President Joe Biden will deliver the 2022 State of the Union on Tuesday, March 1 2022. The speech will be Biden’s first official State of the Union. In 2021 he gave an address to a joint session of Congress after being sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.
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Capitol Mask Mandate Being Removed Before State of the Union. “The House of Representatives is lifting the House floor mask mandate in time for President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, ending a requirement that had allowed some Republicans to express their defiance, but at a personal cost. Congress’s attending physician, Brian P. Monahan, delivered the news on Sunday, saying coronavirus cases had dropped so much in Washington, D.C., that mask wearing should become optional, not mandatory.” [NY Times]
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