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(31,398 posts) Tue Mar 1, 2022, 09:26 PM Mar 2022

WATCH LIVE 9PM ET: Direct feed of Biden's 2022 State of the Union and Republican response

President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address March 1 amid a worsening crisis in Ukraine, a years long pandemic that has taken nearly 1 million American lives and an often gridlocked Congress that has stalled much of his legislative agenda.

The event will start at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 1.

To view the PBS NewsHour's special coverage of President Biden’s State of the Union address, click here:

On Tuesday, Russia escalated its attacks on Ukraine as Biden prepared to emphasize the importance of unity between NATO and the West to squeeze Russian President Vladimir Putin through economic sanctions in his address.

The government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is also likely to be a key focus. While protection measures – like mask mandates – are being relaxed and cases drop in many parts of the country, the pandemic is not over, and deaths continue to climb. Meanwhile, a new major climate report, released a day before the president’s March 1 address, is being described as an indictment of global leadership’s inaction to address the crisis. And the latest PBS NewsHour-NPR-Marist poll finds that 56 percent of registered voters – who singled out rising inflation as a top worry – see Biden’s first year in office as a failure.