The US president will address Congress for the traditional State of the Union address for the second time in his term.
He wants to “finish the job”: Joe Biden, who plans to run again in 2024, will deliver this Tuesday to Congress a message of political “unity”, support for the “forgotten” of growth and confidence in democracy American, according to him “bruised” but “preserved”.
“America’s history is a history of progress and resilience,” the US president will say, according to excerpts from his “State of the Union address” broadcast in advance by the White House.
Over this major annual general policy address, through which any American president fulfills his constitutional obligation to inform Congress, the prospect of the presidential election of 2024 already hovers. And therefore of a return match between Joe Biden, not yet officially in the race, and his predecessor Donald Trump.
Working for the “forgotten” of growth
Biden will ensure that American democracy, although “bruised” as the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump showed, remains “preserved and inviolate.”
Faced with the ambient slump, the 80-year-old Democrat, burdened by his age and by generally calamitous polls, still hopes to rally Americans to his economic project.
He will promise Tuesday to work for the “forgotten” of growth. “Too many people have been left behind or treated like they’re invisible,” the Democrat will say. The American president will call for heavier taxes on the very rich and the big companies that spoil their shareholders.
The Democrat claims to be able to “finish the job”, by concretizing the promises which carried him to the White House: to heal the “soul” of America, “to rebuild” the middle class and “unify the country”.
One of the unknowns of the evening will be the behavior during the speech of the parliamentarians of the radical right, who have risen to power during the mandate of Donald Trump, and whose certain figures, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, now play a key role in Congress.
