President Joe Biden will use part of his State of the Union address to challenge Republican lawmakers’ criticism about the still-high prices of everything from groceries to gasoline to airline tickets to commercial shipping, according to a senior White House official.
Senators from both parties on Wednesday said they want to hear Biden devote a big chunk of the annual speech inside the House chamber to spell out a new plan to ease Americans’ burden at the cash register.
Daniel Hornung, deputy director of the White House National Economic Council, said in an interview that Biden intends to use part of the speech to make a case for his economic record and how his administration guided recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
