Facing disquiet at home and danger abroad, U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address at a precipitous moment for the nation, aiming to navigate the country out of a pandemic, reboot his stalled domestic agenda and confront Russia's aggression.
The speech Tuesday night had initially been conceived by the White House as an opportunity to highlight the improving coronavirus outlook and rebrand Biden's domestic policy priorities as a way to lower costs for families grappling with soaring inflation. But it has taken on new significance with last week's Russian invasion of Ukraine and nuclear sabre-rattling by Vladimir Putin.
Rising energy prices as a result of Russia's war in Ukraine risk exacerbating inflation in the U.S., which is already at the highest level in 40 years, eating into the earnings of Americans and threatening the country's economic recovery from the pandemic.
The president was set to highlight investments in everything from broadband access to bridge construction from November's US$1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law, holding it up as an example of government reaching consensus and delivering change for the American people. "The president will absolutely use the word inflation tomorrow and he will talk about inflation in his speech," said Psaki. But she emphasized that Biden was focused on "how people experience it" rather than looking at it as a statistic.
On voting rights, legislation stalled after Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema denied Senate Democrats the chance to use a workaround that would allow them to pass the bills with their thin 50-50 majority instead of the 60 votes normally required.
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