Browsing: State of the Union

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said GOP leadership should have more carefully reviewed the claims in Sen. Katie Britt’s (R-Ala.) response to President Biden’s State of the Union address as she faces criticism for sharing a story of sexual violence from two decades ago as an attack on Biden.  Asked by CNN’s Manu Raju about Britt’s…

A recent analysis from the progressive Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) revealed that many prominent U.S. businesses paid their top executives more than they did in federal taxes from 2018 to 2022. This report coincides with President Biden's proposal to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent,…

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reassured her that everything “will be fine” before she delivered the State of the Union response that has since been ridiculed online. Britt spoke with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on his latest podcast episode that aired Wednesday, discussing her experience with preparing for the rebuttal and…

President Biden didn’t see a bump in polling after his State of the Union address last week, with new polls showing no improvement for the incumbent. Ahead of the State of the Union, Biden’s approval rating was 40 percent in a Yahoo News/YouGov poll. In a new survey, released Tuesday by the same duo, the…

New York Times columnist Ezra Klein retracted his previous insistence that President Biden should not run for reelection, describing his State of the Union speech as a “comeback” for his electoral hopes on Sunday.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) criticized President Biden for condemning the Supreme Court during his State of the Union speech, and he called the remarks “disgusting.” Biden criticized the court for overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion precedent in a case, something that Democrats have capitalized on for their campaign platforms. In his speech, Biden stated that he…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republicans criticized President Biden on Sunday for retracting remarks he made during his State of the Union address, referring to a man accused of murder as an “illegal.” The man, accused of killing university student Laken Riley in Georgia, is a migrant from Venezuela who was not authorized to be in the U.S. The incident has become a…

A panel of pundits on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday argued over President Biden’s use of “illegal” in his address to Congress last week. Biden responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who had given him a pin honoring 22-year-old Laken Riley. She later heckled him over Riley, a Georgia student who police say was killed…

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) defended the choice to deliver her State of the Union response from her kitchen on Thursday, saying it focused on “kitchen table issues” after being criticized as in poor taste. Britt’s State of the Union featured the accomplished senator portrayed as a motherly figure, compared to more traditional presentations by previous…

United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain reasserted his support for President Biden after being acknowledged by the president in his State of the Union address. “Joe Biden has a history of serving people, and standing with working-class people, and Donald Trump has a history of serving himself, and standing for the billionaire…