State of the Union: Biden urges Republicans to work with him to ‘rebuild the backbone of America’

U.S. President Joe Biden began his annual State of the Union address by asking Republicans, who now control the U.S. House of Representatives, to work with him to "rebuild the backbone of America" and pass laws that would help the middle class. He added there was "no reason we can't work together in this new Congress," pointing to various legislation that was passed in the past two years with bipartisan support.