Fact check: State of the Union has no annual requirement, deadline
USA TODAY The claim: President Joe Biden was supposed to deliver a State of the Union address by Feb. 20 On Jan. 8, 1790, President George Washington delivered the first – and shortest – annual message from a president to Congress in U.S. history. His message began a tradition of the president providing information to Congress on the condition of the country, rooted in the U.S. Constitution, that evolved to include legislative proposals. It took until 1947 before it officially was called the "State of the Union." A Facebook user, though, recently noted that President Joe Biden has not del...