The message of the President of the United States in Congress turned out to be unlike the pre-election

US President Joe Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address to both houses of Congress on February 7. Much of his speech was an enumeration of the achievements of the administration during his years in office.

According to him, the United States was able to overcome the consequences of the pandemic and inflation, moved to an increase in the number of jobs, began import substitution and the return of high-tech industries to the country. If under predecessor Donald Trump “we were on the brink of civil war,” now the two parties are working together, he said to the Republicans. But they shouldn’t hold the administration hostage on the issue of raising the national debt ceiling, he added. Republican Kevin McCarthy took over the House of Representatives in early January on the condition that he does not allow the country’s debt ceiling to rise above the $31.4 trillion threshold (by that time it had reached $31.38 trillion).

Biden also said that the administration has already developed a budget plan with broad social spending that does not provide for cuts in any form. The plan, which is scheduled to be published in March, should not lead to a larger deficit, but rather reduce it by $2 trillion, according to the US president. “If someone tries to cut Social Security, I will stop him. And if someone tries to cut Medicare (health insurance program. – Vedomosti), I will stop him, ”said the American leader. Biden promised to seek a review of the Supreme Court decision that abolished the federal right to abortion, to carry out immigration reform that would improve the situation of illegal immigrants, to achieve tighter control of semi-automatic weapons.