President Trump is expected to deliver his first second-term State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 24.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, said that’s the date congressional leaders and the White House are looking at for the annual presidential address, but it hasn’t been finalized.
“We were looking at some alternative dates and trying to figure out what works,” he said Wednesday at his press conference. “But I think that’s the week that we’re in session in mid-late February, and that would be the preference of the White House.”
Mr. Trump delivered a joint address to Congress last year on March 4, but it was not considered a State of the Union speech because he had not yet served a full year back in office.
Last year’s speech, lasting an hour and 40 minutes, broke a record for the longest address to a joint session of Congress, according to data from the past six decades compiled by the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
President Clinton held the previous record. He spoke for an hour and 28 minutes in his final State of the Union address in 2000.
