Biden is expected to devote much of his speech to touting his efforts to create jobs, fight inflation and improve the country's infrastructure.
PUBLISHED 6:35 PM EST Feb. 06, 2023In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden is expected to call on lawmakers to help advance his “Unity Agenda” he unveiled last year, according to the White House., the president outlined four areas where both Democrats and Republicans can come together on: beating cancer, addressing the mental health crisis, tackling the opioid epidemic and supporting our nation’s veterans.
Biden on Tuesday will call on Congress to reauthorize the National Cancer Act, the 1971 bill signed into law by then-President Richard Nixon which established the National Cancer Institute. The White House says reupping the law "will update the nation’s cancer research and care systems to put modern American innovation fully to work to end cancer as we know it."
Biden will also announce new efforts from his administration to tackle mental health, including a new campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce burnout in the medical profession, more than $280 million in new grants from the Department of Education to improve school-based mental health programs and expand access to telehealth.
“Next week, I’ll be reporting on the state of the Union,” Biden said Friday after a stronger-than-expected jobs report that saw the unemployment rate drop to the lowest level in more than 53 years. “But today, I’m happy to report that the state of the Union and the state of our economy is strong.” “These things don’t sell themselves,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday on NBC. “And it’s one of the reasons I’m really looking forward to that State of the Union address. I will say that there have been so many accomplishments under this administration. It can be difficult to list them in a distilled way.”
“More and more communities are going to see economic opportunity and more durable economic opportunity,” he said. “This is the year of action.” His address last year came just days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine and many in the West doubted Kyiv’s ability to avoid a swift routing. Now the war is on the cusp of entering its second year, and under Biden the U.S. and allies have sent tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to bolster Ukraine’s defenses. Now the president must make the case — both at home and abroad — for sustaining that coalition as the war drags on.
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