Politics & Policy

Biden’s State of the Union Address: Live Updates

Vice President Kamala Harris applauds as House Speaker Mike Johnson looks on as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2024. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
President Biden delivers his State of the Union address Thursday night. The speech comes as likely Republican opponent Donald Trump narrowly leads in the polls, amid voter concerns about immigration, inflation, and the president’s age. Follow along for live updates and analysis from the NR team:
Dan McLaughlin

Biden pledges a “Climate Corps” of taxpayer-funded activists.

Dominic Pino

Those delays for immigration hearings at the border sound really bad. Somebody should tell the president.

Dan McLaughlin

Biden now leaning hard on the memory of John Lewis, who openly rejected the legitimacy of the 2004 and 2016 presidential elections.

Jim Geraghty

Speaker Mike Johnson’s poker face has cracked, and he couldn’t suppress an eye roll when Biden posed as a border hawk, impeded by all those Republicans.

Dominic Pino

It’s a good thing that Mike Johnson insisted on good behavior by the Republican conference, and most members seem to be following his example. Greene looked like an idiot there.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Uh-oh, Biden started misreading the prompter, and then began ad-libbing through a section on immigration policy, trying to sell the Schumer-led compromise bill, and he mangled the details. I wonder if people at home thought that was a senior moment.

Dan McLaughlin

“Send me the border bill now,” Biden says, as if he currently has no legal authority over immigration or the border.

Philip Klein

“Shrinkflation” is something that companies initiated to minimize the price increases that were necessitated by the rising costs caused by his bad policies. Were they bullied into putting more chips into chip bags, they would simply charge more for bags of chips.

Dan McLaughlin

Biden’s coughing is getting worse as the speech goes on.

Dan McLaughlin

Biden is reminding us, with his many references to Trump, how desperately he needed to draw Trump as an opponent in order to have a prayer of digging out of the hole he’s in.

NR Staff comprises members of the National Review editorial and operational teams.
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