The Texas congressman has proposed going one step further than banning Joe Biden from future State of the Union addresses.
colleague “had a point” on rethinking Biden’s future attendance at the annual speech given GOP concerns Biden’s remarks were too divisive.
But Gonzales said Biden’s words were personal to him after the president looked him in the eye during a meeting in 2022 and broke his promise. “That was about the most divisive State of the Union — I wouldn’t extend him an invitation next year, if that’s what we’re going to get,” Emmerat the House GOP retreat in West Virginia over the weekend. “You’ve got to rethink issuing invitations for a State of the Union if it’s not going to be a State of the Union, and that was not. That was a campaign speech.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz arrives before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2024. Lawmakers returned to Washington on Tuesday with days to finalize a handful of bills funding federal departments before the money runs out Friday.
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