Why wasn’t there a State of the Union last year?
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden is slated to deliver his first State of the Union speech on Tuesday after more than a year in office. Mr Biden was reportedly forced to rewrite the address at the 11th hour in response to Russian President Vladmir Putin’s assault on Ukraine last week. “Biden needs to rally the democrats — with a small ‘d’ — against the autocrats worldwide, and he cares a lot about that.” Similarly, Mr Biden is not expected to focus heavily on his nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. “He can speak with great confidence about his ambition to, once again, bring back the alliances that are critically important,” former Sen Chris Dodd, a close friend of Mr Biden, told The Post.
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