Biden to Address Joint Session of Congress

President Joe Biden is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress on April 28th, roughly 100 days after he took office. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) invited Biden to make the address in a letter released publicly on Tuesday. The annual event, which is called the State of the Union from a president's second year on, provides a platform for the commander in chief to lay out an agenda, and to sell it to both lawmakers and the public. The speech comes amid domestic challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic and the border crisis, and the foreign policy challenges with Russia over Ukraine, China over Taiwan, and Iran over its nuclear program.