State of the Union address
noun phrase
: a yearly speech given by the U.S. President to Congress and the people to tell them about important things that are affecting the country
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In 1982, just three years after the department was created, President Ronald Reagan pledged in his first State of the Union address to eliminate it, along with the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025
Ronald Reagan asked him to sit next to first lady Nancy Reagan at his State of the Union address two weeks later, beginning a tradition that continues to this day.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
In 2020, during his State of the Union address, Trump posthumously promoted Brigadier General Charles McGee, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson, who is laboring to get the package moving forward, invited Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, a tradition for new presidents, who don’t deliver a State of the Union address until their second year in office.
—Thomas Beaumont, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
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Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025
Ronald Reagan asked him to sit next to first lady Nancy Reagan at his State of the Union address two weeks later, beginning a tradition that continues to this day.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
In 2020, during his State of the Union address, Trump posthumously promoted Brigadier General Charles McGee, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson, who is laboring to get the package moving forward, invited Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, a tradition for new presidents, who don’t deliver a State of the Union address until their second year in office.
—Thomas Beaumont, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
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