In a State of the Union speech that brought both houses of Congress back to the Capitol, President Biden emphasized what unites the country while trying to reassure Americans worried about the Ukraine crisis, inflation and gas prices that “we are going to be OK.”
But it wasn’t all unity and bipartisan support: Mr. Biden acknowledged that inflation is “robbing” Americans of economic gains. He also pushed his domestic policy agenda, saying Congress needed to pass key pieces of his Build Back Better agenda. He did not use the words “Build Back Better” together, since the plan has been stalled in the Senate.
