ve seen the contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation, between those who want to pull America back to the past and those who want to move America to the future.”
“In my career, I’ve been told I was too young,” Biden said. “By the way, they didn’t let me on the Senate elevators for votes sometimes — not a joke.
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