WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will ship his 2d State of the Union deal with prior to Congress on Feb. 7.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., invited Biden to ship the deal with on that date in a letter Friday.

“The American other people despatched us to Washington to ship a brand new path for the rustic, to seek out commonplace flooring, and to discuss their priorities. In that spirit, it’s my solemn legal responsibility to ask you to talk prior to a Joint Consultation of Congress on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 so which you could satisfy your accountability below the Charter to file at the state of the union,” McCarthy’s letter to Biden mentioned.

Biden has permitted the invitation to ship his speech on that date, White Space press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned in a observation.

“The President is thankful for and accepts Speaker McCarthy’s instructed invitation to deal with the peoples’ representatives in Congress,” she mentioned. “He appears ahead to talking with Republicans, Democrats, and the rustic about how we will be able to paintings in combination to proceed development an financial system that works from the ground up and the center out, stay boosting our competitiveness on the planet, stay the American other people secure, and produce the rustic in combination.”

The date is the earliest within the 12 months Biden has addressed Congress as president. Ultimate 12 months, Biden delivered his State of the Union speech in March and his first one, which used to be an deal with to a joint consultation of Congress, used to be in past due April 2021.

This additionally marks the primary deal with Biden is making as president to a Republican-controlled Space. Democrats managed the decrease chamber for the primary two years of his presidency.