Gentleman and also the first lady, the president will lay and out his agenda to those lawmakers and to you, the American People. Congressional correspondentd th American People. Aisha hosny is standing by withs a preview of the republican response. But we begin standin with housee house correspondent Jackie Heinrich and a preview of the president s speech tonight. Jacqui good evening, jackie. D good evening, martin. Resident good evening, bret. Well, President Biden directly a assail republicans tonight. Officials have sent ousst memos hitting republicans forro everything from trump tax cuts ,adding to the deficit to proposals for National Abortion bans. Deficit, and also plans to cut social ban security and medicare. Wes an this speech is widely vid as an anchor to a anchor t 2024 announcement, but its not supposed to look like a campaign speech. So the president Will Instealo D frame his achievementsai as progress made against allns odds that needs to be protected and continued. Righ
gentleman and also the first lady, the president will lay and out his agenda to those lawmakers and to you, the american people. congressional correspondentd th american people. aisha hosny is standing by withs a preview of the republican response. but we begin standin with housee house correspondent jackie heinrich and a preview of the president s speech tonight. jacqui good evening, jackie .d good evening, martin.resident good evening, bret. well, president biden directly a assail republicans tonight. officials have sent ousst memos hitting republicans forro everything from trump tax cuts ,adding to the deficit to proposals for national abortion bans. deficit, and also plans to cut social ban security and medicare. wes an this speech is widely vid as an anchor to a anchor t 2024 announcement, but it s not supposed to look like a campaign speech. so the president will instealo d frame his achievementsai as progress made against allns odds that needs to be protected and conti
huckabee. sanders, there is no there is no debate. there is no different perspectives. on what we saw tonight. and in tonight s state of the union, race was so typical of state of the union addresses. you know, it was a laundry list of policy priorities. it was touting so-called successes. in the end, biden should be based on what he did not mention, like we talked about before, as far as opioids, except the pain that americans are feeling from inflation, which is still far too high when it comes to the cost of food or home heating bills. crime in american cities. how often do we hear about that violent crime which is still climbing to unacceptable levels? that was not mentioned. the fact that we saw test scores, the lowest among american kids from our educational system in 30 years. that wasn t mentioned as well. and the crisis that is a catastrophe. the u.s. southern border five million people entering this country in the first two years of this administration, more than 100 people
the proposal. i doesn t reminded me of watching the bbc and watching british parliament play out. by the way, it wasn t just the president s claim about social security, his brief mention of the financial crisis. also, drew barr from the gallery. fentanyl is killing more than seventy thousand americans a year. you ve got it. it s your fault. now, biden did try to use his address to promote his relatively big government economic agenda. he talked about an expansion of a thirty five dollars a month cap on insulin costs. he wants to extend health insurance benefits that are set to sunset soon. he obviously wants to continue to combat climate change. and he says he wants to enact a universal pre-k program and yes, to continue to harden anti-gun legislation. lastly, the president leaned on the phrase finish the job,