Gentleman and also the first lady, the president will lay and out his agenda to those lawmakers and to you, the American People. Congressional correspondentd th American People. Aisha hosny is standing by withs a preview of the republican response. But we begin standin with housee house correspondent Jackie Heinrich and a preview of the president s speech tonight. Jacqui good evening, jackie. D good evening, martin. Resident good evening, bret. Well, President Biden directly a assail republicans tonight. Officials have sent ousst memos hitting republicans forro everything from trump tax cuts ,adding to the deficit to proposals for National Abortion bans. Deficit, and also plans to cut social ban security and medicare. Wes an this speech is widely vid as an anchor to a anchor t 2024 announcement, but its not supposed to look like a campaign speech. So the president Will Instealo D frame his achievementsai as progress made against allns odds that needs to be protected and continued. Righ
gentleman and also the first lady, the president will lay and out his agenda to those lawmakers and to you, the american people. congressional correspondentd th american people. aisha hosny is standing by withs a preview of the republican response. but we begin standin with housee house correspondent jackie heinrich and a preview of the president s speech tonight. jacqui good evening, jackie .d good evening, martin.resident good evening, bret. well, president biden directly a assail republicans tonight. officials have sent ousst memos hitting republicans forro everything from trump tax cuts ,adding to the deficit to proposals for national abortion bans. deficit, and also plans to cut social ban security and medicare. wes an this speech is widely vid as an anchor to a anchor t 2024 announcement, but it s not supposed to look like a campaign speech. so the president will instealo d frame his achievementsai as progress made against allns odds that needs to be protected and conti
is going to tampa on thursday where he was set to really delve into gop plans thatreally the white house says would harm those programs for seniors. that part of his speech really i got undercut by the speech tonight. apparenyou ended it with appary it s not goingon to bese a prob after the response from those the crowd that republicans don prot want to take those programs and chop them up. i also noticed that the president took steps int several places not to malignhe republicans whose votesdged tha he s going to need through the second half of this term. he acknowledgep pl d that gop plans to repeal the inflation reduction act are not ann of official party position and said he didn t want to exaggerate that. and in other areasr, his o language was scripted to besaul stronger on the assault weaponts ban. he said, you know, after republicans let the assault weapons ban expire, he changed that to after it expired under i a previous republican administration. repue s outlining areas whe